20 Oct 1893
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1893
Page
1
A collage of observations touches on church patronages, life expectancy, the U S monet ary notes, Tufts medical school plan in Boston, dandruff remedies, encyclopedia curiosities, Emma Ewing on cooking, a chinch bag station, and marshal history. It cites Virchow, aluminum in German arms, Marblehead gifts for a warship, and flood soil deposits. It ends with reflections on Emin Boy and African campaigns.
A miscellany of observations on topics from insanity rates and Pompeii ruins to jury verdicts, lashings in Russia, weather stations, and a huge electric lighthouse beam. Includes anecdotes on William Dean Howells, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Oklahoma medical exam rules, and a nativist view of state licensing in medicine.
A Buxton Surgical and Medical Journal note argues coffee acts as a rest brain food. The eminent authority claims caffeine increases reasoning power and boosts brainwork capacity, contrasting opium and alcohol effects.
The poem laments summer's passing and the arrival of autumn with reflective imagery. It contrasts ideals of beauty and leisure with hard harvest work, noting the year’s end and the hope of another summer beyond winter. The author Kathleen R Wheeler is cited from Lippincott.
Denis O Hara recalls arriving at a coastal studio where a new artist, M Delaporte, is expected. A female painter greets him instead, revealing a confident, charming woman artist who defies gender norms. The pair discuss Delaporte, share a memorable evening, and plan lodgings, amid a tone of artistic intrigue and moonlit coastal imagery.
Denis O'Hara recounts a painterly romance centered on Musette Delaporte a mysterious artist with a secluded studio life and a powerful final work. Maurice, the beloved in exile, is revealed in a secret guilt and the Academy reveal confirms the couple’s sacrifice and devotion.
Boston Transcript notes Berlin experiments using a glass vessel with sulfuric acid and a positive electrode to heat metal immersed in the solution. A rapid, localized arc achieves temperatures near 7000 to 14000 degrees Fahrenheit, enabling welding, surface hardening, and tempering of large metal parts, with Krapp reportedly testing the method on gun surfaces.
In a Carrabelle rescue, a loggerhead turtle weighing about 400 pounds and nearly a foot long was attacked by a twenty foot shark off Dog Island as pilot boat Addie, captained by Cinco Kunt, and pilot Frank Comforter observed. The shark swallowed the turtle tail first but disgorged it when the crew intervened, then towed the injured creature aboard.
A fragment collection of jokes and quips from magazines and newspapers. Items include impulsive widows, proposals, second fiddle, the modern way, and a punny exchange about a father and uncle’s joint work. Names and dates are not provided.
In a humorous Chicago Tribune exchange, residents joke that robbers are not off to a good start but detectives chase them harder. The banter ponders whether the detectives or the robbers are better mounted and ends with an expectation that the robbers may still escape.
A dialogue from the Washington Star shows two desperados plotting a quiet robbery. They intend to avoid noise and publicity and wait for the Pullman porter to clear passengers before striking.
In a playful exchange at a hotel desk a couple jokes about keeping their relationship secret May Blame mentions a proposal from Afr Robinson. Will Haver asks about the answer while a guest named John Smith tries to register and is humorously dismissed by the clerk who boasts his year of handling odd names.
A young man enters a store looking tired after a rough night. A fellow clerk questions his limp appearance and asks about his condition. He reveals he has a fair girl’s picture and laments his lack of elasticity despite having had a strong night.
A chipped dialogue scene shows two men debating payment and leverage. One threatens legal action while the other weighs his options, mentioning creditors and pressure from additional lenders. The fragment hints at mounting tension and interpersonal conflict in a debt dispute.
A Washington Star style dialogue questions if freedom or monopoly governs. A woodpile dispute ends with a misused coin as Mrs Kneer presses for purchases while Cyrus argues over a sixty cent shortfall. The Chicago Tribune note adds a comic twist with a $20 gold piece error.
A Boston area tale describes a traveling quack known for illicit preparations who lodges in cheap rooms and frequents a drugstore. The chemist tricks him by replacing hair oil with a glue and hay mixture, causing the doctor to appear with a glued scalp and a new hat. The barber later explains the hat was removed to free the glued hair, a stunt the barber confirms.
A British case ruled a farmer may seek damages for rabbits from a wood origin only if the owner increased the rabbit population on land to a nuisance. Killing rabbits must follow legal methods. poisons, spring guns, and unlicensed combat are forbidden. Also noted is Siam's king inspecting troops by torchlight in Bangkok.
An article blends domestic routines with thrift and cleaning tips. It urges order at home, offers economical laundry methods using ammonia and alum, and shares several pickle recipes including white onion, green tomato, cucumber chow chow, Creole, and Virginia mixed varieties with detailed steps and spice blends.
Dr Sherman notes critics say English sentence length has contracted since Elizabethan times from forty to sixty words per sentence to about twenty to thirty today. He cites Bacon as an exception at twenty two words. Macaulay Emerson and others hover around twenty to thirty, with Arnolila near thirty seven and Addison similar. A New York Dinner, Miss Jessie Ackermann, and the Australian W C T U president completed a four year world voyage covering over 100000 miles.
A Baltimore electric plant fire at Brash Company caused smoke that spread to the city jail and Maryland penitentiary. Prisoners were released or aided by guards and firemen as the south wing burned, with 78 women and many inmates evacuated. A fatal injury and extensive damage cost an estimated 5500,000.
Reported bursting waterspouts in Tepuz Territory Mexico drown twenty four people on several haciendas. A survivor escaped by punching through a roof. Santa Ines Oaxaca town hall and other buildings were swept away. A North Dakota resident, Capa Ropar of Trail County, died in Belmont weighing 520 pounds. his coffin measured 71 1/2 by 9 1/2 feet.
Wholesale prices for butter cheese vegetables and meats listed with brands and regions. Includes creamery butter, western creamery, dairy tubs, and apples, peas, poultry, and poultry products. Items cite states and prices per unit, reflecting a dense mid 1890s market snapshot.
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