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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1909
Page
3
Chicago Record-Herald recounts Harry Lauder after his third American tour saying his funniest tales lie not in heroism but in ordinary misadventures. He cites a Scot neighbor with a packed wagon and a jobless future and a widow whose condolence parcel contains a faded joke about a benefit payout.
The Five Points House of Industry, half a century old, stands as a memorial to New York’s dark era and a philanthropic beacon erasing the city’s crime stain. Its boy graduates rose to honor, filling posts of distinction, a testament to lasting reform amid urban history.
The California Fig Syrup Co announces a full statement of the product ingredients to ensure confidence among physicians and consumers. It states the figs provide taste while medicinal principles come from plants known to act beneficially, urging purchase of the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. remedy through leading druggists.
A compact West-pocket box offers Cascarets candy tablets for mild laxative action. Each tablet costs 10 cents and is described as as effective as stronger salts, with directions to take one when needed and avoid waiting until night.
A blue pigeon bunked in room 718 of the Auditorium Hotel last night, occupied by Joseph Tucker. Miss Margaret O'Reilly, the cashier, said the bird came for its daily bun from Tucker, who feeds pigeons at the Rookery window. He promised not to forget breakfast again.
The eminent sculptor G Walker has placed Aristotle in the niche outside the south wall residence. Gifted by Dean Lincoln and Mrs. Wickham, this completes a set of four figures admired by Mr. Gladstone. St Augustine Dante and Bishop Butler remain to be added.
A nostalgic poem about homesickness and the urge to return home. The speaker longs for familiar warmth, mothers touch, and restful quiet as worldly ambitions fade. Emphasizes the healing power of home and loving memory.
In a rural reminiscence, Wildcat Perkins recalls poverty era courtship on Poverty Shore. He describes how the father financed parlor life and corn poppings, the constant social visits, and the frugal economics that led to marriages all winter. He notes shifts after new diseases and aging, and details popcorn rituals, hearth, and modest treats shaping young couples. Featuring Perkins as narrator with vivid local color and enduring family dynamics.
A New York Sun quotation describes a playful bet about marriage prospects for a widow, stating a man would marry the beat girl in the neighborhood within six months if she became a widow and began courting by a quirky “popcorn method.”
A Dinan correspondent for the New Orleans Times-Democrat recalls provincial France cafes with quirky names and playful rivalry. A Breton boy guides visitors to the Europe cafe, delivering a humorous scene of breakfast promises, with an honest, clean, sunlit restaurant where hosts greet guests warmly and patrons tip their hats in a friendly land.
Judge A W Rucker recalls a remarkable banquet held 1000 feet underground in a Leadville chamber carved for 300 guests. Seventy-niners and pioneers joined the feast as blizzard winds raged above, the setting a tropical contrast to the river of snow.
A collection of wry maxims on money love and marriage from the New York Times. The quips poke fun at luck in cash, love and social schemes with lines about the peril of haste in marriage and the ease of going from bad to worse.
A brief Chicago Tribune fragment ponders a slang phrase origin showing mockery of a phrase and its possible contraction from an earlier form. The dialogue imagines a professor asking about the source of the punning slang.
Electric locomotives can pull heavier trains at a faster speed than steam locomotives of equal power.
A Little Rock man describes a yearlong battle with severe eczema. After hospital care failed, two to three Cuticura ointment applications brought relief, followed by ongoing use of Cuticura Soap and Pills, culminating in a complete cure. Maryland touted as leading in tuberculosis control per a national bulletin.
A collection of old era kitchen notes and recipes including salads with red peppers celery lettuce and mayonnaise, corn custard variations with milk or tomatoes, peach and almond salad ideas, and quirky food hacks. Also contains tips on practical kitchen chores, cleaning with alcohol and ammonia, and handling cookware and trunks for travel.
In a Nebraska village a band of weary hunters returns from a failed expedition seeking tale and truth. An elder recalls past thrills sixty nine years ago while lawmakers debate, a misquote sparks a quick correction about Noah Webster and the dictionary.
The Sportsmen's Club of Glanudin Ga, New York, released twenty Hungarian partridges to restock nearby woods. The aim is to have the birds multiply in a few years to provide better hunting opportunities for members.
A testimonial from R A Davis of Columbus Georgia details kidney trouble cured by Dean's Kidney Pills. He describes back pain fatigue and severe urine issues before using the product and notes a weight gain from 126 to 170 pounds with no relapse for five years. Sold by all dealers for 0 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
An inquisitive stranger questioned the Wealth Commissioner about rising deaths. The official blamed seventeen more auto accidents, observing another casualty as a victim was added to the list.
Warm weather draws out black snakes from hill country in Orange County. A farmer spent about half an hour exploring rocks on a pine ridge and killed fourteen snakes with a short club. Four exceeded six feet, and their hides will be made into belts.
A family doctor condemns all eye poultices including moist bindings that are left overnight as damaging to the eye. He warns against tea loaves bread milk raw oysters scraped beef and similar remedies. The note mentions three thousand people employed in the shell and pearl industry in the Western United States.
May government crop data disappointed Wall Street as winter wheat percentages rose only 0.7 percent from 53.6 on May 1. Indicated winter wheat output near 401.3 million bushels vs 437.9 million in 1908, with spring wheat at 95.2 on June 1 and a projected 303.5 million bushels, hinting at the largest spring crop in four years. Total 1909 wheat could reach about 704.8 million bushels, above last year and well beyond 1997, while corn acreage suggests the largest crop in country history even as planting proceeds.
Norwich Education Committee approved an open air school at Belle Vue Eaton from mid May to mid October for 100 children from elementary schools due to physical weakness. Hours run from 8:30 am to about 6 or 7 pm five days a week for twenty weeks with tramcar transport and three meals daily funded by voluntary contributions.
A mixed catalog of adverts and notes. It includes pricing for big game permits in German Africa and notices for Dan Rice Memoirs by Maria Ward Brown, along with various quack remedies, eye products, and testimonials praising Postum as a coffee alternative. The text weaves entertainment, commerce, and domestic health tips with scattered literary and scientific tidbits.
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