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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1903
Page
4
A collage of outdated advertisements and health claims from a 1900 era page. It promotes deafness cures, infant care tips, nerve restorers, cough remedies, and moral cuts about wealth and romance, featuring agents like Hall's Catarrh Cure and Mother Gray's Soothing Syrup.
In St Louis four million dollars are estimated to have been raised nationwide by turf investment companies now halted amid a grand jury probe. Investigations focus on how millions were paid out as dividends while most funds remain unpaid. Details name John J. Ryan and the Arnold and Christy groups, with hundreds of thousands owed to tens of thousands of subscribers across the United States and Canada.
Chicago police raided several get rich quick turf investment operations after expose stories in St Louis. Detectives seized circulars and letters from numerous towns as arrests were made for bookmaking and gambling enterprises. Investigations suggest investor losses run into hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Jefferson City Mo State Senate backs a resolution urging the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee to consider a law for taxation branding and punishing impostors posing as lords to shield young women from dangerous pretenders. In St Louis a former Brooklyn coachman jailed for duping a woman into marriage under false lordly pretensions. Earthquakes felt in San Diego Guerra Mexico. U S Senate committee reports on a treaty with Greece. Leather market quiet with firm tone. New England shoemakers slow business.
Summary of disparate notes including Tom McCreery signing with Minneapolis Clainett bison and Penn football training, M S 1 M Butlong elected president of national auto associations urging motor vehicle tests, Bristol cup yacht under construction, jockey salaries rising, J Byron Stark defeating Poggenburg in Brooklyn tour, over seventy headmasters petition Intercollegiate Football Association for rule changes, Whitney jockey Arthur Redfern injured in New Orleans race, Frank W Gillespie Boston football star died in Pasadena, Fred Moloney leaving Chico for rubber plantation work in Mexico.
General Miles and his wife returned from a world journey begun September 11 aboard the Lucania. He reported 20,000 American troops in the Philippines and quiet conditions, visited Tokyo and Pekin, and met the Chinese army and the Emperor’s court. He described routes to St. Petersburg and Moscow, and noted a misaddressed Windsor invitation for Mrs. Miles. A Marconigram greeted King Edward VII as the Lucania neared Crook Haven.
In La Guayra Venezuela thousands filled streets in wild celebration after the Allied blockade ended. Crowds sang and waved banners while opposing factions jeered US references. News spread after an officer aboard the British warship Tribune announced its departure for Trinkind.
Hazing at the Naval Academy would be punished by expulsion and two years before reappointment in the corps or as command officer in any service. Rep Dick’s bill aims to curb cadet law violations. if enacted it would bar reentry to military service. Boer generals decline seats on the Legislative Council over council formation. The British gunboat Warrier captured three pirate ships in the Red Sea with crews aboard.
The report notes Loubet planned June visit to New Ortennes in Ta 1904. Major-General Baden-Powell named Inspector General of Cavalry in Britain. Curzon as Viceroy of India turns forty four. Chamberlain claims South Africa achievement unmatched by any nation. Schwab health improving and returning to America in April. Ambassador d Espel and Gobelin embroidery discussed for Washington embassy.
Washington County residents urge the Maine Legislature to grant a bounty for porcupines blamed for widespread damage to hackmatacks juniper and other timber. The invasion from New Brunswick could devastate forests and force rural residents to take up arms to defend crops and property.
Four hundred Americans observed the fifth anniversary of the Maine destruction in Havana Cuba. A wreath lay on the wheel of the ship as a Cuban Veterans Association delegation presented floral offerings. Memorial services honored those who died, with remarks by Cuban Governor General Nunez and Ernest Conant.
Readable portions report a revolt against regular Republicans in Dover and national party factions, with calls to deny offices. Lost in mountains for three weeks are miners from Thunder Mountain unit eaters, amid deep snow and cave-ins eleven feet deep in some areas. two prospectors are dead, others missing.
A committee of Transvaal residents contracted to buy 200000 acres in southwestern Texas between the Nueces River and San Antonio. The land will be divided into plots for farms with guidance from experienced farmers, first comers receiving assistance for one or two seasons.
Washington dispatch reports Venezuela secures immediate lifting of the blockade and release of captured vessels through new protocols signed by Mr Bowen for Venezuela and representatives of Great Britain Italy and Germany. Each creditor nation receives advance payments while a 30 percent share of customs receipts is pledged to be set aside for creditor nations until The Hague rules on priority payments.
Pallent Beiog, treated in St Louis for tetanus after a street car collision, shows improvement under carbolic acid therapy. Dr. We Clair reported reduced amberous spasms and sign of recovery. four per cent carbolic acid solution given every three hours.
A long-suffering pastor from Texas and other readers praise Peruna in letters and anecdotes. Major Frank O’Mahoney and Rev J N Parker share personal recovery stories highlighting age and renewed vigor after using Peruna for catarrh and gastric ills.
The avatable Tonutah of Vancluse, famed as a French wonder, shows flow variation. M. Marte, who explored many caverns, explains that the fountain is the debouchment of a river. In its upper course water runs entirely underground and irregularities in quantity and temperature arise from subterranean cavities shaping its passage.
A misquoted maxim from the New York Press notes that arguing with someone seen as intellectually inferior is a waste, but suggests listening to a fool may still yield some lesson.
A New York Press item notes a woman with a lively demeanor who believes her marriage could manipulate value, likening it to a twenty gold piece in disguise. The anecdote underscores superstition and social perceptions surrounding marriage and wealth.
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