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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1894
Page
1
Congressman Bynum cites 1891 reliable figures showing 40,000 people own over half the nation’s wealth and 250,000 own 75 percent. The tables list wealth by family counts from 60k to 9 million families, highlighting vast disparities in ownership.
The item notes France houses many savings depositors with 559 million dollars, while a New Zealand mayor’s widow could gain the magisterial bench. It cites Chicago World’s Fair harvest data from City Railway Co. earnings, and observes New York’s woodlands near the urban fringe. It critiques Maybrick and patent reform, plus a Century Magazine tramp piece on Albany to Buffalo line beggars and advice to never give to street beggars.
A description from the Loudon Court Journal notes the First Battalion of the Beecota Guarda has the tallest company. The A company on the right flank lists over ninety men with an average height of six feet two and a quarter inches. Two men exceed six foot four, and one stands just over six foot seven.
A poetic fragment discusses fate and authority, asserting that mortal share is fixed and cannot be altered by time chance laws or gods. It asserts reliance on inner voice happiness and fear guide human action and that strength of mind cannot overturn decree.
Dora Trafford, posing as Dorcas Travers, joins Doctor Hope’s hospital staff to repay a debt to rich Mainwarings. She proves capable and calm in nurse duties, wins Richard Mainwaring’s regard, and ultimately plans to leave after revealing her true identity, though not without tension and emotional conflict.
A Philadelphia Call excerpt recounts Bufalo Bill Cody as a fearless fighter under General Crook in 1879. It describes a knife duel with a big Cheyenne chief, with Cody stripping to the waist and killing the chief in seconds. The piece blends myth with praise and ends with brief moral vignettes about contentment and frugality.
The text argues resting requires a change of scenes and activities not just sleeping or idling. It stresses that rest is learned and can differ from work by offering relief from care. It notes the importance of good humor and avoiding excessive indulgence in food.
A humorous collage of quips and sketches from multiple outlets including the Philadelphia Record Chicago Record Harper's Bazar Judge New York Press and Toledo Commercial. It features jokes on fashion speculation armies shelter roofs and wages with snippets from Puck and the Miss Bloodblood exchange, reflecting early 20th century humorous miscellany.
Fragmentary dialogue shows Marie accusing Herbert of sending a pleasant young man to demand her overcoat during a cold wave. The exchange reveals tension and a possible coercive act, with misheard lines and unclear context.
A brief domestic scene unfolds with a man seeking a sale and a woman who refuses then softens. The huckster corners her, and the girl, after a moment, guides her mother’s shopping through a playful exchange. The moment ends with a sly remark about the woman.
An account cites exemptions for Russian nobles from corporal punishment but notes Polish political prisoners, including nobles, suffer. It details the knout’s construction, edge sharpening, ongoing beating, and a brutal marking process with a VOR stamp driven into forehead and cheeks, leaving lifelong scars.
Ocean water contains all known elements in dissolved form as rivers continually add minerals. The Thames alone transports about 2000 tons of dissolved material daily to the North Sea, with global rivers likely adding 20 million tons per day. Even with refined methods, many rare elements remain undetected in sea water.
A collection of home advice on smoking meat safely, stuffing ducks, frothing eggs for invalids, making sliced apple pie, ironing and laundering, keeping teapots hot, using salt cellars, cleaning oily carpets with buckwheat, choosing damask linen, disinfecting with carbolic acid, preventing mouldy cheese, serving cold boiled potatoes with gravy, and trimming pastry scraps into baked treats.
The suspect Kobayashi Mitsuya, known as the Japanese Jack the Ripper, was captured after police linked him to multiple strangulations and mutilations. He reportedly lived in Mayebashi disguised as a beggar and other roles, with at least three confirmed murder cases suggesting accomplices.
A fragment from the Philadelphia Ledger presents a poem about silent figures resting under willow shade. The verses evoke dawn and night as time passes swiftly while the silent ones sleep beneath natural elements.
A collage of humorous lines and cartoons from Puck, Atchison Globe, Courier-Journal, and other papers. Jokes range from misquoted phrases to light social quips and playful banter about lovers, editors, doctors, and policemen. Notable bits include exchanges about love, money, fashion, and everyday misunderstandings.
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