20 Oct 1905
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1905
Page
1
A lyrical meditation on sea songs and a tender dialogue between a dusting partner and a companion. Sea imagery mingles with a gentle romance as they negotiate closeness, sympathy, and a shared dream of harmony before the setting sun.
A man and woman converse during a sunlit stroll in a park over matters of life happiness and love. She reveals she loves herself and seeks sunlight in others while he remains skeptical about purpose and joy.
Prof Dunbar of Hamburg reports experiments on a hay fever antitoxin derived from horse serum treated with pollen toxin named pollantine. The remedy acts via the conjunctiva and nasal mucosa, with subcutaneous and local applications showing varying success. 505 patients showed 41.4 percent favorable results overall.
Satin finished mahogany furniture shows fingerprints and scratches and looks best when rubbed daily. Do not rub dust into the rug as it damages the binding and fringe and causes edge wear, shortening the rug’s useful life.
Instructions describe making a paste with soft soap and caustic soda or lime and pearlash to remove paint and putty. It also covers repairing metal knife and fork handles by inserting powdered resin into the hollow and heating the metal to fuse the resin, then cooling to secure the fix.
Instructions advise washing the dust from a grease spot using warm water mixed with household ammonia. Apply a stiff paste of Julier's earth and water, cover with paper for two days, lay blotting paper over, and set a warm front on the paste. Then brush out the earth and sponge with clean water.
An old instruction suggests removing drawers from dressers and washing them with hot alun water. Seal the room for forty eight hours with formaldehyde to kill moths, then ventilate. Cedar shavings inside the drawers add a fresh odor and extra protection. Formaldehyde must not touch skin and releases dangerous gas when evaporating.
Corn Souffle drains water from two cans of corn, stirs in melted butter, eggs, milk, and flavoring then bakes in a buttered dish. Peach dessert coats peach halves with ice cream and whipped cream. Creamed Ham with Mushrooms toasts and sauces, grape catchup, and a chocolate pudding recipe round out the kitchen notes with a light social anecdote about a “wooden wedding” in New York observed by the New York Sun.
A newspaper note recalls Meanest Woman Andy from Toston claiming to have heard about the meanest women who do work. She phones a neighbor before breakfast and asks if a cook was advertised. The neighbor confirms the ad and plans to send all rejected applicants to the caller.
Eight seamen died after exposure hunger and thirst aboard the schooner Van Name and King off Cape Lookout in October. Two survivors, Thomas and Warner, were rescued after five days adrift aboard a raft by the Stillman F. Kelly. The crew included Captain Maxwell and mate A Chinse among the dead, with several others unnamed seamen and crew from Jamaica and New Jersey.
The new mine law forbidding employment of boys under fourteen outside the anthracite mines and boys under sixteen inside has taken effect. About 12 000 breaker boys aged ten to fourteen are affected. few of them remain at the breakers. A grace period will let them obtain employment certificates before mine workers’ leaders enforce the law.
The journey to the South with the President includes screened and sealed cars and precautions by Surgeon General Wray. Rear Admiral Brownson leads ships to transport the President from Newport to South Pass and then home to Washington. The yellow fever campaign nears end as inspectors drop and 400 men remain at work, with a Citizens Committee fund report due.
The Lewis and Clark Exposition wraps up as crowd estimates exceed forecasts and attendance surpasses expectations. Officials anticipate dividends for stockholders of at least thirty percent, possibly forty percent, while visitors from across the nation filled hotels and celebrated with a dramatic finale of battleship explosions and fireworks.
In Trenton New Jersey William T Bevins Jr shot and killed his father during a knife attack on the family houseboat over a meal dispute. The mother fled to safety and approached the boat where Bevins refused entry and the father was fatally struck by a chair. Bevins was arrested and held without bail for the Grand Jury after surrendering to police.
Senator George P. Fulford of Brockville Canada died at Newton Hospital from injuries in an automobile accident a week earlier. His chauffeur Louis Zerlax of Albany, XII, died three days later. Fulford, 53, was a prominent medicines manufacturer and yachtsman.
Rear-Admiral Rodrey D. Evans urges building battleships of 18 000 tons as the minimum displacement. Former Governor L B C Garvin nominated by Democrats in Providence RL1 for governor by nomination.
The Cunard Line steamship Campania from Liverpool and Queenstown struck a massive sea on October 11, flooding the steerage deck. About thirty were injured and five or six passengers reportedly lost, with officers withholding details until agent Mr Brown authorized release. Captain Warr praised for handling the crisis.
In Lina Ohio the 18 000 American National Bank robbery seven years past is cleared after janitor Benjamin C Picurot’s confession via prosecutor William Klinger. Fat dret Opera House owner Faurot died, Bowsher and Wilkins indicted. Wilkins exonerated, Kalb and Michael not guilty per new statements. Bowsher claimed Faurot gave the vault combination and that he hid most money in a gas pipe in the basement block.
Governor McLane proposes a Peace Envo ys Clarity Fund to invest $20,000 from Japanese and Russian peace envoys in equal $10,000 shares as war bonds. He would create a trust with the State Secretary and State Treasurer as trustees and ask the Legislature to approve the act. Income would be distributed to suitable charities each September 5, honoring the Portsmouth treaty signing date.
Tokio reports Vice Admiral Togo visited Ize Temple amid claims his act will shape national religious education and renew ancestral worship in the army and navy. His wartime report credited Imperial ancestors' spirits with guiding Japan to victory.
Indianapolis reports Harry Foster a prosperous liveryman admitting years of horse thefts across Ohio Michigan and Indiana. Police suspect him of belonging to a horse thief ring as a Greenfield officer recovers a stolen horse from two boys amid Foster’s stable. Lawyer Hughes declines to run for mayor of New York citing insurance investigations.
Merbert Miller a noted Adirondack guide, shot and killed his wife at Suranne Lake after which he cut his throat. Miller, long known in the region, had worked for the Snumac Jun Company as keeper of the pipe house and was familiar to visitors at the Suranace Inn. His wife, formerly Miss Boyle, was well known in the village where his family resides.
Sir Henry Irving will be buried beside Garrick in Poets Corner at Westminster Abbey with his body placed directly under Shakespeare’s statue. Nearby lie the remains of Johnson, Dickens, and other notable figures.
Gloucester representatives travel to Washington to press for fishing and coastal rights in Newfoundland under the 1818 treaty, arguing for renewed access and protections.
The Rev Dr Parkhurst denounces revelations of insurance graft as symptomatic of a broader disease corroding the polity and society in a New York City sermon. He links graft to moral decay and warns of its systemic impact on public life.
A long Washington dispatch notes Charles G. Dawes and other officials amid Cabinet shifts and tariff rate debates. It mentions a planned southern tour by the President, estimated rail travel costs, naval ship tonnage proposals, and various federal appointments and public notices across territories and states.
Labor World notes a carpenters union training school in Reading. It says the International Topographical Union defeated a resolution opposing the National Guard and predicts broader sympathy strikes in Chicago. It mentions a general strike in Berlin electing workers and government disruption by power utilities.
The article notes Werman Noth and his MOUS AURECON work arguing death is painless for most cases. His own death appears to confirm this doctrine, illustrating the theory through personal fate.
A jumble of obituaries and mentions includes Adminus Iselin with an estate of about 18 million dollars, Prank Beard noted as a flustered tor, Walter Vaughan elected Lord Mayor of London, Major J O Autheinson a prominent globe trotter, Andrew Carnegie offering a donation to Smith College, and other brief references to George Meredith Senator Proctor Jerry Simpson and General Stoesse.
The United States Independent Telephone Company plans a state wide system with potential partners including the State Telephone Company and its subsidiaries, while Coast Line Telephone Company canvasses subscribers. New Jersey bans NY physicians from practice without state exam and seeks cross state certificate endorsements. Grand Jury anxiety grows over delayed presentment in Atlantic City gambling cases. Three boys attempted roof climbing at Public Service Building in Paterson were restrained by workers and a colonel. A retired farmer, Henry Ledden, wounded by a fall of his ax, was aided by a passing driver. A witness sues Sheriff Kirby over confinement conditions tied to the Byrnes homicide case. Peter Brewer, 75, hangs himself amid long illness. Typhoid fever claims more Beaton family members in North Paterson.
Charles Williams was arrested in Newark by Constable Woodruff for abducting 15 year old Bertha Clark and jailed in Bridgeton. Gloucester Republicans nominate Robert Symington for Commissioner of Appeals to fill a vacancy. Vineland and Millville auto owners unite against false damage claims. Halowe en street parade planned in Vineland with prizes for unique costumes. Gloucest er portraits of candidates posted. Collingswood to have a nations bank. Swedesboro hosts bean shelling parties. Westville M P Church women profit oysters supper netting $75. Burlington County Grand Jury returns forty two true bills in Attorney cases.
Cleveland dispatch reports Lake Shore Railroad officials estimate the Twentieth Century Limited wreck near Mentor will cost about 500000 as nine technicians are killed in the disaster.
A White Plymouth Rock hen raised by William Sapp of Tarentum Pennsylvania lays double yolked eggs at the rate of one or two per day, sometimes three.
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