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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1914
Page
6
A Nutley Sun digest summarizes Captain C. G. Stigand on Nyasaland natives slipping into a coma when lacking work. It describes a village headman’s day from dawn to sunset as he lounges under a tree in abstraction, with brief acknowledgments and little speech.
A Virginia family parents a daughter named Boots tests saving with a yearly plan. Father pays one dollar weekly with notes dated, two dollars back after the year for every bill shown. Boots preserves all 52 bills and a written agreement, turning a profit through a side deal with a friend while avoiding poverty. The tale ends with a moral on virtue and frugality.
John M. Osikon outlines amortization as the method of repaying a loan. He explains investors care about plans to meet debt at maturity, noting long terms require yearly set-aside funds and the use of life insurance to secure the debt.
The London Graphic recounts Stephen Hawker and a fellow clergyman seeking dinner at a Boscastle inn. A landlady offers only "Meat and iaties" with no bone, later revealed as veal. The tale links Seals Weare Foods to regional diet and local roasts of ambiguous fish or flesh.
In St Michael's churchyard Macclesfield an epitaph dated 1755 for Mary Broomfield notes she died at eighty after twenty years of planning her funeral. The text says she lived on ninepence weekly and saved £5, with the savings used for burial per her request.
The St Louis Vust-Dispateh notes a humorous line about a baby famed for stubbornness. It attributes this trait to being raised on goat milk, delivering a wry cultural quip rather than a factual report.
The article describes Navajo beliefs about the dead and the urgency to dispose of bodies to avoid spirits. It explains methods depending on the burial site and surroundings, including burning wooden hogans, sealing stone hogans, exposing bodies in rocky areas, or covering with earth and brush. It also notes an odd industry about sandalwood ants aiding loggers in Burma and the Far East.
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