Cranbury News Briefs From The Week
Local items from Cranbury New Jersey reported in The Cranbury Press dated March 27, 1908. Notes cover community happenings, civic updates, and brief notices from town and surrounding area.
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1908
Page
2
Local items from Cranbury New Jersey reported in The Cranbury Press dated March 27, 1908. Notes cover community happenings, civic updates, and brief notices from town and surrounding area.
In Princeton on March 26 Mrs Grover Cleveland and other prominent women campaigned for Charles S. Robinson for reelection to the Board of Education. Robinson's ticket won 214 of 271 votes amid active mobilization including university professors urged to attend the meeting.
A historic plea from Wa. Durcuer, president of the National Association of Audubon Societies, urging New Jersey to back Senate Bill 172 to ban all shooting of waterfowl and shore birds from January to open season. The letter cites declines across species and cites success in states that protect birds during spring migration.
Fashion notes by Grace Margarot Gould highlight Greek influenced one piece gowns in bronze olive tones with fitted guimpes and demi trains. The column also shares theatrical gags from stage history and a Munich hat and goldfish anecdote, plus light jokes and product plugs.
In a Tennessee mountain county a respected blacksmith and Sunday exhorter faces a skeptical neighbor Tom Bradley who challenges biblical stories. During a camp meeting the smith quips he swallowed the raven tale and explains the ravens came from the old heaven resting on five eggs in a nest.
An overview traces opera back to 1600 in Florence with Peri’s Euridice and a Florentine push to merge speech with music. It notes inflected recitative, early instruments, and attempts by Monteverdi and later Gluck Wagner to reconnect music with spoken inflection, framing opera’s birth and evolution.
George R Thomas as executor of Ablah Applegate announces duties to creditors of the estate. Debts and claims must be presented under oath within two months or be barred. Dated January 1908. Groxer HK Thomas, Executor.
James Conover executor of John A Duncan estate warns creditors to file debts demands and claims within six months or be barred by Middlesex County surrogate notice dated January 22 1908.
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