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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1897
Page
1
A mix of social notes and curiosities from the era highlights language in Japan, farm work in the U S, a promising three month old talker in Nashvilla, and a New York Tribune critique of Southern forest preservation. It also cites Atlanta building boom plans, cat species with unusual meows, a Chicago bulletproof cloth claim, and reflections on American labor.
A vivid celebration parades as patriots rally for Uncle Sam's birthday. Men vow to celebrate with rockets, guns, and fireworks while recalling hardships overcome and land reclaimed. The mood is triumphant and celebratory, with chants of hurrahs and marching pride.
Early morning at Farmer Halliday's farm, nine o clock bell rings as he and his wife rest before dawn. Leah Linton chats at the gate with a stylish city woman about experiences in urban life and patriotic celebrations abroad.
Leah Linton, an adopted maid in the Halliday home, faces a conflict between a planned seaside Fourth of July excursion with Flora Plimpton and her growing desire to see life beyond Towhasset. Flora pressures Leah to join, warning of missing romance with Ferguson, while Leah cherishes the Halls and fears breaking their trust and her own sheltered world.
Leah plans a summer escape with Flora Plimpton’s crowd but forgets the Dutch cabinet money. A burglary by Dave Ferguson is foiled when George Annis reveals the imposter, Ferguson, and arrests him. Leah confesses, Annis asks for her hand, and they become engaged after the night’s events.
A long illustrated miscellany recounts adventures from South America and Alaska through 1802 accounts. It includes a jaguar encounter while turkey hunting, a Tasmanian tale of canyon passage, a pearl diver episode with a turtle, and Albanian heroism amid Turkish threats. Various travelers and observers like Sidney Ancot and John Dodson contribute vivid vignettes, highlighting danger, survival, and frontier daring. The piece blends travel lore with dramatic animal encounters and a note on a dramatic canyon run in Grand Canyon material.
In Key West Florida a mob attacked Mia Livingston Atwell’s assailant Sylvanus Johnson prompting a deadly riot. White and colored factions clashed as gunfire erupted. William Gardiner died and many wounded. Reported deaths and injuries to both sides, with demands for federal troops and National Guard intervention.
The 400th anniversary of North America’s discovery spurs Bristol to erect a monument in honor of John Cabot and his crew. Bristol notes its historic connection as the port from which Cabot sailed on the Matthew for his notable voyage to the new continent.
In Montreal a father faced police action after a four year old boy ordered him to stop throwing a toy ball. The upset child compelled the man to pocket the ball under threat of arrest, a note in Labor World reports on social friction during Sunday observances.
Cornell's Varsity crew won the four mile eight oar race at Poughkeepsie N Y finishing three lengths ahead of Yale Yale was seven lengths ahead of Harvard Times were 20.84 for Cornell 20.44 for Yale 31.00 for Harvard The race was a stunning upset with Cornell using a stroke near the old Yale Bob Cook stroke Yale's stroke altered by an English method Harvard exhausted Boardman did not regain consciousness for 45 minutes after the race Cornell's victory established its athletic renown and shocked Yale and Harvard The Blue and the Crimson could not match the Cornell surge as they faded and the winners glided to the launch.
A Georgia storm left multiple fatalities and injuries. Miss Hattie Scott, daughter of the Powder Springs mayor, was killed by lightning at a summer resort. In Powder Springs a threshing machine was wrecked and its operators injured, cattle slain. In Carrollton James Downs Jr and Samuel Connie were killed. At Millner a bolt killed Samuel Lawrence, burned another man, and injured J A Farley’s son.
Terrell Hudson, a murderer whose career centered on the fatal number one, was hanged in Decatur Georgia. He was the thirteenth child of a thirteenth child and had shot Benaborn Malcolm on November 19, later confined in Decatur jail. The public execution drew a large gathering of Colored preachers and his brothers who inflamed him into a religious frenzy. The drop fell at 11:45, leaving him near death and unresponsive for an hour, with his family planning a thirteen foot burial.
A London paper cites a strange tale that a rich Member of the aristocracy paid 91750 for a St James's Street room to watch the Queen’s jubilee. It claims he bears a hideous facial deformity, arrived Monday night with an attendant, and kept his face hidden as he drove nightly about London.
Reports detail the lynching of John Moses in Crystal Springs Mississippi for murder, a colored preacher whipped for attempting to shield him, and a mob overpowering the sheriff. Separate scenes recount siblings smothered in a trunk near Bordley Kentucky, and Clark Lewis hanged in Fayetteville West Virginia with 5000 witnesses. A boiler explosion at Brockport Elk County Pennsylvania killed Adam and William Lock. Gold fever runs wild in Alaska as labor hopes fade and men gamble on prospecting waters.
Senators Tillman and Chandler clashed playfully in the Senate while President McKinley named Church Howe Consul General at Samos and John P Bray at Melbourne among others. The Renate approved a twenty percent ad valorem on hides as Speaker Reed plans House committee appointments. Pettigrew recovers from paralysis in the Senate chamber and Admiral Beardslee’s quick action deterred a Japanese seizure at the Hawaiian Custom House in Honolulu.
Tubo Works in and near Pittsburgh have signed a contract with the Australian Government for steel inlet pipe. The deal covers 100 miles of twelve inch lap welded pipe and 800 miles of thirty inch pipe for Koolgardie gold fields water supply. It is the largest order on record in the region.
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