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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1891
Page
1
A World report recounts a Civil War era wagon train defense against a Native American ambush. A sergeant rallies ten troops to charge eighty warriors, breaking the assault. a wounded rider recalls close combat, a tomahawk thrust, and a heroic sergeant ending the threat with a fatal shot.
A Somiérville Journal poem exalts kindness as shelter and mercy. The verse likens kindness to rain, dew, and dawn, a divine gift to the weary, sharing peace, good will, and humanity’s warmth. It recalls the Peace Prince’s cradle and heaven-sent solace guiding hearts toward love.
Frank M. Connor, a Lynn shoe contractor, owns an 1804 silver dollar claimed to be among the few in existence. The coin, found in a Lynn bank, is valued around 1000 to 2000 dollars. Only about five specimens are known. scarcity stems from wartime hoarding and coinage limits.
Small farms form the rule in Sweden with most peasant holdings under fifty acres. Over two thirds range five to fifty acres while above a fifth are under five acres. Oats are the staple crop, largely exported, with rye and barley used for home consumption. Pig prices in England are high, while American pork goods are cheaper locally. Rye ripens up to sixty nine degrees north, barely and barley up to seventy degrees near Mydaon Bay.
A garbled urban report describes a figure termed the City Man Abroni at a suburban railway depot. The fragment mentions a summer coltare anvil grase plot and a small garden behind, with local chatter about bone Kevepreen oagilcultural papers.
A Washington Star interview recounts Pacific Northwest and Australian tricks. Indian jugglers perform eye deception with plant growth illusions and staged hunts with concealed blades. The piece notes Punch and Judy popularity in London and details Australian black tree climbers using notched trunks for ascent and hunting honey.
A Washington Globe Democrat report quotes Luo E Boennett of the Five Civilized Tribes on the Creek execution ritual and legal concerns, noting violence and constitutional questions. It also recounts Argentine horse behavior, where mounts return home to die, reflecting on the strange bond between humans and horses in remote customs.
London shop displays a pair of diamond earrings once owned by Marie Antoinette priced at 865000. They passed from a Potemkin relative to Mehomet Ali and later to Bond Street jewelers, with their history noted as storied and continuing in modern hands.
The piece details hats in chiffon and Jaco with gray chiffony designs, bluebells and irises in decorative trims, and an Inca hat with pale green ribbons. It discusses summer fans matching gowns, hunting and boating styles, and notes on Egyptian red underwear, glass enameling, new slippers, mourning bracelets, Piccadilly ties, and a possible return to white hosiery.
A Boston Transcript note reports Ceylon tea auction in London sold a small lot at 127.50 per pound, with Gartnieria estate harvests praised for bright golden tips. The piece highlights explosive price rises, comparing recent sales to the precious metal, and cites a prior $850 per pound sale as extraordinary.
A Mexican moralist champions the matadors cause arguing that prohibiting intoxicants on menus has succeeded locally and that Sunday crowds of about three thousand idlers would struggle to stay sober otherwise.
Recipes note velvet sponge cake with sugar, eggs, hot water, flour, baking powder, vanilla, and three layers. Also included are fish turcot with milk sauce, beef stew with vegetables, and household tips on stain removal and dentifrice. A brief anecdote on sympathetic pain in an amputated limb closes the piece.
A survey of topics including pearl Ashorya as a notable pearl, Hungarian railways adopting electric traction with eight coaches fitted with accumulators, and Prof Thomson on dangers of alternating currents decreasing with higher cycles. Observations on meteorological cloud photography, Black Sea basin depth, and water temperature at depth followed by a pulse study showing two potential maxima in November and February. A Copenhagen engineer proposes a revised international system changing the foot, and a Florida snail is identified as Bulosoma extenuata. A Connecticut asylum tale describes a man claiming glass legs, deemed incurable. Japanese culture and education highlighted, including a rich kindergarten system and playful math-like learning through wooden shapes.
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