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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1911
Page
8
The article describes falconry in Japan as an imperial sport requiring a serving man for each hawk and costly upkeep. Taiko Sama brought falconry from Korea, with imperial birds traced to his lineage. Hawks are trained with meticulous care, including water-handling tests, and despite fierce hunting, no blood is shed during retrieval.
In sixteenth century Europe table settings featured two cloths, one small and one large, folded to resemble a wind swirling with bubbles. Earlier doublieres laid to floor details and later shifts to a single floor touching cloth show evolving table fashion. Charles VI reportedly owned many long, fringed cloths with silk embroidery.
The Count de Tendilla faced mutinous troops at the fortress of Kambra with no gold or silver to pay them. He issued paper tokens to his soldiers, promised redemption later, and through miraculous alchemy the notes became real coin. The historian notes this as the first recorded use of paper money.
A young Annapolis cadet faces a gruff examiner who presses him to detail steps to get up steam. After a string of practical steps the examiners press again and the cadet finally jokes that he would look to heaven and think he is ready to go home if the boiler front comes out.
A fictitious Binche auction of 252 unique books was a hoax created by the late M de Fortgas myth. French and Belgian book lovers arrived with agents from major libraries only to learn the owner and the library were imaginary as reported by the London Chronicle.
The London Spectator notes elephants display steadfast courage, submitting to daily painful wounds and facing danger in obedience to keepers. It argues their intelligence differs from human understanding and they cannot be duped into believing danger is absent.
She waved him off imperiously and warned against any closer gesture. He protested that he would crush her heart, but she retorts that her heart matters less than her gown. A fragment from London Tit-Bita contrasts a playful domestic moment with a note on a Siberian peasant practice.
Description from Pearson's Weekly notes repeated inventor claims of perpetual motion devices. A bus with water cylinders above axles allegedly powers forward as water flows to back, contradicting physics. An idea of a wheel with shelves and counterweights supposedly runs forever but stops after a few revolutions.
A Baltimore reader recounts a humorous incident as a man returns to his party in triumph with a large pitcher of sweat and two glasses. The server asks for payment, and after a disagreement a nickel is offered, then a quarter as fair. The scene ends with mixed judgments from onlookers about the man’s pride and restraint.
A visitor reads a sign near a Venus de Milo statue with garbled text. The exchange appears dryly noted by a female journalist observer.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions philosophy and power, references Howell and a game, with unclear terms like Hyerthe and Greep. Readable parts hint at a discussion about taking and doing things philosophically within a companion or game context.
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