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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1903
Page
1
Fragmented readable text describes Scottish imagery and war references, with conversation between Priscilla and another character. It mentions a patriot theme, a tale to be read, and reading the rest of a story printed on paper. The tone suggests a period piece dialogue with Scotland and Highland imagery.
Two elderly sisters in a village read a Sunday serial, debating Olive Lorraine and Percival’s fate. They discuss moral certainty, the editor, and the tale’s twists, noting its optimistic wrap and their longing for the ending as one sister falls ill.
A reflection on historic humorists like Thomas Corwin and Chauncey M. Depew, noting Corwin as “Tom Corwin the joker” despite high offices such as Governor of Ohio, Speaker and Senator. It also covers Charles Godfrey Leland and Joan Hay, highlighting how their witty works outshined other scholarly achievements.
A fragmentary collection of maxims and quotes on fate, procrastination, labor, and virtue. It cites figures such as Rivaro, Johnson, Hexstod, Ontamne, Hall-Durton, Hare, Webster, Joubert, Johnson again, Albert Benge, Julia H Thayer, and a note from the New York Times about walking straight.
A fragmented anecdote from New York papers describes a youth in Seventh Avenue awaiting a Vanderbilt hosted coaching party. He returns disappointed, claiming the host could not be the expected person based on a pocket check. An Austrian Navy aid to commerce is noted with ships visiting Africa and South America to study trade.
A Paris fashion trend features large bow accents under the chin made from chiffon and tulle. They are worn with veils and held by a Spanish comb, paired with stylish collars, rosettes, and blue rosette trim on dresses and blouses.
Mrs Martha Gordon of Frankfort Indiana violated tradition by marrying Henry Herris in her white petticoat at the County Clerk's office. Justice William Campbell performed the ceremony as guests watched. The bride briefly changed outfits before and after the vows.
The article notes a revival of the broad hand wrought wedding ring in barbaric gold. Styles vary from plain to ornamented with vine tracery and initials, often in Greek or Hebrew, with mottos from Plato or the Bible. Rings come in red Indian, green Australian, or pallid Alaskan golds, and are customarily slipped on by the bride.
The Philadelphia Telegraph advises travelers to pack light garments and practical items for comfort. Suggested outfits include a walking length skirt, a simple silk or wool shirt waist, and lightweight slippers. Include daily handkerchiefs, cleansing cream, Horax, and maintain regular fat intake with two light meals of fruit.
A partial discussion argues that women age quickly when interests are narrow and minds lack feeding from nature and change. It contrasts young looking women at twenty five with older looking enlightened peers at forty, noting climate and freedom influence aging and roles in society.
A foreign visitor from Italy praises America for extending women's youth through opportunity, exercise, and diet. She notes late marriage remains common, but the real secret is wider life chances and work for women, allowing longer youth and vitality in modern society.
A collage of notes: Beloit College honors for women in Wisconsin, a St Petersburg ladies club aiding the lonely, nursing laws granting registered status across five states, Rose Lartwick Thorpe the poet and author now in California, Christiania appointing a woman to hospital inspectors, women placed on lunatic asylum boards in Norway, and Kew Gardens employing women in a male dress code with two years of horticulture study plus garden duties and lectures.
Aurch tone fashion sketch highlights new hats with spangled feather flowers on tulle toques and lively colors like oyster gray. Passementerie is out, long kimonos are preferred for indoors, sheer fabrics entice for winter, and cravats trend wide endings with Russian stitches. Petticoats range from plain nets to white silk embroidery, soft doeskin belts drape the waist, plaid and check patterns gain popularity, and a lace scarf with buckles completes the look.
Report from Valdes Alupka describes explorers led by James Leeds finding a large cave near Triunce Wilam Sound containing fourteen wooden canoes each with a human skeleton. Stone implements and slabs line the caverns, suggesting long burial or disposal, with scientists debating Stone Age placement. The discovery astonishes locals who had no prior knowledge of Endians, their huts, or cave access, and prompts scientific inquiry. The second note mentions irrigation ditches and canals in the United States totaling over 20,000 operations and at least 60,000 miles of combined length.
Guidance on growing long season beans and forage crops notes Pearl millet as a strong option. Reports from Massachusetts Kentucky and California stations cite multi ton yields per acre with green forage value. Recommended planting—three to four feet apart with shallow half inch coverage on rich moist loam for late summer feeding in barns.
A crops editor recommends deep autumn or early spring plowing to bury grasshopper eggs where they are abundant. For non plowable ground, thorough harrowing with a strong harrow crushes or exposes eggs to birds and weather. Apply before young hoppers hatch per C. B. Gillette in The Cultivator.
The text discusses oats as a primary horse feed and urges variety to improve work output with minimal extra cost. It recommends roots and bran mash occasionally, wetting fodder, and mixing cut hay with grain. It favors half of the bay ration cut for mixing and occasional corn without replacing oats, noting guidance from Indianapolis News.
Instructions describe constructing a durable bed frame from four foot long hard wood and two by four upright supports with notched joints, braces, and hooks to tighten panels. The article also covers green poultry fodder including lettuce and cabbage for summer and sugar beets for winter, with practical notes on feeding and preservation.
The Times reports that prejudice against automobiles has risen after foreign road race accidents. A major English casualty insurer now refuses to issue policies to car owners, noting sixty percent of claims were linked to crashes at home. Despite insuring up to 5000 per machine, they halted car insurance as lawsuits mounted, with delays in court rulings leaving injured owners waiting until 1918.
An odd fragment from a New York press item notes a dining scene where silence at a large party prompts reflections on patience and timing, mentioning a quiet interval of about twenty minutes as a point of etiquette or peculiarity.
Warhington gossip notes baron von sternbourg promoted to ambassador. Tolin Barrett named minister to Argentina, a Vermont native born 1860 now in Oregon. Secretary Moody calls for federal action against lynching. Fourth marked by White House speeches. Sumner struck a rock and was beached off Luzon coast. water supply in Mania and surrounding districts to be expanded. Opposition to Philippines opium monopoly grows as Root urges Taft to hear opponents.
A wide array of brief items covers student migrations to Kanank harvest work amid labor shortages, a Harvard student’s arrest and confession, a scandalous elopement link in Mexico, Roosevelt and Low at Huntington anniversary, St Clair McKelway and Platt political notes, a murder case in Lowell, a Denver strike over eight hours, Boston area mill idle counts, a Brooklyn death blamed on toy cannons, gifts to Harvard and Wellesley, fires in Missouri, Turkish military tensions, French hospitality to Loubet, telegraph cable moves in Asia, and various international affairs including Bulgaria Turkey, Greece, and the Cuban canal treaty debates.
New York report from Dun and Co notes 9628 commercial failures in the past six months, the smallest in any half year since 1900. Failures split across manufacturing 1289, trading firms 4038, brokers and related 310, banks not specified. Despite stock declines, mortality is low due to growing conservatism among business men.
Washington transfer completed as chiefs of bureaus shift to the new Department of Commerce and Labor. Secretary Cortelyou spoke on the department’s aims as Moody attended. The expanded department includes the Census Bureau Lighthouse Establishment Steamboat Inspection Service Bureau of Navigation National Bureau of Standards Coast and Geodetic Survey Bureau of Immigration Bureau of Statistics Bureau of Labor Fish Commission and Bureau of Foreign Commerce from Treasury and State Departments.
Washington shows Treasury debt at 925,010,037 after cash in Treasury. Net balance decreased since June 1 by 106,? million. Totals split by interest bearing and noninterest bearing, with cash in gold reserve fund and various trust and general funds. Overall cash balance ends at 384,504,275 with outstanding debts around 1.078 billion.
James Watson a Mexican War veteran living in Sullivan Indiana cannot prove to the Pension Department that he is alive. He served as private in Company G First Minors Infantry and was declared dead by a doctor during the war, a claim Watson disputes noting his captain reported him dead after reliance on the surgeon. A home fire in 1852 destroyed Watson's discharge certificate, complicating pension eligibility.
The county pesthouse on the almshouse farm in Woodbury grows costly for the Board of Freeholders. Eight patients, seven cages, and a guard at 2.50 daily fill the bills, with daily meals including chicken and milk. A physician makes daily rounds while a steward handles supplies and clothing for the patients amid strict restraint.
In St Louis an experimental wooden shoe at a railway crossing is being reinforced with a steel plate to improve durability and reduce noise. The outcome of this test is eagerly awaited by residents near busy street corners where trolley cars pass in both directions.
The Artah army reports forty motor guns in service and an order for fifty more. Six of the existing guns are set aside for the exclusive use of the British General Staff.
A southbound Southern Railway passenger train No. 3 struck an open switch at Rockfish depot twenty miles south of Charlottesville Virginia. The collision demolished the express coach and damaged the second class car. Immigrant passengers, mostly Austrians, were killed or injured. identified dead include Jamies Nebormick and Charles Davis. Dr William A. Lambeth organized relief. twenty bodies removed at first, thirteen injured later taken to University Hospital.
English welcome is described as enthusiastic as a foreign squadron docks at Portsmouth. The American squadron led by the Kearsarge arrives amid royal reception with the Royal Navy’s channel squadron in attendance. Kearsarge sets a record for fastest transatlantic cruise among its class.
Gov Darkin orders Indiana National Guard to restore order after deadly riot clash at the county court base. Evansville reports nine dead and many wounded as troops, artillery and civilian police patrol, with race tensions easing and large Nigerian presence remaining nervous. Goat Hinch electrocuted at Clinton Prison for Cobleskill murder. O Connor dies after sustained current at Dannemora.
Murderer Shand penitently faces the scaffold in Lebanon Pennsylvania after admitting guilt for the Mia killing. Estate administrator Pennell reports Pennell assets worth 221108 including insurance. A Fort Dodge death trap ends Clara Fox’s life as a crowd gathers below. European leaders exchange visits as France and Britain note cordial greetings.
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