02 Sep 1892
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1892
Page
1
A tale of Mathilde Loisel who envies riches and borrows to attend a ball. Her deception costs ten years of labor and debt to replace a lost necklace. In the end the necklace is revealed to be a paste imitation, correcting a lifetime of hardship with harsh irony.
The Bladderworts are described as wonderful aquatic plants floating on pond surfaces. They use air filled bladders to buoy the plant, attach to seaweed like leaves, and roots descend to soil. When flowering tuna are riven the bladders fill with air, lifting the plant for respiration.
A satirical piece argues goose farming can rapidly create wealth, detailing a hypothetical progression from 1000 geese to over 54 million in ten years. It describes costs, shoeing geese, and a farcical venture by Ebenezer Parker, noting risky, humorous failures and a broader aviation of odd industries in early Washington.
A New York based column notes jet and Jaco bonnets with velvet ribbons and a butterfly bow. It surveys Welsh wedding gifts, Dublin fashion, and the role of women in telegraph work, public notices, and widowly rights, highlighting attire and social duties.
A broad scan of style trends notes women adopting typewriters, fashion pieces like tiny medicine cups, sunshades, grenadines, and hats. The piece also recounts historical geography views, from early maps to the discovery of America, and snippets on kerosene lighting, engines, and scientific scraps.
A collage of household guidance and recipes from New York era papers covers jam cooking times and fruit flavors, pea cooking methods, a green lettuce soup, household tinting and cleaning tricks, stockings care, pine pillow stuffing, canning fruit, and fabric care. It preserves voices and details of home economics from the period.
An American expat describes Boeckman of Spanish Peruvian origin living in Santiago as an eighty year old woman who appears young thirty five, with a granddaughter older than her. She is famed for dancing, a magical voice, and a charm said to keep her from aging, though a history of conflict and admirers exists. The report includes sensational notes from St Louis Globo-Democrat and Puck cartoon dialogue.
A joke exchanges between a doctor and his wife about how to handle a cold. The doctor replies with a wink that he sneezes most of the time, turning a simple ailment into light humor.
A wide compilation notes 55,000 weekly watchers, glacial fold value at 30,000, a cross-Ireland bridge costing 20,000,000, sweet potato crops across the South, $15 gold found near Byron, New York morgon reports 9,654 bodies with 107 unidentified, more US vessels visiting Mexican ports than any other nation, 1,200 miles of Mexican rail to San Diego, 3000 lawyers in British Parliament races, census shows 97,000 females per 100,000 males in the US, London paupers near 50,000 not counting asylums, India's population at 30,000,000, a six foot water moccasin killed at Utica, frogs found alive in a container, grassnorrans damaging Oblate oats, Topeka prairie agency pays 16,000,000 to veterans, Market Ranch sale near Lovelocks for about 100,000, tea from Sum merville shipped to Baltimore, mackerel catch in New England at 23,000, Maine census splits 3,323 farm families from 83,233 nonfarm homes, Mexican colonization in Sonora and Sinaloa, April shipments of 313 car loads totaling 8,916 tons of green fruit East, season total 6,000,000 pounds more fruit shipped than last year.
A survey of industrial activity shows rising orders at Virginia kilting mills and widespread busy periods in Philadelphia shops. Reports cover German unions, Italian farming education, San Francisco bakers hours, and Chicago population growth. Doerr of Homestead fails amid boycott by Carnegie mill strikers hurting non union suppliers.
A Georgia farmer named Wilson left his wife and four children at home. On returning two hours later he found the mother unconscious with two dead children and two dying. The surviving child said a rattlesnake may have caused the tragedy after a crack in the floor let a hen peck at the youngsters. The mother, after rescuing the baby, found it drowned in the spring. The third child had died upon return, and the incident prompted an investigation suspecting a rattlesnake.
A lightning strike near Gainesville Texas ignited three powder magazines from Dupont Rand Nally and Bazani Powder Companies. About 600 kegs exploded wiping the others, shattering nearby houses and injuring residents. The blast rattled streets fifteen miles away, with cattle harmed and timber damage extensive. Estimated losses reach $150000.
Despatch from Swansea reports a mine accident where a section of the roof collapsed during work. Seven miners were killed and three others injured, with some workers trapped and later rescued. Authorities investigate the cause as rescuers reach the pit and crews assess the scene.
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