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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1909
Page
4
A Scottish farmer assigns a boy to rise at 4 a.m. for fieldwork. the boy oversleeps to 4 30, earning a stern rebuke as the farm labor begins. The article also mentions forest fire precautions, a London road wroth silver collection, and notes on early governors of the Philippines.
A reader testifies that Grape-Nuts with cream revived his wife from poor health and stomach issues. He praises the product as providing true nourishment and notes the claim comes from a Postum Co. testimonial. Readers are invited to read The Road to Wellville in Digests.
Paolo and Antonio celebrate a first reading with tears and pride. The boy’s progress earns coins for snuff and a piggy bank while the family thanks their devoted teacher with a carved Parian relief gift as a sign of gratitude for the good country and schools.
Antonio, a tiny pupil, wins a reading contest at school in a joyful scene. The class cheers as he reads aloud from a brown book, earning a toothpick prize per sentence and earning parental pride as Paolo and Teodoro witness his triumph.
A report on levalose or levulose derived from chicory and dahlia tubers explains its costly production but highlights its advantages. It is sweeter and digestible by many diabetics, useful in infant foods, beverages, preserves, and non alcoholic drinks, with potential as a honey substitute.
A fragment from Sentence Sermons in the Chicago Tribune presents aphorisms on envy industry courage love and truth. The quips cover life work honesty faith and self awareness with general moral counsel.
Cooking notes describe pan frying pigeons with pork fat and onions, then stewing in water with carrots for tenderness. Recipes cover peach preserves with spices, chocolate butter cream, and a crabby chowder with milk and crackers. Also included are home care tips and a Smithsonian note on devilfish feeding habits.
The 1908 statistics note higher yields and stronger crop prices in many sectors while cotton and hay prices fell due to large movement and Lancashire strikes. Farm values peaked, but December trade showed lower foreign imports, and building activity declined from 1907.
In Bethune, France four murderers were publicly beheaded as France resumes capital punishment after years of commutation to life. The condemned included Abel Pollet and three others named Canut and Ferry. Crowds reacted with cheers while troops dispersed onlookers.
Senate confrontation follows Roosevelt attack over Tillman negotiations to buy nine square sections in Oregon. Tillman insists he told no lies and broke no laws, detailing the canceled order and denouncing promoters as swindlers. He calls for full investigation and accuses the President of falsifying a Secret Service report.
Rev John Hayston Carmichael killed himself after confessing to murdering Gideon Browning whose dismembered body was found partly burned in a Battle Run St Mich church stove Browning described as an illiterate carpenter and hypnotic influence over Carmichael Authorities doubt the confession's accuracy and deem it possibly unreliable and the case unresolved.
Ocampo and Reyes of El Renacimiento were convicted of libel against Dean Worcester Philippine Commissioner and sentenced to six months in Bidbid Prison plus a $100 fine each. The report details varied items from Field estate value to labor news and international labor movements.
An assortment of old advertising clippings tout Cuticura remedies for dandruff and skin crusts including success stories from a missionary wife. The page mixes product pitches from Cuticura and other items such as a Worm remedy, Hall's Catarrh Cure, Bromo Quinine, and home cures with varied claims. It also mentions a New Orleans note and a Tus s.
An Armenian girl starts school around four or five learning letters from a wooden rectangular slab with a handle. The Arman alphabet contains thirty nine letters and is said to cover every sound known to any nation, a claim praised in Girls' Own Paper.
The piece highlights innovation in mass produced farm gear and clothing with a focus on the new Ship Shaver razor offered postpaid for twenty five cents by the Book Publishing House of New York. It argues alternating multiple razors yields best results and notes widespread low priced sales.
Thousands view the old iron man as junk and overlook the vast scale of the junk business. In Philadelphia last year over 25 million dollars changed hands in metal dealings. The Pennsylvania Railroad sells 10 to 20 thousand tons of waste material monthly to city dealers, with the street railway company handling a roughly equal amount, plus contributions from many other firms.
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