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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1908
Page
4
A column promotes Lydia E Pink ham's Vegetable Compound as a long relied upon remedy for female ailments including displacements and inflammation. It also advertises a cheap safety razor postpaid by mail, highlighting a shift from traditional razor styles. A fictional bear tale closes the excerpt.
A German statistician calculates that current steam power in use on this globe equals 120 million horsepower. The coal required to supply this steam for a year would fuel a freight train extending ten times around the earth.
Leslie's Weekly notes the Rockefeller family association does not include John D. Rockefeller Sr. yet many claim kinship. The lineage traces to southern France with Baron Roquefeuille, and the French Rockefellers, largely Huguenots, fled to southern Germany after the Edict of Nantes revocation, explaining the Teutonic surname form. The first Rockefeller arrived in America in 1720.
An enterprising canvasser sold a chrome titled Bird's eye View of Cambridge to Professor Agassiz of Harvard. He examined it briefly, then, with his distinctive accent, thanked God he was not a bird.
A frugal King Victor of Italy, after a solo hunt, trades lunch for a chamois carcass with a peasant boy. The lad rejects the basic meal, deeming the king not a gentleman, then the tale recalls America’s first play in 1752 at Williamsburg, Virginia.
A Michigan woman writes that after a year of poor health from indigestion and nerve strain she recovered with two months on Grape Nuts. She once feared work but now feels eager to work and enjoys stable nerves and renewed ambition. The letter promotes Grape Nuts with a "There’s a Reason" tagline.
In Beartown the elderly Grandpapa Bruno, famed as the village’s respected but crippled elder, tells his young bear listeners of a past adventure. He recounts leaving with his wife and cubs to explore a southern mountain, amid danger from two-footed hunters, and the fatal ambush that claimed his mate and altered his life.
A collage of witticisms and reflections on egoism timeing life and society. Topics range from self respect mind as common good to domestic talk golf politics and odd horticultural claims. The piece quotes Eve’s Epigrams and notes two giant sugar beets from Mora county with local curiosity.
In a New York Run item, Stella teases about a father handling a matter with gloves, while Bella quips it would have been better for dear George if he had done it without shoes, signaling sharp street dialogue.
In Birmingham Harris his friend and a two year old girl died after a gunfight with Police officers J W Little and J W Jones. Harris and Womack fired as officers raided Harris home during a reported bootlegging operation. Little was killed along with Womack. Harris and the child died at hospital. Mrs Harris survived grieving beside the dead child and husband.
Albert Messig Jr., eighteen, shot his father Albert Messig Sr., a butcher, during a confrontation as the elder man attacked his wife. Three bullets hit Messig Sr. in the head and body. he was in critical condition at General Hospital. The son wrestled away the revolver after the father, intoxicated, tried to choke his wife.
Edna Geary twelve daughter of Mr and Mrs Richard Geary was shot during an amateur play rehearsal when Russell Barrett thirteen aimed a supposedly unloaded gun and fired. The tragedy happened in the Barrett home.
The British battleship Tavincible, during a full power trial, reached twenty eight knots for eight hours. In a recent lower power trial the Invincible made twenty five knots, and expectations for a full power run pointed to thirty knots. The vessel is described as the fastest battleship in the world.
Walter J. Le Grys city editor of the Troy Press and Democratic Senate candidate for Rensselaer County died in Troy New York after an illness just before the election. He was defeated by his Republican opponent by a small margin. E Benjamin Andrews resigns as Chancellor of the University of Nebraska Lincoln effective January 1 with successor selection left open. Get Ruef jury after three months in San Francisco completes bribery trial prelim. Fear wheat crop damaged drought raises Chicago wheat prices by over one cent per bushel. Supreme Court Justice Aspinall rules that a deserting wife cannot obtain divorce for infidelity in New York.
Federal judges Grosscup Seaman and Harker in Chicago granted the complaining railways an injunction in the Missouri River rate case before the Interstate Commerce Commission awaiting full adjudication by the U S Supreme Court.
The Citizens and Farmers State Bank closed its doors in Arkansas City Kansas. President William A Wilson resides in Ranigay City Missouri. The failure is attributed to inability to collect on about $70 000 of paper due.
President Roosevelt publicized a letter written in protest against using religious beliefs or associations to influence politics. He denounces any attempt to attack Judge Taft’s faith as un-American and seeks to condemn such conduct. The note emphasizes religious liberty and fair treatment in public life.
President Roosevelt selects Job E. Wedges of New York to succeed Hamilton Mish as Assistant Treasurer of the United States in New York. Mish resigns to pursue a bid for Congress.
Reports from Rhode Island Fall River and New England manufacturers show growing optimism with higher prices and steady demand for cotton goods. Mills run near full capacity with little idle machinery as analysts anticipate further gains and long‑term contracts remain firm.
Judges Lacombe Coxe and Noyce of the United States Circuit Court rule that the tobacco trust violates the Sherman Act by restraining trade. An injunction against the combination is granted with a stay pending appeal. The decision dismisses actions against Imperial Tobacco and British American Tobacco, and declines receivership. Appeals to the Supreme Court will be filed.
The report states there are 483 total votes in the Electoral College with 242 needed for choice. It notes the current tally and the threshold to secure the presidency.
In Bloomer Wisconsin Frank Spitzik died after collapsing while digging a grave for his dog of seven years the hunter had loved. He was found beside the dog and carried two thousand dollars in his pockets. The tragedy followed grief over the canine companion and hunting losses.
Tonstful Aeronaut Peter Kramer of St. Louis was dashed against the Methodist Church chimney in Princeton Illinois during a Farmers' Carnival balloon ascent. A strong wind hindered the attempt and Kramer warned he would jump even at the risk of breaking his neck.
John E. Godding former president of the defunct State Bank of Rocky Ford Colorado was sentenced to serve from one to ten years in the State Prison for making unlawful use of bank funds and receiving deposits after knowledge of insolvency.
James D. Farmer was found guilty of first degree murder in Water Town New York for killing his wife Sarah Brennan.
Reports range from Mrs. Stevens campaigning in Maine to keep liquor laws intact, soprano Emmy Deatinn canceling Berlin engagements, Mina Strachan urging equal pay for teachers, suffragists jailed after fines, Ethel Jackson’s divorce, medical views on women smoking, DAR honoring Edenton’s tea resistance, Spain restricting women in bullfights, voting rights gains in certain Siamese cases, and a Turkish women’s paper promoting Muslim faith aligned content.
A sallow passenger with eyeglasses chats about weather, fruit, billiards, baseball, Taft, and possible political candidates while a fatal elevated train death is noted in the Chicago Tribune. The exchange ends as the eyeglassed man grows quiet, having little to say.
Mrs Rt G Richmond of Northwood Iowa credits Donns Kidney Pills with ending years of backache dizziness and kidney trouble after using three boxes with no lingering signs. She praises the remedy as health restoring and notes it sells for 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Consul Clarence Rice Slocum of Zittau cites reduced production at Saxony iron foundries as a prudential measure with no obvious signs of overproduction.
The Crown Princess Danilo of Montenegro, formerly Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg, is renowned as Europe’s top royal lady wrestler. A skilled pianist, needlewoman, and caricaturist, she excels in wrestling and has mastered Fujitsu the Japanese art, often winning bouts she enters.
A head of the house finds his hostler and his son idle in a stable with a broken kite tail. The owner questions why William is not at work, and the boy quips that it’s due to rubber heels. The item notes a price of five hundred fifty dollars for a single specimen of the Antimacus buttery.
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