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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1910
Page
3
A fragment from early photography explains that instantaneous images reveal only two arrest moments in a horse’s stride. The first shows hind legs tucked at takeoff and the second shows legs extended at ground contact, with both representing motion arrest.
A tall tale describes Jed Hawkins proposing a bold plan to run a local bank and develop a town dry goods complex. He envisions importing managerial talent from outside and using his knowledge of stores to shape a regional retail and financial enterprise.
The narrator recalls Pamellia boasting of a visiting prince from Italy claimed to be royal yet not reigning. Pamellia's charm and the prince's flatteries fuel speculation about lineage while the narrator questions pretensions and notes the prince’s past as a Weld district servant who gained status after a lottery win. The scene shifts to a room full of admirers as the prince arrives, greeting Pamellia with a practiced poise and prompting mixed reactions from the narrator and Jim, Pamellia’s brother.
Fragmented column surveys unusual English villages with no public buildings many with only a single inhabitant or a lone letter box describe Skiddaw Cumberland and Kempton near Bradford plus towns with disappearing cottages and roadless parishes along with quips on marriage religion and social folly from various publications.
A densely packed OCR excerpt lists price quotes for dairy products meats poultry and produce. Entries include beef lard veal and lamb prices per pound, poultry rates for chickens ducks and turkeys, varieties of potatoes onions and vegetables with per bushel or per basket figures, and peppered lines noting wholesale figures and percentages. The page references Chicago and regional market terms from the early 20th century.
A mixed late 19th to early 20th century page discusses French tariff changes after the Payne bill affecting Western New York apple imports, corn market optimism, and Canada’s crop output. It also covers ideas on death by disease from Dr Felix Regnault, plus brief items on magnetic compasses in Germany, a Quaker shop girl, and a judge’s ham theft anecdote.
Monyon's Cot Remeuy cures a cold tone day. Price Be. Muhyon's Rhoumatla Remedy reliver in a few hours and cureaty a few dasa. Price 250. There are 172 tidirayh and eighty-five telephone offices in Korea. Only One Bromo Quinine. Look for the signature of W. Grove. Used the World over to Cure a Cold in One Day. 25e.
The $10,600 portrait of George Washington, taken from the Governors' Room at City Hall, was moved yesterday to the Aldermanic Chamber under a resolution by Republican leader Auerfium Lown. The move follows a dispute over the first president's features and orders by the Municipal Art Commission. The piece, some 80 years old, was placed amid debate about who controls municipal art in city buildings.
The New York Sun recounts a buyer known for thrift who attends pawnshop sales daily, often purchasing low and reselling or gifting to help the poor who cannot redeem goods, a quiet charity admired by onlookers in the crowd.
A Washington Post fragment recalls a cunning lunatic in Bridgetown who always chose a cent over a nickel when offered by farmers on market day. The tale highlights the crowd’s amused disbelief as Peter’s sly grin prompts the question of why he would want a second nickel.
A New York Times excerpt recalls a small boy learning to brush his own teeth with a soft brush bought by his mother. The moment ends with the mother finding the baby crying and the toddler balancing at the crib, shouting that the baby must have been burned without tags.
A Christmas note from Oakley Graphic asks philanthropists for 1499 dollars to buy a Tinotype, noting four years of savings. A recent British official report estimates the Kenir forest in East Africa at 287 miles long eight miles wide with standing timber valued at 115000 dollars.
In a light Bits item Mr. D- returns from the club and sighs that the old cat is gone. A lady friend’s scandalous finagling caused tension until Mrs D- arrives with a quip about sending the cat to the home in a basket. The brief scene hinges on social mischief and domestic relief.
The passage discusses how setter coats darken with rain, blending with heather. It singles out Gordon setters as difficult to distinguish from the heather, complicating shooting.
A London state function issued white and blue admission tickets to different ranks. A public man and his wife received mismatched blue and white cards, causing trouble at the audience chamber. The wife insisted on staying with her husband, ridiculing the situation as absurd.
The Chicago News notes oyster production in Canadian waters declined from 25 757 barrels in 1903 to 27 297 barrels in 1907 with Canada exporting 271 760 dollars of American oysters in 1908 653 832 dollars in total exports. A London Salvation Army officer recalls a boy’s reply about work to obtain food describing seasonal picking and theft. A canal nine miles long sixty five feet wide and fourteen feet deep in Desha County Arkansas drains about 120 000 acres near Arkansas City.
The article outlines rice cultivation's ancient roots in China with ceremonial sowing by the emperor as early as 2800 B C, notes early adoption in India, Syria, Egypt, and northern Africa, and cites Spain France Italy with a 1468 near Pisa origin. It also mentions America receiving rice in 1647 when Sir William Berkeley grew sixteen bushels from half a bushel.
The article sketches West Adams of Miles’ Notch in Oxford County as a skilled Maine hunter with forty five deer notches and twenty two bears, aided by his wife in trapping and aiming to fish near their Casey cabin. It also mentions a family lore of naturalists and wood lore, a teen boy who shoots and his mother teaching. Additional items include a Cincinnati restaurant quip, a Paris dining exchange, crime statistics from 1860 to 1890, a New York man’s buckwheat cake feat, a new variable stroke petroleum engine, Orange River Colony discoveries, and English tradesmen using royal arms on shop fronts.
A collage of 19th and early 20th century clippings includes a humorous tale of a woman hoisting a heavy dumb waiter with a boy’s help, mentions of the Duke Adolfo Planciani as last papal army general who died at Speletoy, and Bryn Mawr College president Milas Carey Thomas recounting a son’s infidel joke about Santa Claus, reflecting era humor and figures.
The death watch, once feared for its ticking, is revealed as a mischievous male beetle driven by mating instinct. The piece asserts the old mystery is dispelled and the behavior is natural rather than ominous.
A 25 000 acre tobacco operation near Amsterdam Georgia produces about a third of Sumatra tobacco used for cigar wrappers in the United States. A Harlem man tracks ticket buying time for New York women versus men. Romans made glass bottles by 70 A.D. but English production began in 1558. Opticians say women’s eyes are weaker than men and more women wear glasses.
C W Post writes a provocative attack on Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor, accusing leaders of using legal power to control workers and threaten unions. He contrasts peaceful speech with violent actions and urges readers to pressure Congress to protect courts and enforce laws against labor conspiracies. The piece invokes Canadian views, Bucks Stove Works, and Toronto convention anecdotes to argue against union dominance and for free speech and lawful remedies.
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