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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1909
Page
4
A fragment notes Shakespeare’s wishful timing for Hamlet’s final revision as the manager jokes about George M. Cohan’s birth needed before Broadway’s opening. The quip blends old drama with a Broadway future, reflecting theatrical pressures of the era.
A 1908 export note shows a single fruit company shipping 40 million banana bunches to Europe and the United States from Central and South America and Jamaica. This brief item highlights early global fruit trade reaching major markets.
A yearlong battle with severe eczema ended after two to three applications of Cuticura Ointment followed by continued use of Cuticura Soap and Pills. Henry Bearle of Little Rock, Ark, reports near total relief from itching and skin sores, despite prior hospital and home remedies. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. advertises Cuticura products.
Mrs Sherman Youngs of Schoharie New York credits Doan's Kidney Pills with ending her years of weakness and pain. She reports relief from kidney secretions, restored strength, and renewed ability to work at home after using the product for a few weeks. Sold by all dealers at 60 cents a box, Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y. A West Indian heron was carried ashore by a hurricane to James E Davis's Clay street yard. The bird revived after warming and feeding, then struggled to return to the wild. The Natural History Society calls it a fine West Indian heron specimen with a green brown coloring and a three inch beak. The inspector notes a large cage being built on Clay street for it.
A fragmentary quote follows two voices debating fate and travel. The speaker exclaims luck and readiness to depart for Parla in an hour. A confirmation mentions Pasteur's and a husband bitten by a mad dog, signaling a public health reference in a social exchange.
An Indiana reader recalls lifelong coffee dependence causing dyspepsia and illness. After switching to Postum, breakfast improves and stomach spells vanish. The letter endorses the product and mentions a booklet titled The Road to Wellville and a new reader response from Illinois.
A fragment from New Poems by William Watson published in New York by John Land Co. Describes a noble gift heard as armor against Beauty, worn by the blind atone, in elevated verse.
Cicely scorns Richmond who boasts of strength and socialist ideals. A bet exposes him eating stones at Cicely's garden party, proving his labor. He delivers a candy gift after earning his wages, prompting a reconciliation as Cicely forgives and agrees to his question of marriage.
Miss Elizabeth A. Wright, Radcliffe physical instructor, disputes a claim that a healthy body should be preferred over a molded brain for matriculation. She argues for thorough physical exams by physicians to guide college load and study plans. The text also covers suffrage shifts, New Guinea customs, London dances, Chilean tram conductors, and fashion notes.
Tests by an Eastern railroad show a single locomotive can haul over 6100 tons. A combined electric lamp and shaving mirror directs light below the eyes. European engineers praise cement grouting for masonry repair and tunnel linings. German efforts fix polluted tunnels with cement under pressure. Studies on fish age rings link size to age, noting sex differences in growth. A new electric hot water unit uses an iron block and coiled pipes, switching between light and heat supply as needed.
Port Lavaca correspondence reports relics from Fort St. Louis built by La Salle on the Navidad riverbank near Port Lavaca. An iron cross found beneath the surface is held by Harry Biod. The piece recounts La Salle’s voyage toward the Mississippi, the caravan risks, and the fates of soldiers left behind.
In Halmand Sweden Pontas Holm stron starts a sproning mill to spin yarn from paper. German and French mills exist. rice and carpets show best uses for paper yarn. In Sweden, especially Ostergotland, people mainly weave carpets with paper weft.
The crop reporting board of the Department of Agriculture estimates winter wheat area at 33,483,000 acres, up 7.9 percent from 1908 fall sowing. Rye area up 1 percent to 2,155,000 acres. Winter wheat yield potential 605,593,000 bushels, the largest if harvested, with rye and other notes on prices, cheese, eggs, and railway strike impacts.
In an interview from Managua, President Zelaya blasts U S actions as coercive and unjust while defending his stance on succession. He proposes a U S inquiry panel, criticizes Secretary Knox, and warns against American intervention amid reports of marines in Bluefields and rebel negotiations for a successor, Jose Madriz or General Estrada.
Springfield Mo social leader and the region's only woman lawyer, Alma Dodson invited friends to a farewell card party and reception after learning the operation would likely prove fatal. She hosted cheerfully, then prepared her clothes for after death before undergoing the surgery that caused her death, with the Springfield Bar Association attending her funeral.
Port Arthur Ontario report from Thunder Bay describes six men killed when ice cut holes in dredge No. 8 of Great Lakes Dredging Co near Mut ton Island while towed by the tug Inez. Eight men escaped to a nearby scow. others failed to reach safety as the vessel sank rapidly. Names listed include John Fradburg Peter McDonald J Pha len Cameron and A Smith with duties noted.
Price advances recorded in Kansas City and St Joseph as steers and hogs reach new highs. Two carloads of steers sold at 1050 per hundred pounds at Kansas City stock yards, the highest open market price here and $1 above Chicago figures this year. In Missouri River points, hog values hit 8.45 per hundred pounds, the highest on record locally.
Fifty indictments returned against wholesale liquor dealers in Kansas City Missouri charging violation of the new graduated state tax law. The quar men have refused to pay the tax hoping to test the law's constitutionality.
Proprietors of three main Omaha hotels were fined $100 and costs each for selling liquor after 8 pm defying the daylight liquor law. The ruling revokes their licenses and bars renewal for next year. no appeal from the Police Court decision.
Pittsburg businessman Clinton D. Greenlee files in Los Angeles seeking a restraining injunction to stop his wife from spending $150,000 held in trust for him. Mrs Greenlee plans to defend that the money came from his fortune in earlier prosperities, that she saved it, and that it belongs to her. Greenlees reportedly lost much of their fortune to speculations.
A wealthy Argenteuil farmer filed fraud charges against Leon Goldsmith an alleged American doctor claiming he paid 16000 francs for a river gold dust venture. The plaintiff says Goldsmith delivered fake samples placed in the river bed and vanished after receiving the money.
A collage of brief items notes Willie Collier at the Lambs sharing a joke, Madrid adds a dental college to its university, Serb snakes invade Bragalla railway cars, a London standard cites snakes aboard a Constantinople bound traveler’s bag, Wagner completes Parsifal with a playful boast, Turkey reports 1600 girls schools and 3000 girls in forty secondary schools, and the Pasadena Los Angeles elevated cycleway is replaced by a trolley Moe.
A Sunday sermon preached on the idea that nothing is too vast or tiny for God. The speaker quotes that the universe, mountains, and even a single daisy reflect divine handiwork.
The memorial church in Birmingham England, funded by world wide admirers of the late John Henry Newman, is nearing completion. It lies outside the old Oratory, a place deeply linked to the cardinal.
The California Fig Syrup Co. promotes its Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as the result of exceptional equipment and chemist skill. It stresses that only the genuine product uses its original method and that buyers should verify the front of the package for the full company name to avoid imitations.
A historic advert claims Woolford's Sanitary Lotion cures itch in 30 minutes with reliability. The notice urges purchase at druggists. The snippet also notes Britain controls over half of the world’s ocean shipping.
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