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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1894
Page
1
A scattered column surveys diverse topics from vaccination policy and tax effects to flying problems, mining labor, and Labrador exploration. It notes German tax tips for resort staff, Davy’s fame, trolley cart parties in Philadelphia, and a Labrador expedition recording insects birds and mammals.
The New York World notes some steamers can be converted rapidly into armed cruisers. The piece surveys markets for horses and sugar beets, rail plans in Berlin, and Mexican schooling, land tenure, and edelweiss protections. It also covers U S expansion toward Greater New York, including area, population, and consolidation figures.
A London eater promotion gives a customer a small key after spending a draughtomer n ahilling's worth or more. The key fits a lock on a casket only one correct key unlocks the prize. One key is issued each day to prize a five pound note-less coaket.
A Chicago Herald poem fragment urges readers to pause and think to reduce sorrow and missteps. It presents a moral refrain about tempering thoughts and actions to brighten skies, lighten burdens, and curb unkind speech.
In a Schuyler family tale, Christopher and Winifred visit an ancestral mansion filled with legends. Old Syrena Schuyler and Dancing Damaris haunt the well and the house. A clue surfaces—Uncle John left 8000 in gold at the bottom of that well for Christopher. They plan to dig, chasing a century old treasure tied to the family.
A young couple amid a joke wins a fortune from an old well treasure rumor. Christopher and Winifred, newly married, reflect on landscape framing and a lost painting, now funded by Uncle John's wealth. They envision a quieter future as they ponder family legacy and beginnings.
Disturbances of the earth cause widespread alarm in Hervey Butler and Marion counties with deep cave-ins near Thomas Fasington Plum Grove and Apnollyn. No earthquake signs, officials summoned to investigate as holes swallow equipment and threaten crops along a twenty four mile crooked axis.
The Bulletin of Tree Culture warns that European fruits are being colored with chemicals to enhance appearance. It cites copper compounds for greens, various dyes for lemons and melons, and rhodamine mixtures to fake ripeness in strawberries peaches and pears. A dinner guest reportedly tasted pears scented correctly but showing French flag colors inside.
A severe northeast storm drove thousands of eels and other fish into a dry dock beside the steamship Dorchester of Merchants and Miners Transportation Co. Pumps at 40 000 gallons per minute drew water away as workers gathered the fish, the Baltimore American reports. About 1600 eels plus catfish, perch, rock, croans and alawives were collected, described as the largest catch ever known at the dock.
A compilation of humorous squibs and lines from Punch and various sources. Jests cover wills and lawyers, doctors and patients, managers and workers, a burglar's caution, theatrical quips, and dental banter with brisk setups and punchy endings.
A collage of cartoon dialogue and jests from New York Press Chicago Tribune Puck and Truth alike. Vignettes include courtship quips about love and jealousy a janitor turned applicant a clique of earnest women at a bar gain crowd reactions and a taxidermy joke about a dog.
A writer from Northwest Magazine recalls a wagon trip from Springdale to Hunter’s Hot Springs. A dog defends a yellow car from a pursuing wolf, then retreats as the wolf challenges the dog, while the party cheers the unlikely chase across flooded sloughs and hills.
A quoted note from Family Magazine describes a man who weighs 160 pounds and, by weighing a captured spider’s meals, estimates breakfast four times the spider’s weight, dinner nine times, and supper thirteen times. The eccentric rate would require a steer, several sheep, bullocks, hogs, and even four barrels of a dish for a human to eat in a day.
The piece notes snakes bear the most ribs with the python leading at nearly 320 pairs, the rattlesnake at 171 pairs, and other animals listed with rib counts including the shark at 95 pairs and sloths at 46 and 32. It mentions a Krupp 180 ton gun firing two rounds per minute at a cost of $1500 per discharge.
Brooklyn broker Titus and Miss Daf, daughter of a wealthy furniture dealer, were found dead in a Sea Cliff bathhouse after an apparent double death or murder by self-inflicted harm. The couple, engaged and wealthy, were to marry in spring. chloroform and a gunshot figure in the enigmatic case with no clear motive.
New York quotes on milk and cream prices with weak demand and steady food supply. Surplus stock on platforms averages 62 cents per 40 quarts. other dairy items show varied prices while fruit and vegetable categories cover a wide range of grades and regional offerings across the Pacific Coast and Jersey markets.
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