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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1891
Page
4
A temperance pledge reshapes a family in a small town. George Prescott resists, Lizzie champions abstinence, their three sons pledge, and the pledge-purse saves a note, proving resolve can heal finances and strengthen kin.
The Cayagian Pacific Railroad spends over a million dollars on protections against snow slides in the Selkirk Mountains. Massive cedar log sheds, rock backing, and timber bulwarks shield the track while high bridges and cascades create dramatic scenery. Track walkers inspect after each train and the line has weathered past slides without major delays.
Recalled dispatches from Calcutta describe a powerful cyclone in the Andaman Islands that killed nearly all the crew of the H. 218 Enterprise and raised total deaths to about 200 with roughly 350 wounded. Convicts, guards, and island residents endured extreme damage as buildings collapsed and crops were ruined, while female convicts displayed notable bravery rescuing others from the surf.
A 19th century mining accident at the Anaconda mine in Butte City Montana killed 17 and left two injured. The cage broke loose as it rose with a full load of miners and plunged to the shaft bottom, with rescuers struggling to reach the victims. The Anaconda mine, Montana's largest, employs about 400 workers and had reopened on October 25.
A London cablegram reports Pernambuco and Grao Pais declaring independence as rebellion spreads in Brazil. Da Fonseca orders a warship to Rio Grande do Sul to halt secession efforts while Silverio Martinez, banished before, emerges as a potential provincial presidential figure. The dispatch notes broad Republican discontent and frames the move as constitutionally questionable.
A former governor J Unecony par of Eastern Staten died at his home in St Albans Vermont after a brief illness at age 73. Born July 23 1818 in St Albans he had a long career in politics and rail enterprise with Vermont Central Railroad. The report also notes multiple accidents disasters and other scattered items from the era including a deadly railroad incident in Hastings Cambria County and a water shortage affecting New York City and surrounding areas.
Secretary Stask presents the President with his annual agriculture report predicting agricultural product values will rise by at least 700 million dollars in 1801 versus 1690. He notes exports and imports shifts, worries over middlemen, debates meat inspection, and foresees department expansion to raise farm wealth toward a potential trillions later in twenty years.
Reports from the Exposition detail premiums for French horses, plans for Vimama's tall colonial building costing 22000, the Art Palace at 700000, and a rustic colonnade using state trunks. It notes a reproduction of Fort Marion, naval exhibits, and exhibitor totals, with census data on Navajo and Maricopa communities.
Fragmentary price list and commodity notes from a cattle and dairy market. Includes weights and quality notes for beef, sheep, lambs, butter, cheese, and grain futures with scattered figures and place names such as Buffalo and Watchtown.
A gas explosion in the Bioquehanna Coal Company shaft No 1 at 4:90 in the afternoon killed six miners and fatally injured several others. Firemen entered the shaft as families waited outside, with dozens of residents of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, mourning the disaster and awaiting more details on the cause and missing workers.
Mixed data notes various fictional or misread statistics including Conga bankruptcy Fist population 123000 Grmany locomotives 10000 and large crops in several regions Canada apple crop Rerowns indicate moderate yields forests fires in Indiana and pecan crops Texas. Public schools pupil counts 12500000 Russia cereals export ban except wheat Italy holiday cuts Gale measurements for Delaware peach crop 1801 US police budget 5018801.05 government geological survey Washington state and New Hasapskins deposits 60551000 with 166264 depositors.
Reports confirm the death of Comanche the famed U S cavalry horse at Fort Ruby Kaw aged forty five once a mount of the Seventh Cavalry He survived the Little Big Horn massacre and was led to Fort Riley where he lived fourteen years in service His hide preserved by Kansas State University will be exhibited at Chicago Worlds Fair while the Department of Agriculture touts new fruits and oyster trees and oddities across the country
A historical cushion at the Bouth Kensington Museum, London, is noted for hair embroidery by a lady enamored of James I. The piece features two hair shades for the heart motifs, one golden and one candy shade, likely the worker and Hing respectively.
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