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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1895
Page
1
A Chicago Inter Ocean feature invokes Open the Door as a call to welcome sun light love and grace. It extols faith pure thoughts and blooming virtue and urges sympathy toward strangers and kin as a path to brighter lives.
A timid laborer Jim Carroll joins the Smithville Tigers after a quarrel with Minorvy. He earns respect in battle by bold acts, refuses promotion, and returns home to a forgiving wife as years after the war end. The tale follows his quiet bravery from camp to field to family hearth.
A compilation notes camphor and gin cotton in celluloid, phonographic clocks, typhoid links to polluted waterweed, India’s army hospital rates, malaria blood findings, London Thames tunnel plans, iron sulfate spraying effects on potato vines, liquefiable acetylene, and glaciers study. New Zealand glaciers move about 161.2 inches daily with four descent levels observed.
A survey of奇 bizarre claims and feats spans continents and decades. An old pine tree in Dartmouth College Park dies at 200 years. A Nevada man reports indigestion cured by a lightning shock. Toworth England hosts a 1099 year old chestnut tree with a 50 foot trunk. A Unionville Missouri man touts saltpeter as a snakebite cure from personal experience. A Pennsylvania inventor unveils a five percent more powerful explosive safe from concussion with a fuse. The Emperor of Angtria outdoors near Tech claims a gunshot morning with a staged event. Adams Express challenges value understating to cut charges. Siam hosts white elephants bathed daily. Venelo Charley Bose, born 1792 on the Ohio, recalls Kentucky hunting days. A Great Northern train battles forest fire near Washington, blaze scorching conchos. A Boston-area project raises New York New Haven Hartford tracks via electric power. a large factory building moves in two sections.
An old Missouri zinc mine incident details a 200 foot drift collapse and a miner’s hours trapped underground. a railroad chase ends with gunfire as Indians pursue a rider. a California man battles a mad coyote to save himself and a wagon. Names include Wayes Heron, Indiana life, and David Paxton.
A bed of petrified oysters was found atop Big Mountain near Forkaton, Wyoming County, Penn. Amateur geologists A Judson Starke and William N Reynodsy Jr of Lafayette College spent a day collecting specimens. Some oysters measure twenty-two inches long, nine inches wide, and weigh forty pounds. The fossils vary in size and retain oyster features. shell wear cleans easily. The site sits on a small mound at the mountain top near the Sullivan County line, first unearthed during railroad grading by Lopez to Jennings Brothers lumber tracts.
A fragmented note claims bicycle riding is restricted in St Petersburg Russia with authorities banning public riding except for riders who meet unspecified tests. The text mentions exams and boards but is unclear and garbled. It suggests rare bicycle accidents due to the supposed ban and verification process, though details are uncertain.
W C McCain of Brookville recalls a close call with a rattlesnake near a roadside spring while transporting camping gear in Cameron County. Barber of Keating, hired to haul equipment, paused to drink and felt the snake’s head brush his forehead before it released him. The incident left Barber shaken and recalling it as a near deadly moment.
A young Indianapolis woman long feared snakes and refused an Indian trip with her lover. After his ultimatum she agreed, but his drastic plan to reassure her included a dead python placed in the drawing room. When he delayed entry, he found her killed by a live python coiled around her, the mate of the one on the hearthrug.
Willard Belding aged 26 from Belchertown endured numerous injuries from childhood onward. He lost part of a hand at seven, ankle bones shattered, a cider mill accident widened his mouth, a horse crushed a rib, a fall broke a rib, a sandbank collapse buried him, knee cap shattered, and teeth replaced with a double set as he aged.
The New York World reports on Crispi's body guard costs including two police commissioners at 60 dollars daily, twenty two detectives at about 0.91 dollars each, two vice brigadiers, and a carriage totaling roughly 26.10 daily or 952,650 yearly while in Rome. Travel multiplies expenses, pushing annual costs toward twelve thousand dollars.
The New York World reports on limey pebbles shown at a C A exhibition on Fourth Avenue. It notes suspicious materials used by hay and food dealers and a man distributing tasteless powder that worsens horse health, with several horses dying after exposure.
New York World notes a string of royals in plain dress while out in public. The Danish king, crown prince of Greece, and King of Portugal are described as unglamorous, with the Portuguese ruler wearing off color baggy trousers. The piece calls the attire notably plain.
A fragmented verse celebrates cotton bale arrivals and economic hope. It envisions cleaner streets, brighter prospects, and national blessing as cotton comes in, contrasting with industrial clamor and seasonal imagery. The piece references Memphis and commercial life.
A mosaic of light humor from early 20th century papers includes snippets about health rumors, a magistrate, highwaymen, and alley banter. Across sources like Philadelphia Record and Chicago Record, quips touch romance, misheard phrases, and satirical takes on watches, customers, and stage fright.
The Secretary for Agriculture cites a letter from Mr. Berry of the Agent-General's union noting expected rabbit prices of twenty to twenty-two cents per rabbit for the coming season. Charges for duck dues, carnage, and commission in London run about two cents, with two extra cents in other provincial cities. The piece argues a large trade in Victorian rabbits in major manufacturing districts like Leeds, Manchester, and Sheffield, where mill work limits cooking time, making rabbits a popular family staple. It urges Victorian shippers to accept small profits to boost rabbit trade in those districts.
Tragic fate haunts Elva Uegtiacs and Mr and Mrs Charlen Iitesman of Elklish Indiana as multiple children perish or are gravely harmed. Son John dies after an accident years ago, William killed in a runaway in 1898, James dies after a dance crash from a train fall, George injured by a rotator mill explosion, Joft crippled for life, Ava falls forty feet from a tree. the Enquirer notes a string of misfortunes extending over months.
President Cleveland starts the machinery at Gray Gables launching the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta Ga. The formal opening features a military parade speeches and cheers with George Brown Emory Speer and Joseph Thomson among speakers. The crowd cheers as the Frick engine whirs to life and batteries glow, signaling industrial progress for the South.
Acting Postmaster General Jones ordered that mail addressed to vacant lots be refused after a Philadelphia fraud case involving Weart & Co and twenty aliases. The regulation bans delivery to vacant addresses and outlaws mail to the firm’s aliases, aiming to curb abuse and misdelivery in the city.
Divers report the Chinese transport rategeese deen, a Sapahane warship, is in terrible condition after heavy firing. She is torn by shot and torpedo. Passengers huddle between decks to shelter as hundreds of corpses are packed tightly.
A double storefront block occupied by East man Schletcher and Lee furniture and chinaware dealers burned down in Indianapolis with the entire stock lost. Estimated losses total about 250000 with 100000 insured on the bank’s contents. Information from a source cites reforms talks involving Porte and Armenian proposals.
The Cherokee Strip marks its second opening day anniversary with all thirty towns observing the event. The Strip’s population surpasses 100 000, led by Perry as the largest town with about 6600 residents.
A collage of odd notes: Ambassador Bayard golfing. Governor Morton bowling. General Diaz facing another presidential term in Mexico. King Alfonso of Spain, age nine, with a confessor. Lord Dutraven on yacht in white flannel with a single eyeglass. G Rowland HI, an Episcopalian missionary, possibly British nobility but prefers American citizenship. Dr. Conay Doyle’s failed lecture tour causing chatter among English writers. Lord Roberts seeking a brass monument in Calcutta. brass muzzle loading cannons sent to India for the statue. Samuel Slong of the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad, 80, celebrating golden wedding anniversary. ex-Senator William Evarts, now nearly blind in Windsor. Wilford Woodruff, head of the Mormon Church at eighty-eight, a prolific missionary. Duke of York noted for vote production but strong foreign accent. Prince of Wales and mother with German accent. Mark W. Warrington elected President of the University of Washington. Henry Irving popular among English crowds. Duke of Connaught praised as a good public speaker. Stenton, a prominent official, and a remarkable journey by W. S. Stenton from Colorado to Cripple Creek to save rail fare. a carpenter by trade with modest, unassuming life.
A cable from the Emabgador Xnatis reports ex Consul Waller's family arrives in Pardes. Waller declines to see her husband. Secretary Carlisle rules M W Ransom may draw salary as US Minister to Meztco. The government bond syndicate dissolves and profits are shared among members. John Sowers expelled from the island will appeal to Washington. potential US Spain tensions. Brokers propose exchanging gold to 30,000,000 for legal tender to avoid bond loss.
A chaotic jumble of scores names and events. Mentions Thomas Kane burned by a lamp explosion in Lawrences New Jersey and a wave of international news. Also notes park commissioners New York City resigning and various political and criminal items across the United States.
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