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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1909
Page
1
A reflective poem recounts patriotism, sacrifice, and the cost of the Union. It speaks to a boy’s awakening to national meaning through the flag, liberty, and graves of fallen sons, measuring pride against loss as God’s country endures. The speaker honors those who sacrificed for freedom and the enduring banner.
The narrative recounts Meade and Warren spotting the key summit at Little Round Top during the Gettysburg battle. It details Chamberlain leading the Twentieth Maine in a bayonet charge that held the hill against a larger Confederate force, securing a pivotal Union position and earning the Medal of Honor. The piece notes subsequent promotions and Warren’s crucial reconnaissance that turned the tide on the field.
Fragmented lines describe sharing flowers for soldiers who died in freedom’s cause, with vows to tend graves and memory. The piece invokes loved ones known or unknown and mentions a calendar constable with an umbrella apparatus, reflecting period detail and locals’ memory efforts.
The report notes that about 12,000 eyes are deposited annually yet only around 1,000 undergo development. It emphasizes a gap between input and processed outcomes, suggesting inefficiencies or selective handling in the eye development process.
Household advice from era columns covers waking freshness from air quality to insect control and splinter removal. Tips include steam extraction for splinters, benzine for mattress cleaning, alcohol to destroy cimex eggs, and a Russian front sheet improvised stove shield. A DIY window seat builds from a packing box with cretonne and brass tacks for summer wear storage.
A collection of old fashion cooking notes detailing crusts for meat and wheat pies. Describes meat and graham flour doughs, wheat crusts with diluted cream, potato and flour blends, Polish tartlets, raised pie crusts with sour milk, and versatile pie crust methods plus a prune gelatin mold with lemon juice and cream accompaniment.
A quirky note from Tit Bits recalls Jones recording a Minytown parrot’s cries on a cylinder. The scene features the bird in a room while a gramophone spins, uttering phrases like Pretty Polly and I want some sugar. The moment turns comic as Polly reacts to the machine and its trumpet.
A humorous exchange centers on a box of crackers with odd wording. A judge references Robert Louis Stevenson reacting to Matthew Arnold’s death, musing "He won't tire God" in a wry aside. The fragments blend slang, playful banter, and literary allusion.
Four masked bandits seized seven bags of registered mail worth about 100000 on the Chicago night express near Omaha. They forced the engineer and fireman at gunpoint, fired shots, and escaped by car with the loot. Police face rise in protest. $5000 bounty offered per bandit.
Autasia Ga The Georgia Railroad faces a firemen strike with drilkers vowing to drive every negro fireman from the road The company says trains will run once safety and protectives are assured Governor Hoke Smith instructs McDade County deputies to protect life and property Freight for Atlanta to Augusta and beyond to be moved by other lines as needed The Georgia Railroad covers 171 miles from Atlanta to Augusta with branches and joint leasees by Louisville and Nashville and Atlantic Coast Line as a lessee
The power boat Ida May exploded its compressed air tank near Ogdensburg New York fatally injuring Marty Porter of Cleveland and seriously wounding crew. Engineer Wadenhoff of Bridgeport Connecticut was killed by the blast tearing his arm and crushing his head while Purtell was hurled into the cabin as the vessel sank in shallow water. The 80 foot long 600 horsepower craft began with a double acting motor and Purtell had recently returned from Monaco where he ran the racer Standard at a regatta.
Richard T. Crane of Chicago urged members of the Illinois Legislature to halt state supported universities, arguing they moralize youth and cause contempt for labor.
The Navy Department plans include two battleships for the fiscal year ending June 30 1911 and either five torpedo boat destroyers or one modern repair ship as the specified naval expansion.
A body recovered from Rondout Creek, lying in the water for months, was identified by insurance policies found in the clothing as Roosa N. Abel of Washington D C Kingston N C. Abel had spent time in Kingston last fall, disappeared, and was thought to have returned to Washington. No marks of violence were observed.
Embeling cashier Madward DB Towne of Matheson Lead Company New York City, missing since December, accused of embezzling 30000 dollars, was captured in Orange New Jersey. Authorities say Towne was detained by local officers and handed over for further questioning.
Toaquin Barandl died in Mexico City at sixty. A newspaperman and soldier, he served as a congressman for Campuche ji and was among President Diaz's closest confidants. The prominent Mexican statesman was known for his long career in public life.
Washington reports General Gyo Elfott plans to build a premier life range for Marines near Indian Mead Maryland. Captain William Hartlee led a detachment to test new intrenching tools and praised the site’s suitability for target work.
The Trenton State Prison night school program ends June 1 but will continue via correspondence courses through September under Rev Father Fish, expanding the prison education model. The program reports improved discipline and strong results with ongoing support for the prison teachers and students.
J P Seeley of Montclair attacks local school authorities over an arithmetic problem in the fifth grammar that allegedly yields prune prices of ninety cents per pound. He faults schools for keeping the problem, calling it a protest against education standards.
A bizarre scene at the Trenton State Prison saw Wichard Donegan carried to the death house for an electric chair execution planned in July. He is paralyzed in the legs after a failed escape attempt and fatal injuries from thorny vines and blood poisoning, while other regional notes report deaths, grants, and local events across New Jersey communities.
Chicago Mrs. Julia C Strawn a physician carried her aged paralytic father through fire to safety then aided her mother Roy Sixteen Kills Physician Morgan City La Dr Allen King shot and killed by Leroy Olivier sixteen seeking to avenge sister’s life Photograph Strike Breakers Chicnago Photographs help identify nonunion carriage drivers Labor leader Adler Sentenced to Six Years New Orleans La William Adler convicted of wrecking the State National Bank sentenced to six years in federal prison at Atlanta Norfolk Va In presence of daughter Eugene Peebles a young foreman out of work killed his wife with an ax Wealthy Philadelphian Associated Philadelphia Gilbert Parker wealthy Wyncote gas in his room Frightened to Death by Searchlight Foroche La Adeline Hawkins frightened to death by Mississippi searchlight Wheat Brings a Famine Price Cincinnati Ohio carload of wheat sold for 1563 a bushel Held For Employer Murder Philadelphia Harry Rosenzweig jailed without bail for murder of employer Harry Victor a merchant
The United States marks five years of Panama Canal ownership since May 4, 1904, with major sanitation success and vast excavation figures. By early 1909 total material removed surpassed 73 million cubic yards, 101 million remaining, Gatun Dam to be built with 20 million more yards of material, and locks plus concrete totals driving $92.9 million in expenditures to February 1909.
Miss Helen Taft daughter of the President has accepted an invitation to unveil the Gettysburg monument with President Taft delivering the principal address. The report notes Taft's healthy return from a Southern trip and mentions a new high congressional appropriation record of 1 970 182 792 dollars. Public Officials debate enforcement of decency in posters with District Police Commissioners ordering that adulterated placards be publicly played or exhibited only if not lewd or indecent.
Excitement rises in Limasol and Larnaca as disturbances flare over the enthronization of the Archbishop. Fighting reported in churches amid tense, uncertain conditions across the Cypriot cities.
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company mine fire has burned for fifty years. Over a million dollars has been spent trying to extinguish it as it spreads toward the Spring Tumudt workings. Thirty Read ing Company carpenters and masons assisted Ashland district workers in building concrete barriers. Large quantities of sulphur are placed in shafts and workers are brought to the surface unconscious daily. It may be necessary to fill all shafts with sulphur to continue the fight.
Three lives were lost when the steamship Western States of the Detroit and Buffalo Navigation Company collided with the tug Princeton near the United States life saving station. Victims were Wm McClure 23 from Buffalo a fireman Frank Trauffer 34 Buffalo engineer and Raymond Norburg 19 a fireman who had boarded the Princeton to visit McClure. Captain James Sullivan and Thomas McMahon, firemen, escaped by swimming to the life saving dock.
Joaquin Belrreiro editor of El Carnival was arrested in San Juan Porto Rico by federal authorities charged with sending improper matter through the mails. The cartoon depicted President Taft and referenced his recent message on Porto Rico. Bail was set at $3000.
Norfolk Virginia naturalist Richardson P. Smithwick, 22, died when sand caved in as he dug for kingfisher pegs in the Princess Anne Desert between Lynn Haven Inlet and Cape Menry. A search party recovered his body with only his feet protruding.
Dr Oscar Ny Taylor of Berkeley UC football coach dies in San Francisco after performing nasal growth removal on himself. He reportedly operated twice before with partial success, but a third attempt caused a fatal injury when a chisel tipped too hard.
Life staff reports Chris LB Russell, 24, of Brockton, killed himself with a pistol as his marriage to Miss Florence Adams of Elmswood was arranged and a home furnished for occupancy. He worked at a local shoe firm and authorities cite worry and overwork as likely factors in the tragedy.
The Progres sive Republicans and Democrats faced a crushing 66 to 25 defeat on lifting free dressed lumber with only fifty cent duty on rough lumber, as Aldrich and allies held firm. Ten Democrats and fifteen Republicans supported free lumber. seventeen Democrats and thirty nine Republicans backed protection. An added amendment on carpenters tools was rejected 64 to 12. Finance Committee plans to raise rough lumber duties and cut dressed lumber duties.
Norfolk Bright probate notice in Norristown Pennsylvnia states Anna Lina Bright daughter of Joseph C Bright will receive $10 000 more than her share if she stays unmarried through her mother’s life. The will leaves Harris 2500 yearly, Anna 1000 yearly in life of Mrs Bright, and residuary estate split among five other children after Mrs Bright’s death.
In Flint Michigan Arthur Merritt a ten year old boy fired at a fluttering cloth across the river and hit Lizzie Atkinson in the forehead causing her death. The incident occurred as she walked with her husband and used a handkerchief to wipe dust. The boy was restrained after expressing threats of self harm.
President Taft issued a proclamation opening about 700000 acres to settlement. Roughly 440000 acres in Flathead Mount and 200000 in Coeur d Alene Idaho, with 40000 to 100000 in Spokane Washington. Registration runs July 15 to August 6 at Kalispell Missoula Spokane and Coeur d Alene. The Hague Court of Arbitration found France and Germany at fault in the Casablanca dispute.
President Taft returned the War Department estimates for the military establishment in the 1911 fiscal year and signaled a desire to trim the proposed total by about 36 million dollars from the 30 million dollar cat.
Pineapples arriving in heavy receipts push prices down as supplies flood markets. Dealers report softer demand, with retailers citing abundant stock and competitive pricing. Growers monitor markets for stabilization amid fluctuating export demand.
Turkish women mobbed government HQ at Marash for relief. Miss Lou Le Bacon leads a New York home for working girls. A New York woman saved children from a mad dog with a paint brush. Elizabeth Summer named nurse in charge in Wilmington. Bulgaria's prime minister’s wife leads Dubgarlin. London women take to fencing after Olympic gates. Mrs Salle J. McCall leaves stock to National Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs Viola Squires refuses taxes, protests taxation without representation.
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