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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1904
Page
3
Catarrh cannot be cured by local remedies and requires internal treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is advertised as a blood and mucous surface healer and a regular prescription. Alaska is described as undeveloped with no wagon roads for summer or winter travel.
A Milwaukee woman testifies that after years without children and a medical diagnosis of female troubles she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for three and a half months and soon conceived after twenty two months, expressing deep gratitude and noting improved home life. The letter bears a Milwaukee Business Woman's Association endorsement and a note about a 5000 forfeit proving genuineness.
Francis Arnold Collin recounts Selkirk’s eight year exile on a remote island, his watchful lookout, the reunion with Captain Dampier, and his stubborn civility amid hardship. A Spanish landing, a bulldog chase, and Selkirk’s preserved dignity contrast with Defoe’s Crusoe tale.
The bat population at Wrandette Cave near New Albany grows into commerce. J O Sibert shipped three dozen bats to Harvard University for a dollar a dozen, with smaller lots sent to other institutions. Wyandotte Cave bats supply markets globally, especially in winter when numbers surge. Researchers estimate 100600 bats winter in southern Indiana and parts of Kentucky.
Experiments tested how boys and girls observe as witnesses. A man in workman disguise entered a room and children exited by different doors. About 80 percent of girls recalled clothing, while 70 percent of boys recalled features. The tests aim to gauge evidence strength in identity cases.
Italian experiments report colors affecting nerves in patients. In Allessandria hospitals, red and blue rooms calm violent or melancholic patients. A violent patient improves in a blue room. a melancholy patient gains cheerfulness after red room exposure.
The story traces how a bear hunter first spotted a vast snow field on Mummy Mount, later explored by Mr. Hallet. In 1882 he crossed a hidden crevice and survived, prompting further expeditions in 1886 and 1887 with an Alpine-trained mountaineer. They confirmed a real glacier with crevasses and moraines, named Hallet Glacier to honor the discoverer.
Amanda Orr, repeatedly jailed in Baltimore, is sentenced to six months by Justice Fechtig. In eighteen years since age twenty, she has 138 arrests, primarily for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, never charged with serious felonies. The Sun notes she has spent 152 months in confinement across multiple sentences and remains not deemed a criminal by record, though the police chronicles fill her life.
Mexico shifts from wool exports to imports as domestic mills grow. In 1903 the republic recorded 3.42 million sheep valued at about 6 million dollars, with ranges at 2.70 to 4 per head. Zacatecas leads with 827 thousand, followed by San Luis Potosi and others.
The article traces ancient and medieval hospitals including Epidaurus founded by Antonius Pius for Aescu lapsis and the sick reception building Strabo praised. It notes 380 A D hospitals at Caesarea and Rome by Valens and Fabiola, Basil the leper hospital, and Paris Hotel Dieu with 7th century origins. It ends with 11th century Canterbury foundations Bartholomew’s and St Thomas’ as London’s oldest religiously linked hospitals.
A Chicago Chronicle account notes a peculiar Japanese worship on the Nikko road where pilgrims write prayers on paper pieces and chew them into balls then hurl them at a statue. If the prayer sticks to the idol’s face the omen is favorable. if to the body less so. if it falls, hope vanishes.
A barber recalls a customer who insists on using a different razor each shave and a regular who brings his own blade only to reveal it is a meat ax. The anecdote highlights the odd rationalities and stubborn preferences around razors.
A Marshall County gathering reports a young woman’s scalp burned by a celluloid hairpiece igniting from a red hot stove. Similar incidents in Topeka involve a patient burned by a spark from an electric machine igniting a celluloid collar. The London Graphic notes English women’s voices grow louder and deeper, praising outdoor activities and American fashion for improving breathing, voice, and health.
Victoria was selective during visits, bringing her own bed and bedding, carriages, horses, and servants to the house. She limited meals to her own suite, sometimes inviting the host to join luncheon or dinner, rather than dining with locals.
The report states that post horus are to be abolished on the Prussian stage lines whose terminus is Berlin. Officials indicate a restructuring of railway time and service for the Berlin terminus, with the change affecting scheduled routes and passenger flow.
After a year of trials in Switzerland the steam turbine ran 7 000 hours with only 544 hours in repairs. The comparison notes France holds 21 000 000 acres of forest and 17 500 000 of waste land despite cultivation.
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