15 Sep 1893
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1893
Page
1
The piece surveys global economics with notes on Mexican capital flows and English dominance. It references tramps spreading diseases, Napoleon’s silver check myth, naval customs, and German anti beggary efforts while praising English as a future world language due to its literature and global reach.
A compilation notes crime and poverty in London with 69 per hundred living comfortably and 30 per hundred in poverty while cholera is blamed on dirty living and water. It also covers vagrants spreading infection, reforms proposed, and a Chicago Record note on rising U S Army desertions after the ten year service reform.
A fragmentary note describes sudden cold and moisture creating ice spires on mountain tops, with people seeking shelter and covering mouths to avoid danger. The text is garbled but conveys fear of freezing air and peril to travelers in Nevada, quoted as New York Ledger.
A fragmented tale from Golignan centers on Cassoulet the famed singer and Mallamprat the carpenter of Grand Street. Mallamprat begs Cassoulet to replace him for a baptism mass, Cassoulet agrees, and his thunderous voice dominates concerts, church, and village life, ending with a comic miscue at a sermon.
United States Consul Edward Bedloe writing from Amoy China notes a future fortune for discovering a cheap process to wood proof against termites. He discusses methods including corrosive salts to saturate fibers and the challenge of applying them cost effectively. He praises American invention.
Mrs. Anne Caulkins of Lafayette Indiana learns her brother Robert Dunckin now living in Indianpolis Iowa is a wealthy retired merchant. The siblings were split when their families parted in New York and had lived within sixty four miles of each other for decades without knowing it. Mrs Caulkins aged eighty two will pay rent to her brother who she believed dead.
A collage of comic clippings mocks pushy self help optimism and reformers. Quips from Puck Life and Boston Globe parody business booster talk with jibes about honesty, money making, and the era's fashionable hustles, featuring snippets on thieves and economic ventures.
A well dressed man arrived at an uptown house and was greeted by a staffer who offered a sober steady job. The exchange shows the man inquiring about the work and the woman confirming a fit. The snippet hints at a domestic role with unspecified duties and a cautious tone.
A collage of overheard dialogue and courtroom humor from Detroit and Louisville columns. An imbalanced suitor pleads before a clock in a summer-night scene while a Mississippi case turns on a judge altering a single word to temper honesty.
A Rear-Admiral Melancthon Smith memory recalls a Civil War tale of Commodore J Smith and the Congress. A messenger learns the Merrimack reached Hampton Roads, the Minnesota and Roanoke are disabled, and the Congress was sunk and surrendered. The Commodore’s son was first lieutenant of the Congress.
A columnist panels common household tips and cautions from 19th century letters. Advice covers dusting with cloths not feather dusters, making vinegar from molasses and water with yeast, ammonia brightening fabrics, and keeping meats tender by reheating boiled leftovers. Cautions include avoiding direct contact of food with ice and handling fish and salmon to preserve flavor.
Practical guidance from the Boston Cultivator on oven cooking with oil or wood heat. It explains roasting vegetables and roots at 300 to 350 degrees F, then details several soup recipes including Bean, Corn, Vegetable, Bread, Cabbage, and Potato soups with step by step method and common seasonings.
A Pawtucket hailstorm around 10 PM Saturday brought large hailstones. One woman found a small frog inside a melting stone and reported the strange sight amid reports of many pebbles falling with the hail.
An archaic verse fragment ponders the mighty river and its mills as the great river responds praising a spring. It mentions forests, a distant meadow, and a mill hum amid a creeklike setting attributed to James Buckham.
A collage of quips from various papers features jokes on prosperity missteps and human foibles. It includes pithy lines about weathering success, concealed humor in daily life, and playful banter among travelers and clergy with a breezy late 19th or early 20th century tone.
The letter from collector Camelin describes a perilous hunt for the orchid Eglophiella Elisabetha in Madagascar. He spent a year with Moyambasan aiding his exploration of nearly inaccessible terrain, facing hostile tribes, wild beasts, and a deadly Protocrytoferox that guards the forest canopy as they cut trees to reach the plants. The endangered orchid grows high in trees and requires careful extraction by the expedition. The piece also notes a Lisbon Boston note on the Madagascar colony and reports a Georgia melon crop valued around 250000 dollars.
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