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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1887
Page
1
Colonel A Andrews of San Francisco is the richest pensioner in the United States with an estimated fortune of about 4.5 million dollars. He supports a needy veteran with his monthly stipend from Uncle Sam and the article notes various other nearly historical and social topics from crops to dynamite guns and emigration warnings.
A fragment blends a poetic voyage with memories of lost companions Health Peace of Mind and Hope, and a wartime tale of Billy and Jennie. It then shifts to a St Louis Democrat correspondent describing Chefoo China as a British‑styled watering place with hotels, beaches, and naval presence. The piece ends with a light note on title confusion among American women observed in St Paul.
In winter 1864 near Pleasant Valley Missouri and Uniontown Virginia a Federal party from Kane's Bucktails crossed the Potomac to seize Confederate scout Billy Bowlegs also called William Baxter. After failing door-break attempts the group met a gray haired mother and her daughter Jennie who greeted the intruders and vowed Billy would be taken dead or alive.
A mother warned Mattie not to leave the yard or she would be whipped. Soon Mattie was found on forbidden ground after climbing over the fence, then brought home. Mattie explained she did not go out the gate but over the fence.
A New York Sun report exposes Central Park menagerie practices where decrepit horses are bought, killed, and butchered for feed. Henry the butcher slaughters a lame bay horse, with carcass skinned and hung for the beasts. The facility claims cheap meat supports carnivorous animals, while owners sometimes consent to have pets killed for the park’s menu.
In Paris a museum displays clever contraband devices seized at borders and customs houses. Visitors see items like a painted sheet iron box disguised as Carrara marble blocks with ballast to seem heavy. the artful contraband tricks reveal smugglers wit.
A collection of logs and a tin footman fooled customs as a gentleman’s carriage passed daily. Officers bowed to a harmless show until a spill exposed champagne concealed in a tin case used to smuggle liquor for months.
Harold E. Lewis and his wife of Philadelphia recently completed a four month tricycle tour from Paris to Amsterdam and back. They rode through London Winchester the Isle of Wight and Geneva to Milan then down the Rhine to Cologne and Holland. The daily maximum was 63 miles and the Paris to Geneva portion took seven days. The trip cost about 0.50 a day for both, and wife once a confirmed invalid now rode 3300 feet up a Bernese Oberland ascent in eight miles.
A Revue Scientifique article argues dogs have long been used in warfare by Greeks Romans and Jews. It recounts legends of fifty watch dogs near Corinth resisting attackers and a Roman punishment ceremony for unfaithful canines including public whipping and hanging.
A gold nugget worth at least a dollar was found in the crop of a chicken on Mrs. Frank Seacey’s farm near the river about two miles from George Matteson’s mill. The nugget came from gravel tossed from a cleaned-out well where the flock scavenged. The chicken was killed for dinner the next day.
A New York Sun item recalls Bobby promising his June sister half of an extra pie after urging his mother to give more. The exchange shows a playful family moment with a simple, generous gesture.
Fannie B Ward describes the cascarone custom in Mexico where guests surprise strangers at balls by cracking eggs filled with confetti and trinkets on their heads. The shells are emptied and refilled with paper, tinsel, and prizes, then painted and saved for future dances.
A dialogue about New York and scale shifts follows a Detroit Free Press anecdote where a visitor notes the city seems forty miles wide. A bank scene then unfolds with a sharp young man seeking five tens for a fifty bill stamped counter and the cashier’s calm refusal. Separate vignettes include a prison motif line about greenbacks and a shop chat about flower preferences and red winter No. 4 margins.
A column mixes social quirky items with fashion lore from the era. It notes an Andrew Presbyterian church penny-box ritual shaming widows, then wanders through Paris and London gossip about beauty, hats, hair color, and the rise of extravagant walking-sticks. It also covers milliner wages, dress trends, and a humorous sign-spelling anecdote from Detroit.
A Raleigh letter to the St Louis Globe-Democrat recounts the fate of John Caldwell, son of Governor Ted Caldwell. After enlisting in 1862, he vanished near Gettysburg. decades of pursuit failed. A torn commission found years later confirms his death at the field as relatives learned the truth at last.
The report recalls a New Zealand supper where women cooked in a large pot and served jacketless potatoes and cockles into a tin dish on the ground. Tea with sugar, no milk, was shared in tin cups as natives used their fingers to eat. Men and children crowded the dish, competing to eat the most, then everyone smoked with clay pipes before the meal ended.
A New York World report describes a process turning ordinary potatoes into a hard white material after sulphuric acid treatment. The tubers are bathed boiled and freed from acid to yield a readily worked substance that can be colored and used as an industry.
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