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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1914
Page
2
A compact weekly digest highlights a blend of significant events and smaller items from the Telegraph and Cable. It notes notable developments while also giving space to lesser stories that reflect the breadth of the week’s happenings.
Levi P Morton former Vice President and Shoreham Hotel owner sells the property to J Maury Dove Co for about 1 million dollars. Treasury rules timberland income tax applies only after timber is cut and sold. Washington notes Haiti uprisings not serious and will be suppressed. President Wilson commutes Major James B Hughes First Cavalry dismissal for intoxication, he loses 50 points.
Personal President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale has accepted an invitation to deliver a course of lectures at Oxford University. Paderewski did not give his piano recital in Portland due to insufficient support cited. Sir Rufus Isaacss new peerage as Lord Reading on New Year's Day reflects his Commons town representation. Edwin Gould, New York magnate, buys 3000 acres beside Jekyll Island Club near Brunswick, Georgia, where a New York club plans a clubhouse.
Brooklyn woman General Mrs Julia A Conklin turns 100. The page lists diverse items including a tango ban in Albany diocese and a fatality at a Davis Creek coal mine near Birmingham Alabama. It notes various trials deaths and local incidents from across the country.
Senator Crawford was renominated for U S Senate from South Dakota. The Court of Pardons in Trenton granted parole to 41 prisoners. A $1,000,000 monument to Andrew Jackson was proposed for Nashville. The Blue Ridge snowstorm stranded mountaineers in North Carolina. In 1913 New York saw 124 grade crossing deaths and 140 injuries. Detroit rush to gain a $10,000,000 Ford bonus drew non workers. Samuel J. Morris died during a hunt near Homewood Alabama. The Navy planned another war game on the New England coast. A Burleson commission began postal service investigations. The Franconia sailed New York for a Mediterranean cruise with 437 passengers including 31 honeymoon couples. Col Charles E Hooker, former Mississippi attorney general and long congressman, died in Jackson at 69. The Senate service carriages to horses will be auctioned. A coal passer died of smallpox on the Ohio battleship outbreak. A J Jennings announced candidacy for Oklahoma governor. Booze bating on sidewalks in Burlington was banned. William Stilwell killed himself in Atlantic Highlands. Charles H Moyer returned to Calumet with deputy sheriffs. Judge Charles H Peck of Stratford was indefinitely disbarred over estate matters. John L Derby, New Jersey signer of the Declaration of Independence, died in Cranford after 37 years as postmaster. Mrs Lillian Crook of Paterson donated blood to save her daughter. Capt George W Booth of Maryland died in Baltimore. The Chautauqua handkerchief salute is loaned to Washington to curb disease spread. Nettie M Leonard, Auburn prison matron, resigned after a dispute with the warden.
The National League moguls agreed to counter Federal League bids by matching offers and guaranteeing players against losses. Bandsman Blake faces Bombardier Wells in London on March 3 for a $9,000 purse. Walter Johnson rejected a $30,000 yearly offer plus $10,000 bonus from the Chicago Federal League. Governor Tener’s comment on Otto Knebe leaving the Phillies suggests NL president’s reluctance to pursue litigation over contracts.
Foreign radar am t Lieut Mery dies when his plane falls 3000 feet at Santiago Chile. James Bryce is raised to Viscount Bryca of Dechmont in Scotland. Hugh J Reilly and David Broderick indict ed in Havana for mal dissimulation swindling. Orville Wright seeks to sell hydroaeroplane rights to Italian Navy. Martial law declared in Catalonia over elections. Corkscrew skirts and green hair drive Paris fashion. Capt Craig announces 5 million dollar Ulster victim indemnity fund. Senor Pascua arrested at Cherbourg over 700 000 embezzlement in Barcelona. Albert Bratz admits wife killed five children then died by self in East Prussia.
Washington reached a decision to care for 3000 Federal soldiers and accompanying women and children at Fort Bliss near El Paso. The refugees will travel sixty miles overland to Marfa and then by rail to El Paso. The United States will fund about 1000 dollars daily for this operation as Villa rebels are active in northern Mexico.
In Detroit a crowd of up to ten thousand men gathered outside the Ford Motor Company plant after learning no work could be given. Police were knocked down and missiles hurled as bricks shattered windows and a fire hose cooled the mob. Five arrests followed as workers pressed toward the entrance seeking jobs amid a nine degree day. The firm had announced a ten million dollar profit sharing distribution for 1914, drawing many hopeful applicants.
Emerald Society officials consult with Bishop Mc Donnell in Brooklyn to raise five thousand dollars for Catholic orphans by calling off the Emerald pall. Church sponsorship for modern dances at charitable affairs is believed to have cost Catholic charities over twenty five thousand dollars in the city.
Across New Jersey a roundup reports the Gibbs town powder works back on line while Avalon completes new public school buildings and Cape May seeks $1 040 for 1924. Clayton adds a cloak factory and East Burlington vows a larger plant after a fire. Bankruptcy in Newark and pardons near Trenton color a busy week of state events.
The article discusses ways to reuse stale bread to cut costs. It suggests drying bread to powder for breading and soaking for pudding. It emphasizes thrift in household management and the savings to the cost of living.
Sunday School lesson notes summarize Jesus teaching on loving God fully and loving one’s neighbor as oneself. The Samaritan aids a wounded traveler on the Jericho road, illustrating active mercy overcoming ritual bias. The text stresses genuine charity, costly love, and living out faith through deeds.
A. E. Van Natta of Indiana shares a DIY portable fence design from Farm and Home. Using 2x3 inch hemlock joists 12 inch boards and 6 foot wire the fence slots together with T shaped supports and japanned shelf brackets. The system holds coop yards neat on Sana soil and can be moved or stacked by two workers, improving crop rotation and reducing manual digging. The finished section uses a 12 inch base board to deter cock fights and can be dismantled by removing screws and bases for relocation.
Skim milk is praised as an excellent feed for young chickens and laying hens providing protein from casein and helping fattening fowls achieve white juicy flesh. It can be fed sweet or sour as a drink or mixed with bran and oatmeal. Sour buttermilk keeps yard hens healthy by supplying vegetable acids and aiding digestion, often available from nearby creameries for about ten cents a gallon.
During bad weather keep fowls indoors. If hens stop laying, the keeper is at fault. An egg weighs about 1000 grains with 600 white 300 yolk and 100 shell. Choose bantams from fairs and buy a pair that attracts you. Winter laying depends on proper feeding housing and care. Remove small chicks keep the strongest for winter layers. The hot summer slowed late chick growth.
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