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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1909
Page
1
A devotional verse expressing thanks for daily comforts health labor and freedom from want. It praises God for tender care common blessings friends and joy in labor and prayer. It reflects faith in the Redeemer and hope of heaven while noting sorrows and disappointments that shape enduring joy.
Mary Acker, a Boston department store clerk from Newton Village, battles city life and ambition. She contemplates a glamorous Thanksgiving with Harold Goldman, yet clings to modest roots as a comforting home parcel arrives from family.
An essay discusses Thanksgiving in American life, contrasting it with other holidays and stressing religion's role in national and personal gratitude. It notes readers' views abroad, domestic life myths, and the deep cultural value placed on family and home.
A reflective piece contrasts Mary’s choice to return home for Thanksgiving with a father’s hopeful note about money and family. It recalls the holiday’s New England origins, Civil War-era national adoption, and the American emphasis on gratitude, family reunion, and virtue amid prosperity.
A historic column offers tips for autumn table setting with centerpieces of fall leaves and fruit bouquets. It notes gathering leaves before November rains, using pressed leaves on place cards, and alternatives like vegetables as decorations.
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company announces it has gained control of a substantial minority stake in Western Union Telegraph, signaling a wide merged network. The move ties Postal Telegraph and related firms into a vast $1.59 to 2 billion asset group, with shares and bonds totaling over $1.5 billion. George Gould noted selling Western Union stock to AT&T, with rumored prices around $85 per share.
Mrs Augusta E Stetson leader of the New York Christian Science Church admits error after a two day conference with church directors She says Mrs Eddy's letter read to members prompted her confession and admission of fault in the controversy in Boston Mass
Charles A. Gomer a former New Jersey legislator died at Rowan County Home North Carolina after a troubled life. He had left his wife for a woman in Spencer who later went insane and died in a state hospital. Gomer confessed the woman was not his wife and his health deteriorated.
C. L. Wariner indicted in Cincinnati over a Big Four shortage alleged to total 643000 dollars. Warriner faces charges related to the loss and investigated by authorities.
Chief Flynn of the United States Secret Service aided by a police squad arrested fourteen Italians in New York City for passing counterfeit money and involvement in Black Hand outrages. Four thousand dollars in counterfeit $2 bills were seized.
The four mile Brooklyn subway line construction begins with the Public Service Commission in charge. The project marks a major transit expansion as crews start digging communications and tunneling work in the city.
In Washington DC eighteen year old Archer Christian of Virginia died from a cerebral hemorrhage after a concussion sustained in the Georgetown game. Authorities canceled remaining games as his parents and brother were at his side at the hospital.
Paris jury returned a not guilty verdict after two and a half hours deliberation in the case of Mme Steinhell accused of murdering her husband and stepmother. She fainted at times but smiled as she learned of acquittal and prepared for release at St Lazare prison before fleeing with reporters in pursuit.
Myra L. Swift a nineteen year old Wellesley College student died at Somerville Hospital from brain concussion after being thrown from an automobile returning from the Harvard Dartmouth game. Daughter of Richard Swift Medford she was engaged to Percy A. Ham who was thrown from the wreck.
Miss Lillie Sutton of Oceans Springs Mississippi turned herself in after the Supreme Court commuted her seven year sentence for theft. The case notes she was left parentless and caring for an invalid brother, factors believed to have impaired her mind and rendered her act irresponsible.
Secretary Nagel of the Department of Commerce and Labor said he does not agree with a recent ruling by Richard K. Campbell chief of the Naturalization Division that opposed naturalization for Syrians and other similar races. Nagel emphasized that personal character matters more than nationality.
The general committee on foreign missions of the Methodist Church in session at Albany apportioned more than $825 000 for missionary work across the world.
Postmaster-General Hitchcock appointed Dr. C. P. Grandfield as the first Assistant Postmaster-General and postmaster of Washington to succeed the late B. F. P. Barnes who died recently.
Berkeley artist Sarah Slaughter De Lorme dies leaving instructions to chiroform and cremate her two Spitz dogs and mix their ashes with hers to be strewn outside. Dr J Edson Kelsey oversees the dog sacrifice and John Streightff undertaker handles cremation duties.
Mrs Allan Read formerly treasurer of charitable groups appeared in West Side Court November 10 1908 armed with amnesia defense. She allegedly tried to extort thousands from Mrs Genevieve Chandler Phipps of Beaver by dynamite threats.
The report ties Lillian and Annie Russell to a paris trial while referencing Mme Steinhell. It notes Mrs Philip Snowden opposing militant suffrage and Miss Elkins’ Europe visit stirring elite disapproval. President Taft endorses suffrage to 800 Columbus Mississippi students amid diverse social notices.
Rescue teams at the St. Paul mine in Cherry Illinois declare the entombed miners dead after floods of fire and collapsing earth trapped more than 300 workers. Efforts to recover bodies halted as flames force abandonment of the shaft and widows and orphans rise in the town. Duncan McDonald of United Mine Workers announces a roll call of families.
President Taft proclaims November 25 as a general day of thanksgiving. The proclamation, issued from the State Department, calls upon the nation to attend church services and give thanks for peace, crops, and industrial progress. The notice, dated November 15, 1909, is signed by William H Taft and Secretary P C Knox.
Evidence presented in a New York antitrust case shows the American Ice Company allegedly sent boats up the Hudson River early in 1900 to break up rival ice stocks.
Staunton Virginia Justice records that Clifton Breckenridge, twenty, will die December 17 in the electric chair for attacking the jailer G A Hutcheson’s granddaughter Utseveroth. Judge Holt summoned a special grand jury, and Breckenridge was indicted, tried, and sentenced within six hours.
A mob attacked and killed James a Black man and Henry Salzner a white man after battering a county jail, dragging them through Cairo streets. Miss Annolo Pelley a 22 year old white woman was strangled and her body burned after being assaulted in front of her Cairo home. Police, spectators and bystanders describe a night of violence with several arrests and a manhunt for more Black suspects.
In Memphis Tennessee a African American assailant killed two white men Edward Cardwell and Edward Koonts who were boarding a street car midnight. The shooter, Willan Smith, a negro, drew a revolver after an argument and fatally shot the men before leaping from the car and surrendering to police.
Mrs Chesbrough of Boston wife of a ship owner was held in 2500 bond by Judge Cross in U S Court on smuggling charges. She allegedly entered at Hoboken with furs and gowns concealed in a trunk with a false bottom valued at 2400 dollars while concealing goods to amount to 109 dollars.
Earl Bullock a fourteen or fifteen year old boy bandit from Lawrence Kansas accompanied by William M McKay a fifteen year old of Jacksonville Florida attempted to repeat a prior theft by robbing the Endora State Bank of 800 dollars after shooting banker Fred Starr. Pressed by armed citizens Bullock likely wounded himself mortally. Earlier Bullock in a prior hold up killed a policeman during a bank raid. Officers believed he had left the state with about 2000 dollars before the latest robbery near closing time.
George Lamprecht former manager of Lamprecht Brothers & Co was convicted of embezzling 2932 dollars from Ralph Ellsworth of Lakewood New Jersey who entrusted funds for railway stock. The firm failed over a year ago with assets approximating 1 500 000 dollars and was a member of the New York Stock Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade.
The State Department in Washington has asked the Cuban Government for an explanation of the new trade treaty with Spain. It is said that the continuance of the reciprocity treaty between the United States and Cuba will depend on the response.
The New York Central Railroad announced retirement and pension plans for its employees, outlining benefits and eligibility as part of its long term workforce strategy.
Fountain L Thompson of Cando North Dakota was appointed by Governor Burke at Dis marck to fill the unexpired term of Senator M N Johnson who died recently.
Frank Czolgosz aged forty elder brother of Leon Czolgosz the assassin of President McKinley died at his home in Estowen colony near Aberdeen Washington from heart disease.
Directors of the Monteflora Home in New York City announce a new and larger institution to cost $1,250,000. Taft’s upcoming message to Congress will focus on corporate control and reaffirm Roosevelt policy. Premier Briand narrowly survives a Chamber vote against changing lower house elections. Privy councillors named Sir 2 HW Seymour and Sir Edgar Speyer. Shackleton knighted on King Edward’s birthday. Rev J D McCormick sues hotel keeper Mrs Acker Colling for $26,000 over a sermon. MacVeagh and Loeb discuss New York City customs fraud cases and appoint local officials on enforcement.
New Jersey engineers on the Lackawanna twenty eight mile cut off at Andover report a change from a direct cut to a tunnel segment. cost up by twenty eight thousand dollars due to soft rock and a crater like interior. rock will require steel and concrete support similar to other major tunnels. Surrogate Cornell in Trenton heard a family dispute over Mrs. Wood’s will with heirs seeking to alter disinheritance. court ruled out of court changes but will proceed with equal division of the estate of about one hundred thirty thousand dollars.
South Bethlehem resident George F. Hendricks was robbed on a Lehigh Valley Railroad train by a man with a revolver. His watch rings and a purse with over a hundred dollars were taken as the thief fled near South Plainfield station.
William Scott aged sixty of Delawanna drowned after being buried in a seventeen foot well at the D L W Hotel. Prospective shoring work ended with Scott dead after two hours of digging by twenty five men led by hotel proprietor P J Hyland who heard his cries.
Mrs. Adolph Steffina suffered fatal injuries after a burglary at Mt Bethel. The intruder beat her and ransacked the home before fleeing empty handed. The milkman found her unconscious on the door step. furniture was overturned showing a struggle. The 18 dollar tree remained untouched.
Samuel M. Rodgers, a waste paper dealer, was found guilty of murder in the second degree for shooting Patrick Connell on October 7 after Connell attacked his daughter. The court noted a 15 to 30 year penalty range. In a separate item, Steve Was menski of Lake View set fire to his wife’s bed when she would not rise for breakfast. Judge Scott sentenced him to six months in county jail.
The bridge committee of the Boards of Freeholders and Atlantic and Cane May Counties at Ocean City directs engineers to draw plans for a thirty foot wide bridge across Great Egg Harbor Bay from Somers Point to Beasley’s Point. The project aims to be wholly independent of any railroad.
Mrs. Charlotte Campbell, Vineland’s first resident to reach 100, marked the milestone with visitors and greetings. She has lived in Vineland for eighty years.
Sebastian Maulbeck of Hoboken was fined 100 by Magistrate Izard at May's Landing after killing a large dog deer near Weymouth. He may keep half the deer along with the head and skin.
President Taft returned to the White House after a long tour of the West and South covering about 13,000 miles. He spoke in Richmond at the City Auditorium delivering his 266th address of the trip and praised the reception from crowds. He planned brief calls at the Executive Offices and a forthcoming address in Washington for the Laymen's Missionary Society.
At the Ferry Building arcade in San Francisco Ignate Novikan shot and killed Mrs. F A Scholtz and her daughter Betty before shooting himself. Police say the laborer and son in law to Mrs Scholtz was driven by rage over alleged money demands toward the rancher family in Sonoma County.
At Haatinge Nob Trector McLean of Brush Col identified the late Charles McLean Schlatter the divine healer as his brother. Hector McLean heard the story of his brother's wanderings in the last thirty five years through David McNaughton of Chicago. The funeral was held there for the lost brother.
Nicaraguan exiles in Panama send a message to President Taft begging him not to heed President Zelaya s requests for aid.
Judge Hutton of the Los Angeles Superior Court upheld the right of a native Syrian to become a U S citizen against Federal efforts. The court ruled the Syrian was not Mongolian but Aryan, and thus eligible for naturalization. The Government plans an appeal arguing the claimant, George Shishhim born in Lebanon, owes allegiance to Turkey and should be classified Mongolia.
October totals from the National Highways Protective Society show eight killed and twenty injured by autos in Manhattan while Brooklyn reports two killed and nine injured by autos and three killed five injured by auto and horse trucks. The data indicate the worst October on record for highway deaths and injuries in this region.
Mrs Ulys ses S Grant wife of a Grant son and Chaffee Grant daughter died in San Diego of apoplexy after years of invalidism. She survived her husband and five children including Mrs U S Macey Chaffee Grant U S Grant IV Julia Dent Grant and Fanny Grant. She was the daughter of former Colorado Senator Chaffee.
In New York City the Sheffield Farms Slawson Decker Company is absorbed by Borden's Condensed Milk Company. The combined capital is $31,000,000, creating a large rival to existing producers.
The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor at Toronto recommended appealing the Samuel Gompers case and other officers under sentence to the United States Supreme Court. Bread crumb caused a man's death when lodged in his throat during luncheon as Joseph Stone of Murray Hill New Jersey died shortly after.
Queen Helena of Italy is dubbed the children's queen. Ivy Woodward gains full membership in the College of Physicians of Louon. The Woman's party forms at a Carnegie-proud convention. Margaret Alington seeks divorce on non support after leaving the stage. Edna Tunis sues Arthur Tunis for divorce amid secrecy. Erasmus High School girls resist a hair fashion ban. Theodore Roosevelt and family tour Rome. Rubama Skidmore, reelected foreign secretary of the US Geographical Society, had held the post previously.
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