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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1899
Page
3
Local church notes include a Sunday sermon on the soul's resting place from Isaiah 32 2, praise for community hospitality, and reports of weddings, gatherings, and roadside repairs in Cranbury and surrounding towns.
Beautiful and Cheap Articles will be for sale at the fair in the First Church chapel next Wednesday. The Willing Workers have gathered a large assortment including embroidered doilies dolls pictures cushions and slippers. Confectionery and cake will be sold and music provided. The Christian Endeavor anniversary exercises were held last Sunday evening with a large attendance.
P Dunham & Co of Trenton reports bold daily improvements since February. A.V. Manning’s furniture store is connected, creating 9,240 square feet of usable space and enabling expansion of women’s coats, suits, and new children’s and boys’ clothing sections. The firm now operates sixteen showrooms with full occupancy over more than an acre of floor space. Funeral notices follow for Mrs. John Fryer, 62, and Mr. John A. Applegate, 74, with services in Hightstown. A fatal accident at Peddie Institute injuries two boys when a loaded gun discharged during a birthday gym activity, wounding Warren Cook and fatally injuring George B. Titler. A gun incident at the institute casts gloom. Bertolett, 13, 14, faces consequences as Titler dies and Cook suffers facial injuries. The Buffalo Gas Company touts a new acetylene gas machine on 30 days trial, claiming wide use for lighting churches, stores, factories, and homes. they seek pond representatives.
A village event featured Goodwins orchestra performing for a crowd that bought refreshments. The Japanese wedding scene on stage, staged by Charles Van Horn, showcased a full bridal party and staff in a simulated high life ceremony, boosting the treasury by over eighty dollars. Auction and sale notices follow from W. H. Johnson in Cranbury and surrounding towns.
A farmer Thomas puzzles over milk counts and missing quarts in a humorous ledger anecdote. A Philadelphia Post retelling links Beethoven to a moonlit moment inspiring the Moonlight Sonata creation via a blind pianist and a transformative room.
A Philadelphia Post item recounts a stage mishap where Jefferson appears to sleep through a Rip Van Winkle scene at a Chicago theater, prompting prompter intervention and a frantic shift in performance. Other notes mention a Chinese oath tale in New South Wales, a night school island question, and a Hartford talk recounting Lowell’s first client with Bismarck and Napoleon as a wartime joke.
The notice touts a February sale on mahogany finished birdseye furniture and Brussels carpets with free delivery and storage. It highlights solid wood frames, silk finished upholstery, full-sized bureaus, and multiple patterns in Brussels carpets and rugs with prices like $125.
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