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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1905
Page
2
A Camden New Jersey mother recalls her four month old baby covered in severe sores and scales. She credits Cu tura Soap and Ointment with rapid healing, calming itching and enabling sleep within a month. The testimonial names Mrs Mary Sanders of 769 Spring Street Camden.
The text contrasts Rubens and Velasquez, noting Rubens drew from Italian style, created his own form, and traveled among courts as a liberty seeking envoy. It credits Rubens with a white hot imagination and cool control, explaining his enormous brush output.
In a Pennsylvania town with many Friends an elderly Quaker spinster attends her grandnephew William’s wedding. During the breakfast a teasing question prompts her to reveal, with calm humor, that she was not as easily pleased as his wife.
A visitor reports that Grape-Nuts with cream improved his long stomach and bowel troubles after years of suffering and two surgeries. He credits the food with better digestion sleep and even memory and notes a weight gain of eight pounds in five weeks. The testimonial from the Battle Creek Toastum Co. is included.
The lesson centers on Jesus at the Pool of Bethesda during Passover era with the five porches near the sheep gate. Jesus heals a 38 year infirm man after inquiring about faith, then instructs him to sin no more and the man reports to the Jews, revealing Jesus as healer.
President Theodore Roosevelt, hosted by the Hungarian Republican Club, dined and spoke at Little Hungary on the East Side. Police guarded the crowd as thousands gathered in bitter cold to hear his call for Americanism and reform of the Senate.
In Buffalo New York on February 14 the bodies of Mrs Mary Armstrong about forty Mrs Cynthia Ford thirty five a Armstrong sister and Mabel Armstrong fifteen were found dead in their home from natural gas asphyxiation.
In a Brooklyn tenement on Atlantic avenue two Italian laborers John MariEnzo and Joséph Vallo quarreled over a trifling matter and drew revolvers in a duel that ended with both men dead. The clash occurred after a dispute between neighbors who shared adjoining rooms.
The Senate approved Assemblyman Gibbs' bill to abolish spring elections by a 12 to 4 vote. The measure ends the spring election cycle and shifts votes to other dates as defined by the new law.
McHenry County courthouse in North Dakota was destroyed by fire on February 15. Many county records were burned in the blaze at Towner.
Snow covers Mount Vesuvius and large parts of the Italian peninsula as a severe cold spell grips Rome and surrounding regions on February 15. Residents report icy streets, disrupted travel, and widespread transportation delays.
Owen Kelly, once a wealthy Philadelphia grocer, is under arrest in Los Angeles on embezzlement charges believed to total more than $50,000. He was captured by Police Chief Hamill and Detective Bradish after being spotted on a main street. Kelly had fled Boston last October, traveling across Europe and the Atlantic before returning to the United States via San Francisco. He admitted owing about $50,000 to Philadelphia relatives and friends and said he would go to Philadelphia without a requisition. At arrest, he had $1,900 in cash. $500 was found on him.
Ambassador Porter reports progress in locating John Paul Jones remains. From Paris he cables the state department that a sunk shaft found rows of graves undisturbed at seventeen feet. Porter, a civil engineer, outlines a plan using shafts drifts and tunnels to search the cemetery site without demolishing nearby houses.
The Senate approved the agricultural appropriation bill and began work on the DC appropriations. The Hansbrough amendment on wheat duty drawbacks passed after a long tariff focused debate. Three hours were allotted for the impeachment trial of Judge Charles Swayne, with no testimony on the judge’s residence inconvenience and excluding his statement to the House committee as evidence.
Market notes show firm to higher prices across grains and staples. Corn Corn firm with declines on wheat. May at 51 inexact. potatoes steady on Long Island at 11.50 to 2 range. beans strong with marrow at 3.16 and peas around 1.77 to 1.80. Wool steady domestic fleece 2 35c. Buttercream and cheese varied. eggs firm state Pennsylvania nearby fancy white 86 37c. Live poultry firm with fowls around 13 14c and turkeys near 20c.
Livestock receipts remain light with a steady market. Cattle values show slight gains for prime and heavy grades, while lighter classes move within narrow ranges. Sheep and lambs also pull back slightly in places, with wethers around five to six dollars and lambs near eight dollars.
A boy named Perkat 38 practices the McGinnity curve when he breaks a large library glass pane. His mother asks who did it and reveals she already knows. The boy says he called his father on the telephone to confess.
The passage muses on pity vanity and virtue, arguing that sympathy is condescension and vice often appeals to selfishness. It critiques the hedge between truth and originality, defines disappointment as hope unmet, and contrasts those who lament failure with those who crow victory. It ends noting half the world talks while the other half hesitates.
In Everett Washington Judge Saunderson recounts meeting George Ade in his Kentland Indiana boyhood home. Ade worked on a banker’s farm and joked about a man who elicits sixteen hours of work in a day. The judge notes Ade’s early loafing and hints they doubted his future potential but found his humor memorable.
A collage of 1900s ads and anecdotes including Hall’s Catarrh Cure claims with a $100 reward, testimonials, and constitutional treatment notes. Also features light humor about loud hats, Dr. Kline’s nerve restorer offers, census figure for Spain in 1900, endorsements for Pigo’s Cure, Mother Gray’s Sweet Toys, and a reference to Runway horses in Russia.
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