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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1896
Page
1
English radicals urge appointment of public defenders to counter public prosecutors. The article surveys global wealth, industry, and trade, noting US wealth lead, European production, and various national claims amid commentary on agriculture, railways, and shifting populations.
The fragment notes a dated line from F. L. Stanton in the Atlanta Constitution. It mentions hidden feelings kept in the heart and a world moved by song, reflecting a lyric tone despite the fragmentary source.
In a rural kitchen Lou Harlow persuades Mrs. Green to attend a tin wedding surprise for Wall Harlow and Lon. Rastus, shy yet hopeful, escorts Miss Holland to the celebration as neighbors share gossip and budding affections. The night ends with plans for future visits and a sense of life opening for Rastus.
A survey of scientific notes covers sea water silver content and ship copper sheathing, houseflies speed, Munich observatories and new chairs, Roentgen rays in botany, color vision differences, sleep aids to mental power, Agassiz fossil reconstruction, feather counts in a groslo bird nest, twig use in nest building, and parental roles of mother and father birds.
A New York Journal item describes Tred Dodson, a fourteen year old from Fishing Creek Poeun, building an oil wheel bicycle for a quarter dollar. He made frame and wheels from boards, used a puddle on a hickory spring, and replaced a chain with perforated leather. Dodson sold the device for a quarter, delighted by its novelty and profit.
Newton F. Murat a 24 year old grocer's clerk of Buffalo N Y invents a coupler and lately received a firm offer of 330000 cash with no royalties on all couplers sold. He has not yet decided and meanwhile holds a $90 wage.
Agricultural notes discuss growing turnips among potatoes for profit, fodder processing methods, humane horse handling, swamp muck composting, cow milking gear, poultry feeding variety, sheep care, and root crops. Includes anecdotal tips from Rural New Yorker and Farm Field and Fireside with several named figures and publications.
In Turinan Italy a commission of physicians forms to study apparent death after rapid burial delays. A vivid case describes a physician near burial who revived at the door and later died, prompting grateful actions for rescuers at the Drimmingod Castle wreck and a forthcoming medal from Queen Victoria.
A narrative blends William Russell’s Harvard courage in 1876 with a Nantucket rescue as he and a companion swim six miles for survival after a sloop capsizes. It also recounts a Cuban patriots escape, seven men sailing 200 miles under Spanish patrols, facing sharks and rough seas, aided by a Nassau schooner, and features Joe Wilkes noted for courage and humor at Antietam.
Captain C McKay son of Donald McKay rediscovered the British yacht Hoenya. The article cites Phineas Pett who built England’s first yacht for the Prince of Wales, Henry, christened the Disdain, and notes Pett’s voyage to the Levant and his role at Chatham.
In the town of Zormatt climbers depart for the Matterhorn with many buried near the heights. The Catholic cemetery honors Michel Croz of Charmonix and two others from the first Matterhorn tragedy Hudson and Hadow. The English chapel side recalls victims of Internocidente and nearby peaks. Eighteen fatal Alpine accidents occurred last summer.
A deer hunter reports a hornless buck in Wexford County Michigan. The 150 pound two year old buck, without horns, was shot after the hunter closed within a rod. Authorities note this hornless American buck is rare, though some European deer lack horns.
Menelik II of Ethiopia issues several sumptuary edicts including a ban on women wearing gold jewelry, a privilege reserved for Empress Taitu. Another law prohibits tobacco smoking, justified by a tale of a tobacco plant growing over an ancestor’s grave.
The article states Germany keeps the world's largest permanent store of evined money in the imperial war treasury. It mentions a $1,000,000,000 portion saved for emergencies, possibly after the Franco Prussian war, and notes about $30,000,000 stored in the Julius tower of Spandang fortress.
The report notes camels proving useful to German forces in Southwest Africa though a disappointment to the Nite expedition. The camel parcel post service across German territories is praised as burly efficient workers. The text also mentions payments toward a bishopric salary in Colorado.
The report shows gold import expansion driving exports, with eight months ended August 1890 showing an excess of exports over imports totaling 624,793.01. It notes August 1890 total exports at 09,652,067 and eight months to August at 570,992,453. Other items include Treasury receipts for early September, Capitol improvements, and various political and crime notes from Washington and across the United States.
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