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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1886
Page
1
A fragment from a verse reminiscence contrasts youth and maturity. It references striving, fears, and ideals of guarding truth. The text evokes a chorus of lines about longing, sacrifice, and hope, concluding with a note on Blackwood's Magazine as the source.
Readable segments recount the legend of Paul Wendelboe Baron Lenwenenrue, an equerry at the Danish court, who wins a pure kiss from a maiden Lugeborg after traveling tales. The piece weaves travel, Russian service, and royal favor into a romantic origin story carried by Rose Hytinge in Graphic.
The old testimony describes how local hostility to revenue officers once hindered raids on illicit stills. Traders and households would warn, and signals would spread, indicating a community-wide resistance. The speaker notes partial moderation today due to temperance influence and a general rise in respect for law. He adds observations on locality signs indicating illicit distilling.
A dialogue quotes a wife who declares she is always busy and once did all the family sewing while another says she has decorated seventeen work baskets. The snippet reflects a lighthearted exchange on domestic roles.
Rufus Choate praised Daniel Webster saying every great speech brimmed with devotion to the good and glory of America. He noted Webster felt no North or South and sought unity, tracing his history knowledge as a statesman. The passage highlights how national life and unity moved the colonies toward one united nation. Ben Perley Poore furnishes the quotation.
In a Boston Courier piece the bridegrooms conversation turns awkward as the bridegroom questions a hook injury while the bridegroom’s child brother probes if the incident hurt him. The mother orders quiet as tension rises at the table.
The piece reviews water as a factor in obesity, noting Paris experiments by Dr Debove show no weight change with varying water intake if solid food remains constant. It cautions against extreme thirst or hot water therapies, and offers moderation in eating, sleeping, and walking as safer guidance.
The article recounts Landseer’s fascination with lions from boyhood, noting he sought every dead lion’s body in London and shared vivid anecdotes of his rapid drawing feats. It also surveys New York’s palatial apartment blocks rising near Central Park, with tenants paying high rents and builders betting on the shift from old inner-wall housing to grand new towers.
Eye witness recounts the morning collision near the Newfoundland Narrows between the schooner Mary Ann and the Somerset. Four to five lives lost include Charles Weeks and Nicholas Milley. remaining crew and passengers rescued. Both vessels lacked lights, authorities say the collision was accidental.
Reading of scattered items notes nine public school pupils in Allegan Michigan are married women. baby alligators sold as ladies pets. Charleston relief fund gifts from Rothschilds and Barings. new shoe lasting machine increases output. vast balloon built in San Francisco. Georgia prohibition coverage. Louisiana sugar yield drop. New York lunch at 1 pm for large numbers. Notre Dame gilding cost and work progress noted.
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