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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1887
Page
1
Poem recalls youth and romance on Saint Valentine’s Day. The speaker vividizes blue sky, yellow sun, singing birds, and spring flowers while recalling a girl and a boy exchanging a passionate rhyme. The piece ends with a tender hint that love’s deeper meaning awaits discovery.
Mod Bangs and Stephen Dare navigate love and money in Smoketon as Champ Preston returns from abroad to woo Myra Tracy, while Mod discovers her own role as the quiet center in a social clash between wealth and aspiration.
In a rain soaked Smoketon, Mod implores Stephen to help flood victims as Champ Preston and Stephen race to rescue others. Amid wreckage and rising waters, admiration shifts to partnership with Mod, who vows to marry Stephen after he saves lives.
Thousands of farmers leave pleasant homes in older states to travel to newer territories seeking a faster life. Most would be better off staying, yet restlessness drives changes that ruin homes and erase childhood memories and ancestral graves. It takes years to rebuild a new home and the feeling of the original.
Analysis shows North Dakota wheat growers enjoy a 7 cent per bushel advantage over Iowa, 14 over Nebraska, and 20 47 16 cents over Kansas due to differing price of tendered grain and transport costs.
An eyewitness account argues against labeling train passengers cowards after a 3-man robbery on a Western railroad. The writer recalls fighters among the car as they faced two pistols and buckshot, noting calm restraint saved lives and that bravery is not simple bravado.
A husband and wife exchange lines about a long letter from the mother as the wife reveals she has not reached the postscript yet. The fragment appears in Harper's Bazar and reflects domestic correspondence.
Captain W. H. Gardner notes historical weather extremes across the United States from 1701 to 1844. Records include frozen water in Biloxi in 1701, Charleston houses iced in 1746, Mississippi River freezes near New Orleans, and major floods and hurricanes on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
The bower birds of Australia construct complex halls as mating locations. One example by Ptilonorhynchus hoto sericcus featured a watertight chamber lined with interwoven twigs and a roof. The male gathers bright items like bone, glass, shells, and insects to decorate the hall and attract a mate.
The piece urges parents to educate boys toward practical trades or business rather than traditional professions. It argues most professions decline while craftsman skills create lasting, shared value through durable structures and public work, noting law and medicine fade as societal needs shift. It cites the Des Moines Register.
News briefs report Rev Sam Jones the Southern revivalist preaching in New York City. Other items note John Carroll of Delaware dying in Wilmington, Tennessee anti liquor measures, Mrs Logan fund at 64000 dollars, and various political and civil developments including a Philadelphia election and a Newfoundland famine.
Captain Elisha Haland of the schooner Lucy T Harvey reports a terrifying voyage to Philadelphia from Port au Prince as centipedes scorpions and poisonous creatures swarmed decks galley and cabin. Crew largely colored men refused to work and took to the rigging until fumes from burning sulphur cleared the deck and a northeast gale finally reduced the pests.
Prominent figures including Senator Asp Afas and Faye of Maine plan a March trip to Europe. A.D. Fassett, newly named Ohio Labor Commissioner, is a newspaper man running a labor organ. The piece notes Paris sightings of Fraap Doucass and Theodora Tilton and mentions other public figures, including General Brady and Lucy Stone. It ends with a brief item about a German apor piano with a creamy white color and soft continuous tone.
The Senate devoted time to eulogies for the late Senator Logan, with Mrs. Logan and family present. Discussions covered Indiana election protests, naval and ordnance bills, and various appropriation measures. House action included post office construction, naval funding debates, and consular and diplomatic appropriations approvals.
A Perryville reader protests a stray horse with a recovered pocketbook after twelve hours away. A chimpanzee dies after viewing its reflection in a mirror. In England a snow sleet storm kills birds and a trapped great tit is killed by bees released from a hive.
A Montana World report describes the extreme 1894 87 winter with subzero temperatures and record snow. Indians Crow and Nez Perce suffer hunger and exposure while settlers, miners, and travelers face frozen graves, with dozens dead and stock losses across Montana and Dakota.
Candous receives $1000 weekly from the National Opera Company. Groze the blind organist excites Germany with wonderful playing. France Europe and America manufacture piano annually with large totals. Dumas junior now sixty three years old with silvery hair. ManaGza Daty paid $3030 for dresses for The Taming of the Shrew in New York. Mace Parti believes she found a jewel in her niece Carlina predicting future singer. Miss Maup Banxs daughter of General N P appears on stage in Ingomar in Pennsylvania towns. Attaches of the Chinese Legation play unusual instruments here and abroad. Nes ane Brows Porren in Paris studying for stage career.
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