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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1907
Page
6
An excerpt touts Peruna as a catarrh cure with ingredients backed by medical schools and Dr Hartman, claiming universal value and home delivery. It shifts to praising the domestic hen's productivity and promoting a poultry farming book from the Book Publishing House, New York City.
The fragment references Andy McGee who allegedly eats live coals and a “poon” with impunity, plus a joking note about a baby and a cartoon remark from Puck. It also includes a distant claim about global population fitting in eighty miles.
A fragmented poem excerpt expresses longing to leave the city and factory toil. The speaker cherishes a rover life, hearing the sea and road call beyond walls, rejecting calls to stay and seeking a distant, carefree wandering. The text credits WIII F. Griffin in Milwaukee Sentinel.
A Panama Canal era account recounts a man recovering on Taboga Island after malaria. A brown reptile with a spiny back appeared in his room, mistaken for a Gila monster, later identified by a mulatto cook as a guana. The danger spurred by fear and a quick rescue ends with the patient avoiding further meals of cold chicken.
A string of satirical quips on gender roles fashion and marriage from Pointed Paragraphs in the Chicago News. It mocks vanity suffrage and social pretensions with humorous observations about men women money and status.
The passage praises a nation where census detail is treated as high art, detailing the sex balance, bachelor and spinster trends, and marital status across departments. It notes curious figures such as 163 blind people per 110,000 in one region versus 45 in another, illustrating attention to demographic quirks.
The court notes a witness heard Mary speak during a conversation. The judge suppressed the question, an exception was taken, and a higher court ordered a new trial. In the remanded proceeding the same question yielded Mary’s remark, with sensational notes about a girl eloping and a wealthy father. Professor Fritz Knorr reports abundant wild adabo growth in Colorado’s Montezuma valley.
A collage of home remedies and recipes covering rust stain removal with a clay mix, kitchen range mending with mortar, decorative pot repairs, feather cleaning, glass net decorations for doors, frogs legs with butter and cream, and several old time recipes for cakes pies and steamed apples. The piece preserves era tone with multiple practical household notes.
A segment from the Longville Cour. for Journal article discusses historical slave pricing, citing values for a strong man at 2500 dollars, a woman 1500, a child 400, and varied costs for slaves in ancient Rome and later periods, including trades and high prices for certain skilled roles. It notes ranges and examples like a gardener, blacksmith, and a scribe at different sums, reflecting economic factors of slavery across eras.
Fragmentary excerpt discusses Irish peerage origins and names misattributed to Urkish towns. It notes an apparent rise in mental illness among Britons, claiming about fifty out of every age cohort, with a statistic about one in 285. Mentions Denmark using convicts for farming and Norway facing a dearth of laborers due to emigration.
A dense price list from New York markets shows quotes for milk creamery products, meats, fruits, vegetables, poultry, and grains. It notes general state conditions in New England with harvest prospects, crop quality issues, labor shortages, and broad economic optimism despite farm labor troubles.
Immigration in June rose by 34 834 from last year and the fiscal year total reached 1 285 349, surpassing the prior record by six percent.
Thread prices rise to ten cents per spool prompting wage and cost concerns among garment workers who must supply their own sewing gear. Florida tobacco harvest in Leon County expects strong returns due to Cuba crop shortages and cigar industry strikes. Northwest wheat yields forecast at 125 to 140 million bushels across Minnesota and the Dakotas amid smaller derange and weed issues. Canada wheat export outlook around 100 million bushels.
A survey notes brick houses lasting longer than wood and steel frames buried in masonry degrading in 13 years. Sunflower yields fever-dispelling febrifage as quinine substitute. sunflower products may aid fevers. A new smoke consuming patent uses steam and air to boost coal efficiency, claiming 95 percent smoke reduction. Portland cement production now leads, with 1905 usage enough to encircle the earth. A meat preservation method from Paris uses a tight box with carbonic acid and sulfur threads, avoiding bones for proper decomposition.
A Chicago Tribune summary describes Parisians skimming the Seine for grease and corks to sell to factories and merchants. It notes cork collectors guarding their trade, police rescues of novices, and mentions waste recovery from dust in London basements and soot in gold refiners chimneys. It also cites wool waste from sheep farms being processed for value.
The Munjoy Hill observatory in Portland dates to spring 1807 and has stood as a city landmark for a century. It witnessed festive scenes beneath its walls, marked ship sailings and winners in private days, and tracked Portland’s growing commercial and maritime prosperity as a focal point for residents and merchants.
The Rev. TE Davies of Hartford plans a generous gift to Hartford Theological Seminary totaling 1,000,000 dollars. He suggests the money be placed in a bank to earn interest, with a potential annual yield of 1,000,000, and notes it may take time to accumulate.
A humorous list notes odd newspaper titles such as The Bad Ave Tribunte The Amlaton Hot Blast The Gate City Humming Bird and The De Soto Eagle Eye among many others. It also mentions The Devil's River News of Texas as the most profane name.
The Columbus Penitentiary News, a long running paper published by convicts, suspends for lack of a single man who can handle type. The piece notes abundant bankers lawyers doctors and other professionals but no printer, highlighting a misjudged view of prisoners.
A New York Sun reporter stammers when requesting a Morgan statement and J Pierpont Morgan reacts with irritation before the man spits out a joke. The Saturday Evening Post notes nerve remedies and a Cuticura cure advertisement cites cured sailors and Philippine itching cases.
Mrs Clyde Pixley of Bridge Street Belding Michigan describes chronic bladder inflammation with severe pain dizziness fainting and blood in urine. After using Deans Kidney Pills her symptoms subsided within a week and she regained health, with the product sold for 50 cents a box by Voster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A reader notes a cat kills rats mice snakes and birds in the wild yet avoids them in confinement. They describe attempts to bell the cat to deter predation and advise Cornish collars with bells for buyers. separate brief items mention church lock removal and a mistaken donation box.
A London Globe account recounts a passenger on a Northern railway who produced his marriage certificate to a ticket collector to prove identity. The Scot ticket clerk studied the document and remarked the groom had a ticket for a different journey, not completing the planned weary trip.
A London Times correspondent notes the last opium dens in Pekin are closing with the anti opium movement gaining support. The native press backs the drive and opium use is described as rapidly becoming unfashionable, signaling further reform when officials denounced for opium smoking are removed.
The Tokio Times reports brewer Mr Shibata has ordered a solid gold pan with about 100 gallon capacity for tempering sake. It will take two to three months to forge, with the goldsmith’s house under police guard during production. Also noted are tobacco lands yielding about 2000 dollars per acre annually in this country.
A Grand Duke Vladimir event in Paris featured a unimpeachable guest presenting a large bouquet. The flowers concealed a dagger, discovered by a chamber groom who noted the floral offering hid a businesslike blade. An unrelated motor trip report notes a wife tossed but no major damage to the car.
A clerk writes to his employer that he has been billious all night and has a frightful head yet hopes to shake it off today. The quip appears in Punch illustrating weary office life with light humor.
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