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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1888
Page
1
A price fixing ring on coffins is broken and producers across the country are slashing coffin prices at a rapid pace. The article notes shifts in markets and calls attention to related economic and regional developments.
A fragmentary verse describes a girl in white lying in a cradle bed or bed of pain with a lover by her side. The speaker frames her life and death in ritual white imagery and mentions a figure named George Birdsoyo.
Winnie Malden borrows Carrie Pettigrew’s scarlet cloak to attend a society reception. The cloak is ruined, sparking guilt and a resolve to repay through sewing for the Pettigrews. Winnie teaches thrift and skill, and the Pettigrews reform, ending their borrowing ways.
A Moscow letter to the Kansas City Times describes Cossacks as the czar's life guards and a force famed in wars from Napoleon to Crimea. It portrays their immunity, plunder, and role as both protectors and marauders, with scenes of Cossacks in St. Petersburg and a private citizen disguise.
A city paper review notes abundant variety in evening costumes from historical and antique styles to old English influences. It discusses how costume choice should suit the wearer, mentions notable figures in Mexican society, includes anecdotes about millinery and economy, and cites Oscar Wilde on American women's influence and European marriages to Americans.
A fragment from a column features a quirky dialogue about parasitism framed as a linguistic aside. References to Pari and playful mishearings hint at a humorous, opinionated local piece. The snippet suggests a period voice with a sharp, witty tone.
A Tis noia Watch Company designer creates a dial with eleven silhouette figures replacing numerals. The scenes depict a hunter with gun and dog at seven, a crane at nine, a jack rabbit at ten, a drink at eleven, lunch at twelve, fishing at one, a snagged line at two, a dramatic fish on the line at four, and the hunter returning home with fish and dog trailing. The dial bears the maker’s name in rustic script and reflects romantic eredom.
A brief explainer on allspice, describing it as the powdered berries of Pimenta vulgaris from Jamaica. It clarifies it is not a blend of spices, but a simple product from the Jamaica pepper tree, with evergreen leaves and a distinct aroma when bruised.
The article describes wild pimento growth across limestone hills in the tropics, noting berries harvested green for the market and dried in sun. It explains minimal cultivation, low prices, and the wood’s value, with birds aiding seed dispersal and a lively pimento picking season.
A newly invented pipe made from wood fibre is formed under high hydraulic pressure and saturated with a water and acid proof liquid before baking. It withstands 125 to 175 psi, weighs one fifth of iron, has high tensile strength, and can heat up to 400 degrees. It is a non conductor of heat and protects contents from freezing, suitable for mills using water and dyes and may insulate electric wires. Paper World notes its potential.
A schoolteacher asks a boy where Cuba is located and where sugar comes from. The boy replies he borrows it from the neighbor, reflecting a humorous exchange from the classroom.
A collage of aphorisms on virtue and mind followed by an antiquarian note on Pompeii discoveries. The article describes Dicidia Margaris’s silver ware finds, wax tablets, and contracts, plus Italian relics and a science parody about Earth’s rotation using a powder test.
Reports mix aging queen bees and fertile eggs, asbestos fire garments for London firemen, Utica electric plant belts, Greenland ice travel hopes, a cheaper tanning agent from core dust, a Paris railway velocipede trial, New Orleans underground wiring limits, Egyptian dental tartar clues, 1886 Charleston earthquake traces, and the largest passenger engine built in Schenectady with 3800 gallon tank and eight ton coal tender.
The piece discusses castor oil beans as a cornlike tropical crop needing warm weather, space for large leaves, and profitable factory ties, noting St. Louis as a key oil center and Missouri and Kansas as major producers. It also includes humorous wedding lore and a misheard toast at a Mansion House dinner by three foreign consuls.
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