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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1905
Page
3
An old Washington Star excerpt recalls breaking ice with neighboring families. A casual Sunday exchange of Hello and Howdy Do shows simple civic manners can ease social awkwardness and reveal natural goodwill amid community life.
A narrator describes welcoming Little Son to his home and the evolving family dynamic with My Girl and their dog Micky. The infant dominates affection and household attention, prompting plans for the child's future and playful reflection on growing family status.
Narrator describes daily life with My Girl and Little Son, watching their interaction and his growing sense of belonging. He notes the ease of care, My Girl’s growing multitasking, and his gratitude that the child and the mother feel like his. The piece ends reflecting on ownership and affection.
Arthur Hofer argues that Paris now dominates modern art while Rome remains a cradle of classic masterworks. The essay notes Parisian vitality attracts artists away from Rome, though Rome still hosts the annual Rome prize winners who train at the Villa Medici.
A Vegetarian in a Sunday Magazine tale confronts a man eating breakfast, arguing eggs are meat since they become chickens. The man counters with a calm reply that his boiled eggs never become chickens, ending the exchange with a quiet deflection.
A historic account describes a quack’s sympathetic ointment recipe using grave dust, mummy, blood, seed oils, and rose oil. He claimed to heal the wounded by pressing the blend to the injury, anointing the sore, and restoring health, though details reveal risky, superstitious practice.
MeJigger and Thingumbob exchange a quip about keeping a wife fashionably dressed in a brief Philadelphia Press humor item. The joke pivots on social standards and marital roles in a light, dated tone.
A quarrel over romantic attention is recounted with a punch line about Jack being in Europe. The Houston Post quips that consent or attention is tied to Jack’s location, delivering a humorous observation on relationships and travel.
Five eggs broken into a saucepan with a cupful of grated bees. Lightly mix with a fork and serve with toast cut triangularly as garnish.
The guide describes cutting pure common sized potatoes into thick shaving rounds that do not break when fried. Fry them deep in hot fat, sprinkle with salt, and arrange curls or roses around a roast with parsley sprigs for garnish.
A simple batter combines two and a half cups of flour with three tablespoons of sugar. Rub in three dessert spoons of butter, then stir in one cup of milk, half a teaspoon of salt, and one cup of chopped fruit including pineapple and raisins. Bake in buttered pans for thirty minutes.
Thin sliced bacon is fried until curled and clear then kept hot over boiling water. Strain fat back into the pan add a little butter and fry apples sliced round and thin without peeling until clear and tender. Drain lift onto a hot water dish sift powdered sugar garnish with banana pieces for serving.
Free bananas are pressed to pulp and mixed with egg sugar cinnamon salt molasses cream and milk. The filling is baked in a pastry lined pan until firm, yielding a banana pie as described by the Woman's Home Companion.
Preparing tomato jelly from canned tomatoes in season with onion celery or celery salt cloves and paprika. Simmer mix strain and dissolve half a box of gelatine in cold water then fold into hot tomato liquid and heat briefly. Cool in small cups and serve turned onto lettuce leaves with mayonnaise.
A collection of practical notes covers home remedies and kitchen advice. Topics include blistering mustard plaster, removing candle wax with alcohol, beet salads with white lettuce, kerosene as cleaner, borax in dishwater, burns treatment with linseed oil and lime water, vinegar on steak, cracking bones for consommé, pickling pears, tea to stop bleeding, simmering stews, wood and fabric care with ammonia, and waxed thread sewing tips. It concludes with enamel address cards using Kremnix white and a note on Sumatra producing the largest flower.
The Boston Herald reports a revived era of sperm whaling from New England ports led by vessels like the Canton Sunbeam and Morning Star. Ships built decades ago, such as the bark Canton and the Mary B. Simmons, return with rich hauls including 2,900 barrels on one trip, and crews anticipate further profitable voyages across the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
A Washington Post summary tracing how states paid indemnities across eras. It notes pre Napoleonic practice, Napoleonic conquests, and modern shifts to indemnity as compensation. Examples include Russia 1877, Turkey 1896, Prussia 1866, and France 1871. The piece discusses ease of payment, enforcement challenges, and uses France to Germany as the largest historical indemnity.
A reader notes that bees may hear via antennae though no ears have been found. The hive signals such as hums of fear anger and satisfaction are described as understood by bees. The text discusses swarming behavior when the queen enters the hive and colonies separating in darkness and hints at possible hearing organs in the bee head region. It also mentions a rise in divorces in England.
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