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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1898
Page
1
A sprawling column surveys naval prowess, press freedom, and international affairs. It notes Britain’s maritime stance, German editors’ fate, and American Postage costs while praising the press as guardian of liberty. It cites fiscal figures and a quip by Richard Watson Gilder on poetry versus newspapers.
Electric light plants are installed in Lewiston and Murray Idaho, two towns with around 2700 residents combined, celebrated with buoyant jubilation. The article notes rapid adoption of electric illumination across the Pacific Slope and compares it to the telegraph, praising the bright daytime radiance and Prometheus fire spreading nationwide.
A fragment from Joseph Davwwaon in the Apestator presents a dialog where tear and smile converse. The bald smile notes that brightness needs a backdrop of night, arguing that grief is tempered by moments of gladness. They suggest that a smile can help a tear reveal its sadness.
In Piccadilly a bachelor recalls his friend Jack Addison now a married man. Over cups of coffee they recount how Addison met Dolly, daughter of General Trefusia, and how a bicycle wheel brooch became a wedding talisman. The tale traces their Devonshire golf rounds, the General’s favor, and Addison’s cautious proposal that led to marriage.
In a country life tale, a man recalls a late night bicycle chase ending in a crash and rescue. Dolly, the beloved, rejects him after an impulsive plan to hurry the courtship, leading to a dangerous descent where he saves a woman from the pursuer and learns Dolly was the target.
A quirky survey notes humans vary in size with tall men rare. It cites weights for men and women, brain sizes, and blood circulation speeds, including astonishing distances blood travels in a lifetime. It highlights quirks like right-side limb predominance and speed estimates for motion.
Edward J. Cumingham, released from San Quentin after six years for burglary in Orange County, kept a vow of silence throughout detention. He communicated only in writing or by motion, was placed in Ukiah Asylum briefly, then kept in crank alley after return. He refused haircuts, wore hair at fifty four inches, and upon release grinned at guards before cursing confinement and offering no explanation for his reserve.
President McKinley’s lengthy 1899 address outlines wartime acts, calls for a larger army, preparations for hostilities then ongoing, and a push for peace with Spain. It covers Cuba’s future, Philippines, Nicaragua canal, Open Door in China, Hawaii, and reforms in finance, currency, and international relations.
Governor Black orders Attorney General Hancock to prosecute State Engineer Adams and Superintendent George Aldridge after Judge Countryman’s report found violations of law and the Constitution in awarding canal improvement contracts. Aldridge suspended as inquiry continues. other officials may be cited by grand jury.
In Newport during a harbor fete a torch went out on the parapet. A girl suggested extinguishing the lit torch beside it. An officer burned his finger while extinguishing and stayed silent. A boy asked why he did not swear. The father explains the man may be a chaplain or a second lieutenant, hence not proper to swear.
A Cleveland public school teacher asked students to draft a grocer customer conversation. A brief, misread exchange features a child replying I think I’ll take dinner, it’s for a funeral, highlighting humor and social norms in a classroom assignment from the Cleveland Leader.
Mr Elliot Danforth, Democratic lieutenant governor candidate, and Mrs Ilebord Mott Laimbeer quietly married at the Savoy Hotel New York. Rev Haallnden officiated. Bride wore silver gray satin with lace and carried a silver prayer book. Honeymoon to the South planned after a buffet reception.
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