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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1897
Page
1
A compilation of diverse policy notes reports Switzerland making accident insurance compulsory for all residents. Other items mention postal card size reduction, changing social attitudes in Europe and the U S, corporal punishment in English schools, vivisection debates, a Decatur teacher fined over tax lists, Holland expanding voting rights, bullfighting venture in Mexico City, and farm mortgage and debt trends in New Jersey.
The World predicts Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma will ship at least 95 million bushels of wheat this year at under a dollar per bushel, while other states shrink figures. It compares gold in soil to Klondike wealth and notes a New York Evening Post contributor praising the rising generation of American youths for improved manners and refinement under mothers’ influence.
The New York Sun projects a one third rise in revenue from wheat and corn in Central Kansas this season. Reports discuss morphine habit prevalence in Germany France and the United States, with the medical profession supplying many morphinists.
A terrapin tank becomes a stage for frogs to ride atop terrapins as a sea turtle enters the water. A frog on the highest point croaks about more room at the top. Also notes an English soldier who preserves boots with a knuckle bone method and a ship captain who turns a cow around on a crowded liner.
India rubber as a street paving was tried on a bridge in Annover and proved satisfactory. Experiments then spread to Berlin and Hamburg for ordinary roadways. Reported benefits include noiseless operation, resilience to heat and cold, and greater durability and less slipperiness than asphalt.
A British rider recalls his early days with a regiment in India and a near fatal chase by a tiger while training for a ten mile bicycle race. After a grueling pursuit the tiger is killed by a native hunter crew, and the rider survives weeks of recovery. the tiger skin becomes a prize in his study.
Miss Martha Veeder, daughter of renowned scientist Dr. M. A. Veeder, has been appointed professor of mathematics at Huguenot College Wellington Cape Colony South Africa. She is a Cornell graduate and formerly taught at Newark Union School.
In Jersey City near the Greenville Yacht Club, Lilian Roeder slipped into the water as a rock toppled onto her leg. Her brother Charles Roeder and helpers freed her, with the rock removed by use of a lever and boats pulling her to safety. She was hospitalized with a broken leg after stimulants and medical aid.
Reported words from the Reichstag and a Minnesota paper show stilted rhetoric on war and death. A bizarre description details a trapezoid easel device to trap rats with water.
Official boards of health across Mississippi Alabama and Louisiana announce yellow fever after autopsies confirm infection in Ocean Springs. Refugees from the town spread illness to Mobile Jackson Montgomery and New Orleans prompting quarantines and calls for inspectors and aid. The origin remains uncertain with theories citing Cuban arrivals oysters and Ship Island quarantine station.
A telegram from Edwards Mississippi reports 8 5 Champion a long time member of the State Legislature died there from yellow fever after visiting a sick family of nine in Edwards The illness raised public alarms with armed guards on roads and a boat sent to Grant s Pass to block water approach Authorities note little fever activity in the city and county since the outbreak began several days earlier
Austis Texas reports an iron clad quarantine against Ocean Springs Mississippi and nearby areas likely affected by yellow fever. Gulf coast residents fear the disease entering the state and consider reviving a shotgun quarantine force to bar outsiders. Washington notes Marine Hospital Service sends Dr John Guiteras to Ocean Springs to probe the outbreak and assess if it is dengue or malarial fever amid a very low death rate.
Prospectors return from Mobil pleeton River gold country in the Lake Wawa district reporting rich gold bearing quartz finds. Fortunes seekers rush into the region as preparations to handle crowds expand. A town site named Wawa A is being surveyed on the lake. Cattle shipments head from New Orleans to Central America.
A compilation notes Wyoming valuation at 2.8 million acres, 200 applicants for a US Army chaplaincy, grasshopper control in Umatilla County, the Windward expedition ship arriving in England, Portland Missouri cruelty to animals halting greased pig shows, Dantzig naval manoeuvres deemed failures, 1900s European military expenditures, and President Jordan urging Stanford to curb student overwork and dissolute behavior with faculty-empowered withdrawals.
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