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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1897
Page
1
A survey of topics includes a call for compulsory Indiana education law, notes on arid land reclamation plans, and discussions of Senate demographics. It cites Franklin's bequest funds, Moissan’s lectures, port charges, and rapid growth of the Young Men's Christian Association with extensive facilities and programs.
A nameless speaker contrasts a simple rural life with the vastness of mountains and cities. The poem observes how some dwell among fields, streams, and birds, while others sense earth and heaven as wide beyond confined space. It evokes contemplation of perspective and place.
Zona Sheldon travels alone by train with her mother wary of danger in a compartment car. A suspicious, powerful stranger in the same carriage provokes fear when a cinder blinds Zona and a rumor of danger swirls around. She reaches safety with a guard and confides her adventure to her cousin and future husband.
A Parisian inventor showcases a machine that splits hair into thirty six strips while a dust exploder for vehicle hubs features an easily removable cap. An electric roller for massage uses copper and zinc plates generating its own electricity. Submarine telegraph cables require thirty seven specially built steamers for maintenance. Phono tempered steel shows superior hardness and elasticity. A Massachusetts woman patents a leather dressing from wax rubber gutta percha licorice and paraffin. A new nut lock uses a recessed corner and sharp pin to enable unscrewing the nut. Dr Gaccarelli of Rome claims discovery of the yellow fever germ with potential for prevention. A new car fender attaches to the track to reduce oscillation. a pneumatic tube system in Boston aims to carry small parcels with eight inch tubes. Swallow wort is claimed as a cancer cure by Dre Denisanko though Lancet reports unconfirmed results.
Captain J Dahl of the Norwegian bark Handy found a bean sized nugget of pure gold attached to his sounding lead off Newfoundland while discharging timber at Irvine. Dahl, from Vredriksbold, Norway, was returning to Dalhousie New Brunswick to load cargo. He reported the find to Irvine customs but will not surrender the piece and declined a 3300 offer for bearing details.
Miss McKinley and Miss Bryan enter Mount Holyoke class of 1900, linked by late election proximity. Fashion coverage spans overgaiters with knee-high tops, double veils, and Parisian trends, plus notes on Queen Victoria's wealth, Brest theatre cushions, and a mix of society, science, and fashion highlights from New Orleans to London.
A collage of jokes and witty exchanges from papers like Yale Record Pack Boston Transcript Detroit Free Press and Puck. It surveys social foibles and light sarcasm about engagements money marriage and science with multiple dated quips and a playful tone.
A dated poetic dedication expresses enduring love through roses as messengers. The speaker vows the soul and emotion live beyond the flowers and to speak to the beloved even after petals fade, promising fragrance and fidelity forever.
The article describes a proposed Atlantic exploration of Rockall at 57°36′N about 200 miles from the Hebrides. Rockall is a small, guano‑covered rock 250 feet around and 60 feet high, a potential meteorological station site atop a submerged plateau with dangerous surrounding rocks. It notes limited visitation, seabird colonies, and a distance from mainland. A second, unrelated anecdote mentions a Conservative MP tied to a historic earthquake disturbance and a rat trap anecdote as unlikely earthquake response.
Portfo lio for Wilson reports that James Wilson of Ames professor and former state official has accepted the Secretaryship of Agriculture. Born 1849 in Scotland, he came to America as a child and built a 1200 acre Tama County farm. He served in Iowa General Assemblies and as State Railroad Commissioner.
Mrs Carew, an English woman, was found guilty of murdering her husband Walter Raymond Hallowell Carew, secretary of the Yokohama United Club. The verdict came in after a half hour of deliberation and the death sentence is subject to British ministerial revision. The case drew wide attention due to the couple’s high social standing and resembles famed trials of the era.
Henry Weitfelt a Populist farmer from Nez Perce County secured Idaho's Senate seat, succeeding Dubois. The final ballot showed Weitfelt thirty-nine, Dubois thirty, Nelson thirteen, with Populists and Republicans among voters. Heitfelt's election follows multiple terms in county and state government and positions as Free Silver advocates prevail in the race.
Two New Orleans newspaper men, Harrison P. Hester and H. P. Blessine, drowned when a log struck the steam yacht Argo on the Mississippi River during coverage of a Congress committee visit to assess the Pass a Loutre crevasse and advise on appropriation plans. Hester, son of Henry G. Hester of the Cotton Exchange, was a leading cotton statistician and Washington contributor. Blessine, aged 27, hailed from a prominent Croce family.
Professor David Starr Jordan urged abolishing the open season for killing female seals to protect Pribilof Island rookeries. His Treasury report estimates total seals killed at 440000, with about 27010 pups dying of starvation and pelagic sealing causing 2959 deaths.
An excited crowd surrounded Wayne jail in Nob., threatening Clarence Bish, a wealthy farmer. He was arrested at his home where his wife and three children lay hacked and battered. Bish claimed the Bible as his defense and said he did his duty. Rash had attended revival meetings and grown enthusiastic over religion.
A colored man, once unknown, assaulted a young white girl named Battle near Briarfield in Bibb County Alabama. A posse pursued him through bitter cold, captured him, and transported him for identification. He was escorted toward the County Jail but reportedly got lost in the snow.
A hospital records error misidentified a man as dead and his funeral proceeded after an autopsy. The brother located the body in the morgue and learned the error, vows to recover funeral costs. Other items note Oklahoma legislature actions, crimes, transit spending, and odd incidents across cities.
A broad slice of late 19th century dispatches details pardons and nominations from the presidency and administration, including a pardon in the Afoses Rosa case, Col onel John M. Wilson to chief of engineers, and attorney actions against piracy. Senate debates over a US Great Britain treaty amid Nicaragua Canal talks, plus Michigan and New York political and legal moves, bank troubles, fires, robberies, and a wave of domestic incidents across cities.
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