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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1901
Page
1
A fragment from the New Orleans Times-Democrat features a term ragtag child figure, asking “Whose sweet child are you” in a lyrical voice. The verse compares the child’s innocence and beauty with nature and laments the child’s uncertain guardianship and fate. It reflects street orphans and social concern in a poetic urban vignette.
A serialized tale follows Jim Harrison torn between May Thompson and Lucy Thompson, cousins living under one roof with an aunt. Bertie Thompson, May’s fourteen-year-old cousin, schemes to assert a choice among the two loves during a summer visit. The plan unfolds as Harrison joins Bertie for a morning ride to see the girls, each already preparing for church, igniting a delicate contest of affections.
Bertie hatches a plan as Lucy poses in debutante attire while Harrison endures a shock at her half curlers Lucy pretends nothing and Jim flees then discovers May crying over pudding in the kitchen Jim accuses Lucy of love May reveals tears and Jim comforts her, with Bertie watching.
Canandaigua dispatch tells of Peter Gruber, known as Rattlesnake Pete, who has survived nineteen rattlesnake bites. He makes a full outfit from snake skins including a coat, vest, trousers, hat, gloves, and shoes. Buttons from rattles, and vertebrae charms complete the costume. The total cost reportedly 600 dollars. Gruber, recently out of hospital, proclaims the last bite only narrowly fatal.
A Philadelphia physician, Dr. Wannah W. Longshore of Phi adelphia, marks eighty seconds birthday after fifty years as a medical practitioner. She is an alumna of the Woman's Medical College and among Philadelphia's early women doctors as noted by the Woman's Journal.
A Dublin observer notes radical shifts in female fashion with a forward bend posture and altered silhouettes. Sailor outfits in white duck return, dotted muslin frocks for all ages, trimmed simply with narrow lace. News briefs mention Mithilde Weber and women’s privileges movement, Grand Rapids carpet sweeper factory, and retirements of long-serving nurses in Dark Salperdore.
The passage surveys notable women and events: Bha meeting the Kentucky Governor when Speaker, Miss Lilnyat Singha translating Booker T. Washington, Mrs. J Kidder presiding over a Nevada County narrow-gauge line, Corine Dufour's patented carpet sweeper, Belle Mellonon supervising 1200 workers and averting strikes, Elvira Miller becoming a Southern railway passenger agent, and donations and college support. It also notes fashion trends including duchess-like gowns, ribbons, beads, and accessories such as soft mehns and gulmpes.
A Wisconsin demonstration shows cast iron plates corrode around metal plugs except zinc, due to galvanic action in moisture. Impurities create a small electric current that drives rusting. zinc resists corrosion, explaining its use in galvanizing iron. A separate note mentions an American exhibit at Merup, Turkey near the Nile.
A vintage column offers practical advice on kitchen and home chores. It covers preparing molds with baking powder cans, whitening discolored hearthstones with a milk and whiting paste, gentle egg yolk and white handling, and a detailed sweep day routine. It emphasizes dusting safe storage, moving furniture, sweeping with carpet grain, brushing woodwork, washing windows, and regular bed maintenance.
A string of old household hints covers cleaning with rice to de greasing, vinegar, soda, and karbolic solutions. It includes lamp chimney care, wood ash in water to soften hard water, and a note on scouring with shells. The piece ends with a humorous anecdote about a tyrannical government officer offering a world tour to his valet for a day off.
A mosaic of humorous and fragmentary captions from Chicago and Brooklyn papers. Items include juvenile verse about summer travel with a Jap umbrella, quips about dressmakers bills, playful exchanges in Chicago Tribune, and cartoon captions from Puck and Life.
A New York Commercial Advertiser inquiry reveals a Secaucus New Jersey factory buys rotten eggs from Western shippers, processes them through a secret method, and sells used in leather tanning, shoe polish, and cheap coffee glaze. The Beemaisman firm controls the West Side and Brooklyn supplies, with a rumored monopoly and a public fascination with the odd waste-to-wealth chain.
C Thurston, claimed tallest man in the Southern army, served with Parson's brigade in Missouri cavalry and survived many campaigns with only one wound. His life spanned gold rush adventures, a Panama Cuba voyage, a near Spanish-American War clash, and Civil War service. He later settled in Titus County Texas and remained famed for height well above contemporaries.
A garbled report notes extraordinary pewter popularity with a bridu asking for it at a presenk. Second-hand shops are raineiteked for specimens. At a wedding fifty pewter offerings were listed, some unearthed in Germany and described as beauti ful. Mushrooms are claimed to contain more nourishment than other vegetables.
The article surveys X ray use in a London court on a bone claim, then shifts to climate patterns linking lunar cycles to rainfall, Rothamsted soil moisture data, chamois extinction risks in the French Alps, a French reserve idea, and how hardy spring wildflowers emerge through snow. It also notes plants emit heat as they respire and the sun’s varying impact on ecosystems.
A fragmented montage blends maxims about character and wealth with industrial evolution in Great Lakes ore mining. It recalls Ram's Horn reflections and details 19th century mining methods, equipment shifts, and price drops from dollars to cents as technology advanced.
Former Mayor Henry Johnston of Washington was fined for twice uttering damn on the street. He pleaded guilty, paid the fine, and received a lecture from Justice W. G. Creveling who warned that the law must be observed.
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