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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1908
Page
4
A collage of old advertisements hawk Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar for coughs and hoarseness, plus other patent medicines. The piece mentions blooded cows sent from America to Japan, Dr Kline’s nervine, and a British take on European ice customs with jokes about American ice plants.
A National Provisioner piece lists dressed weight percentages for a well cut steer. Loins 16 percent ribs 10 percent rounds 21 percent chucks 19 percent plates 14 percent flanks 4 percent shanks 7 percent tallow 0 percent kidneys 0.25 percent sausage meat 1 percent shank meat 1.5 percent bankage 2 percent.
David Grayson launches a new Open Road series in The American Magazine. He urges a flexible mind that questions yesterday and embraces today’s observations. He argues true insight comes from independent seeing and rejects habit and settled ideas.
The Washington Star notes a new rower entering a tailor shop. He tells the clerk he is a rower and wants measured for two pairs of rowing trousers with fitting seats, displaying a trampish air as he speaks.
A railroad worker reports indigestion for five years and starving diets. After trying many remedies, he credits Grape-Nuts with restoring appetite, boosting energy, and enabling seven pound weight gain in a week. His wife also uses it, and the ad promotes Postum Co. claims of a “Perfect Food” with “There’s a Reason.”
A fragmentary poem excerpt contrasts fragile winds and withering blooms against the enduring fragrance of beauty. The verses evoke winter’s chill and nature’s stubborn, haunting memory in a lyrical mood.
Mears Mitchell starts work at Silas Gridley’s farm taking a two cent per bush job. He confronts Gridley over honest pay, demands fair market rates, and drafts a written agreement to ensure five workers receive three cents per bushel. The boy endures blistered hands and weighs family needs against pride and duty.
In a Benton tale, Mears stays with Silas Gridley after a deal for a buyer. He thrives on farming work, expanding to a milk route, studying farm journals, and aiming for formal training at the West’s top agricultural college. Family hopes hinge on his long term success.
The annual report by Col John M M Carson, Chief of the Bureau of Manufactures, shows fifteen billions of dollars in U S factory production value for the year ended June 30. Exports rose to 1 854 billion with finished goods up nearly 20 million. cotton cloth exports fell as cotton trade shifted with China while cottonseed products rose by 9 5 million. The report highlights the economic value of cottonseed and notes efforts to improve transit to foreign markets and calls for extending parcels post to foreign countries to widen access for American goods.
A jumble of observations on Oklahoma demographics and labor, London mortality, and historical notes. Mentions a Las Vegas New Mexico hospital for consumptives, a fraternal hospital in El Paso, Indian population in Oklahoma, and odd curiosities about umbrellas and London population projections. Mentions the Consolidation Coal Company mine disaster and a dramatic tally of casualties.
Brooklyn celebrates the East River tunnel opening from Bowling Green to Borough Hall. The $10 million project, two tubes ninety five feet below the river, promises relief from bridge congestion and speeds travel to Borough Hall in about four minutes.
A North Germanic report states more than 110 million dollars left the United States with 550 045 departing aliens who carried about 200 dollars each. They spent roughly 10 million on transport and services to depart and 1 364 688 arrivals brought about 27.3 million, much funded by kin in the U S. Officials link outbound waves to pre election jitters.
Wililam Jennings Bryan told the Jacksonian Club in Omaha that he has an independent income for all time, expressing no worry about money. The report covers other notes from London Times ownership, baseball and racing figures, and sports policy debates humoring on Sunday play.
The De Sagan quarrel heats Paris society as Count Boni de Castellane and Prince de Sagan clash over a domestic scandal. Boni reportedly spat at the prince after a church incident and the prince attempted a strike with a stick, with Boni parrying the blow.
Health Board reports 1202 pneumonia deaths in one month, many from influenza. Dr. Samuel G Tracy urges three steps: keep mouth and tonsils clean, maintain strong body resistance, and breathe fresh air with proper clothing. He recommends a home antiseptic mouthwash and throat cleansing routine to prevent infection.
New Orleans report shows 56 people lynched in 1907, down from 70 in 1906. Among victims: 49 Black men, 4 white men, 3 Black women. 37 male deaths occurred at night. Offenses ranged from petty theft and talking to white girls on the phone to rape and murder. Lynching spread across 17 states and one territory, with Alabama increasing from 5 to 13 killings.
The piece surveys extraordinary longevity reports in the Ottonyan empire, noting a 134 year old Hadji Reif and his 80 years as a bookbinder at Pancaldi, while also summarizing U S political chatter. Senator Foraker backs Taft era primaries, William Loeb Sr. eyed for Roosevelt district delegation, Hughes pivots on renomination and betting, and national figures discuss party strategies in Washington Albany Jackson Miss New York Minnesota and beyond.
A horse sale details a six year old saddle horse bought in Missouri for Secretary Taft and tied to a Chicago buyer’s request for a large mount. Labor reports cover New South Wales blacksmith wages, split railway unions, and other union activity while noting high coal field prices in Britain. Additional items mention Taft era salaries for chauffeurs, a naval planning push at Charlestown, and labor census efforts in New York City.
A mix of testimonials and advertisements notes eczema cures in 1880s style, citing a grandson healed by Cuticura and other remedies. It references Hall's Catarrh Cure, Peruna Almanac, Bromo Quinine, and Woolford's Sanitary Soap, plus a mad dog anecdote from Harper's Weekly.
A narrator recalled a smoker anecdote about a car trip where eight men were sent home in one hack. The driver rang a doorbell and a feminine voice from an upper window asked who is there. The driver answered Missus, will you be so kind as to come down and pick out your baby.
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