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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1891
Page
1
The item surveys census progress for the Philippine Islands and broader economic trends in Britain and Germany. It also reports on advances in microbiology, Bible Society fundraising, marriage bureau activity, steel and copper wire developments, a dramatic post office clerks’ tale, and miscellaneous notes on public affairs and science.
A San Francisco Chronicle excerpt profiles Chinese and Mongolian practices in medicine, detailing dried snake powders, insects, lizards, and other creatures sold in Chicago drugstores as cures for rheumatic pain, indigestion, and liver trouble. It notes the pharmacopoeia's breadth, the druggists’ authority, and the belief in household deities steering health.
A writer in the Omaha World-Herald extols Yuma Arizona California and Mexico meeting place noting the climate wealth and paradoxes. The piece contrasts Spanish and Apache speech with Anglo American speakers and describes Yuma as rising in prominence before the Senate while the desert’s grandeur aims to outshine cities like St Paul Minneapolis and Tucson.
England teeing up a campaign urging noblewomen to wear British silk to revive local industries. Princess Christian backs the effort. Also notes on domestic service studies by Lucy M Salmon and Marion Talbot, stories of a Turkish sultan’s modiste, walking critique, and a roundup of fashion trends and souvenirs from Mrs Harrison’s tour.
In a New York World item a carpet cleaner in a basement office tells Mrs Blank that her parlor carpet was swapped with a mabob's on Fifth Avenue. The wagon has gone after the missing carpet, and delivery delays spark frustration as the cleaner apologizes for the mix up.
A humorous note from New York Weekly about Mrs Van Oven formerly Mrs De Pine planning a second marriage to a baker who can bake his own biscuit, reflecting social wit and domestic satire of the era.
Instructions on restoring rancid butter by soaking in fresh milk and water, plus care for chamois skins to extend life. Also includes directions for canning fruits with self sealing jars, sugar ratios, and processing steps, and notes on forest fire losses and soil impact.
A miscellany notes a drop in Italian mortality from thirty to twenty per thousand between 1866 and 1889 due to sanitary measures. It mentions a Jupiter moon observed via a spectroscope, German microscopes with phosphor glass, and various European findings. The piece also covers agricultural leaflets, early life-saving guns, Nile barrage plans, smokeless coal plant progress, and a long portrait of Dr. Rainsford, a muscular minister, plus a frontier train anecdote on bark packing to Oregon.
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