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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1909
Page
4
A collection of letters from users like Miss Ninette Porter of Vermont and Mrs. Emma Martin of Missouri claim Peruna cured lung hemorrhages and coughs after doctors failed. An accompanying brief story depicts a frightened German peddler at a doorstep and a hesitant Mrs. Kelly.
A London comic hyped a future engagement in America to a North London music hall manager. He boasted about earning a thousand dollars per period, prompting a skeptical interruption from the manager in a Tit-Bits style vignette.
The article discusses reducing production costs and improving quality, noting the Ship Shavr razor sold for 25 cents postpaid by Book Publishing House. It claims superior value to high priced razors and suggests buying multiple to extend use. It also includes two unrelated vignettes about frugality and a pickpocket.
In a quoted note the Inquirer mentions the Ladies' Home Journal stating there is no exercise that would benefit a bow leg condition in a seventeen year old gift.
A Virginia widow credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with curing years of pain and fatigue after doctors provided little relief. The letter from Mrs Exan of Wheaton Virginia urges other women to try the remedy and mentions free confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
In Berlin the city reports a wave of over twenty five violent assaults on women by a single or multiple attackers. Attacks occur in city and eastern suburbs with knives and sudden strikes. Police have increased patrols and seek public aid to locate and detain the assailants.
The Daily Mall’s St. Petersburg correspondent warns neurasthenia fuels suicides across Russia. Fashionable locals visit Finland to leap into Imatra Rapids. Secret clubs like Tiger and Hunter stage deadly games with loaded revolvers as morphia taints champagne events.
Kansas lawmakers consider a tax of 25 dollars a year on bachelors over forty-five. Representative Crow introduced the bill and it quickly advanced on the calendar. A telegram to President Roosevelt argues that men over forty-five have no chance of marriage and deserve a heavy penalty for not starting a family.
Matty McIntyre signs his contract and the Detroit outfield lines up. Jom Driscoll has earned over 10000 dollars since arriving last fall. Frank V. Goodman is reengaged to coach Columbia baseball. McGuire becomes Manager Lajole s right hand man. Chase receives a nominal fine. Turkey embraces football with large crowds. Wisconsin shown as practical. Cardinal s coaching engine being repaired at the university. Bakersfield business leaders offer 50000 dollars to stage Jeffries vs Johnson on July 4 with 5000 shown in good faith. Hank Wagner declares retirement from pro baseball. anti race track betting bill passes in Washington likely ending Seattle racing. Brouthers and Anson exchange a quip on competing with ballplayers.
In Marseilles an eight year old girl is found dead with twenty eight knife wounds and burns. A man living with the girl's widowed mother has been arrested and proclaims innocence. The case echoes a 1907 incident and has sparked a sensational reaction in the city.
The item surveys diverse tributes and events including Governor Stuart’s quip on a silk hat, Coquelin’s Paris death, financier Ryan’s health, Rome’s note on Roosevelt citizenship, Blanchard’s marriage in Manitoba, Judge Lindsey and Miss Addams’ City Club talk, railroad witness Jeffery, Union Pacific merger antitrust tensions, Gompers’ Central Federated Union speech, Mare Ishind Observatory debates on solar system origin, Taft’s Augusta address defending the Constitution, and Judge Gaynor’s New Rochelle accusation over a traction bankruptcy.
Elbert H. Gary announces a wide open steel market with price cuts from $3 to $44 per ton, led by Carnegie Steel in Pittsburgh. Open market aims to revive building trades, boost employment, and increase demand across ore mining, transport, and steel-using industries, while risking collapse of smaller independents.
President Roosevelt signed the bill creating Calaveras National Forest in California to protect the world renowned sequoias. The measure ends a nine year effort and requires no Treasury appropriation. Robert B. Whiteside of Duluth, Minnesota transfers stumpage rights to other government forest lands in exchange. The California delegation in Congress backed the bill.
John Prange, 77, of Lancaster Pennsylvania, shot at neighbor youths three times after an altercation over roller skating on his sidewalk. A bullet hit a boy in the trouser leg and another burned by powder. Prange then shot himself in the chest in the vestibule of his home.
A January 23 quake near Luristan, Persia, devastates sixty villages and causes an estimated 5000 to 6000 deaths. Herds vanish as 16 000 to 12 000 cattle perish, reports reach Teheran by courier.
Milwaukee Mayor Rose challenges a prohibition debate with an accredited champion. Samuel Dickie of Alliion College Michigan accepts and the event will take place in Milwaukee on Friday evening March 26. The topic is that prohibition applies to manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages by right.
The fragment discusses show goats in England and notes vast South American area comparisons by World's Work. It includes ads for catarrh remedies, a constipation cure, bronchial treatments, and a joke about a philosopher at a tanyard, with various local ads and testimonials.
Uncle Allen recalls Kla Ufo after a funeral praising him as useful, noting he once planted a tree and brightening after a time of deep thought.
A Nebru woman testifies to Grape-Nuts and Postum as the best breakfast choice. She notes seven years of use, health improvements after stopping tea and coffee, and her children thriving on the product. The letter, attributed to Postum Co. of Battle Creek, praises the cereal's economy and health benefits.
Washington reports an investigation by the Joint Committee on Printing showing annual public printing costs rising from 200000 in 1840 to over 7000000 in 1905. The commission says savings of more than 500000 a year are achieved through supervision and legislation, with vast surplus prints eliminated and stored at cost.
Chicago officials indicted Martin B. Madden president of the Associated Building Trades of Chicago and M. J. Boyle business agent of the Electrical Workers Union. True bills with at least two counts returned in Judge Freeman's court. Indictments allege conspiracy against contractors and extortion of 1000 dollars from Nelson Piano Company and 700 dollars from Joseph Kilcka. Capiases issued. bonds set at 5000 dollars. Madden described as Skinne y Madden longtime labor figure.
The House Naval Affairs Committee favorably reported a Senate bill to grant 135 006 dollars to finish the Annapolis Naval Academy chapel crypt as John Paul Jones's permanent tomb. General Horace Porter who arranged the removal at his own expense 235 000 dollars suggested this sum be used for completion rather than reimbursing him.
Geronimo the Apache chief died at Fort Sill Lawton Oklahoma where he had been confined as a prisoner of war for many years after capture by General Lawton. His age is estimated at about eighty years though not known precisely. He was kept a close prisoner for twenty years not due to fear but lack of trust.
The Tennessee Senate passed the compulsory primary bill 18 to 14, overriding the Governor's veto. Other vetoed measures would limit the Governor's appointment power over the State Board of Elections and set up a General Assembly elected board that would appoint county election commissioners. In Somers New York Lincoln Agricultural School dedication, funded by the New York Catholic Protectory, trains boys in agriculture and dairying on about 100 acres. In New York City St Ursula Club discussed woman suffrage with speakers Mrs Harrie Stanton Blatch and Mrs Pearce Bailey asserting women face cultural barriers to voting.
Crispfield appoints young Bragdon a college graduate sociologist as town constable. He promptly detains the intoxicated Cy Keith in the Green and gives him a warning before the lockup. A second item notes a Chinese Japanese timber company plan on the Yalu River with Chinese managers and laborers for logging and rafting.
Mrs Henry Rapine of Norristown Penn says Dean s Kidney Pills cured chronic kidney trouble headaches dizziness and blurred vision after four years of decline She reports weight gain regained strength and full recovery after three boxes Sold by all dealers at 66 cents a box Yester M iburn Co Buffalo N Y
Topeka Kansas the Senate approved a bill by 33 to 1 prohibiting liquor for any medicinal or scientific use and restoring county attorney inquisitions. The measure would ban sales through drugstores and enforce absolute prohibition statewide. A separate note mentions a new warrant for novelist and revolutionary writer Maxim Gorky in Saint Petersburg.
Henry Vignaud resigned after serving as Secretary of the American Legation and Embassy at Paris for thirty four years without a vacation.
Morse departed from Tums in New York City after spending an hour wandering near Wall Street.
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