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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1899
Page
1
The text surveys cultural shifts as Cuban and Porto Rican readers engage with English media and language. It notes American influence in education with Park Board tree plantings, free public schools in Puerto Rico, and teacher pay, while warning against forced assimilation and stressing national vitality.
Jane Elverton takes on nursing two elderly cousins with the smallpox outbreak. Edgar Grey objects, but Jane insists on duty over personal desire. Norman Gray privately supports her, and Jane's kindness wins lasting affection as Edgar's plans unravel.
In Dennisville area New Jersey vast cedar swamps hold trunks and canoes fossilized in black soil. Enormous red cedars measured six feet across the heart and ten to twelve feet with bark. some trunks rival Redwood enormity. Indian canoe found in Cedar Swamp Creek. shingles from buried cedars prized for centuries.
A London curate tries to feign loyalty via artisan friends in a comic escape tale from Tit Bits. A carpenter arrives with a tale about a borrowed boy, provoking irony on memory and truth in a humorous exchange.
Marines report strong American assault under Gen Hall at Morong Peninsula as Lawton’s brigade pushes forward. Heavy losses, disrupted communications, and abandoned wagons mark the rough campaign. Washington troops land under fire, batteries fire on insurgents, and bombardment drives rebels from the town.
The United States cruiser Olympia with Admiral Dewey aboard left Hong Kong for homeward cruise amid rain and wind. A band salute to the Powerful and to Italian and British officers marked the passage, and Dewey appeared eager to avoid demonstrations.
General Maximo Gomez, former Cuban Army commander, issues a farewell manifesto urging Cubans to forget past disputes and form a single political party focused on peaceful labor and national unity. He plans to visit San Domingo and later return to Cuba to inter his son’s body.
Minister of War Krante orders investigation into Esterhazy connection with the Liberator letter and into how General Pollioux directed information against Esterhazy. General Dushesnes is charged with examining the handling of such information and related actions.
Special dispatch from Wasmixatox describes President McKinley confirming Admiral Dewey will likely arrive in the United States and accompany the President on a visit. The President will be in Chicago on October 10 to mark the fire anniversary and lay the corner stone of the Federal building. He plans a Milwaukee stop for a day with Dewey joining him.
Martin O'Malley, a 65 year old crossing flagman, died saving four year old Monbel Smith at Weed street near the Milwaukee Railroad. He warned by shouting and signaling but the child crossed as the express arrived and he pushed her clear as the engine struck him. O'Malley had fifteen years at the crossing and a record of rescues.
From Cayenne to Martinique Isle du Diable, the Dreyfus case sees the prison superintendent and naval commander notify him of trial revision. Dreyfus greets the news with radiant joy and refuses to wear the military uniform again.
Aristocratic women objected to attending a British Embassy ball on July 6 upon learning that Mr. Bellamy Storer the American Minister would attend. Sir Henry Drummond-Wolf the British ambassador was noted, with references to distant ships and naval yard duties in Portsmouth amid disputed party plans.
John H Henderson, an Ottawa Union Bank accountant and son of the city clerk, is charged with false entries causing a shortage around 99000. He has been with the bank over ten years and is reported missing. Bank officials claim the loss will be covered without impact to the bank.
Mr. Thomson aged fifty eight died after a long career in the railroad industry. He headed the company for two final years and became President in 1897 after the death of George B. Roberts. Born in Chambersburg Pennsylvania on July 5 he trained at Altoona shop for valve and locomotive work and rose to engineer and driver roles. He leaves a daughter Miss Annie Thomson and sons Frank and Clarke Thomson.
Baron Dagar de ica and Pan nie were found guilty in the United States District Court at C kya at Teagan of crimes involving Geoat Brit, facing sentencing in a case described as a notable conviction in the report.
The First Bank of Skagway in Alaska has shut its doors amid rumors of assets around 16,003 with many claiming real value near 349,000. Receiver J. Privo is named by Tito Johnson to oversee assets and depositors may recover about eighty percent. Peru’s new leadership is described with Blancho Romana as president and Alasaiors and Brosanl as president and vice president respectively.
The piece reports on labor conditions nationwide with carpenters and other workers pressing for agency protections, wage gains, arbitration over strikes, and new state laws limiting child labor. It notes wage increases from 20 to 25 percent ranges, and mentions factory agreements and government printing pay rates.
In Princeton Kentucky all citizens were fined for contempt after a petition urged the Grand Jury not to indict an unnamed set of companies. The court found no indictments and the Commonwealth's attorney pursued contempt charges. The judge fined every man one cont, ned the decision drew applause from defendants.
The text reports Allied concerns about incursions from Osage forces and property destruction, mentions Alaska rail progress toward July completion, and references distant figures in politics and culture. It mixes historical-sounding military events with railway updates and notable personalities, reflecting a chaotic 19th or early 20th century newspaper clipping style.
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