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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1896
Page
1
A jumble of notes covers diverse items from military dispatches to education court decisions. It notes Britain arming forces with a new gun, New Hampshire notaries public legality, and a range of odds and ends including France Germany steam carriages. Reports on potato prices, cave discoveries near Florence Alabama, Wilmington education cases, Nebraska emigration, and Ohio road experiments.
Poem excerpt by Margaret Armour in Black and White evokes twilight imagery. It speaks of longing across distance as dawn approaches and the beloved is addressed in romantic, lyrical terms. The verses blend scent and light to convey intimate yearning.
Dorothy and Jack Ward, grieving their lost baby, confront distance and gossip in a suburban town. Dorothy endures suspicion over her husband’s closeness to Mrs. Brown, while Fred Bennett urges Jack to mend the marriage. A night of isolation ends with Jack bringing roses, confessing love, and healing their bond as dawn lifts their pain.
A miscellany of antiquities and scientific curiosities. Reports include gilded silk thread, telephones for warships, a Row Bulletin plant list, ancient sarcophagi near Angauleme, gas field pressure decline, French women’s waists linked to heredity, Etruscan gold rings, a German Antarctic expedition funded at 240000, Pennsylvania Railroad electrification plans, Peruvian distance measures, a novel Australian lawn sprinkler, and kola nut caffeine content with effects on muscle.
A young physician recalls a brutal ethic in hard times when students sacrificed flesh to fund their studies. One case involved a hard working student who donated ten skin graft bits from his arms to help a burned baby, enduring pain and lameness for weeks. His courage paid off as the infant recovered and the student excelled in exams and became a respected figure in the profession.
Bureau Veritas classifications show 25 570 sea going vessels over fifty tons afloat, totaling 9 323 995 tons. Great Britain leads with 6 793 ships totaling 3 333 607 tons, the United States follows with 3 824 vessels and 1 262 317 tons, while Norway trails by about 1 000 ships but similar tonnage.
The report alleges an Engles library employee died from tuberculoma contracted via books exposed to consumptive patients. Details remain unclear as officials investigate potential transmission routes and safety practices in the archive.
Aged pieces describe Alice King, an English blind rider, and Annie May Abbott in China, with fashion and society notes on duchesses and prominent women. The column surveys beauty, health advice, and recent happenings among notable figures from Queen Victoria to Mrs. Barton, plus evolving dress trends and social scenes.
Maine’s State Professor Daniel Lulcott of Bangor Theological Seminary dies after taking cold to warm his books. His life spanned wide culture with a library of many languages. The story notes his devotion to books as the cause of his illness and death, highlighting his notable character.
A human flood rescue on Oil Creek in Titusville 1892 is recounted with John Kelly saving a woman and child from flames and water amid burning oil tanks. Other stories include Sandy Hook teen Stephen Keane forming a life chain to rescue Michael Keating, a French siege drill scene, and dramatic near-misses from a night train, a glove button save, and a slate quarry accident.
The St Paul Pioneer Press notes the Great Lakes commerce rapidly exceeds U S inland shipping. For 1896 sixty five vessels are contracted or building valued at 8.549 million dollars. Forty two freight boats of 186 600 gross tons, coast ship build 105 vessels valued at 6.040 million, many passenger and pleasure boats. River yards add twenty four vessels costing 536 630 dollars. Largest lake freighter planned 280 feet. smallest 26 feet. Navy Yard work excluded. Fleet expected to become inland traffic route and, with a possible ship canal, to cover future waters beyond imagination.
Mrs Jano Houston wife of a bank president in Wellfleet Nebraska reports $50,000 in diamonds and jewelry missing after Mort Green, a suspected criminal, attended a Free Methodist revival. Green entered the Houston home, found the valuables, and left a note claiming he removed temptation from the woman.
Cherra Poonjos known as Cherapunji lies on the southern edge of the Khasi hills in Assam about 260 miles northeast of Calcutta. It sits at 91 degrees 40 minutes longitude and 25 degrees 14 minutes north, altitude 4100 feet. The station shows highly variable rainfall with annual average over 50 inches and June July rainfall around 116 and 141 inches. A single day can exceed twenty inches. on June 14 and 15, 1876, rainfall reached 69.64 inches (40.80 and 22.84 inches).
A study by Mr Edwyn Anthony estimates twenty possible moves per side and computes first four moves totaling 318 979 564 000. He notes one player at one set per minute would take over 600 000 years to exhaust them all and cites ten move possibilities around 169 518 829 100 500 000 000 000.
The scene shifts to Washington as Senate talks on appropriation reach 980 million, with 810 million available for the next year. Congress sees resignations and strategic shifts in committees, including John Cowan’s exit from currency matters, while international alerts and domestic debates color the fiscal mood.
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