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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1917
Page
4
Professor S. H. Clark of the University of Chicago denounces those who do not donate to the Red Cross hundred million dollar campaign. He says such people are heartless and should be ostracised by society, with families and communities shunning them.
The article recounts a recent editor’s puff about the belle of the ball with a dainty shoe image. The composer altered the line to read that her feet were encased in hoes that might have been taken for ferry boats, a strange printing error reported by Printing Trade News.
A reader asks how to pronounce the name Frelinghuysen the new New Jersey senator. The writer notes the name is difficult to spell phonetically but hints that calling him a live wire and a public life comer would be accurate.
The piece attacks critics of the administration noting Josephus Daniels blames a letter writer who should have petitioned the Secretary of the Navy. It recalls how dissent is expelled, citing Gen. Leonard Wood’s exile to Charleston as an example of punitive silencing.
The Zoological Society Bulletin notes sturgeon feeding methods along muddy bottoms. Four barbels brush sand and mud to detect clam siphons, then the telescope mouth pumps sand away and draws clams into the jaws. It also furrows sand to uncover mollusks, crustaceans, and sifts mud for tiny organisms.
A Washington Star quote notes a shrewd businessman tends to prosper in time, though the path may be winding. The line, attributed to Uncle Eben, suggests caution but ultimate potential success for cunning entrepreneurs.
Miss Etta Heffron of New York visits the Byrnes sisters. Howard Stout returns from Mercer hospital improved. Red Cross events planned with Reverend Burslem and Mrs. Miller organizing a talk by Mrs. McLaughan. Local women prepare Red Cross materials and hold a birthday celebration for Miss Margaret Thompson.
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