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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1910
Page
3
On Monday January 10 the former Dittig grocery on Chestnut Street will be taken over by a new proprietor. The shop will continue to offer high class groceries including staple and fancy items, fruits, wines, liquors and cigars. The owner seeks continued patronage from Nutley residents.
A blaze at Stirratt's Chestnut Street livery stable damaged the rear building, causing about $2,500 in losses covered by insurance. John A. Frobose woke neighbors and alerted firefighters. all horses were saved. One horse was mislaid and later found in Abram Blum's stable after an apparent theft attempt.
The trial of David Hawkins, Nicholas Stawkins, Harold Gorman, Walter Gorman, Timothy McEligot, Frank McMurray, Robert Joiner and Harry White in the Avon dale station burglary case was postponed one week. Detective Eyerson of the Erie Railway alleges the men spent December 25, 27 and 28 at the station tearing down motors and maps from the walls.
On New Year’s Day Robert Lawrence, a Hahne & Co. driver, was slightly injured when his wagon Tonning tipped onto a snow bank near the new Methodist Church. He was thrown under the wagon and rescued by passersby R. W. Booth and Fred Seidler, taken to the American House, then returned home. The wagon was not badly damaged.
The annual report shows subsistence cost of twenty three and a half cents per inmate per day for thirty six inmates. During the year twelve admission applications were received and five were accepted. Three inmates died.
The author notes beheading with the sword as China’s common death method. He recalls witnessing two prisoners executed in sequence. The first required three strokes. the second, kneeling with neck extended, asked if the delay would end, then offered his neck for the final blow.
Students at Stanford University in California plan to form a rowing club to fund and support a crew after faculty announced rowing would not be an intercollegiate sport. The athletic association would not back a crew and may fund a new athletic field if student efforts succeed. If approved, the college could be represented on the water despite faculty opposition. May Abolish Mexican Racing. The International Reform Bureau seeks to pressure Mexico over a rate tack concession and asks the State Department to intervene to unify the concession.
The real and only midget pitcher in professional baseball is Gordon Hickman the star twirler of the Alobile Bouthem league team. Hickman weighs 115 pounds and is built like a rake with slender legs and arms. How he ever pitches a full game mystifies physicians.
John J. Flanagan shattered the hammer throw record at Celtic Park New York with a 12 pound hammer reaching 207 feet 74 inches surpassing Lee Twothot of Cornell by about seventeen feet to establish a new mark in the event.
Scotch comedian Heard Greenroom’s talk on humor frames stories from a hero point of view. Notes on Highlanders knee warmth and a highland pants joke appear amid profiles of Huth St Denis and Mildred Holland. Catherine the Great’s fountains and practical jokes close the cultural sketch.
A nonpolitical organization plans to combat high prices for foodstuffs including meat, bread, and potatoes. Dr Scharf of the Catholic university heads the move with an advisory council of seven. Women housekeepers gain equal membership and voting rights to support the campaign.
Dr. L A Bauer of the Carnegie Institute spoke at the Boston meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science about a general magnetic survey of the earth. The Carnegie, a 600 ton vessel with iron excluded, sails on its first voyage and should reach New York in 1910. He noted navigational chart errors of about one degree revealed abroad, causing northward drift of ten to twenty miles, and peculiar dip and strength readings in existing charts.
Mrs. George Westinghouse provided horse overshoes to aid icy streets in Pittsburg. Superintendent James Bell of the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society said she ordered many overshoes from her Massachusetts home and arranged for patrols to place them on distressed horses, with the society lending them and sending any extra costs to Mrs. Westinghouse.
Plans by Mayor Hibbard and City Engineer Jackson aim to replace the old Saldlera bridge near Howard Stadium Cambridge Mass with a landmark modeled after Paris Seine bridge and built with Harvard memorial columns funded by Harvard clauses. Boston once earmarked 125000 for a drawbridge but Cambridge Harvard officials want a drawless design.
A Birmingham Alabama druggist has been breeding a unique spider lineage aimed at catching flies on their webs. The story notes the unusual focus and potential novelty of this arachnid hobby turning into a local curiosity.
A fragmented item notes a dress trade among local youths and shops. It mentions styles, stock quality, and regular sales while hinting at popular dress items and frequent customer influx. The piece reflects a bustling retail scene with small talk about fashion and availability.
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