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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1909
Page
1
David Hunter notes the contrast between 1909 Independence Day celebrations and 1776. He traces how the home has long protected the nation, contrasts early living conditions with modern comforts, and cites Washington’s mother as shaping virtue. The piece argues for enduring home-centered patriotism.
The Indians of Saskatchewan's prairie province are shown becoming industrious and prosperous. Last year they had about 30 acres under crops and produced 160 572 bushels of grain and roots plus 86 000 tons of hay worth 136 023 dollars. The Assiniboine agency notes area under crop nearly doubled from the prior year with 690 acres of wheat and 200 acres of oats.
A Boston lady visiting Edinburgh found the city’s learning repellent and asked a policeman for Carlyle’s house. He explained Carlyle was a writer and dead, noting that a city like Edinburgh offers few clues about him once he has passed years ago.
The New York Sun notes a shift toward larger-scale farming with several growers now owning substantial tracts. One farmer tills 105 acres, another 125, and several manage around seventy acres, signaling a clear improvement in land use and farming efficiency.
Fragmentary text appears to mention weight loss ideas but lacks coherent details or identifiable persons, places, or organizations. No verifiable events or outcomes are evident from the readable portion.
Mayor Magee helps end a street car strike in Pittsburg after 48 hours of stoppage. The agreement allows resumed work at 6 am with most labor gains accepted, while a key dispute over drinking while off duty is kept. A Rankin bridge clash injured several and involved detectives and strikebreakers amid rioting.
A dray load of ten million dollars in gold coin was escorted along Market street from the California Safe Deposit building to the old City Hall vaults. Fourteen top quality truck horses pulled the wagon while twenty five mounted police guarded the route. City Treasurer John E. McDougald rode beside the driver. The east wing of the old City Hall houses the vaults, the only part remaining after quake damage and looting.
Edward Cooley auto agent killed in Morrrig avenue wreck when a front tire blew causing the car to plunge into a ditch. John Lainer and Stanley Reed of New York City suffered severe injuries while Maude Tucker of Newark escaped with minor cuts. Reed may not survive. all others taken to General Hospital.
Eastman allegedly murdered Edith May Thompson Woodill at his Broad Creek Maryland bungalow near St. Michaels. He robbed her jewelry and aimed to implicate New York friends who visited him. Police trace Eastman's actions from Saturday to Sunday and note his return to the scene after the crime.
Several thousand militant suffragettes tried to storm the House of Commons. About 112 were jailed with terms likely for each prisoner. Police fought for two hours as stones handkerchiefs and pins harmed officers and guard regiments stood ready along the Thames Embankment.
In New York City Mrs Howard Gould wins a separation suit against her multimillionaire husband. Justice Dowling awards $100 daily alimony ($36,000 yearly) and ceiling fees to Clarence J. Shearn. Gould’s counsel De Lancey Nicoll seeks arrest of judgment for thirty days.
Daniel Chester French of New York City was commissioned to chisel the memorial statue of Abraham Lincoln to be erected on the Nebraska State House grounds in Lincoln.
Mrs. Anna Clotz was found dead in hot water in a second floor bathtub at the Ross bathing establishment. Dr. Willam A. Robinson suspects a fall due to partial paralysis preventing escape. Lungs filled with water. she had stayed at Ocean Grove and left no address. A brother-in-law, Henry Clotz, was found in New York City.
The Roosevelt expedition in the South district is reported to be all well. Theodore Roosevelt has shot three buffaloes, as porters returning from the Roosevelt camp bring the news to Naivasha in British East Africa.
Pittsburg man Wade Sorza rushed from work to recover his wife after she was fatally struck by a Baltimore and Ohio train. He fainted at the scene and, regaining consciousness, carried her home. Two hours later he was found on the tracks with a gun, seeking someone responsible for the death.
In Atlanta, E G Williams of Fidelity and Casualty slaps insurance man Donald M Bain who is killed by a gunshot. Witness Charles Beardsley tries to intervene and is wounded in the arm during a brief struggle sparked by a prank.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. was elected vice-president of Standard Oil to succeed the late H. H. Rogers, marking a transition in leadership within the firm.
The bridegroom Allen Lyle failed to arrive as the ceremony began in Augusta Georgia with guests present. A search found him missing until an hour after midnight when he returned home bruised and muddy claiming he lost consciousness at 5 pm and awoke at a lumber yard three miles away. His physician declares him temporarily insane.
A passenger train collided with a work train on the Berlin branch of the New Haven Railroad. A dozen persons were injured but none will die. Among the wounded are Mrs Catherine Champion of Brooklyn with jaw and elbow fractures and bruising, and Mrs Elizabeth Cummings of Brooklyn with an ankle fracture and cuts.
Mayor Busse deposes Chief of Police Shippy after business leaders condemn the force's handling of a gambling resort bombing. Assistant Chief Shuettler named Acting Chief to succeed Shippy in a general order.
London reports health reasons trigger the exit of Lord Fitzmaurice Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Thomas R. Buchanan Parliamentary Secretary to the India Office. Herbert Louis Samuel becomes Chancellor of the Duchy and elevated to the Cabinet while Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray succeeds Buchanan as Parliamentary Secretary to the India Office.
Superintendent James H Cobb of Belton Cotton Mills and Reverend D D Richardson were killed when a trolley car struck their auto at Anderson South Carolina. Mrs Titchardson and Reverend FE A Mc Dowell were severely injured in the crash.
Kidnapping incident in Baku ends with the captors captured and victim M. Rylsky freed. Paul Morton arrives in Vienna after Paris talks with Rothschilds and Austrian Credit Bank directors. George Meredith's will filed showing a 161796 dollar estate left to his son and daughter. Eight divers die near Shirahma during Great Northern Hiner Dakota salvage attempt. Mrs Elihu Vedder dies of dropsy in Rome at age sixty three. Reichstag rejects inheritance tax extension bill. Semi submersible craft favored after naval tests. France moves to bar lotteries within eighteen months. McClure’s son marries Edith Dodds in London. Shaw’s Press Cuttings banned. The King’s birthday parade at Buckingham Palace canceled due to bad weather.
The report notes improving crop prospects both domestically and internationally contributing to a decline in wheat prices. Analysts point to favorable weather and increasing yields overseas while domestic conditions show signs of stabilization.
Israel W. Durham longtime Philadelphia Republican leader dies of heart disease in Atlantic City New Jersey. In Germany Prince von Buelow announces his resignation as chancellor ending a lengthy tenure.
W C McIntyre head of McIntyre Son Co Montreal was killed instantly in an auto accident near Dixie ten miles from Montreal on the lake shore. Percy Downs a broker was badly injured and W S Weldon manager of the Windsor hotel was slightly hurt.
Indianapolis report says central Indiana farmers wives oppose the big-dinner practice on threshing days. Thresher owners must provide meals or risk no contracts. Some counties form threshing companies so every man provides his own dinner. The movement aims to end the large communal dinners at threshing time.
Bishop McFaul of Trenton New Jersey declares war on universities in response to President Hadley of Yale accusing them of under mining Christianity and morality. This public stand frames a clash between church leaders and higher education over moral influence and religious duty.
The Direct Primary law enacted at the recent legislative session was declared constitutional by the California Supreme Court in an opinion issued in San Francisco.
Mr. and Mrs. Burleigh Hill of Greenfield Indiana spent the day in a grove where Hill was bitten by a fleas described as a certain kind. Hill suffered greatly and after drugs were given in the evening he fell into convulsions and died.
The report notes the average wage for working women at 272.04 yearly in the era, mentions state federations of women’s clubs, and lists notable marriages and degrees. It cites Julia Ward Howe receiving a Brown University Doctor of Letters, and Lillian Roff as the first woman to earn a Bachelor of Divinity at London University. It mentions women teachers seeking equal salaries in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, plus reactions from the International Council of Women in Toronto and social events at Buckingham Palace.
Beginning August 1 the Russian telegraph system will switch to a twenty four hour clock with 12 o'clock representing noon. The change aims to reduce confusion in timing and improve clarity for international communications.
Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh orders national banks to return about 25 million dollars to the Treasury. Of this sum 9 million is due July 15 and 16 million due August 15. Balances in active depositaries are cut to the minimum daily needs.
Charles Scheers the chauffeur who ran down Patrick Mc Laughlin on the Old York road was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced by Judge Swartz in Norristown Pennsylvania to one year in county prison and a $50 fine.
Author Sarah Orne Jewett died at her home in South Berwick Maine at age fifty nine after months of illness including apoplexy and paralysis.
Charles J. Drintnall a Binghamton New York contractor was killed when his automobile turned turtle two miles east of Owego. The accident occurred during travel in the area and authorities investigated the fatality.
Mary Elizabeth Dolly Logan Tucker, wife of Colonel Wo F Tucker retired, obtained a divorce on the grounds of desertion. They wed in 1877. Alimony settled privately. Calyne Tucker did not contest. Mrs. Tucker may resume her maiden name. Witnesses were Mrs. Tucker and her mother, widow of General John A Logan.
Frederick De Martens dies at a railway station in Russia. A Newark bomb injures ten at Father James Zuccarelli’s house. Wall Street tremors follow Vienna stock rumors. George Kraus of Pittsburgh dies by poison. The Sappho cruiser rammed and damaged by an officer named Wilson Haer. Colombia to present a tripartite treaty to its National Assembly elected July 20. Brown University trustees urge non denominational status. Sermon in New York denounces interfaith marriage. Frederic Cudmore witnesses a man fall from a pier in New York City and escape unharmed.
Acting Captain Kahne of the Detective Bureau in Brooklyn began a thirty day sentence for contempt of court in the Raymond Street jail.
The roundup notes Ralph Rose, the six six shot putter from San Francisco, and Hanley of Illinois running 100 yards in 60 2-6 seconds. It mentions Cornell’s crew, Roy Mercer moving to Pennsylvania, and a jumper who vaults 12 feet and runs 440 in 50. It reports over $1,000,000 in trotting and pacing purses and a bowling record by Edward Thompson at Madison Square Garden.
In Bridgeton Judge Royal P. Tuller denies Lilley inn license as 137 Greenwich Township women lead protests, joined by 75 residents, stressing conditions from liquor sales. Also reports mosquito plague in Millville halting work of glass blowers and brakemen, a Midvale shooting, a manhunt near Belleville, and a derailment injury in Lindhurst with deaths and hospitalizations.
Dr. Lewis I. Snow of Montclair has resigned as head of the English department at the State Normal School in Cortland New York to become dean of the education department at the State University of Kentucky in Lexington. He previously served with Teachers College at Columbia University.
Herbert Colder, captain of his namesake baseball team, was struck on the teeth by a bat tossed from Crescent shortstop George Adams at Tren ton. All front teeth were knocked out. Colder needed to be sent home.
The Floridan House of Representatives in Tallahassee approved a bill allowing the killing of alligators on the Ocklawaha River and its tributaries to protect hog farms along these streams. The measure frustrates tourists who visit the area to view the local gators. Egypt's Productive Land in the Nile Valleys discussed.
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