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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1911
Page
6
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item recounts two performers who rode a single train ticket to Cleveland with a conductor surprised by the ruse. Other passages note a boy and his hat misadventures, and notes on authors who wrote standing or reclining, from Reade to Hugo and Twain.
A Washington Herald item notes a wife’s club formed a committee to study economy in dress. They began with a musical comedy approach, provoking light humor about women's conventions and wisdom.
The fragment discusses trusting others versus prudent restraint in finances. It notes keeping a bank account or spouse’s name private when engaging in broad trust, reflecting cautious, skeptical guidance. The text appears in a historical newspaper style with partial quotes and unclear attribution.
A Sunnyside day nursery matron in Boston argues that excessive kissing fondling and caressing harm infants. She says heavy parental affection can weaken or sickly a child and that in large families individual attention is limited and healthier.
The excerpt estimates language speaker counts, placing Chinese first with about 490 million, English second with 174 to 200 million, Russian around 150 million, and French and German near 90 to 100 million. It suggests English will become the dominant global language.
A rating tourist notes amusing conflicts in foreign hotels. He recalls asking a clerk in French for American news and receiving a puzzled reply about a Russian interpreter, highlighting linguistic mixups and cultural quirks.
A fragment notes a practice of ancient soldiers removing helmets to signal they are unarmed in the presence of others. It suggests showing boldness by removing protection as a gesture of courage.
A compact reflection on happiness as a duty, claiming that being happy benefits the world in unseen ways. It suggests a happy person acts as a radiant source of goodwill, lighting rooms like a newly lit candle, with a quote attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson.
Harper's Weekly reports on why the sun retains heat as its output continues. It explains heat comes from inward particle fall and radium releases heat influencing solar longevity, noting the sun’s radius will shrink very slowly and heat may persist for trillions of years with helium and radium factors cited.
Sunflowers yield versatile products from pithy stalks used as armor lining to absorb water. The plant also supplies edible oil from seeds and seed cake for cattle, poultry feed, honey, natural dye, and silky fibers for fuel and potash. In New England people claim malaria deterrence but poison follows sun.
A fragmentary London Globe item notes errors in M. Emilie Faguet’s lecture crediting a Hine to Cato and mixed references to Langlois Palestro Solferino Scribe Moliere and the edict of Nantes. It cites misdated events such as Francis I’s ascent and Columbus queries, highlighting lapses in memory and attribution.
Gold beaters by Lammering can reduce gold leaves so thin that 282 000 plus be laid that each other to produce the thickness of an inch yet each leaf is so perfect and free from holes that one of them laid upon any surface act in gilding gives the appearance of solid gold. They are so thin that if formed into a book 1 500 would only occupy the space of a single leaf of common paper and an octavo volume of an inch thick would have as main pages on the books of a well stocked library of 1 500 volumes with 200 pages in each.
Mrs Newlywed asks about shumps in the market while the butcher and husband joke about a shump. She wonders what it is and the husband replies there is plenty of time, hinting at a humorous domestic misunderstanding. The brief overheard exchange appears in Philadelphia Plenty.
A garbled OCR fragment presents regional speech about luck and people named Walter and Phil. It reads like a stray dialogue note with informal phrases and unclear context, lacking concrete events, places, or dates.
Fragmentary note cites Richas and Willie arguing that a rule is ineffective both ways, expressing fatigue and urging a change in Toledo. The message implies dissatisfaction with the current governance or policy and calls for mutual applicability.
A fragment from Harpers Weekly notes that even a hundred or more distant stars or a tiny speck of matter in the sunlit universe would not alter space temperature. It argues that annual thermal loss of Earth is negligible compared to vast cosmic scales, likening it to a match barely warming Siberia.
An 1880 Scientific American note discusses the skull’s elasticity and bone strength, noting the skull can compress and rebound without breaking. The piece also mentions bone versus wood tensile strength, plus a New York Sun anecdote about baked potatoes and potato skin appreciation in a restaurant, highlighting Irish dietary context.
In a New York Press piece, Aunt Hattie, revered as the eldest resident of a northern city, is described as vigorous and in perfect health despite advanced years. Friends visit her kitchen to probe the secret of her vitality, joking that her lack of trouble with hired help might be part of it.
Readable scraps show two juveniles debating a journey from Jericho to Jerusalem with mentions of salt fish and distant travel. The dialogue hints at transportation by boat or carried travel and reflects casual street discourse.
A fragment from the Washington Herald notes a lighthearted line about pestering teacups and timing, suggesting a casual, domestic humor angle. The snippet hints at a personal reflection or comic aside rather than a full events report.
A fragment from a historical note references the line The greatest armies is the greatest mercy attributed to Longfellow and an opera titled Wombate with an exact location unspecified.
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