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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1894
Page
1
Poems from Margaret E. Bangster describe Christmas tide with imagery of Bethlehem and angels. The verse recalls stars, dawn, and the Infant Saviour as shepherds, princes, and faithful kneel in humility. The piece appears in Harper’s Magazine.
A busy Christmas Eve in L town sees Sill's variety store crowded with shoppers and gifts. Heyser returns to Nan after a bitter separation, recalling their quarrel and reunion before deciding to buy necessities for the baby and himself.
A Frank Leake narrative describes a Christmas Eve in an Egyptian cafe owned by a Greek. The room features a stone fireplace a palm divan and mats on the earthen floor as Arabs gather on the floor. The narrator orders coffee and mastic, then oversees a feast with squabs, Arab bread, oysters from Alexandria, soup fish turkey ham ducks and snipe followed by a bath and dinner in a vivid colonial travelogue tone.
Heyser, estranged from Nan, rescues a baby from a fire at Mrs. Wisk’s house. Nan reappears, snatches the child, then reconciles with Heyser as they return to a warm cottage for a Christmas feast and a hopeful future together.
Poem-like reminiscence of Christmas time with bells in the air and Bethlehem references. A youthful narrator pledges gratitude to God and remembers Christmas joy, while haunting bugle calls and dreamlike scenes evoke festive memory.
A fragment shows a child recounting gifts from Santa and his father. The boy mentions candy from Santa and a response about the doctor, suggesting a domestic or holiday exchange scene.
The account notes extreme hunger in Paris as 1870 ends, with scarce food and unusual gifts like coffee and potatoes. It describes a Christmas menu including horse meat, cat, dog, donkey, and other scarce items, reflecting wartime deprivation and scarcity.
A brief excerpt from the Chicago Inter Ocean features a highwayman demanding money with a retort from Victin about his wife being in the same line of business during the Christmas season. The exchange suggests a sensational or lurid crime item typical of early 20th century crime columns.
Jhones asks if anyone remembered him on Christmas Day and Smith replies yes while displaying a stack of Intely ephnad envelopes marked my creditor aid. The scene highlights a creditor collection moment amid holiday chatter.
A Goone quip contrasts the Easter girl with the Christmas turkey. The turkey jokes that one is created to kill while the other is killed to dress, delivering a dark punchline in a compact exchange.
The article traces Christmas date origins from ancient movable feast to December 25 set by Julius I. It notes December aligns with winter solstice traditions and Saturnalia, and explains Yule log origins, mistletoe and evergreen decorations rooted in Druids, and the shift from pagan revelry to Christian celebration with carols and gift customs.
A Philadelphia Times piece argues Christmas is a child centered festival of wonder blending Christian and pagan imagery. It emphasizes generosity over selfishness and urges teaching children the joy of giving as part of the holiday spirit.
The article recalls traditional Christmas foods such as plum pudding and the boar's head, with the peacock appearing in earlier times. It notes the bird served in gilded plumage and sometimes lit with spirits, reserved for ladies of high birth. Other dishes included geese capons pheasants and carps tongues, while the liquor carte remained unlimited.
Across many lands the Christmas tree spreads myths and wonder for children while older beliefs fade. Some figures like Odin and Ruprecht once frightened children, and even St Nicholas inspired fear before becoming the beloved Santa Claus.
The article describes a traditional Oxfordshire practice where maid servants request male servants to haul ivy and greens for decorating the house. If a man refused, rivals stole his trousers and nailed them to the gateway, and the offender was barred from the mintletoe celebrations.
Admiral Lang recounts returning at night to the Tingyuen to find the ship deserted. The sentry lay with rifle and bayonet idle while Admiral Ting played cards with the sentry as his partner. Ting explains he felt lonely with officers and men away and had sent for a sentry to play a quiet rubber.
A Portland man reports lasting immunity from rheumatism and fevers after a fall and winter exercise program at the Worthind Athletic Club prescribed by his physician. The garden note adds that Mme Regnen of Roostoen, Holland owns a giant rose bush with 6000 roses in full bloom at the height of last summer.
A scattered miscellany of domestic instructions covers polishing stove parts cleaning dust from carpets using rugs over cleaning, rice cooking methods, and various recipes. The piece cites sources from the New York Journal and Washington Star, including celery salad Bavarian cream baked apple dumplings and salmi of duck, plus a note on Charles XII of Sweden’s moods.
The Treasury approves income tax regulations for 1894. Every U.S. citizen or resident with over 8500 annual income must file a sworn return by the first Monday in March, covering 1894 earnings. Exemptions apply to individuals under 3500, and 4000 plus income is taxed at two percent. Penalties include 50 percent for neglect and 100 percent for fraud. Corporations must file a separate annual return for 1894 with detailed net profits, expenses, and salaries.
Brisson succeeds Burdeau as president of the French Chamber of Deputies in Paris. The vote was 249 to 213, with Mutino as the opposing candidate. Brisson previously served as Prime Minister during the 1885 St. James Ferry crisis.
A Missouri woman, Mrs. William Jones, murdered two of her five children at Dry Hollow and then killed herself. Neighbors reported she attacked the children with a weapon, and fled the scene before authorities arrived.
The piece notes Willem L. Stroog taking the mayoral oath in a Special Term of the Supreme Court. It catalogs multiple incidents across the U.S. northeast and beyond including train collisions on the Brooklyn Elevated, a tax defeat against New York City, bank embezzlements, hangings in New Hadley and Jasper, a guard’s death in New York, and various political and legal moves from New York to Washington.
Superintendent Stump of the Barrau of Immigration writes to Precott F. Wall of the Immigration Restriction League noting 25 044 departures and 12 386 arrivals in November to December 1891 aboard Atlantis steam ships. He argues for restricting immigration to desirable classes and cites discrepancies with Bureau of Statistics figures by including only immigrants in his tally. John Hours, a London labor leader, is described as thirty six years old and a mechanical engineer.
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