29 Dec 1893
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1893
Page
1
A broad collection of quotations notes American industry, population estimates, library capacity, veterinary pensions, women in medicine, high altitude weather stations, Delaware game preservation, White House visitor habits, a Iowa horseman’s fortune rise and fall, a river navigation project in Illinois. It sketches era concerns, progress, and notable figures with a mix of facts and anecdotes.
A survey reports three practicable routes for a cable line to the Sandwich Islands. The piece covers global telegraph expansion, birth rates in Europe, and commerce in Africa and the Americas. It notes American locomotive reach, Chileo’s orders, and currency issues in Central Soudan, then shifts to science and navigation topics.
Fragment from a European paper shows a quirky dating notice seeking a young woman with own means. It mentions a bonnet trim prize won in a charity raffle and directs responses to a titled heading. The Civil War remark is cited with inflated financial figures.
A poetic reflection compares a petrified tree found fifty feet underground to the mystery of honey stored in hearts. The lines contemplate time, memory, and the persistence of sweetness beyond life, attributed to Margaret May in the New York Observer.
James Rockhurst travels with David Grant toward Kimberly crossing the Karroo. He shelters a sick child, saves her with care, and quietly aids her mother Maggie Grant while revealing a hidden past life of crime. He leaves to continue his journey, later dying of smallpox contracted from the child, as David Grant and Maggie cope with the fallout.
A steamer on the Volga bound for the Caspian Sea takes on a passenger who asks to be let off at a village. A theft of $3000 is alleged, and the ship circles back. A cover signal is raised and a canvas hides the vessel as it returns. The thief is seized when he reboards, ending a dramatic ruse.
An 1891 United States Bureau of ... cites substantial wolf speeds observed in India and a rider named Chase. The account compares wolf pace to horse gallop, noting a rider’s control with a horse. The piece references observations from Black Woods Meannanie and reports 1891 figures of livestock and mileage.
A collage of quips and cartoons from multiple sources including the Atlanta Constitution Chicago Record New York Herald and Puck. Light exchanges feature playful mishearings romantic missteps and social satire with characters like a deaf mute a vain jeweler and a lovestruck suitor.
A collection of comical vignettes from Detroit and Harper's Bazar recount encounters on Broad Way with beggars bargaining for meals, a bold jailhouse line about contempt, and a stylish fishing outfit joke. The pieces mix wit and social observation across urban life fixtures.
In All the Year Round, the belief among Norwegian peasants is that whether one sees beings from the other world depends on nerve strength. A tale recalls a man who could see three men on the water at night, warn his wife, and survive a storm while others lost nets and boats. The anecdote highlights folk credulity and the danger of ignoring signs in rough weather.
The Bo tree of Anuradapura dates back to 283 years before Christ, with records and chronicles tracing its conservancy through dynasties. Other ancient trees include the yew at Fountaing Abbey about 1200 years old, the Gethsemane olives, and the Serna cypress in Lombardy. The Bastree predates them all by a century, seeming to fulfill an ancient prophecy about lasting age.
A Victoria New South Wales youth named McLean, now seventeen, towers at about 39 pounds with remarkable growth. He stands eight feet four inches by seventeenth birthday, after rapid increases since age ten, reaching seven feet eight inches at sixteen and continuing to outpace all modern giants according to the report from St Dow Republic.
A long Morton of home hints covers flavors like vanilla in tea and lemon in milk, plus cleaning guides for iron pots, celery use, and many salt based remedies. It lists practical steps for cooking, washing, and preserving, with notes on beverages, textiles, and simple household care.
A romantic verse recounts a beautiful ship fleeing rock and storm before striking a treacherous reef and sinking. A young girl aboard, innocent and yearning, perishes as a cruel reef and storm wreck the vessel. The city, memory, and a mother awaiting her child frame the tragic scene from Cassidy in Donahoe’s Magazine.
A collage of quips, verse, and comic anecdotes from varied newspapers notes jokes about contentment and wealth, a foreign chiropodist cracking crowns, matrimonial aims, blunt barbs on journalism, and a poem of brisk humor. Names include Washington Star Hall o, Inter Ocean, Philadelphia Record, Detroit Free Press, Chicago Tribune, and Indianapolis Journal. The snippets reference figures, ads, and light satire, ending with a remark on Princeton’s large Greek Latin scholarship.
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