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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1889
Page
1
The piece notes cheaper buying via combines by Southern farmers, asserts Cuba no longer controls world sugar, and cites European production. It mentions a proposed monument in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, and forecasts for fairs and exhibitions. It also covers statuary plans for Columbus, artists' Paris medals, and debates on a National University in Washington.
A exhausted mother with six children seeks rest and returns renewed after a month as a border guest at the Smiths in Ohio. She exchanges care for quiet meals, books, garden tasks, and hillside rides, vowing to avoid overwork and to value home after the rejuvenating retreat.
An American aeronaut recalls exhibitions in Holland including a dramatic descent from 2,000 feet. He describes landing in a celery patch after the parachute deploys, wrecking crops and provoking a costly dispute with a Dutch landowner.
A narrator recalls drifting with wind to a lumber yard in Amsterdam where a parachute pulled him onto a pile of lumber. He struck a heap but recovered after two or three days from what is described as Lorufaes.
A half mile from City Hall dozens of large buildings are being demolished to make way for bigger, handsomer structures. The oil quarter and all city districts are transforming, with a new industry of tearing down old buildings and selling materials. Contractors operate by contract, removing six to seven story structures in about a week and selling brick timber and iron to suburban builders.
The piece notes heavy tobacco use in Egypt with both men and women smoking, aided by English tobacco imports and Greek merchants. It cites a Khedive tax on tobacco lands, importing duties, and U S influence, with comments on Cairo cigar stores and potential direct American shipments.
A sketch recalls pelicans nesting in mangroves and a fish hawk stealing prey from a gull as boys watch with curiosity. The column then recounts St John’s Portsmouth New Hampshire owning the United States oldest organ, brought by Thomas Brattle in 1713, with a long service history ending in the vestry today.
A woman on market day in Constance offers a horse for $1 and a dog for $100, selling them to a buyer who must take both. Her husband’s will had instructed her to sell the dog for herself and give the horse to his family, a detail later revealed. The article also notes curious items from Louisville and Agra, including a female cemetery sexton and a royal anecdote about Princess Victoria.
Various short items cover water gas production in England and U S methods to extract gas from coal Massachusetts claim of soft stock equal to German article Aplomb silver mine found in Somerville specimens analyzed as near pure black lead An English mill to roll steel barn and girder A shipboard gear wheel with emery dusts A sardine study notes it is a young fish A Russell doctor advocates urfication as cure for various ailments The hot lake region in New Zealand shows renewed volcanic activity The flora of Europe reveals only about 10 percent odoriferous flowers A new metal shaping tool produces many forms A Chinese funeral pyre for Yueng Yen in New York depicts grave rites The Great Pyramid of Giza cost an estimated £30 000 000 and may have begun about 2170 BC Snakes born joined twins found in Georgia with shared bodies and two heads and tails
A mix of domestic craft and kitchen advice: make AOFA pillow covers from brown linen with decorative blocks and ribbon passage. guidance on cheese curd processing. ironing habits for housekeepers. child nutrition and meal ideas. recipes for German Beef Broth Prune Pudding and Potato Biscuits. a Galway superstition about fox sightings and fishing.
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