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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1896
Page
1
A tangled survey touches on English speakers, German immigrants, and American growth. It notes cold storage boom, rising manufacturing in Maryland and Georgia, and debates on language, culture, and national identity amid a changing demographic landscape.
A fragmentary verse notes night ending at dawn and the quest for fame. The speaker urges vigilance through midnight to rise with daybreak. The author is Alfred Lavington.
In Roker's Gulch a miners camp stages an auction to aid Old Howe, sick with mountain fever and longing for his daughter. Jack Harling, with Big Tom's backing, leads the event auctioning Howe's tools and his burro, raising funds to send him to Frisco and then to his girl, who awaits him in America.
Nasa Is Cosfin With Wen Li Hung Chang prepared for all emergencies of life and death when he left Pekin to attend the coronation of the Czar in Moscow. He took with him a coffin of elaborate Chinese workmanship costing 9000 taels. Two attendants care for the casket which is kept in rooms beside his bedroom whenever the envoy pauses in a city.
An Ohio farmer reports a net $400 on a $9000 farm of 100 acres, a contrast a South Carolina paper says would not be profitable there. It cites a SC farmer earning $386 from a single plot, scaled to 160 acres would yield $61,760, suggesting many would embrace aggressive intensive farming for the future.
A vessel under the Turkish flag named Holy Prophet Hill sails with a crew of monks and monks converted sailors. Captain Joro monarch leads a monk ranking above flour while all sailors are export pentuen and monks. Pilot Irakly Weraching has circumnavigated the globe. The crew speaks Russian and Greek and worship occurs both in the forecastle church and aboard ship. Monks in religious attire are seen climbing the rigging and work aloft.
The column surveys trends in women’s dress and roles, citing Adelina Patti’s baptismal records, shifting views on dancing, and an Oakland school buttons of corsets versus electrical study. It highlights female engineers, editors, and reformers, plus couture trends and European style gossip.
Charles Payne of Wichita Kansas owns a three year old steer already six feet four inches tall and seventeen feet long with weight reported around 2300 pounds. Cattlemen call it a major freak. if growth continues it may reach four to six thousand pounds. Payne plans to watch its growth rather than sell.
A survey of novelty devices describes a pneumatic shoe last with a hollow fore body, a rigid heel block, and stiffened shoe portion. a paper clamp with extending clamps and a pencil. a stair carpet frator of wire coils. a railroad spike grooved to receive a projecting key for timber. and a glass plate holder with bent metal spring clamps for rim engagement.
A cluttered compilation of jokes and witticisms from various periodicals includes quips on time, invention, cooking, courtship, and manners. Observations touch on doctors bills, necessity, stuttering grammarians, barber jokes, elopements, and theater seating, with humorous exchanges and knockabout captions.
A miner recalls misfortune after returning from Cripple Creek. He lost a meal ticket blown from his hand by wind and crushed by a 200 pound Cornish miner, an anecdote told in a Chicago Times Herald piece.
In the Baidor Valley near Balaclava a walnut tree in Cruuen is at least one millennium old. It yields annually between 80 1100 and 100 000 nuta and is the property of five Lortar families who share its produce equally.
President Cleveland opened Pittsburgs Twenty eighth Saengerfest at Exposition Hall with a telegram of congratulation read to 113 visiting societies and a 75 piece orchestra performing Wagner and Saint Saens. The event drew about 8000 singers, with Wilhelm Foster's festival chorus and local decor marking the welcome.
Severe storms swept Wissonia Ilnois Iowa Kon bay Nebraske South Dakota and Michigan with cyclones and hail. In Chicago heavy hail and wind sent fish shells and gravel raining down while Hyde Park residents found shells and gravel after the deluge. Observer Cox attributes the transport of aquatic debris to air vacuums whirlwinds and straight winds over the past week.
The Hawaiian Legislature unanimously approved annexation to the United States. The British government pressed Hawaii to allow Volny V. Ashford, exiled for the 1895 rebellion, to land there. President Dole reportedly refused. Ashford, a Canadian born, is said to be in a San Francisco hospital.
An accident at the Norton cement quarry in Binnewster New York caused a premature blast. Aaron Torwilli ker Thomas Rider and Frederick Charles were killed instantly. George Ealey was severely injured but survived. All the deceased were married.
Veteran actor Nuraffer-ed-Din was formally enthroned as Shah of Persia at Teberan. He then received the members of the Diplomatic Corps for an audience, signaling a ceremonial start to his reign.
The report lists multiple unions and labor actions. Kansas City painters seek eight hour shifts, while Chicago garment workers form a cooperative shop. Massillon and Amsterdam note worker shortages or firm employment levels. New York carvers push for shorter days as unions in Rosa contract rail work, and Pacific shops plan one day weekly closures amid broader labor tensions.
The President named G. F. Luttherr of Delaware now Deputy Consul in Osaki and Hioga Japan to be Consul at Chung Ki ang China. The House approved a measure 118 to 5 for Mnartin seat formerly held by Lockhart with Ring ker taking Downe ing seat by 167 to 51.
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