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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1901
Page
1
A Boston Post poem fragment contrasts easy smiles under sunny scenes with a true smile offered during hardship. It questions genuine warmth when the world darkens and teardrops fall, urging steadfast cheer beyond pleasant moments.
A late 19th century plan eyed a new railroad through Coconino County into rugged Colorado Plateau scenery to lure tourists. Led by Bowden, a young civil engineer, the expedition included Watts who knew Prescott area perils. The narrative evokes the brutal desert sun over Lava Butte Altar and Painted Desert as the team faced harsh conditions.
Bowden perished after straying across the Painted Desert while Watts sought help at lava country north of the Little Colorado. With dwindling water, exhausted horses, and a vast white gray wasteland, Bowden wandered beyond recognition before dying. Watts later suffered mental collapse and was rescued after days. The party had rested near the Little Colorado and planned to scout Lava Butte, facing extreme heat and disorientation in the barren terrain.
In Chicago Record-Herald an unnamed man endures a brutal dawn chase under a merciless sun. He searches for Watts, drinks the last water, and fights heat, monsters, and despair until he collapses in a last sleep in a land where the sun shines forever.
A London Truth reminiscence about American courtesy and social rank at Windsor. It notes Americans refuse to dine apart from their hosts, contrasting with English aristocratic ritual. The piece recounts Jesse Grant declining Windsor hospitality and debates over who sits where, with judges and diplomats weighing in on precedence and etiquette.
A Pars special in the New York Herald notes this winter’s boulevard trend featuring embroidered waistcoats in blue, green, and multi colors. Afternoon wear favors chenille or silk garments with intricate embroidery, while evenings call for black or white silk waistcoats, plain or embroidered, with velvet options. Wealthy ladies reportedly embroider their husbands and sweethearts waistcoats.
Haneen reports a method in Paris to convert garbage from slaughterhouses fish markets straw and sand into briquettes using tar and napthalene. The briquettes burn with a gas like odor heat slowly and may rival coal with improved manufacture reducing smoke and ash production.
The British Journal of Photography notes that Vatican observers began erecting a tower for celestial study in 1582 under Pope Gregory XII, with Crescenzi crediting the pope for the project, connected to calendar reform. It adds 1588 is often misdated as the observatory’s founding. A rich American reportedly offered a giant telescope for the Vatican.
The column surveys dress trends in silk and crepe, detailing edge patterns and flounces, notes on jackets and long coats, and discusses skirt construction with emphasis on fit and decorative trims. It also covers portraits of Princess Louise and Roosevelt sisters, charity circles, and a long discourse on the servant girl question in modern households.
Fragmentary OCR text references figures and roles such as a deputy sheriff and public action but lacks coherent events, dates, or names to form a factual headline or summary. The snippet mentions Miss Syl via Stewart, deputy sherlay, a Prone Government, milliners, and Dookbinder, but no verifiable context or outcome.
Geary of Cleveland studies design and trimming with Mas Birkenruth in London and other women cited include Myra Dock named to Pennsylvania State Forestry Commission. References to Lillian De Garro streetcar conductor, Alice Rigg marble letter carve, Eva Ferris livery driver, Dudley Phelps invention for NYPD, Sarah Bernhardt summer home, Balmoral Queen’s chapel conversion, and Alexandra and Edward at Balmoral estate.
The piece blends fashion trends with moral and philosophical musings. It notes blue silk stock ings and Parisian couturier details like box pleated ruchings and onyx buttons, amid reflections on virtue, religion, and social manners, creating a collage of style and sentiment from a historic period.
Armed guards from a U S battleship reestablished transit across the Isthman rail line near Colon Colombia Protecting trains as fighting raged along the railroad from Culebra to Empire Station Between Liberal forces led by General Lugo and Alban advancing Liberals suffered heavy losses with over 150 wounded seen along the track Descriptions note bombardment at Empire Station and poor Red Cross relief amid ongoing clashes.
The article explains how Captain Perry was placed in full command of U S naval forces on both sides of the isthmus to coordinate operations near Colon and Panama. Commander McCrea received discretionary powers to prevent bombardment while maintaining American interests, with the State Department warning against attacking Panama.
Reports from Manila detail Captain Edward P. Lawton’s Nineteenth Infantry storming a fortified insurgent position on Bohol Island south of Cebu. Sergeant List and Sergeant McMahon led a rear assault after three hours of ascent through thick brush, routing the defenders. Casualties and captures followed as the insurgents fled 150 yards from Lawton’s company, with larger captives buried and smaller ones removed.
In Athens a student and popular protest against translating the Gospels into modern Greek led to violent riots, with cavalry wounded, revolvers fired, and seven killed plus about thirty wounded. The unrest tied to political anti Slav sentiment and opposition to Royal influence. The Premier Theotoklas narrowly escaped an assassination attempt as guards fortified the Palace and government offices.
The third annual Pittsburg fat stock show closed with a banquet for shippers and dealers. At the auction the prize winners and other cattle set beef on the hoof price records. Charles Escher bid up first prize winners to twenty one and a half cents per pound, the top price for a carload. The big steer weighed 2190 pounds and sold for 1220 dollars, valued by A. D. Bassel of Lost Creek West Virginia.
Colonel Lynch has been elected to Parliament in Galway with 1217 votes against Plunkett's 473. He formerly commanded Boer forces and, if he seats himself, may be arrested and sent to South Africa to stand trial for treason. Plunkett supposes he would overturn the result if Lynch is declared a traitor.
New York City officers testing the Guthmann gun decided to abandon further tests after observing the effects of a service shell charged with twenty pounds of Triximite. The shell fired from a twelve inch rifle with reduced smokeless powder and four miles range shattered the target into fragments.
The National Shawmut Bank to acquire two thirds of the National Bank of the Commonwealth and merge. Combined capital totals 5 million with nearly 50 million in deposits. The consolidation would create a larger rival bank with plans to include multiple national banks. Postmaster Wilson resigns. Mondovi WI bank robbers steal over 5000. Chief Justice Gummere sworn in in New Jersey. arbitration court in the Hague deems Boer appeal incompetent in South Africa war.
Fragmentary report notes 2000 Arab laborers to Rhondesia on Rhodes influence, a Vienna school for walters, and pay rises for Union Pacific firemen. Mentions 27,852 union members in Berlin, Amalgamated Car enters with 900 branches and 3,000,000 members, Brooklyn Navy Yard work shortage, France planning industrial education in U S, and Greater New York unions with telephone links.
A wide sweep of reports notes Senate refurbishments, Interior progress on Inman affairs, and a costly Nicaragua Canal plan. US shipping, education in the Philippines, legal actions in Ohio and Minnesota, and a spate of crimes, rail accidents, expots, and political resignations fill the week.
The secretary recommends stricter import quarantine like Britain, while urging domestic agricultural investigations in the Philippines. The report highlights export values above 250 million dollars and notes extensive inspections of cattle sheep horses and mules, imported animals, disinfected cars, disease control efforts, and an expanded Weather Bureau forecast network for rural delivery.
In Peconic Bay a Holland submarine torpedo boat sank to the bay bottom during a 15 hour test. Crew of six including Rear-Admiral John Lowe Captain Frank T Cable and Charles Bergh reported comfort and adequate air supply. Captain Cable closed the conning tower hatch at 7 pm as a gale raged, proving air quality for extended submersion.
George Lane his wife a teenage daughter and an adopted son are arrested in Pittsburg Kansas charged as leaders of a robbery gang that has plagued stores for a year. $1000 in stolen goods found at their West Fourth Street home. The boy reportedly hid in stores until locked in then watched for rear doors to steal. Lane, a contractor, long viewed as a respectable citizen.
The murder of Oliver Alpaugh, a Cokesbury notable, sparked a statewide sensation. His body was found in a wagon with crushed head injuries after a quarrel near High Bridge, with a possible robbing motive suspected. Emmit Farley reported hearing threats around 7:30 p.m. while Alpaugh reportedly traveled with $40. The case suggests homicide by a club and possible staging to mimic an ambush.
An inquiry by the Navy Department Ordnance Bureau found that premature detonation of thirteen inch shells on the Kearsarge Kentucky and Alabama was caused by caplives being detonated by gases from fuse connections. Gases entered shells through fuse threads, igniting charges before launch. The defect will be fixed by capping the fuzes on projectiles.
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