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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1896
Page
1
A Milan of curiosities and quirks spans population estimates for Hawaiians and Japan’s influence on culture. Edouard Martel launches speleology, while MacDonald wants nationwide measurements. The piece meanders through potatoes, laughter cures, bread costs, and bicycle romance shaping society.
A nostalgic Thanksgiving verse by Edward E Creamer calls for broad sharing and gratitude. It praises harvest gifts, turkey pies, and community cheer from all homes, urging kindness to the needy and thanks for life in these days.
In a ferocious Thanksgiving Eve gale of 1889 the Calumet, a Buffalo to Milwaukee propeller carrying eighteen, struggled in Lake Michigan. Grounded near Fort Sheridan after a night of freezing seas and failed pumps, a U S Life-Saving Service crew led by Keeper Lawrence Lawson braved ice and breakers to rescue all aboard. The heroic volunteers earned the government gold medals, and the rescued crew joined locals for a grateful Thanksgiving at Fort Sheridan.
A Thanksgiving activity entertains children by a geography map game. Players are assigned corners representing places like New York and Moscow. One child guides a path home to Thanksgiving Day, naming seas, countries, and oceans crossed, while others become prisoners along the route. The exercise teaches geography through playful challenge.
A Kentucky inland turkey pen ships thirty thousand birds each season for Thanksgiving demand. Turkeys are herded in pens, killed by a stomacher method, drawn head down, bled, and picked by workers. Prices vary from two and a half to fifteen cents per pound, with two to four thousand birds picked daily.
The passage humorously portrays a boastful turkey that dominates talk around Thanksgiving. Uncle Eben and villagers joke about big families and the festivity, with the Goose and turkey exchanging quips about dressing and dinner. The poem-like chatter captures seasonal humor and community vibes centered on the holiday meal.
Fragmentary OCR yields a surreal note about a Turk sleeping at midnight in a place named Hua Gupeded, with dream imagery of eerie aims and undertones. Unclear full context. no clear event or date.
Digest of society notes and fashion columns recounts Mrs Kruger’s carriage envy in Transvaal lore, a London vestry vote making Miss A Elliot Sanitary Inspector, and a tide of female observers and reforms. It chronicles cycling in Britain, Montenegrin romance, and varied European coronation chatter with vivid portraits of women’s roles, dress trends, and social aims.
A Pittsburg Dispatch item describes two clergymen walking together when one slipped on an orange peel. The fall prompted a quip about the wicked standing on slippery ground, noting the humor of the moment.
A collage of light verse fragments and humorous quotes from various papers. Snippets recall jokes about romance in Yale and Cleveland humor, with brief exchanges on beauty, attire, and social situations. A Boston Globe telephone gag ends the roundup with a domestic twist.
An oculist warns that looking upward for long periods strains eye muscles and lids, causing discomfort. He urges gallery curators to tilt high pictures slightly to reduce vertical strain, noting the eye is not built for prolonged upward viewing. The condition may affect others beyond students and could warrant restrictions.
The American Machinist reports a remarkable move of the shop Teferrado in Boston to clear space for New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad elevation work. The brick factory, 359 by 50 feet, shifted 3000 by 50 feet with no halt in operations, powered by electric motors fed from a special generating plant. The building moved 860 feet while continuing work to handle a rush of business.
Discovery notes by M Ueary reported to the Academia dos Sciences describe glowworms placed on a photographic plate for up to two hours producing black and white lines matching the worms glow. The author proposes the glow light could penetrate opaque substances like X rays, hinting at potential scientific use for glow light.
A Kansas farmer plans a novel project on a quarter section near Freeport involving a thousand black cats and 5000 rats to test perpetual motion concepts. He estimates the cats’ value at a dollar each and predicts rapid reproduction, with cats feeding rats and rats in turn providing food for the cats. The report cites the Warren Sentinel and Cincinnati Enquirer as noting signaling experiments with colored rings and multiple signals, but the scientific basis remains unclear.
A sprawling digest notes Bishop Batteries presenting a petition to the Czar on Armenians, calls for liberal coast defense spending, and reports on 207 Republicans, 187 Democrats, 19 Populists in Congress. It covers court rulings on Wright Irrigation, a new Internal Revenue Commissioner, naval trials, shipwrecks, burglaries, robberies, murders, and a flood of international items from Europe and the Americas.
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