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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1896
Page
1
A collage of observations and anecdotes covers X ray knowledge, electrical science, education for the blind in Greece, potwallopers history, Florida railroad weather signaling, and a Chicago Hungarian zone transport proposal. It notes St Louis crime humor, New York education plans, and praise for Stephen Crane.
A reflective piece from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat extolls gradual progress: one stop, stroke, seed, drop, word, stone, blow, grain, minute, day, and grain of knowledge accumulate into vast understanding and lasting achievement. The author links patience to wisdom in a parable-like tone.
In a rural town a modest girl named Winnie Smith helps others and brightens days with small acts. She comforts a tired store clerk, aids a hungry boy, shares lunch, calms a police scene, and stays with a sick neighbor, then helps an exhausted attorney home, discovering a simple but quiet gift.
The piece surveys a cold March 1896, vast German electric factories, and cheap power in Great Falls Montana. It notes Roentgen rays experiments, early x ray use, and a Graz editor resisting publication. It compares Europe’s sunshine hours with Spain leading at about 3000 yearly.
A Fulton Street shop lists souari or caryocar nuts as a rare new delicacy in New York. The hard shelled nuts yield a rich nutty flavor when sliced thin and eaten slowly. The Caryosar Naciferum tree can reach 100 feet, and the product may see broader importation within a year.
A Polish engineer invents a portable crematory resembling a tall army baling area drawn by eight horses. Intended to dispose of soldiers’ bodies to prevent epidemic danger from mass burials, each German army corps will be equipped.
A young French Canadian woman Eliza Lamay runs a flourishing cobbler shop on Lincoln street in Lewiston Missouri. She learned the trade in Canada and works openly at her bench, considered a skilled cobbler.
A fragmented overview discusses widow remarriage customs with peridot engagement rings, ceremonial practices, and family roles at weddings. It also notes varied social norms and quotes on women’s status including librarianship in Maryland, theatre hats legal fines, and education and professional access in the British universities.
The bagpipe’s skirt sound predates Caledonia myths. The instrument was known in Babylon, the Assyrians carried it to India, played in Jerusalem’s temple service, and it appeared in England soon after the Roman conquest.
Emery has long been sourced mainly from Turkey and the Creek islands. It serves for cutting and polishing, with early crude extraction methods using jets of cold water to crack rock. Advances produced emery millstones and powder, making emery a vital material for grinding and abrasive papers.
James Bartley, English seaman aboard the Star of the East, reportedly survived thirty six hours inside a whale’s stomach after a bomb lance failed. The account, supported by the ship’s captain and crew, describes a harrowing voyage and Bartley’s subsequent recovery amid lingering health effects and a bluish skin tint.
A page note warns that stale cold water in a sealed room absorbs poisonous gases from breathing and must be disposed of promptly. It advises using water as a purifier after painting a room, emptying basins every few hours. Also mentions Harvard library plans for 1.5 to 3 million volumes.
Spanish authorities uncover a Cuban plot to seize a port blow up a warship and seize Spanish gold. Reports cite Lt Col Ladhow opposing the Nican Canal promoter and Engineer Menocal. The House passes the General Pension bill and debates bankruptcy. The Agricultural bill moves toward law without the President's signature.</s>
The equestrian statue of General Ulysses S. Grant by William Ordway Partridge was unveiled before the Union League Club house in Brooklyn. A huge parade reviewed by Governor Morton celebrated the memorial with military units and crowds along a route lined with flags and bunting. The granite pedestal rises sixteen feet, supporting a bronze statue ten feet eight inches tall, inscribed with Gate Grant and presented to Brooklyn by the Union League Club on April 27, 1896.
The battleship Massachusetts achieved a high speed during an official government trial along the Maine coast. Acting Governor Wolcott and Henry W. Cramp observed as the vessel surpassed other armored ships, beating a 15.64 knot benchmark and earning a bonus for each quarter knot above the standard.
A tornado struck six miles south of Clifton in Clay County Nebraska, killing Frank Peterson and Beek Boy Petersen and injuring three others. Dozens of horses and cattle died, with many farms ruined as houses barns trees and fences were demolished. A heavy rain followed, flooding the district.
Fifteen masked riders from Van Buren County hanged William and Victor Hults near Mohianville Tennessee after taking them from the McMinnville jail. The men had been convicted in September for Carroll Martin's murder. the Supreme Court had reversed the verdict and remanded the case.
In Rockville Indiana Albert Egbert known as Pete killed Mia and her children Agnes ten Herman eight, as Sheriff Mull and Constable Sween attempted arrest. He then shot himself, and within an hour his sister died. He had previously been an inmate of an insane asylum.
A disastrous Oro in Cripple Creek destroys the Contrab Dance Hall and nearby businesses on Meyers Avenue. The blaze causes $2,000,090 in damage to banks, hotels, theatres, the post office, drug store, exchange, and churches. Four killed and three missing.
News items report a double homicide at Cockinga near Hill Top Maryland where Mrs Cocking and her sister Miss Daley Miller were killed and Joseph Cocking found wounded in the cellar. A separate Chester Orange County fatal fire claimed Bernard Cullen and wife.
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