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Cranbury Press

Location

Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America

Date

Jun 25, 1897

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Various 19th Century Topics From A Wanderous Page

A broad mix of notes discusses political calls in Maine and Connecticut on illiteral veterans, a New York man in a bottle near France, tobacco costs in Britain, Amelia Barr on gender roles, third-rail electricity for passenger traffic, the century plant’s bloom, New York shoe industry growth, aluminum production, a Northern Ohio township school consolidation, Justice Stephen J. Field’s long service, and the San Jose scale’s spread to Florida with its threat to fruit trees and advice from Dr. Rolfs on fungal disease experts.

San Jose Chile California Florida New York Tribune Hat Rolfs

Newspapers without ads a distant dream warns writer

Charles Dudley Warner predicts future papers devoid of advertisements. The Leonisville Courier-Journal notes that such a shift would make newspapers less engaging. New Jersey’s six year good roads program has spent 1.4 million dollars on road making yielding 800 miles of solid macadam highways. The cost split favors two thirds by the county and one third by the state.

Charles Dudley Warner Leonisville New Jersey

Names Dressed In Many Brands Of Early Projection Devices

The article lists numerous terms such as kinetoscope and vitascope used in photographic circles to classify projecting apparatus. It notes May 20 celebrations in North Carolina dating from 1775 Mecklenburg declarations, and cites ongoing Cuban disease sanitary debates with Spain, Havana, and U.S. officials, highlighting yellow fever risks and economic losses from Cuba to the Mississippi Valley.

W. E. Curtis Chicago Olney Spain Cuba United States Wyman Hemisphere State Department Marine Hospital Service Havans Europe Mississippi Valley

New Cures For Rheumatism By Hot Air Therapy

Philadelphia physicians tout a non surgical rheumatism treatment using hot air. A copper cylinder with gas jets heats the limb to 250 to 260 degrees while moisture exits via stop cocks. The method claims increased temperature and circulation dissolve deposits in bones and muscles, with extended body effects.

Philadelphia

Ninety Miles an Hour Locomotive Trials Stir Railways

A Hellmann electric locomotive reportedly reached ninety miles per hour with a light train during recent trials and may hit seventy five miles an hour with a 350 ton load. Experiments claim stability and low vibration versus steam, plus low coal use, as Western Railway of France builds two more. The experimental engine spans sixty one feet, weighs 12 tons, and twelve locomotives were ordered by the Chinese Government from Baldwin Works in Philadelphia after global competition.

Hellmann Western Railway of France Nowenty

A Mountain Wedding Debt and the Dollar Dare

Reverend Joshua Kildow travels to a Randolph County mountain hut to marry a couple amid moonshine and danger. A beguiling dollar from Beverly’s express office drives the ceremony, tests the clergyman’s resolve, and ends with a dramatic chase as the groom steals the coin back, bullets fly, and the minister returns home with the reward earned through peril.

Dominie Express Company New York Tripp Rattlebones Si Manley Joshuay Beverly Jupiter Angel of Heaven Porson Kildow Ji Don Sykes Rev Joshua Kildow Basheba Joshuny Dreds Atock Virginia Sid Anid Express Amy Bashoba Dominic Webster County Sal Kildon Will Dominic Kildow Randolph County New York Journal

Electric motor carriages spark a distant transportation era

The piece describes electric cabs appearing in New York and electric carriages rising in streets, predicting reduced noise and filth and a push for better roads. It weighs uncertainties in how far the electric automobile will develop, notes past accumulator issues, and foresees demand for greater travel radius as users seek longer ranges.

New York Horoy Museums of Zoology Ada

Priscilla Interviews Panster on Writing and Bias

In a cryptic exchange, Priscilla questions Panster about avoiding certain writing tasks. Panster replies with a strange line about bells and Germany, mentioning a number 2.110.000 and “fulbe eyes” as part of a puzzling statement.

Germany

Sailor hat fashions and women’s work in 1900s styles

A collage of fashion notes and social trends reviews hats skirts and trimmings for summer wear. It highlights sailor hats with varied crowns and lace quills, plus guidance on female labor roles from needlework to household duties, and a survey of notable women advancing in public life across multiple cities.

Fragmented Prose and Jokes Across a Century Page

A collage of humorous quips, brief dialogues, and clipped snippets from multiple 19th and early 20th century papers. The text includes playful exchanges, satirical ads, jokes about marriages and money, and a peculiar story about a Siamese king and a tooth relic.

Siams Ceylon Siam Westminster Gazette Mmajenty Daladu Malizawa Kandy Talon Adady

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