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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1900
Page
1
A jumble of viewpoints on modern tech and society runs through dated notes. Topics include electric cars as hearses, English public mood, royal curiosities, dietary beliefs, linguistic shifts, and a survey of political and economic concerns in Britain and beyond.
The poem invites retreat into nature to gain rectitude patience and health. Readers are urged to seek strength from pine and vine, birdsong and mint, and the vast calm of dawn as trees and flowers offer welcome. Clinton Scollard’s lines celebrate union with nature for spiritual renewal.
Franklin W. Calkins describes Hank Elmore, a Wyoming prospector, finding an abandoned Mormon boiler shelter in the Uinta Mountains. A bear enters the improvised cabin, sparking a tense standoff as Hank defends himself with a pistol and firelight to deter the intruder.
Hank, a prospector, fights a wounded grizzly that tears at his boiler and breaches his smoke filled retreat. He fires from close range, is knocked down with ribs cracked, but survives as the bear dies. To deter intruders he seals the gasket with a heavy stone, repelling a lynx later.
Reports cover diverse topics from auditory independence of the ear to new photographic telescope adapters. Other items describe a high temperature aluminum iron furnace, Hawaii as a potential diamond field in 100000 years, a nickel production process, and Japan’s petroleum imports growth.
A collage of adventure notes recounts Darbog snake-catchers in India and Calmette research in Paris, plus a perilous river crossing in Queensland, a Galveston storm escape, a railway rescue, and a New York streetcar conductor's morals tale.
The piece notes women adorning hats with owl heads and thistle pompons, describes white chiffons and gold bindings for apparel, and details a dainty lounging robe with a Capuchin hood. It highlights Miss Marion Timothy joining Queen Victoria's private harpist band, marking progress for women in music. It also discusses home sewing readiness, needles, linings, and the rise of women in professions in Britain, including dentistry, pharmacy, and accounting.
The snippet mentions Miss May a young Chinese attendee from Poo Chow at Sunpsan College Indkutola. Abbott of the Chi ete Colt Chik wins a Badies Chau Ploostop event at Coupee Pitnge. Miss Kindly Thrown, alumna of Wellesley, is appointed rector of Dite native to MI tnkee Downer College.
A hospital to treat tropic diseases will be erected in Liverpool funded by the Duchess of Saxe Coburg who ranks among the world's wealthiest women with a $15,000,000 dowry and a $100,000 annual allowance. Victoria women oppose suffrage with fifteen thousand signatures. Baby photography offers a lucrative path for girls entering breadwinning. The Parochial Mission Women's Association, founded by Mrs T Talbot of London, supports poor parishes with mission women who assist the needy.
Stylish gloves in heavy leather with a single button appear with velvet frocks and galsta. Paris symbols like the eagle adorn season charms, while skirts feature ripple hems and adjustable belts. Box coats in otter or sable fur highlight youthful winter displays, with emerald shades dominating forenoon sheer veils and white hats adding smartness.
A crude serialized scene depicts a Lower Broadway elevator crew fearing an unfamiliar illness dubbed Hlowntoe Consumption. The men debate winter work, safety gear, and looming layoffs as reports mix with chaotic city chatter.
Rear-Admiral Hichborn urges submarine and warship building in government yards while Major-General Wood visits the White House for talks with President McKinley. The Oregon grounding inquiry proceeds, and the Philippine Commission allocates funds for October expenses amid ongoing hostilities in Luzon and Leyte.
An application before Vice Chancellor Pliney at New Brunswick asks for a receiver for Lincoln Middlesex County. New Jersey Realty Company of Bound Brook owns Lincoln. Applicants Peter G. Polhemus Silas D Drake and John McIntire allege stock fell from 150 to 100 due to mis management and seek court action to restore value and dissolve the firm.
Heidelberg professor Klantech told Halle congress that human descent from apes is no longer maintainable after years of research. He argued the chimpanzee line fails to explain brain development and that man is only superior to other animals in brain size and complexity.
Detroit has adopted standard time after years of local time differences, with thousands of shop workers and factories starting on the new time. The move ends the city's historic time entanglement and marks a shift from its old time practices.
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