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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1910
Page
4
Clement J. Driscoll, New York weights and measures commissioner, favors selling bread strictly by weight. Some bakers oppose it arguing fate of the poor relies on bakers generosity. A beggar placard tale contrasts appearances with reality and blames doctors for misdiagnosis.
A Chicago mother recalls her five year old son’s dreadful eczema like rash. After doctors failed, Cuticura ointment gradually cleared sores, though skin peeled repeatedly. By the third and fourth applications the illness subsided and the boy was cured twelve years later, in 1905.
A fragment collection shows domestic humor and city-life vignettes. It includes Mrs Podkins breaking silence after years of quiet, a comic African vernacular scene, a seaside child’s rush, an Irish bricklayer joke, and a closing remark on church differences.
At West Point Major Gen. Barry orders restraint for all cadets as a special inquiry probes the table silence imposed on instructor Rufus E. Longan. A four-class board questions each cadet under oath while tensions rise and officials consider department action.
London coroner's jury convicts Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen of the willful murder of his wife Belle Himore. They find he poisoned her with hyoscine or similar narcotic. five grains were found in remains beneath the cellar floor. Jury deliberated briefly. Miss Le Neve deemed unnecessary to consider.
Census Bureau mortality report shows 2854 homicides and 8402 suicides in 1909 within death registration areas covering about 56 percent of the population. A fall of 149 homicides from 1908 is noted while the rate per population declines. Poison is the leading method in self-inflicted deaths with 2464 cases.
At the South Omaha market on Monday the sheep receipts set a new world record with 63 215 head received. General Manager Buckingham of the Union Stockyards company says the figure marks a historic high even as market prices showed no clear trend.
San Francisco reports Dr. Robert Thompson alias James Grant charged with the murder of Eva Swan whom authorities allege he crowded into a trunk and buried in a basement. Paul Parker, ex Stanford student, visited her in the doctor’s hospital and is in jail.
John E Gilman was elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic for the coming year at the Atlantic City encampment. Rochester was tentatively chosen as next meeting place pending railroad rates. Van Sant urged harmony between Union and Confederate veterans and noted 627000 living northern veterans.
Mrs Helen Day of Wyoming Pa fell from a precipice inside Mammoth Cave striking granite rock known as Purgatory and fracturing her skull. She died later. Day was widow of the Wyoming County Democrat publisher.
An auto collided with an electric train on the West Jersey and Seashore line at a crossing on the outskirts of Gloucester city. Three of the five people in the car died: Clayton P. Davis of Collingswood, Mrs. Amanda Mackey, and Charles Prest, nephew of Davis.
Six armed men held up a crowded Interurban street car traveling from St Paul to Minneapolis in broad daylight. They robbed passengers of about $200 and escaped after forcing their way to the rear of the car. The bandits, all well dressed, boarded in St Paul and fled as the car neared Minneapolis.
In New York the Sultan of Sulu Hadji Mohammed Jumalul Kirim and a fourteen member retinue arrived aboard the St. Louis. Customs officials expedited his baggage believed to include 500000 in pearls. Salary had been cut from 59000 to 1500 with living allowances. He plans to visit Washington and meet President Taft after touring Life of New York.
An official of the Manufacturers' Heat and Light company of Pittsburgh explains the refusal to provide free gas to churches in Bellevue Len Avon and nearby suburbs. He notes women use church basements for fruit canning in summer and fall to save gas bills and reduce home clutter, prompting the decision to end the free fuel program.
A twelve hour clash in northern Berlin between striking Kupfer and Co coal dealers employees and police league left about forty to fifty wounded. Strikers attacked scabs protected by police who used swords revolvers and stones were thrown by rioters.
London obituary notes the death of Mrs. G M Hayman at Southsea. A close personal friend of Charles Dickens, she was said by family to have been the inspiration for Little Dorrit. She would have turned eighty next month.
J Ty Piltehet, president of Dublin Banking Company Fund and head of Georgia Warehouse & Compress, commits suicide at home. His death follows a life insured for over 100 000. Local authorities note insurance and circumstances as key details in the case.
Washington reports the Philadelphia mint has restarted gold coinage and is minting seven hundred thousand cents each day. Most pennies disappear, bending to cracks, dirt, or swallowing by children, with many never returning.
Brooklyn widow Victoria Sankey dies at 71 while her sons John and Ifa Sankey Taft assist at her home. In Washington Taft spends Sunday and works toward cabinet sessions ahead of week-long schedule.
Three thousand delegates from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors, and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen met at the Amsterdam Opera House in New York. They backed a government request for a square deal and higher freight rates, signaling unity between employes and employers. They pledged to scrutinize candidates for federal office and sent a memorial to President Taft and national authorities urging a reasonable rate increase.
West Point cadets twice imposed the silence on Captain Edwin Landon an instructor triggering severe discipline. They were denied supper locked in their rooms and forced to march around the barracks while a planned dance and keg were cancelled. Girls chaperons traveled from New York Albany Poughkeepsie Newbury and other cities to attend. The next day the boss reportedly faced the group amid lingering resentments.
A westbound Rock Island passenger train from Kansas City to Denver plunged into a washed out Mill Creek bed near Clayton Kansas. Sixteen people were killed and thirteen injured as the locomotive and front car disappeared into twenty feet of floodwater. Victims were from Kansas and Colorado. all injured expected to recover.
Paris report says Edmond Poillet, a noted aviation school student, died during a flight from 150 feet when a wind eddy toppled his plane. The crash on Pollet Falls claimed Poillet as the nineteenth aviation fatality.
Rochester captures the Eastern League pennant for the second straight year, finishing ahead of Newark. Under manager John Fianel the team showed consistency and strong staying power throughout the season, with Newark as the runner up.
Theodore Roosevelt defeated James S. Sherman 467 to 445 to become temporary chairman at the New York Republican state convention in Saratoga. The 1,015 delegates included notable Old Guard figures who pledged to continue their influence as Elihu Root was named permanent chairman.
New York Mayor Gaynor states in a letter to Creelman that he will not be the Democratic nominee for governor. He would decline if nominated at the state convention in Rochester, saying he cannot desert supporters and city reform efforts.
Report from Flagstaff describes a fifty mile square Arizona region stretching to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado badly depopulated by earthquakes and rumblings. Indians fled as houses collapsed while whites stayed until their homes fell. Refugees spoke of volcanic stones hurled from beds and stones crashing down slopes. The area remains in unrest.
United States Senator Frank Q O Briggs is expected to be chosen to succeed Franklin Murphy as chair of the New Jersey Republican State Committee. The move follows party practice allowing the gubernatorial nominee to pick the party leader with Senator Briggs favored by Mr Lewis. Briggs once led the committee that backed Governor Stokes and helped push progressive planks in the campaign. Murphy, a capable campaign manager, has not aligned with Lewis or the progressives and faces his own political hurdles.
George R. Barker, a roller skating instructor from Indiana, was arraigned in Atlantic City for pawning two diamond rings belonging to a pupil. He pleaded guilty to hide the donor’s name as the rings were worth $30. Barker earned about $35 weekly from the rink and spent it on social pleasures. The same report notes Harry Trauger shipping 60 rattlesnakes to the New York Zoological Garden, observed by locals as it was loaded.
Mrs Becker of Jamaica Plain Boston Massachusetts says kidney secretions improved after using Doan's Kidney Pills. She suffered bloating and near death before relief, claims over a year of health since starting the treatment. Doan's Pills are advertised as available for sixty cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A dialogue snippet features Ethel answering how many strawberries she ate from a basket. She admits two bites, one to test flavor and another to remove the taste afterward. The exchange hints at humor and a playful, domestic moment.
In Beverly a thirteen year old boy Robbie A Maguigan killed himself after school by tying a strap to the front stairs and his belt. His sister Margaret eight, found him after returning home from school. The incident is linked to family troubles and his mother leaving his father.
Health notices discuss tuberculosis mortality in Cuba Porto Rico and Trinidad with death rates and unsanitary housing blamed. The piece notes associations formed for prevention and contrasts rates with New York City. It also includes miscellaneous humor and product blurbs on cheese safety and patent medicines.
A playful spoof shows Hannibal halted by a constable with a tin badge and chin whiskers who cites speed limits. The Carthaginian laughs, tosses a bag to the officer, then continues to Rome while the piece wobbles between jokes about decision making and a negro worker’s wireless query.
Commissioner Hudson reports Georgia cotton badly hurt by hot dry spell. He estimates the crop may reach about 1,300,000 bales, roughly one third of last year’s total, with other crops also suffering from the weather.
A severe electric storm near Little Falls, Utica area, kills Fred Stallning, a farmer, and causes extensive damage. Barns burn in Clinton and Port Plain with losses totaling about $15,000 while other sections suffer further destruction and fire.
A reminiscence of late Professor William P. Blake praising mineralogical reports that helped spur the United States to acquire Alaska. He recalled a Fourth of July address in Tucson noting Arizona’s progress and contrasted past ignorance with present achievement.
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