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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1918
Page
6
Broadway's vaudeville at the house continues with ten big acts in five in the ring and five in the program. The show wins warm audience applause for variety and style. Next week features three plays: The Ship Doom with Claire McDowell, Never Again, and Sisters All. Doom evokes sea adventure with vivid silver imagery.
A review notes a powerful drama featuring Norma Talmadge in a performance praised for emotion and appeal. The piece highlights the film's strength and hints at strong public interest in the release as a notable success.
The Newark Theatre showcases Bessie Barriscale in Those Who Pay as the week’s premier film, with Elaie Fert in Rave of the World and Pauline in Mrs Defense on Friday and Saturday. The program runs the entire week beginning this coming week.
The Shuberts present John Rapheel's dramatization of DuMaurier's Peter featuring John Barrymore and Constance Collier at the Broad Street Theatre beginning January. Critics hail the production as a standout of the year and praise Barrymore's performance.
Farmers begin early planting as winter ends in New Jersey with manure and lime applied in two prior months. Market gardeners prepare hotbeds for cabbage and early tomatoes and peppers. Seed orders are prioritized due to tied up transportation and potential delays in filling late requests.
Charles G. Harper in MoTOR notes British car makers, busy with war work, can only build limited models under Ministry of Munitions licenses. Designers are ready to craft new cars, with long waiting lists, but firms are reticent about future differences.
An Arab saying found in an Arabic treatise parchment warns riches corrupt the soul while virtue enlarges hope. The remark is attributed to a ruler and reflects a bitter verdict of the rich today.
The potato was introduced into Goate by Hieronymus Cardan in 1558 and reached England by Sir John Rankine and Sir Francis Drake in 1968. Ireland saw its introduction by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1590.
State fuel administrators push wood as coal substitute to ease shortages. Virginia uses 30 convict camps to cut wood for public use, cost under a cent per cord, equating wood to half a ton of coal. Tests at Carpenter Co in Pa show mix ratios for boiler efficiency and output under varying culm and coal blends.
In San Rafael California a man named Charles Frewn fell near his home and neighbors treated him with a garden hose at full pressure. After medical checkups Frewn’s vision was reportedly restored and authorities note the incident as an unusual recovery.
Chinese gardeners plant statuettes of tiny men in pots and train vines to grow over them. The vines form a robe around the statuettes, with the statuette faces and hands peeking through the green foliage.
A Washington Star quote attributes a humorous misdirection on life to Uncle Eben, urging careful steps to avoid getting lost on the wrong path. The line reflects a folksy moral about choosing the right road.
In Phoenix a movement forms for Two Bits a Day clubs to buy quarterly Thrift Stamps daily. Three men took hundred Thrift cards and sold the stamps, a brisk rise in the old practice called Two Bits, with aim to spread clubs nationwide in the war savings campaign.
The exhortation urges complete dedication to tasks and striving for excellence. It emphasizes the value of painstaking, wholehearted effort and finding satisfaction in diligent work.
An excerpt discusses Sir Oliver Lodge’s stance on belief and truth and questions whether it is possible to have thoughts higher than reality. The passage reflects on faith versus empirical facts and the limits of human understanding.
A vivid promotional piece urging readers to flee winter in New York for Palm Beach and southern resorts. It touts Altman’s winter wardrobes from gowns to hats and parasols, and Wanamaker’s preseason sale of wool garments with early reservations and tailored suits for business and leisure attire.
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