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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1897
Page
1
A compilation notes Connecticut press moves to curb public record ink use and a July 1 effective penalty. counterfeiting shifts in Mexico. Paris ink fashions. a Peak’s Tatand doctor story. Epworth League growth. multiple nations’ flags. Governor Pickens portrait hunt. London gift to science. old parish pew rights. Harvard lottery history. Minnesota library funding and growth across 1800 schools with structured book selection policies.
Poetic meditation on whether trifles of love define a life. The speaker asks if shared words and sympathy shape fate, noting that a single word spoken for love can heal a fainting heart or ruin a life. Riley Smith.
In a rural farm tale, Patty adores beauty while Aunt Sheba frets over aging skin. A cosmetic misadventure with a Beautifier reveals inner worth, as love and humility transform perception and bring reconciliation between aunt and niece. The episode ends with Aunt Sheba realizing true beauty shines through a kind heart.
A misaddressed egg carries a shy farmer Ross Williams of Enid Oklahoma seeking a wife. A reply from Bessie Corill of Chicago offers mutual interest, photos to exchange, and possible union. The exchange reveals rural longing amid a note on fireproof paper and global population figures.
Victoria’s favored authors include Dickens Scott Shakespeare and Tennyson with top women writers like Jane Anster Charlotte Bronte and Georgy Eliot. The piece surveys veils fashion gowns and shopping excess at auctions, plus social bureaus and notable women in society and medicine.
The Christian Endeavor movement opened its convention in San Francisco with about 8000 attendees at Mechanical Pavilion and Woodward’s Pavilion. Father Clark outlined a year of work, citing travel to 20 countries and aiding 60,747 local societies totaling 8,000,000 adherents.
A 19th century report notes Oklahoma and Indian Territory likely to gain statehood, with an estimated 650000 population, of which 550000 are white, including 60000 farm owners and 40000 others, and argues Congress has already granted statehood to other territories with similar populations.
The official bond of George R. Bidwell as Collector of Customs at the Port of New York is approved. Senate passes the Deficiency Appropriation bill with armor plate price cuts and a call for a Government factory bid. President McKinley declines a Britain seal correspondence request and attends Isham G. Hurtig’s funeral in the Senate Chamber.
Major stock broker Decker Howell & Co failed on the New York Stock Exchange amid broad market strain. Banking and railroad shifts appear, with Meixell of South Hebehem National Bank arrested after absconding with 10,000. Lehigh Valley and Morgan interests reshuffle leadership. Political notes include Democrat gains in Annapolis and a successful Republican League convention in Detroit.
The Tennessee senator Isham G Harris died at his Washington home after a year long illness. Born February 1818 in Franklin County he was approaching his seventy ninth year and began his congressional career in 1840.
A string of scattered items includes a coroner verdict of heart disease overturned by exhumation revealing a broken neck and a life sentence for L. Shuo after a seance claim. Reports also detail tramp trafficking by freight crews, an incendiary family death near Pineville Kentucky, and a Navy physical fail rate among New York News Boys Home youths.
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