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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1897
Page
1
A survey of fragmented texts references elevated aristocracy drink culture and a 19th century war toll. It notes a Boston store substituting a word, debates on codfish and ocean salt, Weyler era soldiers in hospital, and US rent costs for federal buildings.
The item surveys U.S. government free sod distribution costs, a German mountain railway using a captive balloon with a T-shaped track, and Dr. W T English on rising acid diets and health risks. It also covers Bernard Moses urging patriotism against wealth feudalism, democracy versus oligarchy, and calls for political revival and simple living amid wealth concentration.
In 1886 a Tunisian merchant naturalist enclosed a field and kept a growing heronry of about 400 egrets with nestlings fed on horse and mule meat. The dorsal plumes are gathered twice yearly, and each bird yields about seven grams of plumes annually. The text also reports global telegraph system length totaling 70,000 kilometers, with America leading in mileage nearly double Europe.
Federal officers report the death of Ne-un-cama a Pimant boy aged fifteen near Phoenix Arizona. He weighed about 440 pounds and drew crowds as residents followed him on visits from the Mori cops and Prima Indian reservation. His death prompts funeral preparations and public interest in his life among his people.
A sentimental poem by P. D. McKendrick printed in the Detroit Free Press, expressing lifelong love for a mother. The speaker recalls a mother’s hair, hands, and gentle voice, vows to protect and honor her, and envisions her at rest with angels, ending with a pledge of enduring devotion.
A northern planter recalls capturing a large baboon on the Rio Pongo coast in Africa. After luring it with rum, the monkey was sedated and seized at Quomone’s town. It later attacked the crew aboard a brig, fought fiercely, but was subdued and eventually became a gentle aboard the ship on its voyage home to Calis.
Reports include use of paper horse shoes for German Army mounts, Klein's collodion balsam for wound coating, scorpions and spiders making warning noises, ancient metal backed mirrors, a large turbine wheel project at Butte Montana, clover sickness bacteri cultures, Oceanic stern plate weight claims, a Buffalo dredge Fin McCool, and light wave measurements across violet to red with 12 billion vibrations per second.
A London electrician invented an apparatus simplifying a manufacturing process and provisional patenting it. Illness and misfortune let a worker master the device, draft a full specification, and secure a patent. The worker then sold rights to several firms and gained nearly $500,000 while the inventor retains only the right to use the device in his own work.
The article notes over 6000 plant species in cultivation and says most forms have been shaped by human influence, with diversity arising from selective breeding and cultivation practices.
A Ramona California minister known for boxing and preaching guards a man on a rural road from three attacking Indians. He also defeats a town bully in a quick, decisive street fight. Meanwhile heroic life savers described from Nantucket to Lake Superior recount perilous rescues and steadfast duty. A South African Kaffir and a Samoan tale add daring courage while a Philadelphia girl saves a liquor-weakened man at Wissahickon station and earns his gratitude.
Annie and Mary Wilson, sisters living near Wall's station on the Pennsylvania Railroad, split rails and make pit posts for Spring Hill Coal Company between Wilmerding and Wall's. They cut, saw, and split logs into proper lengths, aided by their younger brother, using a crosscut saw and a twenty pound maul. The sisters perform all timber work with skill and speed, highlighting their unusual labor for the era.
The column surveys current style, noting brown velveteen wear, matching satchels, and a revival of the bustle. It highlights hair color boosts from sun, lighter bonnets, and a push toward empire gowns, velvet gowns, and ornate accessories. It also covers women in education and early female professionals with various international mentions.
A compilation of proverbs stressing prudence, honesty, and virtue followed by a Philadelphia Record note on home nursing for the sick. It advises sunlit rooms, 65 to 75 degree Fahrenheit, ice or ice packs for cooling, cool sponging, cautious use of drugs, and physician guidance for fevers.
A collage of witty exchanges and squibs from diverse papers. Snappy remarks on love, marriage, and social manners feature a moonlit vow, a bargain hunter wife, postmen, poets, and a lawyer skull joke, all with a light, ironic tone.
In Berlin the long lived finance veteran Manx Duestrow has died leaving a sizable fortune. He spent retirement in meticulous self transactions, drafting formal requests to himself to pay sums with notes tied to his desk, then approving expenditures in separate compartments. He maintained a strict, self administered system until death.
An English duchess forgets her bills. a milliner’s girl visits, asks respectfully for payment, and the duchess blushes as she makes out a check for the amount owed. The scene ends with the child bowing and saying a grace before the duchess settles the debt.
W L Watts of the Mining Bureau in Southern California faces odd requests from locals who seek benefit from state work. A reader asked about a foul smelling well water on his lot and Watts replied with cautious humor suggesting it could be a dentent.
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