18 Feb 1910
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1910
Page
1
A compact portrait of George Washington's boyhood at Ferry Farm Virginia. It highlights his dutiful nature, family roles at age fifteen, English influence from Mary Ball's connections, and early temperance lessons learned from Lance the fencing master. The piece frames his youth as foundation for future leadership.
The text portrays George Washington from boyhood at Greenaway Court to his ascent as Mount Vernon master, soldier, statesman and president. It highlights his devotion to duty, fairness, gentleness, and chivalry, plus his military interests, schooling in French drills, hunter skills, restraint with his mother, and personal traits including appetite, wine use, and temper.
The piece outlines George Washington as First in War First in Peace and in the Hearts of His Countrymen noting his estate value and unanimous presidential selection. It recalls his veto acts his tall frame blue gray eyes and brown hair his farewell address and Mason lodge membership. It mentions his love of music and horses and cites his prolific animal stock and lottery investments.
A fragmented luncheon item list notes items such as creamed peas with celery and nut salad and what appears to be a sponge cake. Names and exact dish spellings are unclear due to OCR errors. The fragment references Esvaloped Oy and Cotter in association with the menu.
A whimsical verse contemplates a cheerful tree’s fate were Washington prospering today, implying a sudden clash with an automobile and a symbolic collision of progress and nature.
Dialogic fragment presents George and his father debating a reason for chopping a cherry tree. The line implies a playful or humorous retelling of the story with George claiming he lacked the axe.
The readable fragments describe a rough estimate of fruit yields and a reference to gallons of liquid produced. It mentions apples and a total yield but lacks coherent context or dates, people, or places to anchor the story.
The speaker urges vigilance against foreign alliances and stresses limited political connections with other nations. He calls for unity under a strong central government and warns against alienating parts of the country.
Oliver Spitzer of the Williamsburg plant received a two year federal sentence after a trial with four Sugar Trust coworkers. He denounced the company as a scapegoat, claiming higher-ups orchestrated his ruin after a 29 year service. Spitzer pled not guilty to alleged scale manipulation.
Six black workers were killed in a race riot at Hale's Bar near a Tennessee River labor camp twenty miles below Chattanooga. Tensions between white and black employees of lock and dam contractors boiled over after an assault on a Black laborer. After exchanges of gunfire, six Black rioters and five policemen were involved. authorities rushed in by train and with deputies to quell the disturbance. No whites were killed or wounded. The most active Black participants retreated upriver.
Two shooting incidents marred Mardi Gras in Louisville. Fourteen year old Clifford Mottley, dressed as a cowboy, accidentally discharged a revolver, injuring Noah M. Colling who later died. Charles Powers, taunted by masqueraders, shot a sixteen year old boy in the face near the Seelbach Hotel.
Vanderbilt, a New York City resident, was ordered by a French court to pay $4500 to the man injured when his automobile struck him three years ago.
National Sugar Refining Company has paid 631 00137 in back duties as part of a cash settlement with the Government. Combined with two other large sugar firms, total payments reach about 2 43 304 37 to the Treasury for under weighed imports.
Delirious fireman Bartholomew Cloonan, injured in a fall from his hospital bed after mistaking a hospital gong for a tire alarm, died at Mercy Hospital following a severe leg fracture. His widow sues for $10,000 in damages amid the incident in Chicago's Alberni district.
Eight year old Clyde Mor Ten of Parkersburg was badly mauled when three wolves in a city park menagerie attacked as he stood by the door. An attendant fended them off with a pitchfork, and the boy was rushed to the city hospital where his arm was amputated.
A critical column argues that J P Morgan dominates U S finance through control of banking trust and insurance holdings. The piece names Morse Walsh Ryan and others, noting asset concentrations and rail and industry ownership. It warns of a growing one man power and the danger this poses to economic balance.
Sir William Willcocks identifies possible site near the Hiathih plain north of Baghdad for a narrow gauge railway to the Garden of Eden. The oasis lies in a vast plain traversed by the Euphrates as Turkish public works advisers push exploration and construction.
Assistant Superintendent John Ty Schoop of the Public School System confirms the claim that five thousand Chicago children go to school hungry daily and ten thousand more are not properly nourished. He says the figures reflect real conditions and hinder students' progress due to lack of nourishing food.
Leopold Ferdinand enters his fiftieth year as King of the Belgians. Jackson Smith, ex Panama Canal commission member, dies in Portland. Richard A Billinger speaks on conservation in Providence. Frederick Weyerhauser, lumber magnate, described as German by birth, arrived in 1802. Johnny Dann, longtime Wall Street detective bureau head, passes. H B Irving achieves success in London in a new Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde version. Colonel Anthony St. Kuser donates 60 000 to pheasant study at the Zoo. Stephen Coleridge of the British anti vivisectionists meets New York Society banquet. Jacob Scholit tells Jewish Migration Society Jews should travel openly rather than stay confined to cities.
San Francisco reports the Spreckels estate, valued at far more than the preliminary $10 million, must be divided among all children rather than kept in trust by two executors. The California Superior Court ruled trust clauses invalid, freeing heirs to independent estates. The mother’s bequest and life income to Mrs. Ferris are addressed in court, with final adjustments to follow.
The South Carolina Supreme Court returned the children to Mrs. Lucy Dugan Tillman, ruling that B. R. Tilman Jr. exceeded his rights by transferring custody to Senator and Mrs. B. R. Tillman. The deed violated state constitutional guarantees and the Fourteenth Amendment, as the wife did not concur. The children had been held in Trenton, South Carolina pending the decision.
In Mexico City the Waters Pierce Oil and the Mexican Eagle Petroleum firms agree to divide Mexico’s refined oil market after a year long battle that cost each company over 4 million in gold losses. Weetmaan Pearsor of London leads peace negotiations for Mexican Eagle.
Cincinnati based Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton Railway reports contracts totaling 8,000,090 for 1910. One quarter funds go to Cincinnati terminals, 1,000,000 for Toledo yards and warehouses, 3,000,000 for rolling stock including thirty locomotives, with the rest for road betterments.
For the third time in two months the Waltham Massachusetts watch factory shuts down to curtail production. The 41000 employees will not return to work until March.
President Mackay announced the Mackay Companies would immediately dispose of its holdings of $2,000 shares in the American Telegraph and Telephone Company, signaling a rapid divestment in the telegraph and telephone firm.
An expenditure of 10 million dollars for the improvement of U S waterways is authorized in the river and harbor bill. Appropriations were allotted in committee and every state and territory was recognized. The bill passed unanimously as reported from the Committee on Rivers and Harbors.
Four bandits robbed Citizens' National Bank in Chatsworth Illinois of 8500 dollars after binding and gagging a night officer and a baker. The robbers damaged the bank building with nitro-related devices, according to the report.
The London admiralty declares oil fuel a viable substitute for coal and orders fifty thousand tons of crude oil for the current year to power the fleet.
Washington officials report Postmaster General Hitchcock will issue a full reply to magazine publishers on second class mail rate changes. Indiana editorial leaders urged revisions, charging government subsidies favor large periodicals over local papers and ads, citing Taft’s cost figures and broad industry opposition.
In Belleville New Jersey Charles W Curtin identifies a prisoner’s plunder as his own son Charles W Curtin Jr age seventeen. The youth who served four years at Jamesburg Reformatory was found wearing shoes stolen from his father’s home and is held for the Grand Jury.
A head on collision on the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad nineteen miles south of Macon resulted in eight reported deaths and twenty injuries with four more likely fatally hurt. Among the dead were Macon resident A. Tt. Joanson and Conductor Duniee. The northbound crew reportedly misread orders as locomotives and cars were wrecked and scattered.
In Ragerstown Maryland three masked assailants bound and robbed John G. Neibert, an engineer at Boyer & Heard's grain elevator. They shoved him toward the furnace and then onto the firwheel, starting the machinery. He was found unconscious an hour later and revived.
James R. Furlong, a New York City actor and founder of the Actors' Society of America, died suddenly in his Oakland apartments at age fifty-five. He had a thirty five year stage career and is survived by a son, Francis Furlong, a civil engineer in New York City.
Elopement of Miss Maud Raymond Rose of New ark Del, daughter of ex State Senator David C Rose, to Winfield M Coverdale, a rural mail carrier, is noted amid protests and a large Berlin socialist parade with 120000 demonstrators opposing the government bill.
The article notes the Boston Boilermakers Lodge No 9 transition to a national labor exchange system in England, Memphis mayoral influence on the city employment bureau, and AFL unions totaling thirty seven national and international bodies with about four hundred thousand members. Discussion mentions Seattle strikes, low nonunion shoe workers, Mare Island wage concerns, and historic unions formed in the 19th century.
Four years of undelivered mail found in an AR locker at a Paterson post office. Obituaries note J Edward Allaire dies at 94 after 71 years in Red Bank and a career as NYPD policeman and river steersman. Various local items include a marriage concealment case, a goat killed by dogs, a forged check case in Atlantic City, and minor accidents and legal notices across New Jersey towns.
John H. Core, seventy, wealthy Norfolk real estate investor and former Civil War Mosby’s raider, died at his home after a brief illness. He long led commerce in Norfolk and owned substantial property in the city.
Marshall MccMurran a sixty year old hermit near Booneville Indiana was removed to the state insane hospital with twenty two thousand dollars on his person. He was nearly starved and had little to eat at the time.
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