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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1905
Page
3
A crowded scene unfolds with birds overhead and a flock of millions peeping and cawing. A car drives by a fire as a canoe is moved to safety and people watch a distant ridge and ravine amid marshy terrain near a pine, amid a dramatic sky and hunting silhouettes.
A vivid scene follows a great forest fire sweeping through a grove. An Indian signals a bear and deer as wolves and foxes vanish in a rush. Bears retreat after a war cry, while flames leap the ravine and blacken trunks. The piece shifts to clockmaking history and a Berzelius clock tale at the Polytechnical School, ending with a sparrow anecdote.
A discussion of when public clocks appeared in Europe notes Arab origins in Germany and the Paris town hall clock of 1870 built by Henri de Vie for Charles V. It cites Jehan de Felains of Rouen whose quarter-striking clock outlasted the French piece and describes early clock construction with vertical trains and a foliot escapement.
A detective notes superstition among thieves and police about cursed stars. A humored tale tells how one officer swapped stars to escape misfortune. Emma E Porter narrates Evelyn, a Marshall County girl, who asks why a father fears nothing except mother, prompting a moral joke on fear.
The sale of Emile Zola’s furniture and personal belongings, drawn from the house where many of his books were written, disappointed expectations as costly items fetched only modest sums, signaling a waning Parisian interest in the famed novelist’s private life.
Experiments at Cornell University show acetylene light can rival sunlight for plant growth. Radish and pea specimens reportedly reach greater weights and earlier flowering under acetylene during dark periods, suggesting wider agricultural use and easier, cheaper gas production and installation.
A Times account recalls Lieutenant Hawdon riding 1220 miles in 25 days across Persia and Beluchistan. It notes other long rides: Major Barbour from New York to Paris via Siberia 16000 miles in 1000 days. Captain Spillberg Saarbrucken to Rome 840 miles in 13 days. Count Starhemberg Berlin to Vienna 680 km in about 71 hours. Sir Harry Smith 700 miles Capetown to Grahamsberg in six days. Richard King Durban to Grahamstown 600 miles in ten days amid hostile rivers.
A humorous tale about an old miner failing to cook from a recipe book that always begins with wash a dish. He is related to Mrs. Dunsmuir, a Scottish woman in Pennsylvania. She leaves and instructs her sons to wash and wipe dishes to keep things tidy. Jack volunteers to wash while Will resents the greasy wiping task.
A woman credits coffee avoidance and Postum Coffee and Grape-Nuts with curing her husband’s dyspepsia and supporting her family. She recalls a nervous wreck friend improved by Grape-Nuts and notes her own postnatal strength and baby's health after adopting the cereal. Names tied to Postum Co. and Battle Creek are mentioned.
The Los Angeles Times describes native survival in the Indian country of the West, detailing edible plants such as mesquite beans, screw bean, cactus fruit, pine nuts and acorns, plus roots and seeds. It notes insect and reptile foods, boracic lakes with white grubs, and the belief that not what enters the mouth defiles the man.
A fragment from Pearson's Weekly recounts inexplicable happenings such as flying stones on a London barge cricket field and a self-opening door during a late night card game. It notes a dog’s instinctive alert saving a man from a collapsing chandelier and implies many daily mysteries defy explanation.
A reflective essay traces royal chateaux from Versailles to the Louvre and Windsor, noting public ownerships shrinking as large estates become museums or gardens. It contrasts royal prestige with modern access, mentions touring visitors and a shift from grandeur to public leisure. Cadetships in the Japanese navy and Oberlin College professors abroad are also noted.
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