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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1894
Page
1
A mixed extract cites rare divorces in Canada and Lincoln signatures. It notes cremation growth, immigration figures by country, Maryland oyster industry, British volunteer army enrollments, and debates on vertical writing in Boston and Cambridge schools.
A curio of items covers U S rail plans and costs for a Mexico to Atlantic route, warship launches at Dubuque, Yale prize concerns, Russian railway carriages, and landscape advertising in England. It also links grip to appendicitis, cotton and wheat price shifts, and southern farming diversification as a hedge against cotton volatility.
An early discussion notes a bicycle operated screw propulsion boat still in infancy. The concept uses twin screws with forward side propellers and a light, long frame aimed at outdistancing existing vessels. The idea shows potential for future refinement.
An archaic poetic travelogue describes a marcher drawn by growing greens and waters. The narrator follows shifting camps and rumors from grasses under moonlight, seeking distant paths beyond death, until time and fate crown the journey with vision.
Paul Williams loses his job at a Johnsport lumber firm after creditors demand payments he cannot meet. He settles debts, moves West to start anew with Mr. Reade, and over two years transforms into a steady, respectable bookkeeper who avoids debt and earns a partnership. He later marries Annie Hummel and builds a cautious, prosperous life, vowing never to be in debt again.
A New York Herald report quotes an ophthalmologist noting many youths show no eye disease yet cannot handle daily school or reading demands without overwork signs. He cites Dickens and Thackeray legends writing by hand as examples of intense mental strain on vision.
A St Louis Globe Democrat quotation recalls a Maine justice of the peace who pursued firm law with personal cashing out in trade. A merchant notes debts and small judgments, claiming a cage trial over ten dollars and the judge’s stage whisper about settlement in trade to oblige the plaintiff.
An old New York Lodger note argues airships must rely on gas power for practical use. It says birds offer limited guidance, science progresses, and government backing with prizes could spur invention, materials, and perfected machines.
A collage of witty items and jokes sourced from multiple publications. Bits include a resigned office holder quip, a farmer's clever let it to another man gag, a poetry pay with compliments, a mistaken engraving joke, a salon of social humor, a lightning-bald head pun, romantic wordplay, and railway passenger nerves. Strong entities include Raymond's Monthly, Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph, Detroit Free Press, Chicago Tribune, Puck, Washington Star, and related figures.
A comic slice shows a nervous woman planning a brief outing to a newsstand while a station agent offers cautious reassurance. A grocer scene reveals slangy demand and misread words. The latter piece sketches Mrs. McSwat scolding noisy children and Billiger’s volatile temper in a Chicago neighborhood.
A St Louis Republic roundup lists remarkable records: largest bronze statue of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg. deepest mine near Lampbert Belgium at 3490 feet. Tsarbison the bee owner with 6000 hives in California. Czar of Russia with 100,000,000 acres. deepest earth bore an artesian well at Pouth Hungary to 8140 feet. It notes the largest flower Rafflesia from Sumatra, Mordella beetle with 25 million eye facets, Australian jungle fowl nest about twenty by fifteen feet, balloonists Coxwell and Glaisher reached 937000 feet from London in 1862, and metallic gallium valued at $100000 per pound.
A reflective piece argues envy harms the envier more than the envied. It notes successful people began where others stand and rose through effort and endurance, not luck. It likens life to a race, stating failure comes from personal limits, not the track, urging self-improvement.
The Thermometer traces origins to 130 years before Christ with the weather tester device. It evolved through Antonio and later key improvements by Fahrenheit who added the scale in 1729 converting the device into a useful instrument.
Advice on table linen selection and care with free matching napkins and white fabrics. Includes kerosene uses for cleaning, polishing, and home maintenance plus several home recipes such as Grandmother's Jumbles and various desserts.
A collage of humorous quotes and snippets from Galveston and other papers. Jests touch on pride, predictions, poetry, and social foibles, with light digs at manners, misprints, and the era’s everyday absurdities.
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