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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1907
Page
4
In Badminton Magazine a fable-like piece describes a realm where birds and beasts envy, yet small creatures gain joy in Ife. A mouse disobeys a wakeful warning and faces death as the law of Ife enforces obedience. The tale underscores discipline and fatal consequences.
Miss Frankie Mossman of District 6 Grant County is credited with 780 consecutive school days of perfect attendance in Oklahoma. If she completes the current term without a day missed, she will have attended school seven years straight, walking over a mile daily to the schoolhouse regardless of weather, according to the People's Voice.
A Philadelphia family praises Grape-Nuts for stomach relief and health. The mother describes severe prior dyspepsia, improved after eight years of use, with her husband’s digestion and her children adopting it for breakfast. The Postum Co. endorses the product and invites readers to read a booklet.
Mistress Hapgood accuses one child of leaving the pantry door open after a cat raids the pantry for a rib. Thomas and others deny it as Priscilla confesses she may have left the door ajar. Grandmother Eliot reveals she left the door open to vent a smoky kitchen, exonerating Priscilla.
Johnny Thompson a sixteen year old from Seymour shoots a huge fat raccoon mistaken for a gray squirrel on farmer Doolittle’s land. The farmer halts him and returns home with the captured animal, praising Woodbridge for the tale and his gun.
Captain Hapgood applies the birch rod to Priscilla's shoulders to enforce truth then comforts her with a kiss and supper. Mistress Hapgood cares for the hearth as Priscilla processes the lesson, tasting the meal and sensing the day’s moral clarity.
A compact reflection from Home Herald urging readiness to act and reject foolishness. It compares people to boats and straw, extols virtue, and argues true strength comes from living by divine words and moral resolve. The piece links personal duty to a broader heritage of influence and faith.
The Montreal Star notes John Morley values happiness in company, a broad library, and kindness to animals. It recalls a tale of him riding a horse in Surrey hills, choosing to dismount on inclines to spare the animal, and adds he is a keen walker with little interest in games.
A quipty exchange portrays a judge citing a merchant about egg freshness. The grocer responds that a certificate of reasonable doubt would affect his business. The brief scene captures a satirical clash over truth and commerce.
A collage of 19th and early 20th century views on women’s roles labor and leisure. Essays note eight hour day for fashionable women, the businesslike heart, fitness trends, and public petitions by women clubs. Vignettes contrast domestic life with professional ambition and social expectations.
A renowned hostess known as Gloner giver crafts seasonal table linen displays. She adapts flowers and emblems for holidays and foreign guests, featuring Christmas holly, New Year ribbons, Easter lilies, May flowers, summer ferns, fall leaves, fleur de Lys, shamrock for Ireland, thistle for Britain. The NY Tribune notes her attention to design and quality.
Years ago a little woman in north Worth Missouri faced widowhood with four children. She refused despair, supported her family by her own labor, kept them fed and clothed, and ensured their education. Her steady example brightened many lives as her sons grew to adulthood.
In a Tip’s business inquiry, a back yard shows four clothes poles dyed red blue white and yellow. The owner cites a New York Press anecdote about colors symbolic of universal peace, divine friendship sacred ground and magic, explaining the four hues.
A Chestnut street cafe group of drummers recalls a tale from Idaho about a station master who sits unmoved in his chair, takes money for a ticket, and offers no assistance. The traveling man wagers a dollar if the master can do lazier work, and the teaser replies by asking to put the dollar in his pocket.
Police question a woman who reports losing 114 pounds of itsband in a large department store. The description includes a light brown pitt with a black derby hat and a tuft of hair. she says the bundle was carried under her arm, possibly wandering the building after a crush at the Beeds counter.
A New York Press item notes cold feet cause many lung issues and urges warmth and dryness. It claims powdered sulphur in shoes or socks prevents frost, while a farmer reportedly uses red pepper in shoes to stay warm, reflecting a mix of folk remedies.
Edward J. Wilcox once faced deep debt after preaching in Pueblo, Colorado. He quit the ministry to enter mining and today owns mines in Colorado worth about $1,000,000 and controls substantial other property, a tale of fortune after faith.
New York City Fisk & Robins ons Monthly Bulletin of Investments analyzes the Aldrich bill. It suggests currency reforms and shifts affecting national banks, including designating national depositories, expanding bank note retirement, and reclassifying currency. Proposals aim to elasticize circulation by altering denominations and replacing high value greenbacks with smaller notes and gold certificates.
At Winnipeg, Manitoba, cattle on the hoof rose to four and a half cents, with P Buros predicting a further two cent gain before spring. He cites heavy exports to Europe last year as the cause, not losses in range stock. California asparagus has nearly ousted Western supply from early markets, alongside Virginia, the Carolinas, and Delaware.
Cotton goods show strong demand with pint cloth at peak prices in a generation. Yarn and finer cloths also command unprecedented rates, signaling broad inflation in textile products.
Strawberries are plentiful and high water is receding as berries remain large and sound. Prices run thirty to forty cents a quart. Mapte syrup Wiph ass County India reports about 20,000 working sugar trees with product fetching top price. Wool markets are active with large staple movement across departments.
A chaotic scene unfolds as millions of bugs disrupt daily work and poultry deliveries in New York City. Authorities report widespread delays as shipments and markets grapple with unusual insect activity affecting supplies and prices.
Recorder George W. Cadmus from Bloomfield held court at 2 a m in Congers street station after arresting Ferdinand Wiech for allowing a horse to stand on a bare stable floor for over thirty hours. Separation deaths occurred in Trenton with apoplexy. Charles Wilson Opdyke, Plainfield banker and Rutgers donor, died after bronchitis. A bronze statue of Captain John Smith will be unveiled at Jamestown Island. Postmaster Oscar Jeffrey in Washington, Warren County, clings to his job as Fulper awaits confirmation. A West Jersey and Seashore wreck killed driver Jason C Saunders at Weymouth crossing. A Paris exhibit will show New Jersey factory progress. Divorce suit by Mrs Florence Griswold of Bloomfield. Various statewide notes on banks, farming, hunting, and local officials.
The world's largest quill toothpick mill stands near Pari. It produces about 20,000,300 quills annually. It began as a quill pen factory but adapted after pens fell from use.
Prominent Swannaboro, Ga merchant John C. Coleman endorses Donn’s Kidney Pills for kidney pain and backache. He reports lasting relief after using the remedy, with claims of rapid improvement and permanent benefit. Sold by all dealers at 60 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y.
The text links violet to mourning across nations and in 19th century art, noting painters with hysteria and neurasthenia painting violet moods. It cites Manet and his circle as producing violet pictures not from nature but from nerves, with walls and salons veiled in uniform half mourning reflecting painters' nervous debility and Degeneration by Norg.
M Oudet achieved an average of sixty words per minute over four hours to win the first national typewriting endurance championship of France as announced by the London Chronicle.
A farmer near the village reports John and George Aber found a ball of snakes under a rock on their father's farm while working in the woods. About fifty snakes, including milk, garter, and black varieties, were killed. Also notes a medical ad offering Hall's Catarrh Cure and testimonials for KFJ Cheney, plus Rev Abe Mulkey’s sermon described as plain and direct.
A testimonial extols Cuticura remedies for five years of eczema on the ear and cheek. The writer claims instant relief after using the Cuticura trio and soap, noting soft skin after three ointment boxes and two soaps, and urges friends to switch. The piece also includes unrelated ad-like notes and a classroom joke about passports.
Fragmented heal all claims mention Mrs Winslow and Garfield Tea for liver blood and bowel health. Pizarro conquest Peru reference appears alongside piles cure and Pazo Ointment guarantee. Beetroot sugar yield figure listed.
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