01 Jan 1892
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1892
Page
1
The passage surveys varied topics from a mischaracterized Death Valley to global commentary. It cites the Boston Cultivator on sentimental shams, notes mammal varieties in a survey, and critiques intellectual breadth with a jab at German and British figures.
A narrative poem recounts Thors journey and a wise man who probes vanity. The exchange exposes pride, humility, and the struggle to resist flattery as a soul resists being bound to a willing slave.
Lieutenant Binks faces a hostile moment with Major Trevitt during a Zulu flank attack. Trevitt derides Binks as a coward, but Binks protects the major and holds the line until reinforcements arrive. Binks dies heroically, shot through the heart while saving his comrades, leaving a simple stone marker and a quiet valour quoted by officers.
John Reed, born 1874 in Newport Rhode Island, separated from his wife after religious scruples kept them from divorce. Each kept a child, now Reed’s daughter aged twenty four assisted in locating the wife in Chan Alor Oklahoma. Reed and his wife reconciled and camps merged.
The estate of Edward WM Loflingwell of New Wavon Conn included an autograph collection with about 20 000 signatures valued modestly at 10 000. The item recently sold in Boston for 51 200 07 surprising all, per St Louis Star Sayings. German field gun note follows.
A New York World report details how women dressmakers, often traveling to Paris and London, import luxury gowns and fabrics with minimal duties. They declare partial duties while smuggling rest, boosting profits, and challenging inspectors on docks.
A Hugo Meteor is said to have fallen in the Big Horn Mountains with Ite fragments scattered across about eight miles in Southern Arizona. Over 860 pieces have been found, the largest about 635 pounds, many meteoric and interspersed with black diamonds. The impact crater shows edges blown up and the stone deeply buried in sandstone. The meteor’s dust is magnetic and not volcanic, despite the volcanic region context.
A compilation of domestic tips and recipes including a coffee substitute made from bran and molasses, a potato and vegetable brush guide, a family dishwasher description, and winter dishes such as cold potato salad baked pears head cheese and various desserts.
A collage of fashion items describes trimming trends for gowns and hats. the Empress of Germany demands exacting standards from Berlin modistes, while a New York doctor Mary Woolsey Hoxon earns up to 30000 annually among fashion’s elite. Bonnet stories of Empress Josephine and a Swedish trio at a New York registry office round out the fashion focus.
Stranger says he will pay five dollars to steal Woosturs from a village tonight. Sambo objects claiming he is not a thief and insists items would be removed only temporarily before being returned.
The Chicago Journal reports on women inventors whose innovations span oil gas conversion to sewing machine aids. Names include Miss Knight and Mrs. Armstrong among many, with devices such as a complete ice cream freezer by Mrs. Nancy Johnson and practical fire escapes by Annie Conolly.
Brooklyn Engle cites Confucius advising against sleeping on the back after meals and suggests the right side as best, for easier digestion and calmer dreams. The head should be elevated, feet warm, to promote refreshing sleep and reduce discomfort.
A collection of brief notes reports deep sea soundings on Africa coast, a platinum find in Oregon, low water in the Great Lakes, a high altitude telephone line, rain theories, a simple orange and lemon peeler, Salton Sea stability, an Arizona aorolite with diamonds, a Newborn England steel ingot cutter, hop tea industry in England, and mosquito control by carp. Also vivid Child Life in the Dral Mountains describing mountain children at play and games.
Dr. R W Shofeldt argues that as millions more years pass Hale will cool and possibly solidify. Life may end long before such a change, and a surviving human form could witness a barren Earth. The world could lose timber coal beds metals become mere medals, land leveled, all other life extinct.
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