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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1911
Page
2
A collection of snippet quotes shows political intrigue and social humor. County financier Bilkes is alleged to have absconded with $30,000, prompting venue questions and district attorney suspicions. Other items touch on flattery, fashion, and a misfiring medicine causing stomach trouble.
Beranger famed for bacchanalian songs recounts supper with Dumas the elder and the younger. The younger teased him about wine in his verses, and Beranger replied that his source was the fountain at the corner, urging the youth to seek inspiration there.
Fragmentary lines from a Baltimore American page mention a rasping voice, charges, an escape, a drum theft from an orchestra, a police interception, and cryptic exchanges about kindness and re crufted phrases reflecting a noisy scene.
Dr. Anna H. Shaw, president of the Women’s Suffrage Society in America, preached in a Stockholm state church becoming the first woman to publicly preach in Sweden. She discussed militant suffrage and noted a London parade of 40,000 women. Shaw plans campaigns in six U.S. states. Carrie Catt tours South Africa and Asia over eighteen months.
In Scotland Miss E. Dudgeon lights a greenhouse with a mercury vapor lamp to hasten germination and boost plant growth. Near the lamp plants germinate up to twice as fast and grow more deeply, with closer plants showing hairless stems.
Railroads require highly accurate timepieces for dispatch and safety. Conductors, station masters, and local inspectors verify watches against a standard, with lever-set models preferred for reliability. About 5,000 watches valued at $25 each circulate, inspected biweekly by professional experts to ensure accuracy and prevent misuse.
The article recalls 36 inch sword length limits enforced at London gates during Elizabeth I. In tavern brawls, authorities required blades to be equal length and smiths would trim any longer weapons to the standard under public supervision.
A tale recalls Sixtus V as a monk with a wealthy friend a lawyer who fell into poverty the lawyer travels to Rome for aid but falls ill and asks his doctor to inform the pope the pope promises a salad Sixtus sends a basket of lettuce to the sick man revealing money in the hearts of the letter the proverb grows from one of Sixtus salads.
A light column notes Herbert Spencer once ate strawberry jam at breakfast to avoid monotony and aid digestion through variety. It cites a tale of a man declining on a steady mutton-chop diet. The page also includes quips about a girl’s bat tleship party deck and a line on poetry by the yard with a pun on verse quality.
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