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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1898
Page
1
Poem remarks on the ideal hero and civic courage. It contrasts outspoken champions with the quiet hero who suffers and endures. The speaker praises those who resist petty traditions, speak up for justice, and keep a steady, unvoiced resolve.
Rogers, a tall lanky youth with frank brown eyes, joins a city paper as a general assignments reporter. He impresses the City Editor by covering a street car crash and a plumbers’ ball, then earns bigger assignments and a higher pay, while balancing a romance on Forest Avenue. He even considers writing a fictitious letter to credit Rev. Samuel F. Davis at a Congregationalist convention.
Rogers slips into the newsroom as the city editor reveals a rival paper's shocking telegram that Rev Samuel F Davis has died before reading his paper on Some Thoughts Upon Life at a Congregational convention. The moment ends with Rogers leaving the local room as chaos ensues in Detroit Free Press style.
In Gleiwitz Upper Silesia a boy loses a kite on an electric fire alarm wire. A policeman files a report, an engineer removes the kite, the treasury pays a reward, and a chain of officials orders warnings to pupils. Four months pass before the matter is shelved in a pigeon hole.
A collage of aphorisms and misread lines from Thoreau Hood and others, interspersed with garbled phrases. It touches on thoughtfulness virtue and life guidance, ending with a note about the Philippines birth trade value of about 310 million, compared to the United States.
A collection of frontier adventures from Rev Frank A Hardin recounts a nightmarish panther encounter with his horse and a daring escape. A naval boiler maker named Huntley saves the Castine by sealing a furnace leak. A Belgianhyena hunt in Verviers features a heroic Black overseer named Wilson stopping a hyena. British Attache notes Lieutenant Wallsboro of the Seventh Infantry dying bravely in Cuba while aiding comrades.
A New York Sun correspondent recounts methods used to kill panther tigers in Venezuela. English rancher Turnbull and two Hondurans trap a tiger for a goat bait at night. The beast attacks, injuring and ultimately killing some men before rope, machetes, and a tree trunk end the conflict.
The President issues a Thanksgiving proclamation urging national observance on November 25. The document praises wartime resilience, economic growth, and divine guidance, inviting all citizens at home and abroad to pause and give thanks for blessings, seasons, soil, and peace prospects. General Kitchener's welcome in London is noted with a formal reception by British officials.
Crowds at Victoria Station welcomed back Herbert Kitchener to cheers and shouts of Bravo and God bless you as police struggled to hold back a dense throng. The royal reception saw barriers torn away and the Sirdar greeted by a jubilant, chanting public.
The piece describes the Laplander mud house as a primitive hut with earth floor and central fire. It then reports Mr. G. W. McDuffle of North Atlanta Georgia raising a remarkable pea 34 inches long from a single vine begun July 10. The vine has produced over twenty five pods in a short period as described by the gardener.
From Havana via cable the report details a Spanish Colonel who violated General Blanco’s decree by threatening a tobacco planter in Pinar del Rio to seize a hundred yokes of oxen for starving troops. The planter trapped the officer, delivering fifty yokes and a bill of sale, but the provincial governor declined action, calling it theft and offering no remedy.
Paris dispatch reports American Peace Commissioners demand cession of the Philippine Islands and assume debt for public works. President favors annexation amid calls from supporters. clear terms up to Manila Bay and Luzon inland debated. debt to be parsed by the State Department amid Spanish-era financial issues.
AL Dupuy is installed as premier and forms a cabinet of four Conservative Republicans and Radicals. Eleven names include former premiers Dupuy and de Freyaloet, with Lockroy Poytral Viger and Dolasso holding previous portfolios. Japan’s cabinet resigns over education portfolio dispute, signaling failed party government.
London reports all major nations have accepted the Czar's invitation to send three delegates each to a disarmament conference. Count Muravieff will travel to Livadin to confer with the Czar on programme outlines for the delegates.
The Treasury Department has nearly completed the issue of 20 million dollars in three percent bonds authorized by Congress. The largest allotment to a single subscriber is 4440, with the $4500 subscriptions receiving 81900 each and possibly a few hundred dollars more. The final amount depends on ongoing actions to compel the Secretary to issue about 500,000 dollars on subscriptions challenged as irregular.
Governor Miguel A. Otero reports to the Interior Department urging early New Mexico statehood and outlines the territorys undeveloped resources awaiting capital. He cites a population around 282000 with 25000 Indians and notes a yellow fever quarantine abolition elsewhere as part broader health and development discourse.
John Booker Jr. of Clark's Valley, Poeun, was bitten by a copperhead while cutting corn with his father. He killed two snakes after seeing the first head severed and the commotion followed the severed heads.
In Providence a jury awarded $22500 in a $50000 breach of promise case. Plaintiff Mies Troisan sued Benedict B. Ladorer, a wealthy Providence and New York jeweler, for breach.
Adam Hammer, a worker at J. B. Rowell Manufacturing, fired on coworkers after a dispute and went on a rampage through the Beaver Dam shop. Eleven men were wounded, including City Marshal Edward Powderly, as Hammer was finally captured after a shootout with police.
London cables warn that preparations and orders signal a planned coup to proclaim Egypt a British protectorate, expanding the empire. Editors are urged not to publish sensitive details as European powers brace for possible conflict.
Special report from Holyoke Massachusetts says Charles Bachellor 58 temporarily insane drove wife and granddaughter from their home near South Hadley set fire to the house and stable then burned furniture and killed himself with a rifle after writing a note. Neighbors found the house a total ruin and Bachellier's body unreadable in the ashes.
Boys on the east side toppled a construction barrel on Van Houten street causing oil spills to burn across a block. Firefighters from Engine Company No. 7 contained the blaze as curbs and sidewalk shade trees suffered damage. The incident harms the construction firm financially.
About 75 000 visitors passed the gate on the last day as the exposition closed. The event drew 2 625 399 attendees overall, with receipts near 22 000 000 and total costs around 2 450 000, leaving substantial stockholder surplus and potential next year plans for a colonial exhibit.
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