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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1895
Page
1
A jumble of quotations mocks global costs and culture. It cites England’s drink economy, British army generals, Glasgow bread, and US exporters. It notes Japanese Shinto, Empress language trends, land open to settlement, and U S education funding. It includes curious items on crime, portraits of shoplifters, mail parcels, and Boston iron facades.
A lengthy dispatch surveys war capacity claims and public commentary. It notes France asserting a potential 4,000,000-strong army, U S reflective humor about trolley abolition, varied climates across states, and then discusses scholars and public figures including Egyptologist Flinders Petrie and naturalist Samuel Booth. It also covers education figures, library memorials, and a tally of federal expo appropriations from 1867 through 1895, highlighting major events and funds across Europe and America.
The article explains how rainwater seeps into rock, promoting vegetation that splits rock surfaces. It details how saxifrages help wear rocks, and how freezing water acts as a blasting agent, disintegrating rock into bowlders and pebbles, which are transported by streams and rivers, carrying sediment downstream.
A rusted digging pick dating to 1772 was found fifteen feet underground in Germantown by contractor John Bonhage. The item, embedded in soil and cleaned, was displayed by P. Martel of Somerville. The brief note references linseed as flax seed with a smooth brown kernel and a faint pleasant odor.
The narrator, a masterless maid, wanders the world with love longing and a flower of her heart. She imagines a fairy prince who may seek her, while she travels and waits, keeping hopes and flowers as tokens of desire. Nora Hopper, fa Binck and White.
Miss Wittemore hosts a garden party to meet her nephew’s fiancé. The count Raoul Kanolky reveals he staged as a fiancé to gain money from Thornton and Maud. He plans to fake a death to steal notes worth 75000, while Laura Wittmore’s former admirer Thornton is set to be ruined.
Ten days after a garden party Mr Charles Thornpton sits at his club weighing his fall from grace and lack of income. A note from Miss Laura Wittemore asks him to marry not for love but to settle their financial futures, and he learns she has more money than he.
Reports note electricity may power Brooklyn Bridge cars while other items discuss silver cleaning by revolving wheels, a Belgian 25 mile long chain, a heavy 680 ton structure, and various notes on time standards, materials testing, and new alloys.
During Mrs. Laura Hoffman speech at the night edition of the W C T U, a steam exhaust rumble and a gas flame caused alarm. Electric lights failed briefly, triggering panic among timid attendees. Willard urged singing, the crowd joined in Nearer My God to Thee, and lights returned with calm restoration of order.
A New York Times report explains that potato blight is caused by a soil or leaf infecting fungus. It recommends spraying seedlings with a copper sulphate solution mixed with lime and water, plus para green, to guard leaves and reduce pest damage.
A saga of stagecoach bandits in Arizona led by Bill Keeler ends with a dramatic desert capture and death. The Tucson sheriff pursues the killer, aided by Yuma trackers, and Keeler dies after a confrontation. A parallel tale tells of James Sherrell and Ira Whitney, where insanity and violent prankery unfold in Cowlitz Valley. In New Jersey a farmer’s wife fends off robbers with a candlestick, scaring them away and earning new protection.
The British coal carrier Aberfoyle arrived in San Francisco from Newcastle after seventy four days at sea. A mutinous series of events left Captain George W. Roberts intoxicated and jailed, leading to his suicide. First Officer Percy Norton was washed overboard as storms hit, leaving the crew to drift. The steamship Tagliaferro spotted distress, sent a mate to assist, and Melbourne became a turning point under Captain Wallace who restored command and steered the Aberfoyle to safety.
Ex sheriff Healey recalls a 12 year old near catastrophe when a freight derailed and exploded after workers set off blasts beside a tunnel on White's Hill. He describes braking failure, the fireman leaping back, and the train narrowly passing by as rails and ties tumbled down the embankment. Conductor Bob Graham is noted as a young brakeman then.
A collage of short items: Fairmont Kansas hosts the world’s largest apple orchard at 1537 acres. Japanese use paper towels and naoking to wrap goods. a seven year old horse thief in Jackson Michigan has stolen four horses. Belgium fire departments employ tricycles as hose carts. a Biddeford Maine man, age 66, struggles with a wisdom tooth. An English chapel in Greenstead Park near Ongar is the sole wooden church. Gold output in Coolgardie District for eight months totals 1000 ounces, with Western Australian gold fields at 71003 ounces. At Santas Caterina Cathedral Gonos a crescent emerald eight inches wide is shown, said to be a present from Solomon to the Queen of Sheba. Vionoo offers baths for three cents, Berlin two to six cents, London two cents cold, four cents warm, Paris eight cents. In Ontario Riverside area wild canai grows, roots sellable at $6 per ton in Riverhead. a firm offers $6 per ton for emmigro roots for ten years. San Francisco claims a surpassing department store, the Emporium, larger than Bon Marche in Paris. Madagascar spider silk experiments show limited viability with ordinary spider silk used for a lady’s band.
A Wells Fargo express agent at the Santa Fe station in Colorado Springs was robbed at 9 42 pm by two masked men. They forced the agent to open the safe and took about 5090 and 15000 in two packages, part of a 60000 Denver to Cripple Creek consignment. The criminals fled, trailing bloodhounds and a pursuing posse toward Pike's Peak Avenue.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s eightieth birthday celebrated by 3900 women at the Metropolitan Opera House New York City. Organized by the National Council of Women, with some men present, notably John L. C. Hedges. Mayor Strong was ill and stayed home.
The scene featured Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson presiding as Stanton, in white roses, sat on a throne flanked by Anthony and Dickinson. Ninety women filled the auditorium, with two colored attendees among prominent supporters. Address speakers included Hedges, Cary Thomas, Anthony, and Rev Anna B Shaw, with Williams urging support for women’s causes. The program closed late with readings as steamship news followed: the Niagara sank the William Hales, with all crew saved except the latter.
The Labor World reports broad labor strife in multiple sectors. Quarries in Vermont and English railroads see large employments while a new union forms. American wage data show men earning around 3195 and women 1945 annually. Strikes by miners and factory workers surge, with several plants resuming operations under pressure, and widespread demands for wage increases met with refusals. Large coal and ore output targets hint at intensifying labor tension nationwide.
The wedding of Pauline Whitney to Almeria Hugh Paget took place at noon at St. Thomas's Church New York City in a ceremony attended by President Cleveland and top officials. The bride, eldest daughter of former Secretary of the Navy William C Whitney, wore a bear pearl silk gown with a long train and orange blossom decor. The groom, English-born heir to the Paget title, is a grandson of the first Marquess of Anglesey. reception followed at the Whitney residence with extensive floral arrangements and a grand wedding cake.
Report from Purvis Mississippi claims the jail was broken into around midnight and the inmate known as Purvis, once hanged by a sheriff at Columbia but saved by a rope break, remains under sentence. The sheriff was urged to delay further execution while the case reviews. The Supreme Court resentenced Purvis to hang on December VM amid lingering doubts about guilt.
The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park commission submitted its report to the Secretary of War. The park now includes forty seven acres on Missionary Ridge after recent purchases. efforts to acquire more lands were halted by high prices. A separate item notes a deadly incident in Crosby Tennessee where a 10-year-old shot his 15-year-old sister. another report covers seven deaths in a Blackwell Colliery explosion near Derby England.
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