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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1904
Page
4
A collage of quotes on worry and death, notes on Saxony’s green vaults with sapphires and rubies, plus ads praising Hall’s Catarrh Cure and a moral about coffee and tobacco. It weaves literary reflections, royal possessions, health cures, and self-help exhortations into a single era-like page.
A blaze at 186 Trautman Street in Wilkinsburg Brooklyn killed about fourteen residents, many suffocated before reaching a rear fire escape. The fire spread rapidly through a three story frame building, with two families wiped out and minardi grocery store at 180 Trautman Street heavily implicated, while investigators consider cellar or woodshed origins and note alarm delays and heavy damage estimated at $10 000.
Charles W Johnson, a life prisoner who killed Old Man Abbott last summer, escaped Sing Sing and was found clinging to a plank submerged near the river pier. Nearly starved and frozen, he was too weak to speak and was returned to the prison hospital after guards spotted him.
Russian reports say the torpedo-boat destroyer Hasteramiy was destroyed at Chefoo after leaving Port Arthur. Officials claimed sealed orders and a planned self-destruction. one crewman remained aboard to trigger the explosion as vessels withdrew.
Reports say Heino Ludeen of Moorhead was shot and killed when train robbers forced four others to jump from a moving freight near Elk River Minnesota. The murderers fled as Sheriff Ward coordinated search with Anoka authorities.
A Mobile Avis fire at Enfania Als early this hour wiped out a fine block of buildings. Firefighters labored until nearly noon to extinguish the blaze. Valuable goods moved to the street worsened the situation. The Eufaula Rifles arrived promptly but could not save Wiel armory and related equipment. Loss only partly covered.
In Pittsburg, railroads report only half of freight moving as a prolonged drought and lack of fresh water for engines cripples operations. Water in boilers froths, engines fail, and trains stall amid the mounting supply disruption.
A well dressed, educated man believed to be J. C. Fitzgerald of Albany became violently insane aboard a train near South Omaha. Paul was removed to the police station for medical treatment. A San Francisco to Albany journey was interrupted as a physician judged the illness temporary and expected recovery.
Unclear and fragmentary text describes Parker in New York City opening a shop or outlet with connections to Sheehan A Calta and WH fits TP Steels. Mentions a judge Parker, a fatal patient statement, and various unrelated items including stock movements, church matters, and notable people, all in a garbled OCR style.
A jumble of advice on marriage emphasizes self restraint and warns against dependence on husbands. The text crosscuts with odd anecdotes, including a large preserved fish egg, a church organ moment, and a farmer’s tale, all in a period newspaper voice.
Fragmented remnant of a 1843 disruption shows shepherds joining the Free Kirk while one dog’s clash with established authority ends in a fatal hat misstep. Other snippets touch on naval doctrine, Milan’s safety instrument, and Queen Alexandra’s fashion notes.
An assorted 1903 newspaper clippings batch cites Jaederen Norway as a magnetic coast with compass deviation seen three miles offshore and shipwrecks blamed on iron ore. It recounts Blue Beard aka Giles de Rais, his crimes, arrest, trial, and execution with a penitence claim. It also notes fashion trends and public anecdotes from London to New York and a San Marino reform moment amid a small populace.
The Department of Agriculture confirms this year's corn crop at 2,453,000,000 bushels, revised from November estimates. Production in surplus states totals 1,422,000,000 bushels, 25,000,000 less than October projections, reflecting typical shifts from forecast to actual yield.
The report cites a decision by a U S Circuit Court reversing the Board of Appraisers on a tariff matter for wound-on spools under Viv Dingtey advanced manufacture with duty forty cents per pound. It notes light cotton speculation, rising railroad earnings, large October exports, and ongoing price shifts in grain and refrigeration charges.
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