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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1900
Page
1
The article lists Seven American painters honored in Paris while noting the booming art market. It discusses Britain’s railways versus the United States and social trends, including a device for noiseless milk flow and the Rockefeller wealth claim. It also reports on a hexagonal fleet formation, auto adoption, a New Zealand plan for worker housing, and agricultural health notes on hoof and mouth disease.
A reflective poem from Harper's Weekly speaks through a gaunt tree about impending destruction as a sapling age will give way to cradles and coffins made from its wood. The verse contrasts sunlit life with looming ruin while a lone owl and woodland creatures witness the transition.
In a sunlit garden scene, sixteen year old Bessie hides in a cherry tree overhearing plans about the minister Mr Leroy. She confronts him in his study, reveals she loves him, and he hints at marriage as she learns Minerva may be his intended wife.
In a Waverley Magazine vignette, Bessie narrates a rash engagement to Mr Leroy after a talk in his study about marriage. Minerva learns of the plan, and though surprised, she congratulates her sister as Bessie declares the anticipated September wedding.
A collage of maxims and quotes appears alongside a nautical curiosity dredged from the Indian Ocean. The piece notes moral aphorisms by Burton Milton Emerson and others, then describes a marine specimen captured by the Calenthe Society, dramatically illuminated and displayed in a tank under tropical sun.
Fragmented OCR text presents varied topics from medical remedies for nosebleeds to wartime anecdotes and scattered phrases. The readable parts reference a doctor endorsing a simple remedy for bleeding and a dramatic scene with a prisoner, all within a mosaic of unrelated notes and quotes.
Reported by Captain H. M. Day and First Lieutenant J. T. Sweeney of the Forty third Infantry details a four day siege at Catubig island Samar where a unit of 31 held off about 1,000 insurgents. Rescue by Lao Ang steamer ended the siege. Corporal Carson and Lieutenant Sweeney praised for courage and leadership.
Paris reports an agreement on China's status quo and spheres of influence. Forces totaling eighty thousand are assigned to various powers with Russia and Japan at twelve thousand each, Britain ten thousand, France eight thousand, and Germany and others six thousand.
The Republican State Conventions in Michigan Minnesota Alabama and Maine nominated full state tickets. Aaron T Bilss of Saginaw was named governor in Michigan while Minnesota backed Captain R Van Sant for governor and Lt Governor L A Smith for re election Knute Nelson was endorsed for Senate Maine nominated Dr Toho FY HU of Augusta for governor.
The U S battleship Oregon grounded in fog on Hoo-Kkle Island near the Min-Too group while en route to Taku to aid allied protection of foreigners. A steamer from Indo China Stems Navigation Co assisted. Captain George By Wille commands the Oregon after minor repairs at Wong Kong.
The Prohibition National Convention nominated John J. Wooley for president and Henry B. Metcalf for vice president. The platform opposed the liquor power, attacked the administration over the canteen, and endorsed woman suffrage.
Mid dletown farmer Ovid Turbine blasted a tollgate with an axe after refusing three cents toll. The case progressed through courts until the Supreme Court ruled the toll company had no corporate existence to collect tolls. Other items note sturgeon industry concerns, railway workers killed, and a lightning incident in Burlington.
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