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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1888
Page
1
A hodgepodge of items spans fortunes and philanthropy with Baron Hirsch’s $10,000,000 pledge for Russian Jewish education, a Venice relic discovery, Panama Canal cost projections, German aid migration, dog shows, English estate sales, French customs tricks, and coffee industry figures. Includes profiles of showmen, military leaders, and a sentimental verse about a mother knitting beside a sleeping child.
A detailed glimpse of a fashionable mother and child at a Fourteenth Street shop contrasts with a stark New York Diet Kitchen scene nearby. The article contrasts wealth and care with poverty, describing aid to hungry families, milk distributions, and the charity network upheld by private groups and notable donors.
The Zuni founded Las Vegas Hot Springs New Mexico where tourists seek mineral mud baths. Hot mud treatment coats the body and is followed by hot showers, plunges, massage, and rest in a heated room. Buffalo trails and Zuni healers preceded Spanish contact and American soldiers later developed the town as a resort with a park hotel and skilled cooks.
The article contrasts moderate drinkers with two groups who use alcohol differently. It notes the danger of consuming stimulants between meals, called nipping in America and housing in the East, which harms internal organs even in small amounts. It argues a pattern of drinking between meals with small sips is more damaging than larger intakes with meals.
A Chicago Tribune item reports a case where a husband threatens self harm during a confrontation with his wife. The tense exchange includes remarks about past failed attempts and a plan to shoot himself, prompting a tense domestic disturbance.
A Prairie partner housekeeper emphasizes simple kitchen aids like pot holders and towel organization. It lists practical tips on keeping towels separate for oven use and dish drying, plus a guide to common measurements for flour sugar and butter, noting spoons vary in size and provide practical equivalents.
A survey blends fashion history with social notes on women in the United States and abroad. It traces Empress Josephine’s influence on handkerchief use and polite toilette, then shifts to stories of college girls and earning money through small services. It highlights Western frontier women like Miss Catherine Wilkins and Millie Ringgold proving independence through mining, ranching, and public work, and ends with fashion details from New York and consumer quirks at urban eateries.
A collection of kitchen notes including red extract broth preparation with hot water, plant data slices pressed for juice, crumbed and fried slices, butter sugar flour cake with citron and currants, rhubarb jam with sugar, and the method to test jam setting by cooling a drop on a plate.
A fable about a 3 year old cyclone visiting, exposed to harsh discipline by a father and visitors, ending with the child questioning doors and obedience. A second note from The Champion Chloroform Taker recounts Louise Mary Binko an inquest revealing extreme tolerance to chloroform over years, leading to death.
The article traces the rise and decline of charcoal production in southern and northern New Jersey, detailing the harsh, wasteful methods of old rustic burners and the shift to retort systems that yield byproducts like creosote and pyroligneous acid. It notes the environmental impact of overharvesting pine forests and the changing iron and household fuel markets.
A survey of curiosities includes saccharia substitute flavoring and tree butter from West Africa. It notes mercury sources, cinnabar, a Venezuelan milk tree, and a glacier on Iztaccíhuatl. The piece cites researchers on sound, gunbeam waste roofs, and iron ore veins in Minnesota. It also covers crime theory, railway brain, and seasonal disease patterns.
The article traces the evolution of forks from early four-pronged forms in the George III era to the fiddle-pattern handles of the nineteenth century. It contrasts dining habits with the now rare use of basins and rose water at civic feasts, noting basins melted to fund forks. It also cites Murray's Magazine and a Boston Globe anecdote about a child remarking on family photos.
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