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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1887
Page
1
Fragmentary poetry entry with archaisms and decorative lines. Mentions Tharoses, Hrothou, and Lacarce with imagery of a garden wall, summer air, blue sky, birds, flowers, and sun. The speaker laments sorrow and longing, foreseeing a dawning when night will end and stars glow as beacon fires. The piece references Mem Lintonia Inter Ocean.
An English stoker narrates a perilous rail journey with engine Pluto and driver John Morgan. A conflict over coal escalates as speed surges toward danger, prompting the stoker to question moral peril and possible murder. The tale unfolds with tension aboard a faster than expected freight run from Paddington to Coveheater.
A locomotive spirals toward disaster as a crazed engine driver battles the crew. A passenger, thrust into leadership, lures the madman from the engine, stops the train near Blinton Junction, and is later praised as justifiable homicide after saving lives. The tale blends relived terror with a grim survived verdict.
The Medical Monthly notes remarkable preservation of historical remains: Edward I’s face remained intact 463 years after death, Canute’s body was fresh in 1766, William the Conqueror and wife remained perfect in 1522, Roman soldiers found near Aberdeen after 1500 years were plump, Lady Kilsyth and infant embalmed in 1717 and still full in 1796. The article questions the methods and applications behind these restorations.
An 80 year old New Hampshire woman credits her longevity to not fretting over unchangeable things, taking daily naps, avoiding washing and baking in bed, and oiling life with implicit faith in a guiding brain and heart to the universe.
A fragment from the Boston Herald argues for allowing the subject to live with minimal risk, noting that a rare rheumatism attack poses little danger of malice. The terse line reflects period worries about humane treatment.
General Miles told the Washington correspondent that a heliographic signaling system across mountains, using hand mirrors to flash light like Morse code, enabled rapid communication across hundreds of miles. Messages could reach thirty to forty stations, with a four hour reply from 500 miles away, aiding the pursuit of Geronimo and his band.
An 1880s Toledo Blade note laments universal rights violations on crowded streets. It urges pedestrians to stay to the right and yield space, noting women more often stray and that orderly passage would reduce weariness from daily shopping.
In a presidential address to the British Association Sir J W Dawson discusses two paradoxes on life distribution. He argues that wide marine spread is unlikely because great sea depths block most marine life, and that the deep sea can, under some conditions, aid land animal and plant migration more than continuous landmasses.
Dialogue depicts a man questioning water quality at a workplace. A native responds that the water is well water but the critic calls it a satire. The exchange reflects a humorous confrontation over authenticity and cleanliness.
Congress debated naval construction funding totalling about 15.1 million dollars with three ships on the Pacific and Gulf coasts and four on the Atlantic. A separate bill created a mercantile marine auxiliary naval reserve. Debates over pensions, river and harbor appropriations, and the Department of Agriculture proposal filled the day, with votes on several measures including the trade dollar bill and anti Mormon legislation.
Henry Flowers a fourteen year old from Jefferson Township Indiana astonishes Martinsville by consuming a full square meal at multiple eateries. The boy stands three feet tall, weighs forty pounds, and exhibits constant hunger with hollow cheeks and sunken eyes. Doctors cannot diagnose his condition. The article notes the numbers of rooms and costs in two new federal buildings in Washington.
A south wind swept a Rochester riverfront, toppling two telegraph poles and destroying a span of Court Street bridge. Persons observed a worker, cis Graham, vanish into the flood while others were swept away. Across Denver and surrounding rail lines, trains derailed, embankments, fires, and widespread damage followed. Storms cripple rail service from Minneapolis to St Paul, with heavy lightning striking warehouses in New York and Staten Island, causing massive cotton losses and extensive damage to docks and buildings.
A compilation of brief biographical notes and curiosities mentions Reagan of Texas as a lone farmer in the extinct Senate, Blanche Bruce turning lecturer, Susan B Anthony’s birthday, Booth’s assassin as a Kansas bookkeeper, Victoria gift tales, Belmonte’s German origin, and various political and social figures. It notes pensions, monuments, cabinet minister ages, Hendricks fundraising, West Point hazing, Albert Victor’s silence, N P Banks’ age and office, Depew’s heating prize, Emmet’s Washington collection, Calhoun’s cotton, Bare’s Civil War wounds and poverty, Wanamaker’s wealth, and a land deal in Pennsylvania.
A strange mud shower fell in the Lincoln countryside after a strong winds storm. Particles sprinkled nearby streets and objects as if splashed by passing teams, with a light shower noted simultaneously. Theories suggest dust lifted by the storm over Lincoln began to precipitate on the area.
BaumiMone lists nineteen under contract and salaries averaging about 50 a month for the Colored League. The country hosts about 16 leagues and associations under the national agreement with nearly 100 clubs and 1,000 players. Financial figures include $10,000 for Kelly and $1,000 for umpire staff travel.
Jenxsy Linp and Bowis Boots perform in church and New Orleans while Wilson Barrett plans a fall return. The Wild West show heads to England for three years. Wagner draws crowds at the Metropolitan Opera House and Anton Seidl nears a Royal Opera appointment. A world’s largest theatre in Paris costs millions, and Buenos Aires plans a vast Congress Hall.
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