24 Mar 1893
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1893
Page
1
A roundup notes United States exports to Great Britain and Germany, rising bank deposits in Massachusetts, and new pulp and paper mills in Maine. It also covers ballot reform experiments in New York and Lockport, a note on Irish Sea tunnel feasibility, and various social and literary items from the era.
A Washington letter via Reno Bac ho describes extraordinary pen and ink counterfeits found in circulation and hidden by a lunatic in Indiana. It details crude notes with comical designs, and the sweating method used to alter coins, plus a railway post office card mnemonic technique used to learn routes and office names.
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate an inspector at the penitentiary mentions a disease outbreak among inmates and guards note illness and containment actions. Words are garbled but reference to moasles or measles like outbreak and staff response are suggested.
A column collage discusses a mother lengthening a child’s dress by stitching in a tuck, French shoe button trends for carriage wear, jeweled toe caps, and the popular battered thief motif in bracelets. It surveys fashions from Demorest’s Magazine and Vogue, noting capes, sleeves, and dress codes for unmarried and married women, watch fobs, and Parisian rules, plus a science piece explaining the elusiveness of a true full moon.
Reports claim ice at zero is most durable and Neptune reaches the coldest depths. A French astronomer credits Mars’ red glow to reddish vegetation. Behr’s butterfly collection grows to 25 specimens from 48 years of collecting. J M Ashley Jr proposes three ferry boats for the Toledo line, convertible to warships. A new electric snow sweeper and a water leak detector by Bell are noted. Butter microbes in butter outside vs inside the lump are contrasted. World’s Fairs history is summarized, including London 1851, New York 1853, Paris 1855, and Chicago 1893 projections. prices and attendance figures cited. Cleaning lamp chimneys by steam moisture is ridiculed as old-fashioned by a New York Journal note.
Recipes and household guidance include cleaning decanters with chopped potato skins and a potato mash fermentation method, white soap preparation at home, kitchen organization and utilitarian wall storage, silver care with fabric covers and shoe-bag style pouches, and various recipes such as Lemon Sherbet Corn Muffins and German Potato Salad presented in a vintage domestic column tone.
A Chicago Herald account recounts Inez de Castro, murdered in the 14th century, said to have been crowned posthumously. Her body reportedly lay in state as clergy, nobles, and people gathered, with symbols of royalty visible on the remains.
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