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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1886
Page
1
A poetic fragment by Benjamin F. Taylor envisions a bright morning after trials. The speaker imagines night turning to day, celestial imagery, Arctic ice, and hopeful lines about enduring sorrow, ending with the refrain that all will be right in the morning.
Amy recalls a troubling visit to relatives where a striking man named Mr. Chase charmed Alice with music flowers and intense eyes. The suitor’s courtship grows uneasy until Ettie interrupts and reveals Chase was sent back to the Harrisburg asylum.
A narrator recalls an overpowering romance with a man rumored insane. She aids his escape from a lunatic's influence, then faces his return and marriage after learning he is not the Chase she feared. Cousin Julia intervenes and the truth emerges.
Severe shocks in Charleston prompt engineers to reconsider design against earthquakes. A Sanitary Engineer summarises Milne ideas such as horizontal cast iron bearing plates, deep foundations, curved arches, non aligned windows, light upper walls and roofs, and avoidance of tall structures to reduce failure during quakes.
A Chicago Herald letter admires Pittsburg’s natural gas uses from vent pipes to vast furnace heat. It notes gas pressure, main and pipe systems, and the heavy reliance on wells from Washington County, plus the idea that gas may reach other cities. Also discussed are earthquake causes tied to cooling Earth crust and regional faulting, with New York Sun as source.
Colonel Bowser met Jenks and inquired about his work. Jenks explains he is selling a deodorizing power and disinfectant to mask insect powder smells. He hints at a future product to remove the disinfectant odor.
A medical discussion notes baldness arising from nervous system disturbances. Cases include total body hair loss after brain injury, hair loss on one side after concussion, patchy loss, striped whitening, and the rare progressive facial atrophy with facial hair decline. Treatment depends on the underlying disease.
A Minnesota writer quotes a Dakota wholesale firm member recounting a $110 exchange that led to a 75 cent mischarge. He pressed the bank cashier who replied Dakota is a desperate country but not here for health. The extra fifty cents covered the trouble of writing.
A family scene shows Augustus manipulating a lawnmower in the evening for exercise while his wife watches on the piazza. His sister-in-law jokes he is like a deceased person because he is no mower, prompting grief in the household.
In the Var department on the maritime foothills Mme de Bustaing turned a poor calcareous plot into a thriving flower farm. Starting in 1881 with violets jasmine roses and other blooms the farm grew rapidly and by 1885 the Seillana site yielded rental income of about 115 a year.
The passage notes a net profit of 7 767.86 on revenues around 43 154 with plants and shrubs at Scillans not yet at full productive capacity. It highlights early fourth year results under favorable locations and good management as indicative of potential gains.
An excerpt from Camp Life on the Satpura Range describing Hindu superstition about stars as angels lamps and a Mohammedan view. It notes evolving tombstone fashions over decades, including horizontal marble tables on four columns and pastor penned verses, with 19th century stone types and face carvings.
The Beefeaters of the World debate Mr P S Lamas a noted economist and data compiler who claims Europe consumes 45 pounds of beef per person yearly while Australia and the United States range around 130 to 150 pounds. He asserts 47.5 million cattle globally equates to an ox and a half per Briton yet none for others, inviting scrutiny of these figures.
A collage of quips and scenes features a stage driver likened to a horse and a lawyer on a conveyance, a tooth that keeps acting, and a young man who has never fired in war yet claims powder. A singer Limburger draws Germany’s notice, and a tramp protests his back tag with a new suit. An editor with nine unmarried daughters and a cash strapped father swap lines amid a London gold friction note.
Animals seek dust mud and shade to rid parasites and soothe illness. Dogs eat grass as emetic. cats chew greens. livestock seek herbs. Woundedants use ant help and self amputation by teeth. water therapy aids venom effects. Delaunay argues hygienic therapeutics in animals can inform psychology and medicine.
A compendium of reflections on stopping points in speech, appetite, pride, and life, citing a Chicago Journal line on knowing when to end one’s utterances and avoid harming others with excess. It closes with a humorous Life magazine quip about a tailor’s ruined trousers and a request for the fabric piece.
A Madrid cabinet miscue led to premature telegrams revealing the death sentences of insurgent leaders. The error prompted a public panic until the Queen’s Council convened and the law was published as authentic, sparing the prisoners from immediate execution. The affair centers on Sagasta and an under secretary’s telegram mistake.
Report summarizes 1880s baseball standings, team notes, profits, and player rankings. Chicago and St Louis clubs praised for consistency while mentioning New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Boston franchises. League and American Association records show Chicago champions and St Louis leading in profits and attendance contexts.
A garbled digest lists various items: a Fargo police officer with a gold headed cane, annual peanut production, crowded London suburbs, costly international yacht races, British election spending, prison-made footwear output, a Navy ship design prize, oleomargarine fines in New York, Arbor Day in San Francisco with 20 000 trees planted, Canadian Pacific snow shed costs, Zuni language work in Boston, hog packing totals, an artesian well in Aberdeen Nebraska with many fish, livestock in Australia, Holland celebrating Buckels discovery, ships from Buenos Aires to Savannah meeting near Savannah, California wheat crop projected to double, and a remark about Mrs Benson Olapxe and Mr Durnley after a piano scene.
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