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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1899
Page
4
A Victorian era note explains how to establish a coconut grove in Porto Rico. It describes planting nuts, spacing trees about fifteen feet apart for 193 per acre, year round fruit, and simple care with grazing possible on mature orchards. It cites Frank G. Carpenter and the Washington Star.
A tornado, the first ever known in Washington, devastated land 800 to 600 yards wide and fifty miles long. The path stretched from Orting near Tacoma to Mossy Rock and Osthorne in Lewis County. No fatalities occurred though orchards and fences were destroyed.
General Grant and detachments from the Fourth and Fourteenth Infantry with scouts attacked rebels along the Imus River west bank near Bacoor routing entrenched Filipinos at Hinacoyan church. Six Filipinos killed, three Americans wounded. A battery fire supported the assault. A transport ship Siam arrived with cargo lost in a typhoon. 357 horses and mules dead.
A terse phrasing notes that something must not be displayed except at the Spanish Consulate. The exact subject remains unclear but implies restricted visibility within official premises and controlled access or archival handling. No further context is provided about entities, dates, or related actions.
President William McKinley delivers brief remarks to townspeople as Colonel William Bryan remains on the platform after the address. Crowd gathers at Canton for campaign events with Bryan delivering a speech post departure. final exchange between rivals marks end of 1890 meeting. Meanwhile a White Crow steamer sinks near Manila after rats breach the hull, drowning seven aboard. disaster blamed on shipboard rot aided by a rat infestation, with the crew attempting to abandon ship.
General Solwan's column from Bacoor advances into Cavite Viejo and Noveleta on Luzon with the 13th Infantry 14th battalion five cavalry troops and Lowe's scouts. Marines land from Onvite to Noveleta under Colonel Elliott, wading rice fields and fording water, burning huts as they press the attack amid feeble enemy resistance. Gunboats shell Santa Cruz and shore as the action concludes with the marines exhausted and return to Cavite. artillery progress slowed by poor roads.
An order in council alters placermining rules in Yukon. Annual work requirements shift to 200 and a 200 work-fee is payable if the work is not shown. failure within three months risks claim cancellation. After three years dues rise to 400. Abandoned or cancelled claims revert to the Crown. Meanwhile a note updates ulong prison executions and upcoming court building plans.
A scrambled OCR market page lists assorted groceries and livestock with prices. It includes beans, peas, potatoes, apples, cranberries, turkeys, ducks, geese, and other produce. Also shown are live livestock prices for calves, lambs, hogs, and miscellaneous poultry.
Wasaiatoxy reports a colossal corn harvest this year, estimating 2.6 billion bushels, two thirds of world production, grown on a third of U S farms across eight states led by Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, Texas, and Ohio. The article notes implications for agriculture and mortgage payments, with historical price comparisons and a vivid illustration of scale.
In an Irish dock scene Lord Norbury mocked a touring attorney, ordering him put back as a jailor’s prisoner. The jurist quipped about no indictment and promised discharge by public proclamation if no prosecutor appeared, ending with a caustic legal rebuke.
A comic tramcar scene in London features a vain dandy with pince nez who taunts a Highlander soldier. The soldier replies with a blunt quip about his own brother being an idiot, leaving the masher to ponder the social exchange as the ride continues.
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