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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1897
Page
1
A stream of social notes cites Countess of Ancaster decrying dancing as a Bracelese ramp and a jokey rail comparison about seventeen tracks around the world. Other items touch on wheat demand, farm years, tax debates, and immigration, with observers warning on seal hunting declines and calls for protection.
A survey-like column notes 1898 will mark a golden jubilee for Emperor Francis Joseph and mentions Arizona's claim to a seaport at Yuma. It covers diverse topics from Ashland boy rescued at sea to Spain's Cuba losses, a Siberia-like anarchist penal idea, and the growing European tip culture impacting American society.
Mitra Popa of Teregova, bound for Zigrad to wed, escapes a mountain tunnel by a hair's breadth. He starts with dark brown hair and arrives with hair white as a bride’s veil. The bride accepts him, noting hair will darken and the loss is insured.
The Sinois Central Railway plans an electric trial using 24.2 motive power on all suburban Chicago lines. Both third rail and overhead trolley systems will be exhaustively tested before a final equipment decision. Four times as many wire units are made by cut nails.
A fragmented verse by James Bucklhom laments a pianist's ruined performance. The speaker likens the ghostly piano to weathered ivory and fading melodies. The scene recalls old hymns, Cupid’s gaze, and dancers, now silent as dust and spiders cross the keys.
In Mount Otto, the Boutwell relatives argue over Aunt Desire’s tester bedstead, the sole heirloom from Judge Boutwell’s era. After a funeral, divisions of bequests trigger envy as Abner’s wife and others press claims, until a Westward sister reveals the bed’s true lineage and a distant debt ties it to a poor man’s family. The will is settled and the bedstead’s future finally resolved.
A digest of scattered science items notes Pickering’s discovery of 142 new double stars, speculative moon shape ideas, insectivora tooth wear, cathode ray behavior, Andawan islanders’ height, vampire bats behavior, pain timing, sun ray depth, photography limits, carbon dioxide through red hot iron, and cautions about heating rooms with red hot stoves.
In Ballarat during the gold rush a party of wealthy youths worked a deserted claim using a rope noose. One man, found dead hanging by the neck from a beam, was believed to have hanged himself after a failed mining effort. The group vanished the next day, leaving the shaft as found.
A crowded column surveys royal, political, and social figures with fashion notes. Highlights include Duchess of York childhood scar style, Mrs Sherry of Indiana farming 1000 acres, Miss Jane Addams as Chicago postmistress, Mrs Benson employing only women in Omaha, and Queen Victoria awarding gold medals to Mrs Chamberlain. Also notes on gowns, trims, and practical dress care with travel wraps, ribbons, and lawn dresses.
Fashion notes trumpet lace flounces on gowns and capes with Chantilly and Honiton laces reigniting royal dress trends. Autumn hats favor low crowns, mauchou braids, and ostrich plumes, while braiding and metallic trims decorate capes and jackets. Household schools in Belgium teach practical housekeeping and child care, and diverse professional women appear in public life.
A compilation of aphorisms from Seneca Swift Addison and Locke on virtue friendship and forgiveness followed by a fragmentary note on forgotten capital Williamsburg and the Powder Horn magazine from 1710 featuring portraits of Captain John Smith Pocahontas and Walter Raleigh with colonial relics and a chiseled fragment.
A weekly refrain of longing as a woman anticipates the return of Dick each Saturday. She envisions a moment of contact, fears revealing her depth of love, and hopes to confess when autumn leaves fall. The poem captures quiet yearning and the ache for shared affection.
A collection of light witticisms and cartoon captions from papers like Indianapolis Journal Philadelphia Record Washington Times and more. Jokes cover love work town life dialects and social curiosities featuring banter about women in public roles absent mindedness and everyday mishaps.
Recent opening of the Czernavoda Danube railroad bridge claims the longest span for rail lines at 13 526 feet without approaches. Comparisons list Tay and Forth Bridges in Scotland and the Mississippi Bridge at 10 725, 7 800, and 10 600 feet respectively, with detailed Brooklyn Bridge measurements and total carriageway of 5989 feet.
A freight wreck on Iron Mountain Road at Hensom Indian Territory near Van Buren Ark. at 3 o'clock killed seven men and seriously injured six others. The dead are William Fame Charles Fame Douglass Anderson John Johnson Bore Henderson Frank Hamilton and H A Walton. The injured include Georges Colt man Jack Jones James Phillips Robert Eubanks Charles Bender and Georga erker. The train from Coffeyville to Van Buren derailed after a car broke its forward track, with most of the twenty cars ditched and a machinery car toppled onto riders, trapping many as a log car piled on top. The wreck involved workers bound for cotton fields and a group of men and boys from Vian Indian Territory riding in the machinery car.
A Havana dispatch reports the capture and massacre at Consolacion del Sur in Payo province where 20 volunteers from Heyona were killed by insurgents. The assault destroyed a tobacco plantation and seized cattle as insurgents warned deserters from the Cuban army.
The crecting and repair shops of the B and C at Mt. Clare in Baltimore, among the oldest in the United States, have been completely modernized. The locomotive crecting shop now features two fifty ton electric cranes and advanced machinery, promising cost savings and faster work. Also noted, seven yellow fever cases in New Orleans prompt official confirmation by the Louisiana Board of Health, with six cases on St Claude Street and a new case at Esplanade and Miro, causing growing concern.
Miss Harriet C Sheldon eighty two and her sister Miss Matilda Sheldon eighty six perished in a Cedar street Lynn Massachusetts home fire. The elderly women living alone tried to start a kitchen fire with kerosene when the oil can exploded igniting their clothing. Neighbor aid and efforts to extinguish the flames followed as the blaze spread through the dwelling.
News from Madrid describes the Cuban Insurgents capturing the fortified town of Victoria de las Tanas in Santiago de Cuba province causing great excitement and prompting the War Ministry to seek an explanation from Captain-General Wayler. A cabinet meeting was held to discuss the situation, with reinforcements to Cuba considered if needed.
Wild horses infest Northern Arizona, with several large bands numbering in the hundreds. Unbranded and unclaimed, they roam widely and have grown wilder than deer. The issue has been referred to the Live Stock Board after Attorney General Frazier was asked if slaughter is legally permissible.
A colored man, George Slaughter, murdered Mrs Will Jones and her husband in Warwick County Indiana after being identified by Mrs Jones. Deputy James Robinson arrested Slaughter and took him to the home for identification, where Slaughter opened fire escaping before officials could intervene. A separate confession from Charles Bolnay in Connecticut details the Nichols murder at Danols Farms describing the plan and accomplices Weeks brothers.
The Ortiz Mine grants in South Santa Fe County New Mexico totaling 69000 acres have been sold for 16000000 to a New York and London mining syndicate. English analyst L S Burn and New York expert Fleming verified the mineral report while other notable items include Andrew Carnegie buying Skibo Castle and various royal and political notes.
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