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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1890
Page
1
The English admiralty calls for total abolition of masts and sails in future fighting ships. The piece notes naval concerns over alien enlistment, and cites broader political and military climate including China’s border fortifications and European fishing totals. It also covers social statistics and cultural reflections from U.S. papers of the era.
A short verse excerpt by Lydia T. Robinson appears in Harper's Magazine. The piece imagines violets crushed to scent the air, lilies bending, and an aged soul lifting incense of song and prayer as sorrow recedes.
Three Tamarack girls rent a bare back room and turn it into a thriving farm venture in Orange County and Omaha City. Mary Melissa and Patty pursue poultry strawberries and roses with city money and a wary landlord, facing male objections and social limits yet building a growing business and a nabbed marriage future.
Cephas G.app returns home and recounts to his wife a remarkable fate he heard. He believes the tale may be mocking him, while Mrs Clapp dismisses it with firm resolve.
A New Yorker in the Northern Pacific Railway corps recalls rampant slaughter by hide hunters across the Northwest a generation ago. He cites 20,000 head annually and notes elk mule deer and antelope losses, with cows killed in April and buffalo nearly vanished, as described by the New York Sun.
A New York outsider writes that on March 29 1818 a sudden ice jam at Niagara River blocked Lake Erie outlet cutting off water to Niagara Falls for hours. Warm rains loosened ice and a west wind drove it into the lake then reversed driving a wall of ice downstream, exposing black rock as water backed up. Spectators gathered as the frozen barrier finally released and water resumed its course.
A lake at Medical Lake, an hour from Spokane Falls, spurred a rapid town growth at Middlebaugh. The waters contain salts of sodium, potassium, lithium, calcium, magnesium, iron and aluminum with sulfur and borax. Bathing is claimed to cure rheumatism and skin diseases. Factories evaporate water and pack the salts.
A mixed report notes limited coal in Persia with production near five to six shillings at the pit mouth and 15 000 tons yearly from Teheran area. It also mentions copper and lead resources in Eburs Mountains, possible mines near Tehran, and a curious tangent on spider webs observed in various places alongside Darwinian references and a joke about a reformed convict in a motel.
A Skowhegan correspondent describes the Supreme Court in session with women in the gallery knitting, while fashion notes foresee plain skirts with embroidered sleeves. Miss Edwards discusses Queen Hatasu’s reign and double crown, builder prowess, and depictions as a Pharoah. Tips on sewing and a look at butterfly bonnets and millinery styles conclude.
A fashion oriented page outlines spring styles with皮 nages on leather items shoe gloves belts and bags. It describes dress alterations for round skirts bodices waist emphasis sleeve trims and velvet ribbons. It notes color trends and accessory choices for a period tone.
A tornado swept Fall Creek Hood County damaging twenty one houses and killing Miss Della Carmichael Mary Carmichael and a infant. Dozens injured including Nora and Tillie Rhodes and Doc Griffin family. Acton hamlet also struck with four dead and seven seriously wounded.
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