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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1896
Page
1
An essay argues that extending free rural delivery will curb urban expansion and aid farmers. It notes current benefits in larger cities and proposes experimental tests to gauge feasibility before nationwide implementation. The piece highlights the need for equitable distribution of services to support agriculture and commerce.
The Admiralty considers one or more torpedo boats with a contractual speed of 33 knots, roughly 38 mph, to be fast, light craft of about 290 tons requiring about 8000 horsepower. In comparison the larger Lochkanis with 80,000 hp and 13,000 tons shows efficiency of power to speed, as these small craft aim to approach high all day train speeds.
Funeral services for Mrs. Katherine Bert were held at Moonlight in Dickinson County Kansas attended by seventy seven relatives and friends. The day included a noon meal and a grave side ceremony after the coffi n lowering amid solemn reflection.
Poem-like piece describes midnight bells and festive voices across hills and dells. References to Bethlehem star, joyous singing, and peace amid winter night. Mentions a Careys ferry and old stories of the Saviour's birth, with lines about lightness of life and Christmas cheer.
In a domestic scene Patience and Susan bustle with Christmas prep while teasing about aging and wear. A visitor May Barrow stops by and Patience learns the gossip that Squire Willard plans marriage, leaving Patience curious and hopeful.
Miss Patience Cummings, long beloved by Nat Willard the widower, plans festivity as Christmas fades. A confrontation with the squire over a Linebrook widow prompts Patience to don her finest gowns for a potential marriage, only to face a sharp truth about his future wife.
A humorous exchange is recalled where a facetious congressman jokes about not getting anything in a Christmas stocking and quips he gets everything in the neck nowadays. The line highlights light political humor from a colleague.
A humorous exchange from a Chicago Record Hobbies page features Freddy and Johnnie debating holiday mishaps and frugal gifts. Freddy plans a rooftop yule ruse, while others trade quips about green Christmases and modest presents, hinting at comic domestic misadventures.
The excerpt presents fragmented verse with archaic spellings and imagery. It references market, bread, a knife, a handkerchief and Christmas themes. Names appear as “Tiste Vane” in a distorted form. The text reads as garbled verse passages without a clear narrative.
A method to stabilize a Christmas tree using stove tracks as a base. Cover tracks with boards, brace corners, and place the tree base in a central hole. Casters on the frame allow easy movement without tipping.
In a portrayal of the Nativity scene, the罗 Roman Empire under Augustus orders a census guiding Joseph and Mary from Nazareth to Bethlehem. The crowded town lacks lodging, forcing them to lodge in a humble chamber beneath an olive grove where the Virgin Mary awaits the Son of God as lamps burn above the Chapel of the Nativity.
A Christmas tree should bloom with glittering fruits and whimsical ornaments to delight children. Large gifts clutter the base, while gilded balls, colored glass, bright eggs, butterflies, drums, gilded paper helmets, goldfish, silver flakes, turtles, horns and bells adorn the branches. Also bonbonnieres, stages, winged figures of the Christ child or Santa Claus, tassels, and bright tapers create a twinkling, fairyland effect.
It is considered lucky when Christmas falls on Sunday and unlucky when it lands on Saturday. The intermediate days are mostly propitious. In Dovonshire a bright noon sun on Christmas promises a good apple crop next autumn. A well known old tradition warns that a green Christmas will fill the graveyard.
A holiday scene reveals a boy missing a leg after a thrashing machine accident and two stockings damaged, prompting Santa to note the troubling sight.
A San Francisco Chronicle story recalls 1875 expedition in Manitoba country where a half breed Sioux hunter and an American narrator faced a monstrous grizzly boar. The Indian is wounded but survives a second charge while the narrator shoots the attacker's brain, saving the hunter's life as a lioness pursues a pony nearby.
Fragmentary text presents a seasonal verse about a mischievous boy, a trap, and Santa Claus, with garbled names and unclear outcome. The piece reads like a children’s rhyme from a historic page, lacking coherent dates or clear characters beyond Old Santa.
An English hunter famed for killing over 200 lions recounts episodes from Somaliland hunts in Badminton Magazine. One tale describes tracking a lioness through tall grass, burning a patch to flush her, and a dangerous near miss as the beast was driven toward the underedge where a warrior rode a pony to scout.
Horace J. Hoffman recalls a near miss at Kenesaw Mountain when a falling chestnut tree crushed tents killing two men and nearly killed him. The tale shifts to a whale encounter and a swordfish near-miss off Long Island, both illustrating nerve and composure under danger.
A San Francisco Chronicle note describes turning heirloom military uniforms into household treasures. Gold lace from three generations yields a milk jug tea set and sugar bagin a teapot formed from trimming scraps once worn by servicemen.
A Kobo paper reports Os lake Aeohi received a letter sent to London eight years ago. Returned by the British Postal Administration for insufficient addressing, the envelope was badly damaged. Unclear where the letter traveled or who the addressee became.
A dense scrub of events from early journalism describes a wide array of incidents. It mentions deaths in accidents and violence, political misgivings, bank and property news, fires, fires, and a publicized presidential visit, with scattered notes on international affairs and labor unrest.
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