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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1901
Page
1
A fragment recalls a hunter Paul Tinefic trapping a deer in Palmer based prose. Mixed with a park scene a couple is teased about marriage as a lady and Jim blush and comply to the expected union amid light social chatter.
Jim Quest the gamekeeper and William Morris the schoolmaster vie for Ellie Hale in a village drama at the lodge gates. Ellie hides her feelings as tensions rise with Morris’s intellect and Jim’s rough charm, a chase ending in mutual longing rather than rivalry.
A massive Egyptian monitor at the Philadelphia Zoo awakened from a deep lethargy after a mate was brought from Africa. The male fought the keeper Hess when fed, tearing the den and driving the keeper from the cage. The scene followed a week of nightly activity as the reptile built a nest with his mate.
The piece describes aluminum collar ideas for women, ventilation through lattice patterns, and various fabric trims. It highlights Mrs. Van Cleve’s adventurous frontier life, lingerie fashion, negligees, corset styles, and evolving undergarment trends. It also critiques ear ring customs and fashion rituals of the era.
A collection of aphorisms on duty, wisdom, and self control contrasts with a biograph article about a Detroit fire scene and a wartime incident. It notes the dramatic process of filming disasters and a mystery involving a soldier’s sister recognizing a missing brother in a film frame.
An editorial condemns barbarous mutilation under the guise of hygiene, arguing ear mutilation and facial alteration are unjustifiable. It warns such skin injuries are wounds leading to death and stain a civilized people.
The article surveys prominent women in the era, noting Ida May Jackson as Wisconsin’s first woman factory inspector and tracing women’s shifting activities from nursing and photography to arts, sports, and leadership. It highlights club membership growth, college expansion for women, and evolving public norms including dress and public behavior.
The article reviews summer fabric options including taffeta mouseline and silk blends for dinner wear and dancing. It notes ornate button fastenings, black and white ensembles, lace borders, and the allure of Chantilly lace while warning that imitation patterns often cheat on appearance versus cost.
The War Department released stringent hazing rules for West Point, drafted by Superintendent Colonel Mills. The regulations ban any violent or demeaning acts toward new cadets and impose summary dismissal for violations, including coercing chores or forced eating. The policy targets all harassing conduct and reinforces penalties for those enforcing or condoning hazing.
A historic medical discussion explains heat stroke forms coup de soleil and sunstroke. It details brain and respiratory center overstimulation, lung congestion, venous engorgement, and potential lasting nerve impairment.
The article notes ongoing tests over several winters showing that tea plants thrive in U S soils with new machinery adapting to meet demand. It claims the United States could produce all its own tea and exceed current quality and quantity standards, reducing reliance on foreign sources.
The article outlines methods for topping raspberry and blackberry canes to encourage stocky growth, thinning fruit to balance crop load, and sowing and fertilizing for lawns. It covers tethering animals, guarding dogs, and device recommendations. It also includes notes on growing fancy strawberries, market boxes, and a brief wedding customs segment in Constantinople.
The article reports Notre Dame cathedral in Paris may be illuminated at a cost near 90000 dollars and notes British railway work in the Gold Coast toward Kumasi. It discusses advances in ship propulsion, silk worm study by Flammarion, seedling transplanting in shells, gold-bearing dead rivers, and Pittsburgh cement from furnace slag offering economical, possibly fireproof building material.
Ambassador Choate recalls a Harvard dinner when William Evarts faced an impossible toast. The question asked why the stomach that digests food remains undigested. Evarts replied he removes his coat and hangs it in his wardrobe before departing New York.
A winter scene near a river shows a fox bolting to the water after a chase with a pursuing dog. The fox slips into the stream at the opening, disappears, while the hound stops at the edge and the fox completes the escape. The New York Herald notes the brisk pursuit and cold river setting.
A fragment discusses wireless telegraphy aiding Arctic exploration by maintaining contact with supply bases. It suggests extended reach could enable algae apparatus from distant sites and safer, easier travel. Also mentions a ritual tree planting at a Japanese birth and wood transformed into furniture at marriage, from 19th century periodicals.
A collage of snatches from Chicago and national papers features courtroom asides and wit about education, self made men, critics, and social scenes. It cites lines from the Chicago Post Record Herald and Washington Star, along with jabbed exchanges on manners and prices for a summer home.
Workers at the Vineland Fini Glass plant watched a heat wave and a bolt strike the furnace door. The bolt descended into the furnace and rose the smokestack ending with no damage but removing soot from inside the furnace, leaving a pile of soot at the bottom.
A two story frame house in Lyndhurst known as the Jonah house burned to the ground. Seven deaths and many accidents have afflicted the six families who lived there, including James Gleason and his family and others. The run of misfortune is linked to the house, with the latest events including suicides and unexpected deaths.
Andrew Carnegie's parents came to the United States with a £2 loan from a friend in Dumfermline Scotland. The loan was never repaid, but Carnegie later learned of the two children left by his mother's friend. He visited them, gave generous gifts, and secured lifelong incomes for both. One became a humble joiner in Dumfermline who later ran a small shop, the other a thriving businessperson in Edinburgh.
War Department issues order declaring Des Moines tract a military post to be a reservation under its jurisdiction. Construction will begin soon to house troops at the Des Moines post. An engine on the Great Northern has reached 4,000,000 miles, breaking the English record. Indian school census notes 150,000 children in school sixty years ago.
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