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Newspaper

Cranbury Press

Location

Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America

Date

Jul 07, 1899

Page

3

Summer ads and horse racing at local park event

The piece notes Blauvelt's sale with price reductions for dress goods and ready-to-wear options. It then covers a driving park race on the Fourth with Lloyd Grover's day mare winning the 2.50 class and Everett's bay horse taking the 2.40 class, while the 3 minute class faced uneven heats. It delves into anti-saloon rhetoric from a Be gond Presbyterian sermon, urging church and public action, followed by church services, a poetry reading by Miss Kate Lunden, and travel notices for Richmond excursions via Pennsylvania Railroad and Baptist Young People's Union conventions.

Blauvelt Lloyd Grover Mr. Francis Everett International Convention of Baptist Young People’s Union of America Richmond Pennsylvania Railroad Company Baltimore Steambow Washington

Fragrant Oils and Perfume Lore Across Lands

The article surveys ancient and modern scent practices from Judea to Arabia, noting Bedouin use of odors from elvet glands and “ures” from Aden, plus European perfumery traditions in Rome, Capua, and Bombay. It covers plant sources like lavender, coastal scent indicators, and luminous fungi lore, with cultural remarks on perfume’s social meaning and historical trade through ages.

Judes Arabia Tavendar Aden London Society Kitto Chrisna Bartholm Spain South Asia Capua Bombay Judea Iliny Rome Alexander the Great Ceylon India Dlerodotus France Europe Var Hertford Surrey North Africa Caymans

Church Services and Temperance Talk at Cranbury

The issue lists Sabbath sermons at First Presbyterian and Methodist churches with topics on Practical Christianity and The Philosophy of Prayer. Temperance Day notes recall revivals by Rev Curry, Rev Mudge, Rev DeMaris and Rev Taylor, urging action against alcohol as a modern Red Sea obstacle to the church. Local traffic concerns cite bicyclists on sidewalks and urge caution to protect pedestrians.

J. E. Curry Beverly Dr. Mudge Princeton Emmaus F. A. DeMaris C. F. Taylor Mr. DeMaris Moses Israel Red Sea Pharaoh God

Prominent Hannibal Man Recovers Using New Discovery

Mr J E Lilly of Hannibal Missouri recounts a severe illness starting with Typhoid Fever that progressed to Pneumonia and Consumption. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery for relief and recovery, calling it the surest quickest cure for throat and lung trouble. Regular bottles 60 cents to 1.00 with trial bottles free at N F Clayton's Drug Store, each bottle guaranteed.

J.E. Lilly Hannibal N. F. Clayton's

No Right to Ugliness

A promotional health notice touts beauty through health, claiming a run-down woman can regain looks by solving stomach, liver and kidney troubles. Electric Bitters is advertised as the cure, offering strong nerves and bright skin, available for 60 cents at N. F. Clayton's Drug Store.

N. F. Clayton

Pepper price and the rise of the East India Company

The skewed pepper tax in 1599 prompted English merchants to form the Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading to the East Indies, later the East India Company. Their early ventures failed against Dutch and Portuguese rivals until 1615, then expanded under Hastings and Cornwallis, shaping colonial sovereignty in India and affecting global history.

England India Governor and Company of Merchants of London East Indies East India Company Warren Hastings Cornwallis

Unexplored Space More Interesting Than the Pole

A discussion of space above ten miles altitude, noting air scarcity, cold, and sound limitations for balloons, and proposing Tesla's wireless power idea. It also reflects on atmospheric effects on sun spectra, X rays, and heat waves, with excerpts from Chicago Record and Cleveland Plain Dealer humor.

Forth Pole Tesla

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