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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1913
Page
2
Contents note Professor William H. Taft arrives in Washington for a brief visit. A controversy over tariff remedies and lobby influence continues as moves seek to bar ex-members from acting as paid agents on the floor. Mexico protests Arizona anti alien law. Japan counters U S California land policy complaint.
In Paris, Personal United States Ambassador Herrick hosted a dinner honoring explorer Peary. In England, Prince Albert Frederick George, son of King George, viewed Niagara Falls. The French Academy awarded its grand prize of 10,000 francs to Rolland for Jean Christophe. Justice Goff in New York granted Mrs. Abigail Bishop an absolute divorce from James C. Bishop, awarded custody of their daughter Muriel and set alimony at 15000 dollars annually.
American lawn tennis players McLoughlin and Williams won two points toward the Davis international challenge cup by sweeping the Australians in New York. The German team beat France for the Dwight F. Davis trophy at Wiesbaden. Frank Chance of the New York Americans offered 5 000 dollars for the immediate release of Frank Hosp of the Venice club in the Pacific Coast League.
A diverse set of short items notes laundered bills gaining favor with Treasury officials, Samuel Gompers undergoing mastoiditis surgery in Atlantic City, and James M. Thompson leaving a Hartford estate of 1 438 380. It also covers a Duluth lumber strike, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson distributing hospital flowers, a baseball trust hearing, a Hartford divorce, a socialist editor’s prison sentence, Dunkards banning tobacco, a Missouri bank closure, Asbury Park beach protests, a Union City editor killed by a train, a dancing masters ban on the turkey trot, U S vessel production figures, typhoid linked to vegetables, Hawaii’s 108 year old Kikalaeka, a Galveston ship with North American geese, and a Dayton clerk regaining mobility after a wasp sting.
A mixed digest reports grasshopper plague in Texas, night riders menacing Kentucky tobacco growers near Henderson, Georgia poised to elect a senator by popular vote, and large Sunday School parades in Brooklyn. Other items note donations to Trinity College, honors for Vice President Marshall, a fatal drowning near Cleveland, and various legal, labor, and crime developments.
The report lists Irish emigration to the United States since 1851 totaling 4 247 360 and notes a 5 percent wage rise demand amid a strike by 60 000 Scotch shipyard workers. It mentions a first bigamy prosecution in China, pirate activity near Shanghai and a French steamer robbery, and includes items on Poincare observing naval maneuvers, the Pope congratulating the Kaiser, tuberculosis sanitaries from old warships, a Russian expert visiting the US on cotton, Emily Davison’s death, beef industry pressure from the meat majors in Argentina, Newport transport workers refusing munitions, Walter Page’s London reception, Mudie's library fire, and heat deaths at German maneuvers near Aires.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously for states in the Minnesota rate case, preserving state railroad commissions and state legislatures' power to set two cent passenger and other intrastate rates as long as they are not confiscatory. It also confirmed Congress may override state control on interstate rate matters. More than forty cases hinged on this decision.
A compilation from late dispatches notes positive signals for New Jersey coast tourism with fishermen reporting favorable conditions at resort areas. Other items include local fir e and civic notes across counties from Hoboken to Vineland with obituaries and court actions reflected in brief notices.
The lesson highlights Joseph guiding his family to Goshen and meeting with Pharaoh. It emphasizes Joseph's wisdom, Jacob's blessing of Pharaoh, and the divine purpose in exile and prosperity shaping Israel's future in Egypt.
Government Department of Agriculture June crop report forecasts a wheat harvest near 144 million bushels with 492 million bushels winter wheat and 232 million spring wheat. Favorable conditions and large planted acreage support a bumper yield possibly approaching the 1944 record.
Weather Bureau reports show low temperatures nationwide with heavy frosts damaging vegetation. New York and New England suffer thousands of dollars in losses, while groves and cranberry bogs in Long Island and Cape Cod face threats. Flooding bogs with warm water is used to save them.
Stone cutters and vault builders in Brooklyn and Queens cemeteries including Evergreen Cypress Hills Salem Fields Union Fields Calvary and Mt Zion walk out for higher wages and Saturday half holidays. No tombstones are being prepared during the strike. Samuel Cocroft of Invergreens Cemetery predicts the strike will fail.
Market summary shows medium to prime steers at 850 per head, oxen and cows priced, calves common to choice veals around 8.50 to 14 per 100 pounds, sheep and lambs ranges from 3 to 9 per 100 pounds, hogs dressed and lambs dressed values noted, pullations and weights set at 9.10 per 100 pounds, roughs at 7.76 to 8.00.
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