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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1905
Page
1
A poem-like piece describes the neighbors boys terrorizing a household. It depicts a frightened Aunt Sophia Jane and the repeated nightly disturbances including broken toys torn clothes and a cowed family. The piece ends with the chorus The neighbor's boys attributing mischief to unnamed youths.
Four Sid ney sisters abandon city life for a cheap mobile vacation. They rent a large room for five dollars a week, live on bicycles and meals from local shops, and sample mountain trips while sharing duties. Fanny receives letters from a mystery suitor, while Gertrude studies botany with a visiting professor.
The New York World reports Luther Burbank argues that child training should apply scientific ideas used to transform plants. He cites Barnardo's work with 60,000 orphans, asserting that with proper environment and care children can reach physical moral and spiritual perfection. Dr. James W. Lee notes Burbank’s belief in a new stage for humanity through scientific child training.
A compilation of aphorisms and maxims on wisdom, duty, humility, and self-denial. The quotes span Persian poetry, J L Spender, Reverend W D Williams, Joseph Ror, Dr Alexander McKenzie, Fenelon, and Farray, praising inner strength, faith, and kindness as life’s guiding threads.
The text contemplates possible brain-to-brain sympathy and mental influence across distance, noting thoughts as electric energy reaching a receiver miles away. It questions the neglect of mind influence in disease treatment and hints at proposed connections by healing authorities.
A reprint recounts John Paul Jones born 1747 in Scotland, his naval career for American liberty, and public interest in his remains to be brought to the United States. It notes his early exploits, Congressional actions praising him, first hoisting of the Stars and Stripes, honors from France and Congress, courtly letters, and his final years and death in Paris in 1792, alongside reflections by Franklin and Jefferson.
The piece reviews Germany's campaign in Southwest Africa against the Herero uprising begun January 1904. It notes German casualties, costs around 60 million dollars, and 14,000 troops deployed by May, with 59 officers killed or fallen ill and 238 men sent home. It argues against British aid to the Herero and highlights the harsh, barren theater of war and tribal fighting dynamics.
The article notes high heeled patent leather shoes with snug brondcloth uppers, available in white, black, or checked cloth, and worn by women and children. The Cuban heels are high and well placed, with praised shaping compared to spat shoes, and pricey but considered fashionable for rough weather and social occasions. The piece then shifts to a sensational makeover story about a woman undergoing drastic cosmetic changes and imitating a sylph figure.
The Washington Times describes evening court style hairdressing with waved glossy hair scented and coiffed high to support a crown or head ornament. It contrasts the wide upper crown with a low style for broader lower faces and luncheon wear, advising polish, fragrance, undulations, and a neat knot suitable for formal drawing-room appearances.
An old article outlines a doll's house themed fair with booths modeled as rooms. Kitchen shows saucepans and a range, dining room staffed by a waitress doll, parlor with fashionable dolls, nursery with baby dolls and feeding gear, and a sick room with nurse dolls. Additional booths offer wedding, voyage, football, golf, and travel doll scenes for sale and display.
The article argues for dedicated nursery space promoting growth from infancy to adulthood, with city nurseries high above streets, bright indoor spaces, ample sunlight, safe walls and sturdy furniture. It prescribes regular cleaning, no heated rooms, no hazardous elements, and remote play areas to avoid adult interference.
The fragment discusses a French proverb on beauty and suffering. It suggests a woman’s unattractiveness or distress will be revealed by her body, noting a period of inactivity and concealment while she remained on the couch with arms folded. The text hints at lingering questions about her fate or death.
A Detroit News-Tribune excerpt argues hobbies transform idle interest into a valued life practice. It notes that deep enthusiasms attract admiration, provide mental stimulation, and promote health, peace, and happiness by diverting from sorrow and daily toil.
The piece surveys fabrics like cashmere velvet and silk velvets and notes fashions such as short puffed sleeves with lace frills, hand-made trimmings replacing galloons, and eyelet embroidery. It also recounts tales of royal schooling, the Duchess of Albany, and a humorous anecdote about Greek alphabet tattoos among college fraternities.
Local residents formerly built houses close to ground level to shield against wind. Now builders in Abilene move constructions onto high foundations to guard against floods, reflecting a shift in housing strategy amid advancing flood risk.
The Japanese battleship Mikasa, flagship of Admiral Togo, was destroyed by a midnight fire and magazine explosion off Wall Street Morning. At least 590 crew members perished, with additional casualties from rescuing detachments as the vessel sank after the blast. The loss is reported amid the Battle of the Sea of Japan where Mikasa suffered the heaviest losses among Japanese ships.
In Brooklyn on Eighty fourth street a sewer excavation 3.5 feet wide and 15 feet deep collapsed, killing Thomas Statl 27 and Press Maryle 26. About 35 workers were present as 25 feet of piling gave way, pinning nine men. Fellow laborers freed seven near suffocation, and many others were saved.
A tornado near Lawton Oklahoma killed Mrs E A Childers and John Ross and badly wounded nine others as several houses were razed in Walter about seventy miles south of Lawton. The storm disrupted towns and caused damage across the area with lines of trains and streets affected.
In Washington Congress will be asked to reduce the duty on Russian sugar in exchange for the Czar curtailing a tariff on American goods. In Montreal a man reportedly strangled his six months old son, with police deeming the suspect insane.
New York riflemen won the nation tea match at Sea Girt New Jersey and were prize winners in every match. Squadron A of New York won the revolver team match. A horse race favored for a $10,000 prize collapsed in a heat. Henry Ford's speed machine ran a mile at Atlantic City. Various tennis and bowls results cited with multiple locations including Sea Girt and Brookyn Athletic Club events at Monte Verde Park.
Harris seeks a $300 annual per alderman salary plus per meeting pay as a model for East Orange. He cites comparisons in 33 cities, noting many pay around $300 yearly with ten council members in East Orange. several cities pay far more, while others offer no pay at all. The scope includes city council salaries, committee responsibilities, and a broader look at urban pay scales.
A digest of scattered notes: the Keep Commission report on the Government Printing Office, rising food prices vs wages in Bureau of Labor data, retirements and engagements, island life in the Pacific, maritime incidents, volcanic activity near Samoa, Taft’s travels, steel car orders, school attendance in Chicago, expenditures in Boston, a Rome bishop named Papal Envoy, Japan U S commercial ties, New York politics, and international incidents including riots, bombs, and imperial edicts.
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