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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1909
Page
4
A London Chronicle note recalls old tea table etiquette where cups and saucers were passed to the hostess and spoons numbered to ensure repletion. A Chicago Tribune item recounts a three year old wiping a muddy shoe on a stranger’s trousers, prompting a sharp reproach from a passenger and a gentler response from the boy’s mother.
A Scottish parish minister, while walking at night, fell into a deep hole on a misty street. A laborer heard his cries and noted that it was only Wednesday and the minister did not need to shout so loudly as Sabbath was not near.
The article promotes planting soap and tallow trees noting soap berries yield a natural soap and lather near the manufactured article. Berries are imported from Algiers and China and cultivation is encouraged for new industries. The tallow tree also aids soap production and may yield profitable oil. A small orchard could bring easy fortune. Phonographic records of eminent actors are few in Viennese schools teaching declamation.
A bushman narrator traverses a river crossing on a bone-white skeleton bridge in Australia. He avoids a deadly brown snake clinging to a sleeper as a approaching train roars overhead and survives by clinging to a rail with fearful nerve.
A fragment from the New York Times column “Musings of a Gentle Cynic” presents aphorisms on vanity luck pride and social pretensions. The quips contrast appearances with reality noting pugnacity timing temperance and mistaken self regard.
A Chicago man returned after twenty years to his wife who did not recognize him at first. He sat down to dinner quietly until she finally realized who he was.
A review of proposed equal guardianship measures in California defeated in the state Senate. The piece notes suffragists redoubling efforts for equal franchise. It also highlights Eleanor Colgan receiving a papal Knighthood for work with Italian children, and touches on women in wireless, dress design, and social conduct.
Dialogue fragments show a couple debating marriage and living arrangements at a hotel. The father questions costs while the girl argues a shared room is affordable. A stray line mentions a decade of experiments conducted in Move, Germany.
A collage of domestic tips and recipes from the era including brass polishing with murintic acid and rock mann solution, an English style hat cover with rubberized silk, carpet cleaning with vinegar, rose growing advice, notes on housekeeping as a profession, and simple recipes for gingerbread salad dressing orange omelette and scalloped potatoes.
Back yard gardeners can now buy labeled seed tapes with embedded vegetable seeds. Tapes are three quarters of an inch wide and rolled like ribbon, ensuring proper spacing and minimizing seed waste. Salesmen say tapes suit small plots but not large scale farming. Kansas City Star notes growing interest from agricultural groups in new farming aids.
A jokey Indiana stump tale appears amid brief notes on Lord Avebury as the first Englishman photographed and a senator’s comic recount of a Southern congressman's dining misfortune. The items read as light political miscellany from press clippings.
A London physician told a medical society meeting that tooth extraction is unnecessary in most toothache cases. He claimed to cure even desperate cases when rheumatism is not involved by applying a paste of alum ground to a fine powder two drachmas nitrous oxide of other seven drachms to the diseased tooth, as reported by the London Globe.
Advertisements claim Donn’a Kidney Pills cure kidney related illness in women with testimonials. A separate note mentions United States education funding with a $15,000 grant for child life study and a foot care product praised by Mrs. Zintilda Holtert. The British Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms marks its 400th anniversary and outlines current duties for royal duties and court attendance.
Miss Clara Evelyn Medlugh a Topeka schoolteacher shares a collection of quaint exam answers from a teachers meeting. Gems include: A Dilzzard inside a hen and The equator x a menageria Hen running round the earth. Oxegen in a thing that has eight sides. The cuckoo never lays Its own eggs.
A Denver woman describes illness after meals and recovery after using Grape-Nuts. She credits the food with restoring appetite, health, and weight while managing family burdens, promoting the product with a testimonial about The Road to Westville.
A 65 year old praises Cuticura Ointment for curing eye inflammation after other doctors failed. The testimonial, from G. B. Halacy of Mouth of Wilson, Va., dates Apr 4 1908. The ad extols related products and a British fashion note on paper from grapevines.
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