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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1910
Page
4
A widowed woman once helped by a court found a home for her daughter. She offered the judge a bouquet in gratitude. The judge rejected the gift but later sent a long protocol with the flowers to the Supreme Court at Innsbruck. Ten days later the court permitted him to keep the withered blooms.
The text contrasts cut and dry knowledge from manuals with living knowledge. It argues lasting learning must be living, growing, and fully understood from start to finish. True life knowledge may seem small but is essential and enduring.
The text reflects on transience of froth and bubbles versus lasting worth. It suggests that flashy moments and current fame fade, while genuine effort and real worth emerge slowly. People often overlook quiet merit, yet persistent, unseen toil yields true value over time.
Richard Lucas denounces his wife Leonora for a life ruled by bridge and gambling talk. Leonora retorts that he spends hours golfing and neglects domestic life, arguing their five year marriage has been shaped by his obsession with games and social events.
A wife and husband discuss balancing golf and bridge without conflict. She suggests retirement from golf. he muses moderation as St Paul advised. They propose keeping a few days free to be together and end with the note that serves two masters dulls happiness.
A collage of aphorisms and short anecdotes appears, citing passages from the Chicago Tribune, London Globe, and Washington Star. The texts range from admonitions on faith and citizenship to quips about marriage, practicality, and everyday life, with references to literature and periodicals.
Market notes detail butter near record highs for 45 years as western packers curb shortages, while grain and produce prices rise in New York and Pacific regions. Analysts cite improved crop prospects and rising demand, with pears and apples showing strong movement in California Oregon and Washington markets.
Pepys records mourning customs in 1660 including a short black stock ing worn over a pair of aliie stockings and a black cloth coat. He also notes the king wearing purple mourning for his brother the Duke of Gloucester. A late eighteenth century extravagance of blackening shoe soles is mentioned. Missouri manufactured 27,733,260 corncob pipes last year in factories at Washington Hermann Union and nearby towns.
Fragmentary quotation discusses happiness and sorrow, noting more unknown regions in happiness and misfortune shaping perception. It concludes that the happiest person understands happiness as the lofty, exhausting human idea that separates gladness from sorrow.
President David Starr Jordan at Stanford University discusses the legacies of Harriman Rockefeller and Newcomb, praising the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and urging wealth to serve broad, lasting good beyond personal gain. A later note describes a skin disease cure story and a planned railroad entry to Guatemala City.
A historic advertisement notes Doan's Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney distress with a customer testimonial from Mrs W K Conway of Punxsutawney PA describing relief from backache swelling and nervous symptoms after use. The ad promotes 50 cent boxes by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY and cites Doan's as the remedy. It also briefly mentions oil pipeline news and wages for glove cutters in Barin.
The London Globe reports a growing swindle in antiques with forgery and counterfeiting thriving. Gold objects, china, prints, and furniture are forged using authentic looking patina and aging methods. Some items resist replication such as ancient glass and marbles.
A fragmentary collage of quips and anecdotes from Cosmopolitan style writing. It mixes aphorisms on debt patience and desire with humorous exchanges about dancing signals and insomnia. The piece blends social commentary with light satire and miscellaneous reflections.
Fragmentary remarks suggest a dispute over grouping near Duggins and a plan involving wine and an unclear term UcfooHi-sua. The Philadelphia Record is cited in the dialogue, with exchanges between speakers about coherence and arrangement.
A Cleveland banquet speech by Neal Tin blends humor and observations on baseball and women. The Washington Star notes the Vienna Ca michiy Church vault expansion adding the monarchs’ wine cellar with two new vaults and marble-lined walls under the imperial family’s remains.
A nostalgic collection of Libbys Corned Beef serving ideas and kitchen hacks. It includes Caned Beef shiced and served cold with oil pickles, Corned Beef Wash, Omelette, Creamed Corned Beef, and New England Boiled Dinner. Also promotes Libby’s readiness and lack of waste.
The piece notes celluloid watch crystals resist breaking better than glass and are used on cheaper watches, with German makers adopting them. It also reports Germany’s shrinking China exports over fifteen years from a dominant share to about four percent, while the US, Japan, England gain.
A mother reports her kids improved greatly after switching away from potatoes at every meal and meat to a diet including fruit, Grape-Nuts with cream, Postum, and vegetables. She notes better health, sturdiness, and relief for a teething baby after trying Grape-Nuts with softened foods.
Chicago and San Francisco headlines carry Governor Gillette's charge that the Jeffries Johnson heavyweight bout on July 4 in San Francisco is a staged contest to favor the white champion. He claims Johnson is paid to let Jeffries win, while Johnson risks his health and independence. The exchange follows Jeffries denial via James J. Jeffries in Los Angeles. The item ties in the Paris Ham Fair and a humor quip about teachers.
Sangammon County Grand Jury heard testimony from State's Attorney Burke about a scheme to kill a state license bill for fisherman. Burke claimed a chain of evidence showing about 3500 dollars paid by fish dealers to defeat the bill in committee. The legislator who collected the money allegedly did not turn it in to the pot holder who shared it among several Representatives and Senators.
President Tait issues a proclamation to protect Rainbow Bridge in Utah near the Navajo Reservation. Discovered by a Plute Indian the natural arch rises 307 feet above water with a 278 foot span and is surrounded by 160 acres reserved under the Monument act.
Simon Frinde Max Bronstein Abram Welse Frank Welse and Jacob Selger face federal charges for operating a moonshine brandy still in Chicago and defrauding the government of 112000 in internal revenue taxes. Frindel, president of the Minors Fruit Distilling Company, is named in the indictment with further cases against liquor dealers expected.
Camille D. Van Voorhis in Reno Nevada filed for divorce from Cornelius W. Van Voorhis of New York City on non support and desertion grounds. She testified he lost 42 000 playing roulette in New York in 1908 and did not contest the case.
One of the largest life insurances ever placed in Chicago was effected by Arthur S. Ford treasurer of a cement company for $1,000,000. Premiums are paid by the company. Policy aims to protect those financially interested in the corporation.
A small balloon released from Pitts field by Professor Rotch of the Blue Hills Observatory was found at Dwight station near Amherst. The balloon had been partly swallowed by a cow, which died from asphyxiation while trying to eject it. The instruments accompanying the balloon were not recovered.
Reese Prosser, an Seattle automobile salesman formerly from Cleveland, was shot on a train near Libby Montana. His wife Vera Prosser reportedly left the train before the crime and was later arrested. The Prosser couple were buried in Cleveland five years prior.
Miss Pritchard, a 25 year old milliner of Pollock Louisiana, shot and killed Sam E Ward, a bookkeeper at Ball and Bro, in his office after accusing him of fickleness during a luncheon. She admitted planning to shoot Ford and fired a revolver, killing him on June 22.
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