14 Oct 1887
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1887
Page
1
A reflective piece praises work as the engine of progress and personal virtue. It contrasts labor with mere sentiment, stating duty as the core value and asserting that daily toil sustains family harmony and societal order. The verse underscores steady effort over idle fancy, with a nod to love as a lubricating aid.
An elderly Almeda scholar recalls Elma Griffin once living in Williamsburg and in Brooklyn, detailing a dramatic fevered illness after a near drowning in cold ground. Her narrative unfolds across a frail memory of typhoid, a failed recovery, and episodes of trance like states during convalescence, ending with a sobering personal memory of Rob absent in the California departure.
In a tense San Francisco Examiner passage, a young woman lies presumed dead, awakens in a coffin awaiting burial, and is revived when Robert Purroy returns to the scene. The mother, Mary, and relatives contend with grief as the bedside moment proves life after near burial.
An essay compares quick visual impressions to photographs, noting fifteen minutes can capture a city or exhibition's salient features. It argues that a full view requires study, but the instant impression reveals composition and color, akin to a rapid mental exposure useful in life and art.
Coca grows wild in Peru and Bolivia and is now cultivated widely for cocaine. The plant yields leaves chewed by workers to resist fatigue, with the active principle isolated in 1860 and cocaine identified as a focal anesthetic about three years later.
A New York manufacturer explains progress in artificial limbs for veterans and civilians, noting most need is from accidents, not war. Tales include a man marrying with a prosthetic leg, rail collisions, and cross‑regional supply from Atlantic cities, with Northern firms aiding Confederate veterans and Southern shortfalls.
A collection of societal sketches and fashion observations. The care for lovesick girls urges purposeful work over despair, while fashion passages describe Khedive imagery, hat variety, jeweled bugs as status symbols, and recent trends in mohair dresses and accessories.
Outside Jerusalem a building club has erected 180 houses and more villas along the Jaffa road as European residents create summer resorts. The Mount of Olives slopes are now a major development, crowned by the Church of the Ascension.
Brown claims a girl next door has a bad temper citing her banging hair and frequent piano banging as signs. Jones questions the inference while the remark hints at local tension in a New York setting.
In the Routherd Sea a tall ship rides wind and wave as the albatross appears daily beside the vessel. The bird’s endurance is noted, sailing vast distances with the ocean voyage, its breeding retreat at Ishd, and motion likened to poetry.
The extraordinary nine pearl cross known as the Southern Cross Pearl was found at Roeburn in Western Australia. It consists of nine pearls forming a Latin cross with seven in the shaft and two in the arms, and shows no artificial junction. Its value is high and the owner, an Irishman named Kelly, keeps it secret due to superstition.
A collage of dress notes on heliotrope gowns, sashes, mantles, gloves, and trim details, followed by short scientific items. It covers fabrics, millinery plumes, interior color schemes, and autumn fashion, with ensuing notes on iron expansion, weather observatories, electricity heating, plant nectar glands, and whimsical antiquarian curiosities about ale pegs, Haydn, and gin etymology.
Edgar L. Wakeman writes of Romany customs of visiting across camps from New Braunfels Texas to Pembroke Ohio and beyond. He names families in Ohio Indiana Vermont Boston and Somerville noting wealth, lavish entertainments, and social ties as Gypsies travel vast distances to visit relatives and friends.
A Detroit Free Press style quip shows a health resort owner crediting promotional advertising for its restorative appeal. The visitor asks about Springal cures and the proprietor attributes the cure to the advertising done.
An American mother traveling in France offers half fare for her son who lacks several months of full age. A ticket collector questions the boy and the mother, insisting the son is under seven. The mother replies he is monsieur and not French, keeping calm under the exchange.
In Marshfield Tioga county a cat climbed toward a robin nest in a pear tree. The birds attacked the feline, driving it to the ground with fluttering wings and sharp beaks, while the cats did not threaten their home.
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