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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1909
Page
3
Dr W Tutchinson critiques modern schooling for stifling movement and focusing on irrelevant tasks. He urges health, practical learning, and less top heavy aims. He compares sisters to illustrate inequities in treatment of women and calls out societal attitudes toward female workers.
By Winifred Black a column discusses women who lose work after personal mistakes. A Colorado woman named Mrs Bell is cited and a unnamed woman who fell in love with a married man loses her job. The piece questions mercy and judges past behavior in hiring decisions.
City residents discovered walking as a healthful pastime on country roads last summer. Men and women, once seen as sedentary, began walking for pleasure, reporting improved spirits and vitality. Open air walking reduced nerves and fatigue, with noted gains in health and fitness.
Englishwomen favor daily walking as a healthy pastime improving circulation and vitality. Proper walking is enjoyable and purposeful, with gradual distance goals and a clear destination to avoid fatigue and drudgery.
Author urges balanced mental exercise to build strength while warning against overexertion. Proper nutrition, rest, and regular recreation are essential. A strong mind comes from slow, sensible training, good sleep, and open air activity rather than hasty effort.
A young man discusses entering a life partnership with Miss Dullion. His father taunts him, noting her wealth and house offer while asking what the son contributes besides the name. The youth blushes and concedes the principal contribution is the name.
The young shopper hurries to school while reciting a rough math problem. He lists items and prices: coffee two pounds at 435 cents, sugar three and one half at 7 cents, six boxes of cocoa at 74, two dozen eyes at 32, and four pounds of butter at 40 cents. The total comes to four dollars and eighty three cents, and he escapes before finishing.
Shreveport reader cites safety concern after seeing an asbestos marked fireproof curtain at a local theatre. The note mentions a woman who reread Greek history during a performance and references a humorous misread about The Rains of Agbes ton. In Yukon mining regions electric lines were installed to transmit power up to sixty miles.
The notice promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female ailments with a testimonial from Mrs. George Jordy of Marsten NJ and cites extensive testimonials stored at the Lynn Massachusetts laboratory. It urges women to write for confidential advice and notes the product contains native roots and herbs with no narcotics. The page also includes an unrelated comic caption from the Kangasag City Journal.
An advertisement extols a white car as the market’s most desirable machine. It targets a buyer who drives and maintains his own vehicle and invites callers or writers to request further information.
The oldest nun in the world, Mother Andrew born December 14 1812, died at the Cistercian convent of Sarneu near Lucerne. She professed June 10 1887 and led the convent vestiary until 1897, never left the convent life, and read without spectacles until near the end. She served under six prioresses of the order.
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