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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1912
Page
2
A collage of light items and quips from The Cranbury Press including jokes about free lunch myths, a raid on a fat man’s club, roast camel in papers, a bear rescue miscue, chimpanzees reasoning, and notes on aging empires. It mentions Kipling’s pay rate, a rescued New York wife, a dynamite seizure in Pittsburgh, and curious statehood furniture.
Yale University expert argues hookworm contributes to rising living costs while critiquing the idea that high prices stem from consumer demand for books. The remark contrasts worm biology with economic waste and library practices.
A Massachusetts minister shifts from pulpit to coal business preaching fire here rather than hereafter. Bank robbers flee vault with 500000, leaving money. New Jersey coroner candidate balks at corpses. A millionaire plans a 5000 chicken coop hoping hens lay gold. An eastern school enforces legible names and numbers to aid editors.
In a Civil War tale set in a Confederate tent, Captain Wayne is badly hurt after a dog attack and is aided by a northern girl who tends his bleeding shoulder. She shows courage and care, recalling Baltimore hospital experience, as Craig secures dispatches and the pair seek shelter in darkness.
A Confederate officer seeks shelter in a remote cabin after a broken horse drive. Mrs. Brennan and Jed Bungay host him with wary hospitality as two armed guerrilla riders approach, while a tense night unfolds with dogs, danger, and hidden identities.
Chapter VI continues with a vivid scene inside a bare rough room. The narrator recalls a memory of a tense confrontation as a fire flickers and shadows loom over a dim wooden interior. The woman appears transformed, clad in soft brown fabric that flatteringly frames her form.
In periling times Mrs Brennan identifies pursuing guerillas as soldiers. Captain Wayne and Maria help Jed Bungay flee to a hidden hill cave behind a cupboard, blocking pursuers as they retreat into darkness for safety.
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