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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1890
Page
1
A collage of notes covers land and suffrage, taxation, rail mail subsidies, farming, and royal rumors. It cites Samoa land, 1862 land grant colleges, Buddhist followers in Paris, Germany’s language debate, Ireland’s population drop, and legal attitudes toward common carriers and postal rates.
A compact reminiscence of The Bivouac of the Dead linking Theodore O'Hara to burial in Frankfort Kentucky with lines from the poem, then a shift to counterfeiting lore. It highlights a love tale through a Browning anecdote and notes on how counterfeiters, including a Johnson family, craft and pass fake notes, aided by female relatives in some cases.
A narrator recalls helping a well known New Yorker find better lodgings in upper Manhattan. They view a tiny furnished room with a cheerful landlady offering singles. The friend seeks a superior home in a city famed for its oddities of Strang era.
The New York Tribune comments that a politician’s soft felt hat signals radical leanings in Europe while in the British House of Commons Mr Bradlaugh and William O Brien are among the few who wear it. most members prefer the high silk hat.
An 1880s farming case shows David Sherwood’s ten acre field near Long Island sound turning into a profitable venture. Despite heavy initial costs and yearly expenses, the owner reports rising net incomes from onions carrots potatoes and rye, totaling over seven years of earnings before selling the land for a substantial gain.
A collage of items covers women and wealth in Philadelphia, Cuban manners, and fashion, plus critiques of modern earrings and South American portraits. It also includes sketches of Korean dress history, Ecuadorian beauty standards, and Australian snake hunting through Indigenous methods.
A household guide describes sharpening a knife by placing it between two 18 inch boards with a feather belt, then rubbing with emery powder and sweet oil. It also shares rice boiling method for soups, moth prevention with old newspapers, preserving ice in paper, dressing salsify, canning elderberries, apple charlotte, German toast, teach batter, plum and pear butter, and a joke about a tailor's fatigue.
A commercial view argues a large house and timbered grounds offer strong value with construction costs around 20 000 dollars plus furnishings totaling near 80 000 dollars. The piece details a Gretatine style mansion with carriage porch veranda, stone foundation, oak trim, and lincrust wallpaper while noting impact on employment and community wealth.
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