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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1894
Page
1
A historical roundup notes rapid growth in electricity and bacteriology, Harvard President Eliot’s time-management tips for students, and state health efforts to curb consumption. It cites Westinghouse underground streetcar ideas, gas pricing prospects, and Mississippi tomato exports.
A lengthy collation notes global wheat and corn use, British and U S butter trade, German university enrollments, U S lumber exports to Africa and Britain, and Queen Victoria’s long reign. It also covers debates on a national anthem, and Dr Walter Kempster's assertions about the Guiteau Garfield case and government strategy.
The article discusses why animals swim instinctively while humans cannot without learning. It argues danger triggers instinctive defensive actions, noting quadrupeds flee and propel themselves in water, whereas humans imitate ape ancestry by grabbing for support, risking going under.
A reflective verse dreamily imagines a day when skies are bright and life is bathed in golden light. It extols memories as wreaths crowning the present, with echoes of past joys, scent of roses, and tranquil waves as a source of solace and pleasure. The piece closes with a nostalgic wish for vanished hands and voices to return.
Nina Caldwell a Chicago debutante travels by stage to a Maple Hotel in the mountains where she and Merrick Bryce, a lawyer, become entangled in a flirtation amid rough weather and social complications. A planned engagement unravels as rivals and misunderstandings unfold, ending with a quiet reconciliation and a shift in mutual feelings.
Mrs Walter E Magarey of Jamaica Village tends her flock when a pullet suffers a neck swelling. She uses scissors and a pinky finger to remove a cabbage stalk fragment from the throat, then applies healing ointment and allows the bird to rejoin the brood. The chick improves and heals.
Thorp sits on the edge of a German quarter in New York as a small colony of Thuringian glassblowers pursues an unusual work in the United States. Their show window displays vases, ornamented tubes, surgical appliances, and double bulbed glasses with water and fish. The glass flowers, including roses and lilies, are the pride of the proprietor. They use simple devices to enhance color and glow, working with astonishing speed and precision.
A traveler recalls an encounter with a greedy droschky driver in St Petersburg. The driver demanded extra payment and threatened dire fates, prompting a dramatic scene as the traveler, helped by an interpreter, resisted. Ultimately the traveler pays twenty kopecks after the driver’s frantic supplication and prayer.
Humorous snippets from multiple papers include jokes on Thoughts and Women’s Rights, sign of wealth like old gold coin on a check, and light satirical exchanges. Items feature witty banter about marriages, checks, a policeman’s newsstand habit, and social foibles with a period-appropriate breezy tone.
A brisk collage of dispatches features a stern real estate agent bemoaning a bank heist, a Boston firehouse rush, a Chicago Tribune scolding on language, and a peddler's egg timer device. Each vignette captures urgency, humor, and risk in urban life.
Truckee California Republic reports a fortune in a secret method to propagate snow plants. The plant resists transplanting and seed growth, with yearly, unpredictable emergence. The piece notes interest in making snow plants domestically grown like the Lady Washington lily and widely sold.
A summary of Knowledge magazine illustrations and an English Mechanic article on comets. Professor E E Barnard photographs Brooks's comet while Max Wolf provides Swift's comet images. The piece notes a solar system motion toward Hercules with RA 260 degrees and dec about 35 degrees, and a diagram by Sivsalian of Jupiter family comets. Professor Vogel is cited estimating a ten mile per second solar system drift.
The article notes rice cultivation thrives inland in Madagascar with terraces on mountain slopes and high valleys. Coastal areas lag as natives favor fertile land and warm temperatures. In the Tananarive region vast marshes are inundated yearly and transformed into productive fields, water conveyed by canal-like ditches along steep banks.
Fishermen at Wrightsville Pennsylvania on the Susquehanna plan an unusual race using a 300 foot long trough in shallow water. The contest would feature various fish including eel black bass and May sucker to decide the fastest swimmer and settle bets.
A long feature of household recipes and tips including kraut making with cabbage, cucumber pickles, and pickling spiced vinegar. methods for preparing beef and mutton French style with long slow cooking. cleaning, stain removal, baking test, and kitchen hygiene hints. advise on hot food serving and drying methods. warnings about ironing wool and pie crust edge methods.
A fragmented lyric recalls reunion and healing as a loved one returns. Lines promise kiss tears fade and guiding hands. The verse speaks of joy and a safe restoration of sweetness and support with a hopeful arrival.
A collage of pithy quotations and light humor from multiple papers, featuring remarks on madness, collars, life’s game, fashion, frugality, romance, and social manners. Scattered snippets include lines about editors, editors’ bluntness, and light social satire from Puck, Ram’s Horn, Atchison Globe, Buffalo Courier, Yale Record, and Chicago papers.
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