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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1914
Page
6
A light verse notes morning hygiene with praise for clean hands at breakfast and a playful nudge to wash before meals. It cheekily mentions brushing hair and keeping up with grooming as part of daily routine.
The brown thrasher or brown thrash is a large wren with rich red brown head back wings and tail and white breast with brown streaks. From treetop it sings a medley of notes including trills and warbling as it courts its mate on nearby eggs. The bird nests in thorny hedges, a risky entry for predators, keeping its nesting site largely hidden.
Long excerpt recounts a duel challenge between a Georgia blacksmith and a Louisiana gentleman. The blacksmith refuses, cites humility and practicality, and proposes a quip that the duel would be pointless. The Louisiana party, amused, withdraws the challenge after hearing the blacksmith’s tenacious stance.
The piece notes that boys rely on luck, using found horseshoes or round stones, combined with a wish and ritual actions, to make desires come true. It warns that no ritual will make a schoolhouse burn down, though other tricks of black magic are said to fail.
A collection of light items including riddles about weight and sharp tongues, a pun on hellish heaven, tricks with bottles and matches, origin tale of the word gringo, concealed vegetables riddles with asparagus peas and turnip, and vanilla etymology.
A London Standard tale recounts S R Crockett receiving a paid check for a non existent article and an editor’s repeated returns. Crockett notes the check, then dreams of a column and finds the piece published, prompting the editor’s ongoing, mistaken payments.
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