13 May 1892
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1892
Page
1
A survey of global and domestic industries notes Vermont invests heavily in hotels, second only to wool product manufacture. It cites U S pig iron output, rising Japanese railroad construction, Canada fattening trials, and shifts in fisheries, education, and public policy as context for a broad economic snapshot.
An excerpt from Carter's Pass recounts a corporal and two men leaving Camp Sheridan to contact a wary marching force. They race through night toward the Loup Fork country, outrunning an Indian pursuit and a massive buffalo stampede that reshapes their escape route and reveals whether the traitors escaped.
Eight soldiers were chosen to endure extreme cold in a winter campaign experiment. Inside a tent, fifty six pounds of straw, heavy coats, and knapsack pillows surrounded them as temperatures dropped from 31 below to four below zero. Soldiers walked outside to avoid freezing, while the outside world faced harsher conditions.
A schooner captain’s Caribbean finds inspired Jacksonville jeweler Damon Greenleaf to mount sea beans in jewelry. One cent a bean turned into brisk sales at $2.50 each, with reports of a jewelry boom and a $75,000 windfall. The note adds a US State Department report on global transportation.
A pastiche of domestic hints and recipes drawn from mid century papers describes improvised darning tools, drying fruit preservation with ether, mildew remedies, and inventive asparagus and vegetable dishes. Also offered are spinach and dandelion salad preparations and assorted croquettes and sauces for cold and hot dishes.
A brief dialogue contrasts poets and friends over poetry. A Detroit Free Press line jokes about widespread almond and coconut trees, noting many trees bearing trust. The tone blends literary humor with a quip about abundance.
The piece notes Yashinek masks, Oriental beauty myths, and Princess Beatrice wear, with captions on Japanesque beauty, divided skirts in Hyeres and Windsor, plus salaries for women librarians and riding advice. It blends fashion, gender roles, and work pay, citing New York and Washington sources.
A miscellany of curiosities and notes on rapid guillotine timing, frog breathing, ground squirrels smothered by gasoline, a 500 HP Thomson Houston locomotive, Australia's giant astronomical clock, giant grasshoppers in South America, tannin differences in tea, calcimino technique, a massive engine in Friedona ville, assembly of locomotive horsepower, coal discoveries near Heerlen, Egyptian artificial incubation, electric heating devices for small heats, sweatshop use, German political situation with Prussia as the dominant state, and a remark on the dual government system in Germany.
In New York Weekly style a dramatic kitchen scene unfolds with Mrs Square-Quack waking Mr Quilts to check for burglars, but the couple suspects only the cat. A humorous exchange ends with resolve to verify the situation.
A fragment suggests a dialogue about a rich bachelor uncle of a deceased person. The host laments a drastic, perhaps satirical situation as the uncle is described as stern and distant, and the line ends with a grim implication.
A wide array of notes on baseball from Brooklyn to Pittsburgh covers players, pitchers, and fielding prowess. Mentions include Broutouens as top first baseman, Jorxnas Louisville as hitting phenomenon, Kurrey of Washington and Crowns in defense. Also notes strong Boston and Louisville series, with Montang of Cincinnati praised for handling hard hits and rare shutouts.
In Vilno Russia six men were convicted of murdering infants entrusted to them and sentenced to six to twenty years penal servitude. Mothers often connived. a five year pretrial inquiry culminated in the discovery of sixty five infant remains. About forty suspects were arrested and eight hundred fifty witnesses testified. The group dubbed angel makers killed inconvenient infants.
A Census Bulletin reports Nebraska mortgaged debt totaling 837,872 claims to secure 274,363 dollars with 43.44 percent unpaid as of January 1 1590. In Douglass and Lancaster counties most debt lies on lots in Omaha and Lincoln. Mortgages cover 14,085,201 acres, about 69 percent of taxed acres. The piece also notes rising German emigration to the United States amid tensions with Russia and a stricter Chinese exclusion bill affecting frontier crossers.
A Northwestern professor at Chicago University says he has been promised interest on $500,000 to disseminate political science. Local politicians react with lively interest about how he will spend the money.
Five cars plunging into swollen river after trestle collapse during a heavy storm killed several and injured many aboard the east bound trans continental express between Revere and Modill Missouri. The wreck left only the engine and rear sleeper on the bridge as survivors fought amid rising floodwaters and wreckage. Official lists name several victims and missing, with crews and passengers struggling for life in the torrent.
A sweeping collection of notable names including Epwir Amnoip returning to Japan and Coloxer Bonaparte praised for dining taste. It notes William Aston Caasier planning an Africa expedition with 200 men, Paderewski’s childhood feat, and Rome preparing for the Pope’s jubilee with vast gifts. Mentions Kipling’s youth, Henry Bryant’s death, and political ties of Ohio’s former governor’s wife.
A compilation notes Zou women building houses and Fania aid in North Dakota as unions expand in Chicago. It reports Belgium replacing iron workers, eight hour days gaining momentum in Durham England, and worldwide child labor limits. British unions grow, London domestic servants unemployment rises, Lancashire mills face lockouts, and Canada pushes for employability acts, union incorporation, and extended social provisions.
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