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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1913
Page
6
Fran maneuvers to gain allies in Hamilton Gregory's circle while Grace Noir clashes with her over church attendance and loyalty. Abbott Ashton eyes Fran as a potential ally and fraught household tensions rise during a tense Sunday breakfast at the Gregory home.
Grace contemplates driving Fran from Gregory's home as Fran faces pressure from Miss Sapphira Clinton and Abbott Ashton over alleged improprieties. Simon Jeff erson rants about church, while Bob and Sapphira plot a public test of Fran on the school steps, hinting at punishment and gossip.
A Bengal Lancer officer recalls a jungle encounter in which a tigress seized him and knocked him unconscious. He awoke as she sneezed and roared, then fled after she inhaled snuff powder from his box, saving the officer from likely death.
In Littleburg, Miss Sapphira Clinton governs the Clinton Boarding House with rigid, nearly solemn discipline to keep transients in check and protect her brother Bob, a once unruly Littleburg merchant, as Grace Noir's influence begins to soften him.
Two men living together on East Nineteenth Street wake to a gunshot after a visit from a bill collector. One declares they killed the bill collector in the hall, prompting a tense exchange about costs and restraint in a fin de siecle housing scenario.
In a bustling department store this morning, crowds formed around perfumery bargains. A humorous exchange shows Mrs Peterkin-Smythe pressing her associates to buy a thousand shares of J. T. & W. at 75 and to sell at 0, with profits to be sent by noon.
A New Yorker recalls a Broadway car incident where a polite conductor handles a passenger’s demand to be let off at 931. The woman commands and the conductor asks for the floor, eliciting smiles from fellow riders in a moment of tempered wit.
A letter from a young woman asks if she can succeed as a chorus girl and stay innocent. The editorial notes they cannot advise on career ethics but suggest keeping innocence in her environment if she values it.
A reader recounts her mother's seven year headache relief after switching from coffee to Postum. The letter promotes Postum by Battie Creek Michigan company claims and describes Regular and Instant Postum preparation methods, urging experimentation to suit taste.
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