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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1905
Page
2
A Kansas City Journal item recounts a boy selling a pup to a political candidate. The pup is called a Democratic pup by one buyer and a Republican pup by another, sparking a humorous exchange as the pup’s eyes open and the truth emerges.
A ten year old Edward learns thrift by buying bananas after planning a tintype portrait. He explains banana prices vary, while tintypes stay constant, hinting at a future business sense.
Holton Record editor Father Beck aligns with President Roosevelt in a family size debate. He cites a Kansas City Journal quote claiming most great figures come from large families and warns that small families tend to produce spoiled, selfish youths unless education counters it.
A Kansas City man in Omaha visits a railroad ticket office while two Hast women seek transport to Denver. The clerk jokes about foot travel from the Paxton hotel and a cautionary tale about rose picking and safety rules. A magistrate later fines an automobile violator one dollar.
Doctor Burton recalls a commotion letter written in anger and later destroyed. He advises waiting to speak calmly, as silence can be powerful and liberating. The idea that a measured, unagitated eye reveals clearer truth appears as a rule for handling hurt feelings and slander.
A column notes class day diversities at Columbia College with dark haired students forming the majority and blondes few, reflecting immigrant and native American lineages. It also recounts a humorous anecdote from Victor Hugo’s wife and a moment where Hugo admonishes atheism before Adele teases him.
A Farmers' Voice piece urges universal cleanliness across dairy operations from milking to marketing. It discusses feeding cows to maximize milk yield at low cost, noting a common ration of half corn and half cats by weight, plus half bran by bulk, and the value of grain with good pasture or hay and silage.
A Harpers Weekly correspondent argues animals think and reason. He cites stories of a horse unlatching a barn door, a sheep alerting a farmer to a companion fallen in a ditch, and a rat masking gnawing by hiding with a shingle. He insists the boy did not lie.
The Indianapolis News notes facial differences between the two sides of the face with eyes uneven in two of five cases and one eye stronger in seven of ten. It cites right-eye tendency, rare perfect vision in one in fifteen, and varied ear hearing. It adds nail growth rates differ among fingers and that left leg is shorter than right in fifty four of 100 cases.
A humorous anecdote about Artemus Ward on a slow Midwestern rail line. Ward asks the conductor for safety advice suggesting removing the cowcatcher from the engine to hitch to the rear car to prevent cows from biting messengers inside the train. The tale appears in Harner's Weekly.
Vienna reports a renewed effort by the Paris banking syndicate led by Credit Lyonnais, Gomp toir d'Escompte, and Banque de Paris to issue a 600 million franc loan at 5 percent. Treasury bills with nine years currency were to back 400 million and 200 million on option, with signing set for May 38. News of a naval overthrow caused banks to refuse signing, as they doubted any peace by the Czar and Grand Dukes.
The tale follows Gilbert who appears feverish and listless after exposure to scar latina. His mother calls the family doctor who, with a gentle tone, asks to see Gilbert’s tongue and urges him to stick it out fully as he complains that it cannot be cleared away and feels fastened to him.
An English instructor in a lengthy address to wise young women declares the period should extend “from the bas sinet to the crematory” instead of “from the cradle to the grave” noting the cradle era ends and graves vanish in modern times. He later corrects the phrase as obsolete and offers the new form.
The Shannon rises in Fermanagh and Leitrim in the carboniferous mountains and flows southward through Lough Allen Lough Ree and Lough Derg to Limerick. It widens into an estuary and turns west to the sea, covering about 240 miles and draining roughly 4,544 square miles.
The British Museum in London plans to collect gramophone master records of voices from renowned singers and public figures. The goal is to create indestructible, enduring records for posterity and future stamping and playing.
A doctor testified in an English county court that one and a half ounces of tobacco can impair eyesight. He recalled a middle aged man who suffered eye problems from half an ounce weekly. The remark highlights concerns about tobacco consumption and vision.
Article notes a sacred Indian bull was barred from landing at Crystal Palace near London unless as beef. It discusses soil humus importance for drainage, aeration, and moisture retention, linking soil health to plant growth and climate. It adds a Brazil note on the black bean rivaling the potato in food significance.
The Rev. Robert Collyer urged gentleness in parenting, teaching that children are tender and must be led softly. He compared patient training to welding iron, timing discipline like a craftsman, and warned against harsh religious fear that harms young souls. He cited Mrs Barbauld and stressed education with heart, urging parents to seek wisdom, gentleness, and patience in guiding children toward good.
Dr. R F Horton recounted a second Sunday after returning from German eye treatment. In a consult room he pulled his Bible from his pocket to read a verse and found the text Thou are my lamp O Lord. He felt the words would sustain him whether or not his sight returned and vowed to proclaim them.
A quotation from C. Trimbuil extols duty over life, claiming life is small beside duty whether a man realizes it. It cites Pompey as example, arguing forward motion and willingness to die for duty outweighs clinging to life and bare survival.
The fragment extols kindness as kinship and faith as life’s fiber. It laments selfishness hindering sanctification and claims purity transcends plebiscite. It warns hot air yields to cold waves and calls deeper science the cure for scientific doubt.
The excerpt contrasts two paths: submission to God’s will versus accepting inevitable fate. It argues that one path offers hope while the other yields despair, reflecting a Presbyterian Record tone on spiritual resilience and choice.
A Virginia congressman urged a ten thousand dollar increase in Arlington experiment station funds during the agriculture bill debate. The committee chair warned that fifteen thousand dollars annually would grow into a large sum, comparing the pace to Rome not being built in a day and Romulus and Remus as hypothetical committee members.
A 19th century reader testimonial claims Cuticura ointment cured two years of neck sores that spread to hair loss. The letter from Hi J. Spalding of New York describes relief after several applications and recommends Cuticura. The piece references a Tatler tea advertisement praising Bohea tea and coconuts as a chemical quint essence.
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