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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1898
Page
2
The Fredonian quotes Senator Daly calling Governor Voorhees a grand, honest, and upright man. Daly, who served six years with him in the Senate, says his personal knowledge compels the endorsement.
The report outlines counterfeit pennies in Burlington county, a proposed large hotel by Philadelphia capitalists at Delanco, a short Monmouth county applejack crop, and Bridgeton canneries finishing the tomato pack in about two weeks at two thirds usual size. It mentions Moyer a Trenton potter with a coal combustion device patent, a Monmouth county war on pool rooms, and a Soldiers' Comfort Committee aiding 2,500 soldiers and 231 sick soldiers. Severe Atlantic City storm, Spanish study in Newark High, potato digging plans by farmer Reed, and a Paterson parade draw 25,000 spectators. A hunter named Harold James reports finding a chest of Spanish doubloons and a human skeleton, with an estimated value between 1,000 and 10,000 dollars. James plans to return from Europe to buy a farm.
In El Paso a rancher recounts a bizarre butter venture with Jersey cows. Dry West Texas weather sucked moisture from udders, milk vanished through the udder walls, and the man blamed a vanished milking apparatus after observing how the cows’ udders grew flaccid as the day heated.
A collection of quips on humor as a precious gift that steadies temperament and aids life. It highlights humor’s power to resist vanity, praise, and distress, and contrasts it with worldly pretensions. Additional notes discuss teaching children money sense and a humorous portrait anecdote.
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