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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1909
Page
3
Enthusiastic collector Dugene M. Vasey of Wyncote has amassed over 1000 perfect four, five and six leaf clovers since age fourteen. He believes his prized finds aid his real estate success and seeks other clover collectors, claiming his may be the world’s largest collection.
A joke about a child answering a mountain range as a large cook stove is echoed by a Yale exam question. The gastric juice office query led to the concise reply The stomach, in a Cleveland Leader quotation from a Sheffield Scientific School context.
A faded patchwork quilt holds memories of a mother, Slater, and children. The speaker ponders legacy, loss, and faith as the old quilt becomes a symbolic winding sheet.
A Texas visiting sister in law Jessie arrives with glamour and humor as Sam struggles with home life and city comforts. Family nerves fray over August country plans while Jessie charms, shops, and brags of theatre, prompting Margaret and others to rethink their arrangements and finances.
In a domestic quarrel over wardrobes and purchases, Sam and his three sisters discuss packing, new gowns, hats, purses, and a new suit. Jessie defends Sam's generosity while Margaret taunts his taste as they prepare for a journey, highlighting social pressures and celebrations featured in the Chicago News account.
Shanghai Mercury reports that a viceroy issued a closing order for all opium dens in Wanshien, a city of 120000 near vast poppy fields. Despite the decree, shops stayed open and opium use surged, with lamplight and curtains bright as vendors flaunted the order. enforcement is described as non-existent and the year’s opium crop larger than last.
A dated wit and moral quips reflect on temperance wealth pride and human folly. Lines from Musings of a Gentle Cynic in the New York Times abridge cheerful giv ing, quiet wisdom, and blunt social satire with clever one liners.
A laborer on a Chelsea building site prepared a noon meal without fire or matches. He used a bottle, sand, lime, and water to create a hot coffee meal on a heatless improvised stove, illustrating a simple chemistry experiment before the noon whistle. The note also mentions an incident about a motor car collision and reports the new US battleship Michigan has been presented with a sea fin costing $825.
Washington Herald describes stitching narrow casings at collar back and sides with a center opening. Bend each casing at the opening and bend bone ends to meet so supports slip in easily, avoiding sewing roping and waste of time.
Practical tips from the New Haven Register and Home Chat cover finishing damask toweling into towels, patient care in nursing, dyeing methods to preserve color, and simple cottage crafts. Also includes bread-and-butter desserts and economical dishes, with several recipe sketches and kitchen guidance.
A London to Toronto dispatch describes the new children act's effect on Sunday holidays at tea shops and resort bars. Parents cannot take children into barrooms so they tea with them nearby. Reports note inquiries found no children left alone in tea shops while parents visited bars. Dover witnessed a man tether a child to a lamp post near a barroom, drawing a crowd and police inquiry. He admitted the father drank inside and used the tether to keep the youngster from straying.
Brockton residents touring Nova Scotia clash with provincial rules limiting highway use on market days. Regulations differ by town, causing them to avoid one town yet meet restrictions in another, leading to planning errors on their planned routes near Newburyport.
A fragmentary note from the Louisville Courier Journal recalls a suitor facing disapproval from a girl's father. The suitor explains he irritated the father to win favor with the girl who was not fully receptive. The passage hints at social tensions and romantic contest within the era's domestic expectations.
A Chinaman at the police station recalling the robber describes her briefly. He struggles to recall specifics until exclaiming Flo dead she glad, prompting officers to search for a woman wearing a Merry Widow hat. TheEveryone’s Magazine item reports on the misremembered identity and the chase.
Fishermen in Argyll protest torpedo exercises in the Firth of Clyde and Kilbride waters, claiming the activity frightens fish and damages herring catches. A Campbelltown mass meeting reported no funding since the fleet arrived, contrasting with prior weekly earnings of about £300.
A Newark New Jersey woman describes severe widespread eczema. After failing with a doctor, she used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolve, plus Cuticura remedies, reporting cooling relief, better sleep, healing sores, hair regrowth, and full recovery. Postal note about color envelopes for Belgium.
Book ad claims Memoirs of Dan Rice by Maria Ward Brown will amuse readers with jokes songs and anecdotes from the Civil War era. A 500 page illustrated volume costs $1.50 postpaid from Book Publishing House New York. Also notes a 195 ton locomotive built in Chicago for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
A London Globo report notes French sources describe wood mines near Mongtza in upper Tonkin. Ancient pine forests were buried to eight yards by cataclysm, preserving top branches. The imperishable timber is highly valued by Chinese buyers for coffins.
The managing editor commands staff to carry out all outside suggestions on how to run the paper, invoking a wall button and a wastebasket as props in a quoted exchange from The Green Bag.
An American paper rule required the word remainder for balance in financial statements. A new arrival interpreted casualty copy literally, producing a sentence about John Blank on Twelfth avenue who lost his remainder after a fall from a three story building, fifty feet high.
Hubbard resident Peter Leer shows Japan tea can grow well across Oregon. A small patch yields tea that sold to Portland merchants at 40 dollars per pound, who would pay that price again for Oregon grown tea.
A Dalton Georgia resident Mrs. E G Corbin reports long standing kidney pain and numb arms subsided after using Doan's Kidney Pills. The ad notes the product price and distributor Foster Milburn Co of Buffalo New York. The snippet also includes a school journal quip about taxation and a tangent on insomnia causes and a rural mail carrier witnessing a blackbird snake encounter.
Reader letter extols Postum as a coffee substitute after sleep disruption and nervous symptoms. Claims fatigue, insomnia, and distressing dreams ceased after switching to Postum. Cites anecdotes of friends and a young Indy friend who improved after quitting coffee. Mentions The Road to Wellville and asks readers to consider Postum.
Missouri Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma suffered extreme heat and drought with many corn crops damaged in western Kansas and northern Nebraska. Kansas City and Topeka reported near record heat, with Dallas breaking heat records at 108 degrees. Rhode Island faced a gale ending a drought, while Charleston and nearby areas endured a major storm cutting telegraph lines and causing property damage.
In Waterloo village fifty women taxpayers voted along with 271 men on a $100,000 sewer bond. The election passed without incident, fourteen ballots were spoiled, and a subsequent tally confirmed approval. The vote followed a legal technicality that invalidated a prior similar election.
E H Rice and sister in law Mrs A Smith fought in the street with revolvers as domestic troubles boiled over. Rice suffered three bullets and was taken home while the woman was jailed. Mrs Rice and her sister were at the Rice home when Mrs Rice planned to leave her husband. He followed them armed with a pistol and the melee began with several shots exchanged.
Eugene Cardmina of Ridgefield Park, employed in a New York City fire insurance office, was killed at Ridgefield Park station while alighting from a Susquehanna train. His umbrella hindered his view as he crossed West Shore tracks, an express train struck him. he was alive when found and died shortly after at the hospital.
Colonel Leroy T. Steward, superintendent of carriers in the Chicago post office, has been named Chief of Police by Mayor Busse of Chicago. The appointment elevates the postal official to lead the city police force amid ongoing municipal reforms.
In Little Rock Arkansas R B Stevenson cashier of Rose City Bank became speechless after paralysis. His wife delivered the paper to bank officials who announced a shortage of ten thousand dollars. Stevenson did not regain speech after six days.
Governor Comer signed the ratifying resolution after a lopsided legislative vote. The Senate approved unanimously and the House fell two votes short of unanimity. The action makes Alabama the first state to approve the proposed amendment establishing an income tax.
An Acapulco dispatch reports three severe earthquake shocks felt there with the ocean dropping below normal levels and the shoreline exposing a thirty foot beach. Residents lived outdoors since a previous disaster, while a Beloit woman spoke to a widower who had not seen his deaf friend for years. The wag of a deceased wife was confirmed. Also notes that in 1900-254 different books were published in the United States.
Silinyon's eminent doctors provide a free full medical examination with no obligation. Send a request for a medical examination blank to Munyon's at 63d and Jefferson aves, Philadelphia, for a careful diagnosis and treatment advice.
An Eastern visitor’s letter jokes about Kansas corn abundance and tall stalks. The note claims streets paved with grainy cobble stones and cobs hollowed into sewer pipes. It humorously notes husks as tents for children and stalks nearly reach church steeples before cars bend them down at ninety two feet.
A London judge, in a trial over fagots theft, murmured a proverb equating fagots to eggs. Counsel repeated the remark to the jury, the judge called it Providence and urged an acquittal, telling jurors that such thoughts guided his mind.
An article touts Palatal as a palatable purgative that retains castor oil virtues while removing odor taste and stomach irritation. It claims safety for babies and pregnant women, easy administration, and no danger of overdose as excess simply lubricates the bowels for easy movements without griping.
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