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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1900
Page
1
A dense period piece reflecting on crime, culture, and progress. It critiques the era's moral standards, notes agitation in Pekin, mocks Persian knowledge of Omar Khayyam and Shakespeare, discusses military images, prison reform, farm economics, and a new health risk from electric car use. It laments loss of courtesy and urges renewed parental and educational focus on labor and usefulness.
The prosperous city of Huntington in West Virginia was named for Collis P. Huntington to honor his protection of the area. About thirty years ago he bought the land, which later became reactivated, then transferred the property to the Central Land Company where he held top stock and served as special receiver at his death.
In the Baltimore American poem style piece titled Sign of the Smile readers are invited to linger at the inn as worries fade. The verses celebrate jovial company steady banter and wine aged like fine juice, promising light loads and cheerful respite before onward travel.
Kitty, famed for flirtations, marries Donald Whittlesey but cannot leave her habit of charm. His jealousy grows as he suspends social life for reform while Kitty hosts suitors and old flames. A confrontation at the Oaklands ignites distrust and heartbreak, forcing a hard choice about love and fidelity.
The Lake side feature chronicles Kitty Whittlesey’s guilt over a past romance with Donald, a buried love rekindled only after years of social pressure. The piece blends sensational romantic angst with miscellany items from Waverley Magazine and science trivia, including gun patents and ocean volume estimates.
The piece surveys women expanding roles in art marketing including label design, brand naming, and exhibition work, alongside fashion drawings that pay. It notes evolving items like bordered handkerchiefs, embroidered initials, and fashion notes, plus social figures such as the Duchess d Aosta and Ada C. Sweet, with guidance on wedding etiquette, schoolgirl wardrobes, and perfume usage in daily life.
Three women completed the three year course and earned bachelor of law degrees in Chicago this year. Douis advocates reform replacing bachelor girl with femelle and improving terms for women. Mrs Clemens reportedly influences Mark Twain's writing with strict censorship. Lady Sarah Wilken, famed war correspondent, observed siege errors and hardships.
Mafeking returns to London from South Africa. Laura A Aldermat owns 150 acres and 8000 trees near Harley, Turner County. Hose B Cleveland buys Warren farm at Seleboro, Me. Queen Christina of Spain sends a confidential messenger to deposit wealth in Bank of England. Burial of Mrs Gladstone noted alongside two other women. Miss Mary Yardley of Chicago claims 105 years, credits temperance and precise routines. Book-binding revived as fashionable occupation for women. Lucy Skinner of Royalton VT is among few who served in Continental Army. Countess Castellane adds to her husband’s grand tastes with a Wardrobe set once owned by Louis XV, priced at $289,000.
A fashion roundup describes fall trends using silk and wool blends with ornate oriental embroidery accents, lightweight gold jewelry clasps, and velvet trims for evening frocks and jackets. A feature excerpt recounts Mose Garlands taming a stallion named Kintuck through a prolonged, patient walk culminating in trust and submission.
Read of Father Fridella's dramatic escape in China aided by a Chinese helper after being stashed in a coffin on a junk drifting down river to Hongkong. The piece also recounts dangerous Boxer clashes, a Nome rescue tale, a Chinese octopus attack on fishermen, a railroad near-miss in New Jersey, and various medical and technological notes from the era.
The report surveys international tensions as Diaz expresses Mexico’s regrets over the Galveston disaster while Russia and France announce troop withdrawals from Pekin to Tien-Tsin. It notes American troops not involved in Pekin looting, and profiles deaths of William Saunders and George P. Gregory.
A Hoboken mother Nellie Maloney died of tuberculosis leaving a week-old son James who fell ill and died three days after the mother’s funeral. Family believes the infant’s death followed a supernatural return of the mother to claim her baby. Also noted: long list of obituary blurbs, public notices, and local incidents across New Jersey.
The Alamo’s original bell, engraved 1772 with San Antonio and Spanish arms, was found in Go liad and offered as old iron before being purchased by Misa Adina De Zavada of San Antonio, president of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and will be placed at the Alamo. The report also covers a string of anecdotes about Miss Kate Metz, now seventy one, recovering health after long illness and learning to walk again. Scattered text mentions Scandinaviavia and U.S. Danish numbers and locations.
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