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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1886
Page
1
Fragment from a domestic ballad describing a husband and wife whose quarrels upset the home. The lyric contrasts scolding and scorn with a wife’s sunny smile as a cure for poverty and toil. It extols love as the shelter in hardship and the source of a bright, cheerful home.
In August heat Mrs Bray frets over a new mill superintendent risking John’s job and a note she fears unpaid. Her cottage sits empty though rented to a higher paying family. Mrs Arde counsels faith and steadiness as Mrs Bray vents fear for health bills and bankruptcy shadows.
A Troy Times piece surveys many theories for why churchyard north sides lack graves. Explanations range from medieval beliefs about sacred directions to habits about burial, sunshine, and even legends of ghosts and devils shaping cemetery layouts.
In 1825 Port land carpenters of sixteen drank spirits daily with the employer providing it. After finishing a building the crew sailed to the harbor with rum. In 1833 a meeting house in Whitefield was built with a hogshead of rum largely consumed by the workers. The Lewiston Journal notes these as not the typed old times.
Dialogue from a humorous piece shows Mr. Jinks debating cake and politeness. Maria serves sponge cake while Jinks saves it for visiting relatives, remarking he will be more appropriate. The exchange hints at social manners and light domestic humor.
A San Francisco Chronicle correspondent describes Amsterdam's diamond quarter. He notes the shift from rough stones to cut gems since 1576 with rose and brilliant cuts dominant. Visitors tour Zwanenburger straat workshops as rivalling firms display polishing on steam power and lead-encased wheels.
The text compares shipboard cooking during rough seas to shore kitchens and offers practical remedies. It notes securing utensils with iron bars, avoiding overfull saucepans, and emphasizes early rising, absence of fussiness, and looking ahead as keys to success.
A tale of diamond fever begins with stones mistaken for pebbles along the Orange River and spreads to the Vaal diggings. Traders Nickirk and Firkirk trade the finds for fortunes while Cape Town and Sir Philip Wodehouse name rich buyers. The rush swells to Pniel and Klipdrift with thousands digging within months.
A St Louis Globe-Democrat note reports an American dealer plans to ship 6000 bushels to London for the exposition to prove popcorn can pop in England where corn is seen as animal fodder. A trial barrel shipped to London popped on the voyage, boosting belief in the product.
A fragmentary dialogue shows Bobby asking Featherly about his mother’s greeting. Featherly recalls her happiness at his arrival and her hope that he would not come this morning, reflecting a tense mood in a New York scene.
The report surveys varied scientific notes from Walter Hempil on electricity in compressed air environments to Dr. Dawson’s Jurassic flora finds in the Rocky Mountains. It also describes a tiny oscillating engine described by Baltimore Supreme Court authority and a Caspian Sea estuary evolving into a salt bed due to persistent evaporation.
A Scottish traveller describes a lonely shepherd’s hut amid weeds and cabbage plots with rough stone fencing. Donald and Wallace, reverent dogs, accompany the shepherd to church as children play near the cottage, which lacks sanitation but benefits from fresh air and pure waters.
The New York Marina Journal argues against throwing passengers overboard after death at sea. It asserts ships must deliver bodies to destination if passage is prepaid and cites affordable casket options to preserve remains for return to land for burial.
A Leisure Hour travel sketch describes Finland’s landscape as flat with central hills and the Anvasaksa peak, its archipelago and pine birch forests, and the beauty of lakes, then notes rough corduroy roads, sleds for winter, and postal rates as travelers endure primitive travel conditions.
The Faroe Islanders cling to ancient seal hunts through mist and cave work. Hunters in two boats enter deep caverns near the shore with lines, torches, and clubs, knocking seals senseless and slitting throats as the animals drift. Young seals are then killed at the cave’s far end, a practice described with stark detail.
A detailed, evocative description of a rice plantation's changing landscape from spring to harvest. It highlights enbankments, checkered plots, and mold, then water stages with lake-like fields, emerald paths, pervasive canals, and finally grain-filled stretches. The prose contrasts early planting, nursery water, and harvest stages, using vivid regional imagery.
The second session of the Forty-month Congress opens with over 13 000 bills and joint resolutions filed. Lawmakers anticipate a busy period with land grants, pensions, bounties, tariffs, and consular efficiency measures likely to consume substantial time amid overloaded calendars.
A collection of brief notes on Queen Victoria plans to visit Cannes, Lucy Parsons advising her husband the condemned anarchist, Governor-elect George Baxter of Wyoming Territory, painter Muyacsy praising New York women, Prince Kovatsu’s England visit for the Chrysanthemum order, Bartlett's plain New England roots, and other portraits including Bismarck, Cleveland, and irish Home Rule leader Charles Stuart Parnell described in vivid terms by a Cincinnati reporter.
A Western manager weights staging Lawrence Barrett noting the tragedian’s dislike of certain party colors. The piece mentions Rudolph Rubinstein declines US tours and an American manager plans a Boston street theatre run for seven weeks amid new play prep.
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