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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1906
Page
2
A reflective verse by Horace O Hedge on aging with white hair and thinning crown, the long passage of years, and the idea that faith grants victory over death. The poem likens life to a boat on waves and urges a fearless view of the future under a patient God.
Six boys from Percy school plan a summer camp near Scott River to dig for Indian relics and use Jumbo the burro as pack animal. They intend to start at daybreak, carry week’s grub, blankets, and fishing gear, and search Indian graves and mounds in the region.
A group of boys plans a frontier campout detailing supplies from meat and flour to cooking utensils and matches. They discuss building a fire with a hollow log, packing loads, then share a hearty skillet corn bread breakfast by a spring before scouting nearby Indian mounds and old campsites.
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt recounts four boys building a wigwam in a forest near a spring, cooking meals, and sleeping under stars. They trade tales of Indians, catch fish for breakfast, and debate town life versus camp life as they savor a week in nature.
Secretary Taft, via the New York Tribune, likens a domineering statesman to a spiteful hotel waiter. He recalls a western town anecdote where a guest rang endlessly for service and faced a menacing response from a rambling waiter in a Palace Hotel room.
A Washington Star excerpt shows a detective excitedly claiming another clue while an official cautions him against dragging out the pursuit of the crim inal for forty chapters, stressing not to write a story.
The Balthmore American notes a dialogue between Darling and George about future behavior and the location of a suburban home. The column highlights plans and social themes in the suburban development discussion.
A clipped dialogue snippet shows a character called a Friend addressing a woman with a bow and another replying with a defensive line about ownership, hinting at a marital tension in the Merveland Leader’s pages.
An English physician argues malnutrition and heart weakness drive social decline, crime, and poverty, with alcohol as a key damaging factor. Travel health warns of sleeping car infection risks while urging practical steps. A Daedalian defense of democratic equality follows, praising the "patch on his breeches" as a symbol of mass empowerment and opposition to privilege.
The New York Tribune reports that 2500 years ago Hebrew engineers under King Hezekiah bored a tunnel from Jerusalem to the Siloam pool, similar in method to the later Simplon line. Evidence includes opposing bore marks, galleries abandoned when off-course, and carefully finished tunnel floors.
A British force from Malta, including the Lancashire Fusiliers, visits the Sphinx and Pyramids near Ghizeh amid Egyptian Tangier tensions. The Sphinx, 172 1/2 feet long and 66 feet high, is carved from rock with masonry added in places and is as old as the pyramids.
The Manchester warehouse of the Grant Bros is to be altered erasing some interior historic features. The piece notes that Dickens based many Cherryble traits on real life figures, including the apoplectic butler at the Linkinwater dinner. It adds a quip about debts and babies in the house.
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