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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1890
Page
1
A Chicago druggist claims that two thirds of physician prescriptions are as harmless as bubbles. The item reflects public health views and contrasts medical practice with safety, amid a broader column of international notes and maritime and military projections.
A compact verse excerpt from Ella Wheeler Wilcox reflects on mortality and the futility of wealth, status, and worldly honors. The poem emphasizes that life’s end is the same for the rich and poor, the loved and the lonely, as time runs out and death arrives.
A veteran detective recalls early career cases including Dick Morton the Tennessee outlaw, a Chicago bank embezzler Cassia Phillips, a paymaster in the Western army, and the Hemingway Covington affair. He details methods, disguises, luck, and sharp observations that led to swift arrests and confessions amid river towns, steamboats, and urban streets.
The London Illustrated News describes a British expedition in British Burma where a Lushai chief and the political officer Mr Murray perform an oath of friendship. A pig and a tame bison tied to a tree witness the rite as the chief and Murray each prick the pig with a spear and smear its blood on the other's forehead. The chief declares lifelong fidelity as rice beer and rum are shared, a bond the Lushais deem binding. A second tale notes a meteor fragment named Metecoric Pig Brow, found near Ramecy in Kossuth and Winnebago Counties, Iowa, weighing 100 pounds and resembling melted pig iron per the Omaha Bee.
In a fleeting exchange aboard the Express Train, a passenger notes discomfort while another jokes about eating at a rate of forty miles an hour, underscoring a humorous contrast between dining pace and travel speed.
A Georgia correspondent describes Okefenokee's vast prairie land of muck and tremor where water and alligators mix with elevated cowhouses of dry ground. He profiles Cheshire family lore, their gear, and prowess with bow and rifle in hunting, and notes scarce crops and revenue from hides. A brief turn references Shakespeare editions and rare copies valued vastly.
Instructions for boiling corned beef with vegetables and cooling in liquor for tenderness, plus a bone in mutton leg recipe with stuffing and crust for juiciness. Also a gooseberry batter pudding method, and a collection of household hints on cleaning, polishing, fabric care, storage, and kitchen practices.
A brief column reviews recent feminine dress aids including a five-piece patent veil fastener with loops hooks and eyes, plus assorted fashion items from braid to chignon revival, cut steel hair ornaments, jeweled belts, and new papers with silver and colored stamps. It notes female doctors in Austria gaining permission and fashion chatter from New York and Chicago papers.
A New York Sun piece describes a picturesque church perched on a rocky islet in Greenwood Lake New Jersey. The rock covers about two acres rises fifteen feet above water and is connected to shore by a footbridge. The chapel’s small bell tower and chimes are visible and audible to fishermen across the lake.
A New York jewelry house shifted to a young woman who painted plaques for sale during the manager’s illness. Her Monday designs transformed the display, earning her better pay than plaque painting and hinting at a growing female role in window dressing.
Globs-Democrat reports dealers in St Louis are selling corn meal molded in New Jersey into coffee beans. The artificial grain is mixed with genuine coffee by retailers to deceive customers. West buyers pay four dollars per hundred pounds for this mixture, two fifths artificial and three fifths genuine, yielding high profits for factories and dealers nationwide.
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