09 Feb 1906
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1906
Page
1
A fragment from a poem shows a girl and speaker discussing a playful riddle about a maiden walking a path with a bee and a bird overhead. The text names Cora A. Matson Dolson and appears in Youth's Companion.
The tale centers on Tom Bisbee visiting Frank Powers in a New England town. Bisbee, shy with women, falls for a sister while Miss Hicktree misreads his affections. Christmas Eve stockings spark a lively family dispute and a comic, awkward conclusion.
A tale of holiday mischief ends with a boy in the snow after mistaking a figure in the dark at a mansion. He awakens to a startled Miss Hirktree and flees, later found three miles away and returned by nurse care. The narrator reassures the reader about school matters and Tom Bisbee.
The Linonella ranch in Ventura County is the nation's largest lemon operation, spanning 208 acres. In 1904 it shipped 200 carloads totaling 62,400 boxes, with costs to produce and ship estimated at 1.42 dollars per box to Eastern markets. The article explains size based fruit testing, washing, sorting, curing under canvas for six weeks, and shipping routes from Los Angeles to Boston. It also notes winter risks from Jack Frost and the ranch’s frost-protection method using thousands of hanging baskets and night crews.
A garbled page lists quotes from Bronte Fuller Lavater Sheridan and others, interspersed with partial notes on U S trade from Germany and mentions of Maynard and Tarper's Weekly. The legible pieces mix aphorisms, mis-spellings, and incomplete data in a collage of 19th to early 20th century style prose.
A farm kitchen piece reviews baked apple pudding with quince jelly and a lemon butter cream, plus a household note on canning sausages for summer variety. It advises frying hot, sealing jars, and aging sausage briefly to prevent bursting.
A vintage guide offers simple home-care tips. Restore crushed velvet with warm water and a sliced iné. deter ants with sassafrag and sulphur. deter mice with gum camphor. clean fine furniture with a damp chamois. dampen table linens for gloss. pack flour between items when storing. dry woolens by hanging to minimize shrinkage.
A collage of household advice on cleaning perfumery and kitchen tasks, detailing alcohol use for cleaning piano keys jewelry and fabrics, gelatine shampoo, quick wine storage, furs, crepe de chine, lemon scouring for copper, turkey roasting tips, bath for tired feet, teapot care, jelly sealing with sugar, and a quirky local anecdote about a widower with multiple marriages. The text preserves period voice and scattered community notices.
Federal authorities target Imperial Trustee Company and five associates over a far-reaching fraud spanning New York New Jersey and Boston. Investigations led by Post Office Inspector Cortelyou allege mail fraud involving White Ruxton Colt and others with offices in Jersey City Broadway and Vanderbilt buildings. Six search warrants and indictments reveal a scheme misusing mail to move funds estimated up to six hundred thousand dollars.
A large forest fire near Milan on the St Gothard line started by a locomotive spark scorched about twelve square miles. Hundreds of workers and peasants fought to save the track posts, factories, and a nearby chapel, but significant damage occurred.
A government delegate told a budget committee in Tokyo that Japan plans a stronger navy and to raise total shipping tonnage to 400000 tons by the end of the current fiscal year.
Lady Grey wife of Sir Edward Grey secretary of state for foreign affairs died from injuries received when thrown from a carriage near Edinburgh Northumberland. Delegates attend Moroccan conference at Algeciras. Andrew Carnegie donates 10000 to Swarthmore College with a like matching gift. Memorial service for King Christian held in Copenhagen. Jeffries declares he will not fight again. National League clubs starting the season with new managers. Osage Stanley sprint on mile in 15 seconds on Florida beach. Automobile Club of France fixes Circuit de la Sarthe for a major race. American team defeats Great Britain in Mexico City six to one. Keane selects 1906 racing lineup. Vincent of Taunton elected captain of Brown football. Kid Gleason and Shobe Magee predict Phillies NL pennant. Suyplewand tanks chosen for championship at Women’s Metropolitan Association meet. Yale athletics discuss rules votes and meanings for forthcoming changes.
A mob of about a thousand roared for lynching Jackson a black prisoner. Sheriff Hogg and four aides resisted, disarmed Daniel Norman, and protected the jail escape attempt marching Jackson to Mendricks Hill then to St Louis while gunfire and threats raged. Norman and crowd pressed the jail, but the officers held firm, saving the prisoner.
A late night train collision near Mertens Montana caused a freight on fire, with a passenger car engulfed and several workers and passengers killed. Names including Jessup and Brown were reported among the deceased, with rescuers unable to reach all victims before dawn.
President releases letter urging reform of hazing rules at the U S Naval Academy and pardons midshipman Jal Paul Miller who was dismissed. He argues dismissal is disproportionate for minor hazing offenses and warns of harm to discipline and future Navy efficiency. He notes court martial findings and law limits on punishment and urges amendment to avoid waste of government funds and talent.
The Engineer Corps of the Navy is nine officers short of quota and no candidates can be found. Target practice for the Atlantic fleet is scheduled off Cuba, while Major-General Greely will command the Southwestern Division from Oklahoma City. The Government may auction the supply ship Gulgon and new battleship machinery may be installed for experiments. A veterinarian is sent to India to inspect 100 cattle for import. Charles S. Brown is named chief Inspector of the Government Printing Office. News also notes Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s engagement and President Roosevelt nominating A Grant Smith as third secretary to the Embassy in Great Britain.
A digest of events includes Porto Rico officials questioned by Mayor NoWerto Todd in San Juan, statements by W. J. Bryan on Philippine independence, military redeployments to Manila, a Rock Island derailment near Durán injuring several, a Seaboard Air Line collision in Jacksonville with one death, and multiple legal and crime notes from New York to Ottawa.
Washington announces that Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte has issued orders directing the removal of Midshipmen Richard TL Dessausaure and George H. Melvin after their Annapolis court martial. Both were charged with hazing, convicted, and sentenced to dismissal.
The Admiralty asked British ship owners to cooperate with large naval maneuvers planned for next June. The exercise aims to test a practical defense for British commerce in wartime, including ships bearing mercantile marine flags. It will span from the English Channel to the Mediterranean and involve merchant vessels under naval command for a brief period with passenger liners and two stock carriers exempt.
A blaze at the Tome for the Aged in Rennes France destroyed the home run by the Little Sisters of the Poor. Nine bodies were recovered and the chaplain M Stenow was injured while aiding inmates.
The Situal Corps wireless system between St Michel and Nome, Alaska, with a 107 mile range, suffered an interruption during a test day but was quickly restored. The long standing winter service is considered unprecedented.
Mrs Amie L Dixon 37 killed her four children and herself at their Weston Massachusetts home in what police describe as a possible sudden insanity. Husband Arthur Dixon found the bodies in bed with gas from three jets. The couple had four children and another baby was expected.
The battleship Sutfreng at Toulon returned after colliding with a submarine during naval maneuvers in the Mediterranean. A Moscow dispatch reports the Consortium government seeking 20 million rubles to assist distressed miners.
Commissions examine plans for two Asian railways. One would run from Tashkend to Omsk and another from China toward the Bering Sea. Bishop Hoare of Victoria Hong Kong warns of rising China. Southern provinces face more serious conditions than before the Boxer rebellion.
The steamer Alin day Captain Chambers from Liverpool on Jan 28 bound for St John’s and Halifax reported heavy weather. A crew member named Mirren was washed overboard and drowned. others sustained damage from the surf as the vessel limped into port.
Eighteen General Slocum Survivors Association members travel to Washington to press Congress for relief funds. The report also notes royal and noble anecdotes from Europe and misprinted fragments about judges and heritage figures.
Caracas reports indicate President Castro seeks to soften tensions after a French incident and aims to renew relations with Paris at the next diplomatic opportunity.
Lieutenant-General Goust von Moltke named Chief of the German General Staff. James Polk, a Polk descendant, champions Washington team. Jean Durchoul of Paris dies after a sausage eating bet. Henry Henitheeld of Cardiff faces accusation of stealing from a roof. Henry Babouchere retires from Parliament amid Britain’s political scene. General Johns advocates for America’s first bachelor president. Pennsylvan ia elected reps and 38 feet three inches tall Yosaburo Sagity of Tokyo noted for language and literature study at Notre Dame.
Charlena Pemberton of Vineland described plotting to take her father Dr. Warry Hemberton’s life and end her own. She claimed a will and letters on the beach. her motives tied to family estrangement after a divorce suit. Doctors decided temporary commitment to New Jersey State Hospital for evaluation and treatment.
A reading shows an illustration of a dairy yard with many cows crowded together under a bold caption The Squeeze-out Place of the Milk-dealer. Dr W P Hobertson lectured in Hainburgh Scotland about a microbe linked to pits alysta production.
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