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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1910
Page
4
Munyon's Paw Paw Pills claim to cleanse the liver stomach and nerves and to invigorate rather than weaken the system. The ad says the pills contain no calomel and are soothing healthful, sold by all druggists for 200 the box with free medical advice from Munyon's Doctors at 83d One to Moraon Sts Philadelphia.
Reports question government mail payments to railroads and car costs, and note negotiations over a Mont Blanc tunnel with Italy and France. The clippings discuss nutrition claims for Grape Nuts and a reader letter praising the food’s health benefits.
The draft of the Federal Incorporation act sets rules for forming interstate corporations. Five or more US citizens may form a corporation with minimum capital of 100000, and must file articles of association for approval by the Commissioner of Corporations. The act details stock issuance, property payments, appraisals, and two thirds stock votes for major changes. Forfeiture and taxation provisions tie to Sherman act compliance, with Congress retaining power over charter alterations.
The International Court of Arbitration at The Hague has scheduled June 1 for the hearing of the United States and Britain over the Newfoundland fisheries dispute arising from recent findings.
Mrs O H Belmont addressed a New York City meeting of negro women and induced about 100 to join her suffrage association.
A diverse set of 1900s era items include a Paris massacre claim, New York luncheon, postal rate debates, British election shifts, a New York banking crisis, a Supreme Court hearing date, Nicaragua policy on Americans, congressional bribery charges, and a NY medical plan to address crime. The items show government responses to crime taxation and international affairs.
Crisfield Md reports muteness and evidence of a fierce struggle as the oyster boat bugeye BMc Smith sinks with three crewmen. Captain J Henry Nelson retrieves Captain William A Bradshaw's body lashed to a mast, Hamilton unknown crew missing, probably washed overboard and drowned.
Edward P. Neylor, village treasurer and school trustee, accused embezzler, arrested for converting 650 dollars from the Chicago Peoria and St. Louis Railroad and 380 dollars of village funds. Public improvements halted and paving on ten blocks suspended as a result.
Washington DC. The Agricultural bill, totaling about 13.5 million dollars, clears the House with an increase of over 400 thousand from last year. The proposal removes a cost investigation clause on food supplies by the Secretary of Agriculture, while boosting forest service funding to manage an added 26,528,429 acres in national forests.
Charles S. Cummings, a Boston broker, was found guilty of larceny and uttering a forged note in a Middlesex County Superior Court trial. He was charged with stealing $15,000 from the Washington Institution for Saving in Lowell and uttering a forged note for the same amount, and received a state prison sentence of five to eight years.
Collector Fred Stratton seized thirteen trunks of Mrs Edward G Price wife of a Chicago millionaire who arrived aboard the Cleveland. He did not give a value estimate but said all dutiable items not listed in her sworn statement were contraband.
The Vatican cancelled the planned audience with the Pope after ex Vice President Wairhanks agreed to deliver an address at the American Methodist Church. The move ends the previously arranged meeting and shifts focus to the address at the church event.
Contracts were slowed in London for the construction at Quincy Massachusetts of two battleships of the Dreadnought class for Argentina. Ole Bull's Centennial marks the hundredth anniversary of his birth celebrated at Chris Uania Norway.
Frank Vanderlip president of National City Bank of New York met with President Taft in Washington DC to discuss financial conditions. Vanderlip offered no comments as he left the White House.
The Labor World notes Premier Asquith will push the budget first and then consider House of Lords reform in Parliament. It cites various labor topics including 1909 Chicago fatalities, union organizing plans in waistmaking, and labor protections in Manitoba. It also mentions AFL efforts, bookbinders votes, and proposed cabinet reforms for labor and commerce.
Prices listed for dairy poultry vegetables fruits and meats in New York markets. Includes per quart creamery butter per pound fowl turkey duck and live poultry rates as well as beans, peppers, apples, cabbage, potatoes, flour and lard price bands and state duties.
New York City report by W F Ritter ties cotton price rises to 1908-09 labor shifts and reduced 1909 crop. He cites 13 million bales produced in 1908, 3 million fewer in 1909, and hosiery yarn at 15.75 cents vs 23.75 cents today. He argues only larger farm output solves the price crisis while noting dairy, cheese, butter, cranberries, and animal oil markets behavior.
A historical report details John D. Rockefeller’s financial dominance over Swift & Co Armour & Co and the National Packing Company via Standard Oil. It traces Carton and McRoberts rise, Swift & Co capital expansion, and the interlocking control of packing interests dating back to 1893.
The Draper brothers did not attend General William I. Draper’s Milford funeral fueling talks of a long standing feud. Reported rifts stem from a quarrel between sisters Mrs. William F. Draper and Mrs. George A. Draper, with business and politics widening the breach.
Fragmentary report describes Henri Pennington Toler a Harlem heirs figure who jumped from Ward's Island into the East River near Hell Gate drowning. He had been an inmate at Ward's Island insane hospitals since last July and aimed to found a Jerusalem for Mrs Eddy's church. Also touches on unrelated society notes and sports jottings.
In Hartford Conn a federal court jury awarded D E Loewe of Danbury 74 000 in actual damages, with potential triple damages under Sherman Anti Trust law, against Martin Lawter and 239 Danbury Bethel and South Norwalk hatters for a boycott. The case underscores solidarity between labor actions and anti trust protections, with hearings set for March 7 to challenge the verdict as excessive.
In Wiknington Delaware a fire trapped four children Mamie fourteen Jewels sixteen Stanford five and Dialsy three in a Dover area farmhouse. Their mother Mrs Sarah Tatum watched in night clothes in a critical condition as neighbors gathered after the blaze.
Mrs Robert Peary hands over three meteors bought in Arctic regions to the American Museum of Natural History. The stones, largest iron ore specimens ever found, were acquired for about fifty thousand dollars and are presented by Mrs Jesup, widow of Morris K. Jesup, a key financer of Peary’s expeditions.
The Safe Roads Auto mobile Association reports 1909 Massachusetts accidents rose 46 percent from 1908, with 94 serious wrecks and 54 deaths that year versus 62 and 33 in 1908. Other notes mention a cougar shot near Fairfax Washington, a curb on Indian press, a London wedding, a new Navy Surgeon General, and rebels seizing Boaga in Nicaragua.
Washington reports the George Peabody College for Teachers will be built in Nashville Tennessee funded by a 1.9 million dollar gift from the Peabody Fund trustees. The gift depends on Tennessee Davidson County and Nashville approving 760 thousand dollars. The condition has been met. English visitors include the Duke and Duchess of Manchester Lady Paget and Lady Sister Kaye arriving in New York aboard the Mauretania for a U S tour. Potatoes suffer from cellar rot. trade weak.
Reading excerpts from an exam in England shows boys debating women’s suffrage with humorous foresight about parliamentary roles. Other answers include kettle singing reasons a bridge partner sleeping and initials C O D explained with playful misnaming. A rainbow report from the southeast notes bright colors and a shadow on the ground in cold weather.
Amsterdam reports a talking automaton doctor that uses a slot to accept a fifteen centime coin to trigger a prescription. A vial arrives with the apothecary address, guiding the patient to obtain the medicine.
A user reports ten years of hand eczema healed by Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Resolvent after three bottles, praising the remedy for skin and blood diseases. Additional anecdotes mention other products and miscellaneous notices about almanacs and remedies, with various names and places.
A collage of vintage observations discusses social curiosities from a touring duo in New Orleans calling a woman an octagon, and hunters noting mass quail and pheasant deaths along the Kankakee River. Kinglake is mocked for his London Times views and jokes about a woman doctor.
A consular report notes widespread establishment of schools across the Chinese empire. Educated Chinese trained in Japan Europe and the United States lead these efforts as popular education becomes a central feature of reforms moving China toward a limited monarchy and away from autocratic rule.
A Wall Street restaurant story describes a waiter known as Franz Frank or Francois who speaks German and French fluently. He was born in the Eighth Ward and has rarely left New York, with discussions over his origins. Additional items note New York chief constables, urban demolition, Sunday school statistics, India Europe cable earnings, and daily New York fatal accidents from falls and excavations.
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