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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1896
Page
1
A collage of 1890s headlines covers war fears with Brazil, law notes urging cautious evidence, marriage rate declines in Berlin, US as a rising economic rival, Russian architecture influence, Scottish horse imports, Vatican expenditures, New York crisis reports, Yale Magazine satire, centenarian tallies, a London detective service using a socialite woman, and a Vienna breakthrough in photographing interiors of living tissue and bones.
The excerpt celebrates spring with birds, buds, sun, lambs, and coloring cheeks, then shifts to summer with dove coos, bees, mowing, and lovers meeting at dusk. It attributes the lines to Alfred Austin and evokes seasonal romance across two stanzas.
In a British Guiana coastal tale a narrator recalls a wild time with Phil Egerton in Georgetown bars and a dangerous romance with a waitress known as The Queen. They plan an interior safari with Wilson the sugar planter and a bird study, but a wedding crisis looms as the plan shifts to an overnight departure and a curare reference fuels the adventure.
A group on a boating trip discuss safe play and talk turns to danger when a hidden dagger wounds one man. Poisoned sweat triggers a neurotoxic illness as his friends perform extended artificial respiration, keeping him alive until rescue and recovery.
A fragment from Cham bear e s Journal reflects on death and a 24 hour period without breath as a vivid, personal claim of death. The speaker describes prolonged suffocation as a stark, haunting memory. The tone is reflective and somber, capturing an intense confrontation with mortality.
Reports cover flea anatomy, portable bicycle crates in Paris, traveling sales using bicycles, Corinth excavations permit, a French plate washer invention, brain size ratios in humans and horses, chalk transmutation to marble, Altoona L class locomotives, Lippmann color photography prize, electrolytically formed copper steam pipes, liquefiable acetylene advantages, Dr Adolf Muller’s accident, nitrogen absorption by lithium, and two pole dynamo armature length relations.
British Columbia man Qosnon J. D. Good tells a San Francisco Call reporter that long residence among the Columbian Indians proves they are Syrians in thought, customs, and language. He cites Syrian words, burial rites, medicine man roles, and governance similarities as evidence.
Detective Sam O Neill chased a thief on a Wentworth avenue electric car as a woman’s pocketbook was stolen. The thief slipped from a coat modified with holes to shed it while fleeing, enabling a rapid escape amid a crowded Madison street scene.
Western farmers seeking new homes in the South are advised that official Department of Agriculture reports show Florida at 12 dollars per acre for farm product value, second only to Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Other Southern states range from 10 dollars in South Carolina and Mississippi to 0 dollars in West Virginia and Texas.
Alaska News recounts the almost incredible ordeal of two Indian boys adrift on the Bering Sea for three weeks. They drifted 2000 miles, survived on walrus blood, endured thirst, and were rescued near Kuskoquim, with one boy later dying of wounds from a sword fight in a separate clash.
A London Tid-Bits contributor recalls the 1864 El Tob battle in the Eastern Soudan where Trumpeter Fanning leapt from his horse to defend Colonel Barrow after he was wounded. Fanning fired, drew his sword, and held the line as Arabs pressed, epitomizing British grit amid desperate hand to hand combat.
Two Broad Street celebrities Mesers Talman and Perkinson competed in a banana eating contest. After ten minutes Talman ate thirty-nine bananas while Perkinson consumed thirty four, under referee Andrew Ginter. Talman declared champion with a global challenge open.
The Spanish cruiser Alfonso XII I with General Weyler, newly named Captain-General and Commander in Chief of Cuba, arrived at Havana and entered the harbor at 10 o clock. He was greeted with artillery salutes, flags, and cheers as he disembarked with officials and proceeded to the palace to take the oath and hold a reception for Cuba’s leaders and foreign consuls. The city hosted a holiday atmosphere with decorations, crowds, and music as Weyler commenced his duties.
New York City District Attorney Fellows asked to drop the forgery indictment against Erastus Wiman after the Court of Appeals overturned his prior conviction for forging E W Ballinger’s signature on a 90000 check. Wiman, once linked to R G Dun & Co, had served five years and six months before bond release. the dismissal ends the case.
An immense aerial explosion was reported above Madrid at 2304 with a bright flash and panic. Officials said the blast occurred twenty miles up, causing shattered windows, damaged walls, and injuries including seventeen in a tobacco factory. The event sparked fear of an earthquake or divine wrath as people fled factories and schools. Nearby, the U.S. Legation building suffered a collapsed partition wall, while a large Alabama cotton mill project faced delays as funding and construction concerns emerged.
William H. Crain, representative from Texas Eleventh District and long-time congressman, died at his home of pneumonia. Born in Galveston November 25, 1444, he graduated from St Franchy Naylers College in New York City July 1, 1867 and earned later degrees. A lawyer by training, he pursued public service for many years. The Texas delegation and Speaker Tread ordered resolutions of sympathy and a committee to accompany the remains to Texas.
A great rally will be held at Carogiv Hall New York City on Mare 3 as the finale of a series of meetings in alddof home missions under the auspices of the New York Presbytery President Cleveland will speak and will probably address WACD matters regarding missions among Indian children.
An unreadable clipping from Tengucola Florida notes 459 masonry patents, copper wires for telegraph lines, and a claim about a wager involving apples. It also mentions a Chicago event with a 404 pound spread and exploded lamp, plus Savoy foundations found under a flagstone and a cellar with old relics from a monastery.
The Senate approved a bill directing the Secretary of Agriculture to execute the law for seed distribution. President appoints Duffield and others to test coin fineness and weight. Monroe doctrine debate, international appointments, and various national events are noted.
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