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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1895
Page
1
A survey of topics ranging from European labor and emigration to Scotland and Sicily, plus British politics, Niagara Falls energy potential, Salisbury Cathedral fears, and American forestry decline. It cites figures, places, and notable persons while commenting on international affairs and science.
A collage notes age myths of heroines, shifts in lumber markets to South Africa, pauper relief figures for July, and Belgian frog hunts. It also cites a Pall Mall tale on Frascati bachelors, mock protests by ladies, and praises Missouri Botanic Garden founder Henry Shaw whose endowment funds a vast collection.
A collection of aphorisms on virtue courage and wisdom with references to self improvement and life philosophy. Notable lines discuss seeing behind appearances and the difference between true courage and contempt for life. The tone mirrors a 19th century moral miscellany from The South West.
A Bavarian minister visiting Winterthur was seized by detectives and jailed as a wanted criminal after Swiss police, aided by a government official, identified him from a portrait that resembled a thief. The minister was released once misidentification was confirmed.
A reflective verse piece recalls the day’s end on a meadow farm. A man guides cows home beside a rippling brook while memories of youth and past happiness surface as the sun sinks.
A Paris tale follows a clever band of thieves known as the Seillpul group as they execute a daring jewelry heist. The narrative centers on unraveling clues, suspects, and the chase through historic streets.
In midwinter Paris at the Theatre Francais Empress and Emperor attend a performance A mysterious thief steals a diamond earring from Comtesse Woronzoff A later police trace involves M Dumont and a suspected thief The tale ends with the loss unsolved and the earring gone for good.
The glow-worm cavern system near Southport Tasmania is noted for its series of distinct caverns about four miles from Ida Bay. An underground river-like main cavern features a water-filled floor and ceilings that glow from millions of glow-worms, a phenomenon linked to limestone formations.
In a recount maneuver the British fleet split across the Atlantic by 100 miles and unknown positions. Each squadron sought the other, locating them in six hours and forming a junction twelve hours after the start.
A Mexican ranch owner Garcia fights Manuel and five brigands to rescue a kidnapped boy. Garcia kills Manuel and two lieutenants, escapes wounded, and later learns his wife died and son was killed. His town honors his courage even as sorrow follows him for decades.
An Indian child left asleep in brush near Dear Lake Oregon was killed by a bear that mauled the infant and wounded the mother who battled the animal with a knife. The bear was killed and the child's remains buried as rescuers cared for the injured mother.
The article describes people gathering cattails from meadows stretching from Jersey City Heights to Newark and Hackensack. Harvest occurs in early September when seeds are ripe, and cattails are used in cheap pillows and feather beds, with Newark and New York consuming many pounds of the material.
The Delaware tribe in Indiana Territory expects about $220 009 in cash from a U S Court of Claims judgment in weeks. This follows several years of government windfalls including cash from trust funds and other payments, making many individuals affluent per capita.
The Rue Hero tavern known for 1871 killings of fifty hostages in its garden faces closure. New York World notes the attack by Comainists and retaliatory violence amid Paris bombardment. An Antarctic discovery is also mentioned as twenty miles wide and forty miles long.
A scattered column notes varied topics from welding by electricity and tricycles for riders to rail fuel from Los Angeles fields and a folding bicycle. It mentions a Lake Ontario gas vein, fresh blood bread risks, Greenwich meridian standardization, and the Yerkes telescope. It closes with literary fragments and verse.
A crowd of about a thousand watched laborer Thomas Reynolds drown in a collapse beneath a Los Angeles street sewer near Boyd. Water filled the excavation after the brick shaft gave way, the rescue attempts failing as the rising flood forced rescuers back. Reynolds cried for help as the water reached his lips before he perished.
In Duluth Minnesota Amund and Amathilde Olson sue the firm of Tredin and Wilson for 00000 dollars claiming a new block destroyed their adjoining land's playground water supply and clothesline space. They allege dirt from the contract harmed the Olson home and children’s health.
Salaries of English clergymen are examined from Crockford's clerical directory. It shows 638 benefices pay £500 a year or less, 243 more than £1000, 219 under £2000, 732 under £3000, 173 under £1096, and a minority above £7500 with one over £10,000. Many incomes fall well below £1500 with additional housing and garden rights.
A juryman explains his method of judging a case by the man in the dock not by witnesses lawyers or judges saying the verdict rests on whether the accused must have done something to be there.
A collage of humorous quotations and misread phrases from various newspapers. Jokes about time money and burglars alarms with playful misreadings of common sayings. A mix of quips from Harper’s Round Table Puck and Boston Nowe presented as a light, gossiping snapshot.
The Pall Mall Gazette describes a religious gathering at Allahabad in the northwest provinces of India. Pilgrims travel by foot and on devices to the Ganges bed for cleansing and relief from suffering. Worshipers endure extreme self restraint while vendors sell sacred water carried on poles to distant buyers.
A historical notice warns that ear piercing can cause blood poisoning if unsterile and highlights cleanliness, needle safety, and the decline of piercing practices. It then shifts to a vivid description of Paris potato processing by rafistoleurs de pommes de terre, who wash and stamp potatoes to remove dark skins, selling them at Coventible market for five francs per basket near Pont Louis Philippe.
The article notes Secretary Carlisle and Assistant Secretary TamUn returning from Boston to redefine Treasury duties while Secretary Hoko Amith acts to protect gilsonity dapoalta in Utah. It details a flurry of international and domestic events from the Supreme Court to unrest in Cuba and Portugal, alongside various arrests, trials, and corporate collapses in the United States and abroad.
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