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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1905
Page
7
J A Finder recounts killing a 111 inch snake later corrected to 8 feet 9 inches. He describes the strike, missing club, shotgun head shot, and measurements. A second similar snake, 6 feet 9 inches, was killed nearby. Finder claims honesty and a Guthrie snakeologist backs him.
The Queen of Denmark visits Iceland and asks a Danish bishop how many children he has. The bishop mishears and answers two hundred sheep instead of children. He explains he “grasps” them in summer and eats them in winter, prompting astonishment from the queen.
A pretty young woman, momentarily absent minded, asked the shop assistant for whiskers and blushed as he checked, before correcting herself to say egg whiskers. The scene, recounted in Cassell's Saturday Journal, ends with a giggle from a bystander.
Florence Station in McCracken County will cease to be a railroad station starting Saturday. Crews tore down the depot and raised a farewell flag reading Good-bye Florence. The discontinuation stems from declining business, marking the loss of one of the railroad’s oldest stations.
A retired railway employee named Colus killed himself and his ten year old son by lying on a railway line after his wife’s death. The boy struggled to escape but was fataly cut to pieces as a train passed. The event occurred in a village near Montpellier.
Henry Soule of Hammondsport New York describes severe kidney trouble twenty years ago with back pain gravel and urinary disorders. After using Deans Kidney Pills eight years ago he recovered and has remained well since. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box, Foster & Von Co Buffalo NY.
Justice Brewer of the U S Supreme Court warned life insurers of graft and praised Roosevelt for cleaning public affairs. He warned against insidious graft in government, citing Santo Domingo bonds and premature release of decisions, urging pure and honest public service with parallels to Andrew Jackson and Roosevelt.
A retired banker, once generous with wealth, lives in luxury yet is kept at a distance by his family. Each morning he visits a Broadway saloon for a discreet cigar and whisky, returns home by Riverside Drive, and reappears at noon. The family forbids alcohol in the house, viewing him as a tolerated nuisance. The bar tender notes the odd dynamic of money purchased status and quiet control.
The Philadelphia Record notes Kunzite as a new mauve semi-precious stone and describes zirsons brown diamonds green stones and a Uruguayan water stone. It highlights lilac and heliotrope bead sets matching gowns and suggests amber and coral beads as affordable real alternatives.
An intelligent elephant draws attention in New York by using a piece of chalk to tally the number of pins it knocks down. The display blends novelty and skill as crowds observe the clever animal keep count.
Aluminum presents great difficulty in plating and has long challenged metallurgists and platers seeking successful surface finishes. Early methods struggled with adhesion and uniformity, prompting decades of experimentation and gradual process improvements.
Missouri mule markets classify animals by weight, bone, size, color, age, mouth, teeth, broken or unbroken, and buyer locality. Major classes include cotton, lumber, railroad, sugar, farm, levee, city, and miners, with miners the hardest to supply and kept in dark bay or black. The Government buys across classes by contract, with strict examination and wide price ranges.
A Princeton man recalls a coach scolding a key player on the eve of an important football match. The coach suspects poor form due to possible smoking or studying habits and demands a change to ensure the team is ready for the game.
The Bristol fragment recounts Bobby Burns in Carlisle joining three farmers to versify for a half crown. Burns, nicknamed Johnny Peep, penned a rhyme about three fat sheep that saw him escape, winning the pooled bet while the others wrote unknown verses.
A U.S. Army private tossed a lonely plea on a biscuit to Miss Estella Smith in Ulster County as he rode home to Plattsburg Barracks. The World reports the note sparked a year of correspondence and culminated in their wedding.
Francesco Zocchi died at ninety six. The notice records his age at death and marks the passing of a local figure.
A New York blind man maps streets by scent, using shop odors to identify locations as he walks from home to Canal Street daily. He relies on smell and foot feel, explaining that together they substitute for eyes and help him avoid collisions in busy streets.
A customer at a German garden in Electric Park tricks a waiter by asking for the badge the waiter wears. After receiving the badge the man orders lemonade and pays, then explains the sign reading Get your waiter's number when ordering. The waiter realizes the badge was requested to read the number on the sign. Kansas City Times.
A dog hospital doctor warns that nine of ten dogs brought for treatment suffer from overfeeding. One meal daily is enough for healthy dogs. three or four meals daily are excessive. Raw beef is risky. meat should be cooked and given sparingly. The most healthful diet is boiled table scraps fed cold, with occasional raw beef for phosphorus and teeth.
The text extols adaptability as essential across roles from military to finance. It frames adaptation as turning emergencies into opportunities, noting a person who adapts thrives while those without it fall to ruin. It likens failure to rigid planning to a bankrupt mind seeking asylum in laws.
The Essex chief surveyor reports that at speeds up to ten mph a smooth car causes little dust on well built roads, but from fifteen to twenty mph dust becomes intolerable, especially with heavy vehicles. Treating main roads outside towns with tar taradam would cost £1,611,000.
An estimate puts the global railways at about 36.68 trillion dollars in value, reflecting large-scale assets and networks worldwide. The figure underscores the immense capital tied to railway systems, infrastructure, and related property across nations.
A restaurant on Spring Street near Mercer in New York City bears the historic name Aaron Burr.
A testimonial from Miss Ne Vander Wiele of Lakeside claiming instant relief and complete cure after using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for months of facial and neck sores. The piece also notes progressive Manhattan employers adding gyms libraries and daily free lunches for clerks and suggests bonding and payroll practices in major banks. A Swiss report mentions new petroleum fuel bricks.
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