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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1909
Page
3
A budding poet asks if his work has value. The editor offers five dollars and a strict promise of no future writings until this piece is printed. The editor declares it will never be published while he is alive.
Mrs. J. H. Bennett of Gardiner Missouri describes severe back pain dizziness headache and bladder inflammation that left her bedbound for four months. After using Deans Kidney Pills she was completely cured in three months and the illness has not returned. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
A nervous old woman on a Kansas branch line asked which door to exit as the train slowed. The conductor replied that both ends stop, replying Go either way madam. A separate item notes a teacher’s playful note about a child Charlen Charlee with astigmatism and a stern parent’s reply about correcting it.
Mr Morse gifts his old bicycle to Denis Halloran who fears riding it after two weeks of practice. Denis recalls his failed balance attempts while Morse urges him to persist. The piece also notes that last year the British Admiralty ended carrier pigeons in favor of wireless telegraphy, with France poised to follow.
The New Haven and New York Sun papers describe widespread gloom among English society, with few cheerful figures, plus fashion and mourning customs from antiquity to modern times. The New York Star notes changes in dress, mourning fabrics, and a rifle of seasonal trends, including trims, gowns, and male attire.
A New Haven Register piece on marriage and mood notes a bachelor famed for cheerful song and whistle is now married. A child asks if he will sing after marriage, and a parent quips that married people don t sing much. The New York Times quote mix adds light banter about fat men and burglars.
A collection of kitchen hacks and recipes from the New York Telegram and Boston Post include coffee caramels with brown sugar and butter, baked potato variations, tamales from corn husks, molasses candy basics, and uses for bread pudding and tomato sauce. Also notes on dental care, celery storage, ironing aids, and pantry organization.
The Kangad City Star laments poor Pasteur work and mock statistics claiming 404 rabies cages in Massachusetts last year. It notes Massachusetts mood toward madstones offers no relief from rabies real or imagined and criticizes scientific claims amid hopeless state of worry.
The text surveys world topics from fuel heat comparisons and earth radii to August meteors and Baccarat glass chimneys. It notes Vienna Academy phonographic archives, a grand hydro electric scheme on the Rhone with Paris power, and a wind driven ventilation panel by WPi Minnitt enabling inward or outward airflow via a perforated panel.
The Forest Service reports scrub pine or Jersey pine on abandoned farms in Maryland Virginia and along the Atlantic seaboard yields suitable pulp for sulphite paper making. Tests indicate long strong fibers good for newsprint bag papers and potentially ledger use with slight process adjustments.
At midnight Friday a falling meteor alarmed the New Truxton area. A five and a half pound stone was recovered the next morning, sinking seventeen inches into ground with scorched soil around it, a rare meteorite event for years in the region. - Warrenton Lanter.
A gold mounted corundum seal dating to 1653, used on Cromwell deeds, now with a prominent Welsh family. The seal bears the complete Lord's Prayer engraved on it.
A playful exchange in a barber chair features a barber urging a customer to cut his hair, while the man contests the barber’s assessment and insists on better trimming. The odd phrasing hints at a humorous, possibly archaic quote by Domo crittle Tolograin.
United States Steel Corporation reports total earnings of 22.92 million for the quarter, with net earnings of 19.19 million and a surplus of 3.03 million after dividends. Unfilled orders stand at 3.59 million tons, down slightly from December 31. Prices for cheese rise, Pacific flour moves east, vegetables costlier, and silver climbs in London and New York. Market signals show lower corn receipts in Chicago and uneasy oats trade amid cold, with a Kansas wheat crop pegged near 100 million bushels and calf skins commanding high prices. A death by suicide of Lt. Hon. Ronald E. M. Ramsay is noted.
A tale from Tid Bits about a young man named Smith who planned to reveal his age with a bouquet of roses to his fiancée an heiress valued at £20 000. The florist misreads the order sending extra roses, and the engagement ends abruptly as the match is broken.
The Blue Ridge Breeze in Mount Airy notes locals admire a Tar Heel editor as readers gain access to kitchens and gatherings. The piece highlights the editor’s welcome into intimate spaces where cakes are shown and secrets shared at forthcoming events.
A wife in Atchison, seen by the Globe, curls her hair with papers and washes gray strands in a new method during her husband's absence. She hopes his return will trigger praise, but he does not notice and she remains disappointed.
A jumble of dubious remedies claims rheumatism cures in a day, with pills priced at 75c and $1, plus warnings about catarrh treatment by Hall's Cure. The text also includes a rattlesnake trader in Texas, Mrs Winslow teething syrup, a stolen umbrella tale, and a stage retreat gag from an Irish garrison.
A Huntsville Alabama woman credits forty years of coffee use with chronic stomach trouble and insomnia. After years of failed treatment she stopped coffee, tried Postum, and within four months regained appetite and sleep. She promotes Postum with the slogan There’s a Reason and urges readers to try it.
A parent recalls a severe eczema outbreak on a child, unresponsive to many doctors, finally cured by Cuticura remedies after two months. The notice includes a testimonial from George F. Lambert of Mahanoy City Pa dated Sept 26 and Nov 4 1907 and notes Vetter Drug as Cuticura’s sole distributor. Also mentions Kemp's Balsam cough remedy and a brief line about the first pipe organ by Archimedes.
A lively book notice promotes Memoirs of Dan Rice by Maria Ward Brown as wildly funny and likely to sell well. The 500 page volume features jokes, caustic hits, anecdotes, songs, and anecdotes from the sawdust era, tied to the Civil War era humorist Dan Rice. It costs $1.50 postpaid from Book Publishing House, 134 Leonard Street, New York City. The piece also mentions grapefruit experiments at the University of California and a Murine eye remedy ad, plus a note that only one passenger has died on New South Wales railroads in seven years.
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