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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1906
Page
4
Theodose Garrison laments a missing Joy of Youth while praising faithful children named Content and Ease and Power who guard him daily. He recalls joys born in gladness and pain and mourns the prodigal figure drifting into the night. The piece blends sentiment with a devotional, intimate tone.
Miss Dennett-Brown arrives with plans to revitalize Chipperton society and bring garden parties. She visits a cottage tenant, pressing churchy tracts and moral advice while noting a sister’s London news and a wealthy widow’s tentative arrival.
A Chicago report, based on six major clipping bureaus, summarizes 2045 accidents from July 1 1905 to July 1 1906 due to misuse of medicines and poisons. Carbolic acid caused 456 accidents with 186 deaths, while morphine and other substances plus common household items produced numerous injuries especially in children. The piece notes most events stem from disregard of directions or access by kids, urges safer storage, and highlights a national push for public information on poison prevention.
A scene unfolds as Miss Dennett Brown encounters a mysterious parish visitor calling herself Tom Lady Macintyre she stays near the Poplars while plotting ahead. The unsettling exchange leaves Miss Dennett unsettled and fearing a misled welcome.
Washington reports from the Department of Agriculture detail two promising citrus hybrids the Palmetto and Morton orange cross varieties. The Palmetto yields small, nearly seedless fruit with uniform size and early maturation, while the Morton orange cross promises larger fruit with sturdy frost tolerance and a lemonade like flavor. Pineapple hybrids are noted to bear fruit in four years under proper care, suggesting renewed propagation by seed.
A humorous collection of old time maxims on money, marriage, fashion, and social norms. The piece riffs on gender roles and behavior with playful, racy observations attributed to a Bathelor fy collection from the New York Press.
The fragment describes Dan Klee of Girard Erie County owning a farm where a large horse mausoleum is built at the foot of stairs. It mentions a white stallion’s remains and a statuary tomb supervised by Klee, with confused slang and stray quotes about sporting life and cabbies from Philadelphia and London.
An odd ceremonial recounts a dean waiting for attendees at a Wednesday service. The clerk Roger remains the sole participant as the assembly fails to appear, prompting a quixotic performance that closes without a crowd.
A collection of farm tips and observations on dairy cream fat content horse feeding and pasture improvement. Notes discuss butter fat standards, light exposure, old stock value, feeding schedules, animal hunger effects, skimmilk as grass top dressing, and a simple wheel design for irrigation chains.
A New Jersey Station trial fed two batches of cows with pulp ration and silage in two fifteen day periods. Milk cost dropped 2.8 cents per 100 pounds, butter 61 cents per pound, while pulp increased yield by about ten percent. Results suggest pulp may not be economical where no corn silage is available.
A dairyman promotes corn and cob meal mixed with ground corn silage and clover hay as superior cow feed, claiming steady milk flow and fat on par with summer pasture, and notes his feed mill as a strong investment. He also raises pigs for milk, citing cost and profit estimates. Scotland ships surge in 1406 with 207 vessels and the Lusitania and Aga Memnon launches.
The Chamber of Commerce reports Western New York and Michigan apple crops show fall varieties falling short of last year while Michigan and the Middle West expect large outputs. Baldwins in Western New York will be smaller. Hudson River district half of 1901. Canada slightly above. Nova Scotia 25 to 35 percent higher. California and Oregon similar to last year.
Connecticut and New England markets show grapes selling at 3 to 4 cents per pound in fall supps with wild grapes at 75 cents to $1 per bushel. Peaches, cucumbers, cabbages, onions, and peppers are reported with variable prices and limited supplies due to disease and drought. Exports rise slightly while cotton and other crops face demand shifts and uncertain futures.
J Daughtrey music publisher of Suffolk Virginia says after two to three years of kidney trouble he passed 214 pounds of gravel and sandy sediment in urine. Since using Doan's Kidney Pills he has not passed a stone and calls the medicine a fine kidney tonic. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
The article describes distances in the solar system from the Moon at about 40,000 miles to the Sun at roughly 90 to 93 million miles and to outer planets Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune. It notes Earth’s orbit around the Sun and that Neptune is about thirty times farther from the Sun than Earth.
A collage of child labor critique from Nuscoe C Sutcliffe in Dallas condemns employers who use children for long hours. The piece shifts to science notes on tree circulation and feeding poorly nourished saplings, then cites shifts in publishing with cheap newspapers doomed. It ends with a note on a Japanese company codifying Atlantic fishing methods in the Ohotsk Sea.
A doctor testifies that stopping coffee and using Postum improved his own long standing heart trouble and stomach nerves. He recommends Postum for patients who suffer from coffee induced symptoms and stresses the product helps the system without coffee.
A Straits Times note describes a Scottish manager tapping rubber trees with minimal labor on Pereak estates. The tigers lie in wait. workers collect sap after tapping the bark rubbed with valerian while coolies patrol daily to harvest the latex.
A Detroit Journal report describes a quarterly lottery in Smolensk where the top prize is a young country girl with possible dowry sheep. Tickets cost about eighty five cents and 5000 are sold per drawing. the winner may marry the girl and gain about 4374 dollars plus any dowry, or may pass the prize to a friend.
A Brunswick consul notes journalism instruction at German Swiss universities and Swiss institutes. Then a Reading Pennsylvania tale shows a widower remarrying quickly, questioning propriety over a Sunday ride with his new wife. Also advised is a poultry farming book selling for 25 cents.
A six year old girl Nellie tells a pastor a stomach ache is from an empty stomach. She insists he would feel better if he had something in it, in a humorous instance cited by Judge's Magazine of Fun.
A quirky Kansas note mentions several railroads with the Central Branch able to hold a train long enough for hens to lay five more eggs. The writer, Osborne Farmer, adds another case can be filled and shipped.
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