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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1887
Page
4
Practical guidance on boiling vegetables by size and type, plus several old fashioned recipes. Notes include using boiling water, avoiding overcooking, and specific times for potatoes carrots onions cabbage corn peas beans turnips squash spinach beets. Also includes quick baked potatoes Graham biscuit and other fare with steps and proportions.
The article describes stamp production with 200 stamps per sheet, multiple printing squads, and steam powered drying. Gum uses potato-based mixture while paper resembles bank notes. Sheets are cut, perforated, dried, packed, stored, and kept under strict counting. any torn stamp leads to burning an entire sheet. A French gardener, Latour Matlac, created a large water lily, six inches across, in pale cannon yellow.
A storm on Lake Michigan sent the Vernon of the Northern Michigan Line to the bottom. News from Milwaukee and Chicago details wreckage, failed rescues, and the death toll likely numbering over thirty with minimal survivors. Captains Moran and Williams recount ships battling heavy seas and the inability to reach rafted and drowning victims.
Eastern and Middle State reports trace Erfurt State tickets in New York. A cashier defaulter over ten thousand dollars fled to Canada. Convicts killed and wounded escaping in Arizona. Reading Railroad coal price up twenty five cents. National Women’s Congress held in New York with Julia Ward Howe reelected president. Notable figures include Navy officer Nicuotsos death in New York, financier Jay Gould sailing to Europe, and typhoid outbreaks in Cincinnati. Mexico banditti threaten Hidalgo and Starr counties. Confederate veterans parade in Macon. Louisiana governor deploys militia to Terrebonne. Lee statue ceremonies held in Richmond. Washington Territory population and land data noted. Various border and naval budget figures given. Britain to send America’s Cup yacht. Paris arrests over securities forgery. typhoon deaths in China. President Guévy resigns then reconsidered. Afghan ruler Ayub Khan supporter hanged in Herat.
Musical and dramatic notes report Sullivan at work on the grand opera Mary Stuart and Remenyt drowned in a Madagascar shipwreck. The National Opera Company begins a US tour from Philadelphia. London theatre adopts fire-proof materials and electricity. Anders on returns to America in Oct 1885 under Abbay, Poxist marks fifty years in theatre, and Oliver Doud Byron is described as wealthy. Miss Sprague begins dramatic career. Arnoupsgen wows Bergen. an all-wemale brass ensemble lends Dresden balls. Marconi may tour the US next spring. Dr George Fa Root, aged seventy, wrote war songs like Tramp Tramp Tramp.
On March 20 the iron bark Derry Castle left Geelong for Falmouth with whaat. No trace found and Lloyds listed it missing. On September 2 eight survivors arrived in Melbourne recounting the bark wreck near Euderby Island in the Auckland group. Sixteen died in the attempt to reach shore. Survivors endured five months with scarce supplies, using a cargo wheat ration and an improvised boat to reach Port Ross and Port Rosa.
A rough compilation notes 15 000 butterfits and various global stats. Mentions Hy giene congress in London and rising school populations in the South since 1870. Reports on doctors in New York, Florida experts, petroleum consumption, and college attendance in the United States. Includes peanuts crop, bounty payments for wildlife, troops in Britain, a mastodon tusk display, chestnut yields, a London restaurant for corpulent patrons, and a cyclist crossing the continent ending in San Francisco.
A rear cellar blast at 2 03 am toppled the two story Newman grocery at 15 South Fourteenth Street. Eighteen people were killed or injured as flames and debris collapsed walls and trapped residents, with Mrs Annie Newman and son deeply affected and local rescuers racing through unstable wreckage. Surveillance and aftermath describe widespread damage across the block and shattered windows for blocks around.
The United States Bureau of Statistics releases a 300 page report on sheep raising and woolen manufactures. It notes U S sheep numbers rose from 31,009,000 in 1840 to 51,000,000 in 1854 then fell to 45,000,000 in 187. The report cites Great Britain as the principal wool market, with Turkey and Russia also important sources and Argentina now second to Britain among foreign supplies. It covers wool imports rising from 1,150,000 pounds in 1822 to 114,055,000 pounds in 1887, and contrasts growth in U S wool products with imports, highlighting per capita values and historical trends in production and trade.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters use six languages while workers arrive in New York seeking factory jobs. Strikes in Louisiana sugar plantations have eased. A national movement to shorten hours is planned for spring. Knights of Labor hold a Cleveland convention on December 8 to discuss a national trades body. British inspectors note coal mine employment and production. Leather workers’ strike yields a dreary outcome. Machinists nationwide stay busy as large shops fill two to three months of work. Skilled labor arrives from England but most is native. many mills have opened in the South, boosting lumber output toward 2.25 billion feet annually.
Antonio Infantes, an aeronaut, fell 600 feet when a balloon collapsed at St Louis, dying instantly. Other reports include bank suspensions, a Mississippian court shooting, and varied overseas and domestic news items from October receipts to arbitration talks.
A collage of notable figures and moments: the Duchess of Sutherland as a bird egg collector. Evangelist Moopy ready to start revival meetings in Louisville. ex Senator Jones of Florida still in Detroit with brain trouble. General Cameron’s steer weighs 2100 pounds and spans eight feet around the body. Boston Unitarian Rev Dr C A Bartel named richest clergyman. Rev C H Spurgeon reportedly declined 40000 for 100 lectures in the U S. Senators Palmer Stockbridge Hale Frye Spooner Aldrich Hawley toured Europe. Dickens’ sons in Australia real estate. Barano and Miss Sophie D Markoe in Washington. Lincoln and Cleveland names on lead-prices documents in Fairmont. Stetson employs 2000 workers with a $10,000 Sunday school. dazzling Rothschild diamonds at a Paris wedding. Rev Capuel A Benny preaches in Brooklyn and may succeed Beacher. Admiral Worvex, 70, war-worn and suffering, living in Washington after being retired with a £5000 annual pension.
The season’s viewed as great with multiple signings, trades, and team tours. Wimut joins St. Pani, Shindle and Shaw move to other clubs, and Cuarcrs Fanren becomes Boston’s new catcher. Detroit signs managers and pitchers, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia show strong activity. detailed stats span hits, runs, and baserunning leaders. A tall 15-year-old in Pennsylvania is noted, alongside shifts in payroll and league dynamics.
A blast at the American Forcite Powder Company near Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey, devastates the cartridge room. Four workers Henry Todd John Fancher Frederick McCedo and Philip Myers died amid widespread destruction. The plant, sprawling over 450 acres with 50 buildings, normally employs about 140 men and produces 20 000 pounds of forcite daily. the explosion occurred while only a small portion of powder was on hand. The superintendent narrowly escaped injury as debris and a massive crater marked the site.
The annual Riley report shows government Indian education costs at 1 095 370 dollars with 39 821 children aged 6 to 16, about 37 percent in school. Recommendations urge a nationwide text book system, English-only instruction, a normal school department, and an industrial boarding school near the Missouri River plus new schools in Nevada and New York, plus a commission to reform methods.
A mail carrier James E. Hamilton between Miami and Lake Worth was attacked and killed by sharks while crossing Hillsboro Inlet. Fishermen described the mass attack as Hamilton struggled with oars, lost his boat, and perished as the sharks devoured him.
Thousands suffer catarrh cry out for relief. Advertisement urges readers to join the World’s Hepensars Medical Association for a pamphlet on the disease and claims Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy has cured many, warning that delay risks danger.
The note warns that many white soaps pretend to equal the genuine Ivory but lack its peculiar qualities. It urges consumers to request "very Soap" and insist on obtaining it. Copyright 1686, by Procter & Gamble.
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