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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1916
Page
5
Readers ask about ants on a lawn and pest control. Advice covers using carbon disulphide vapor to kill ants, loosening ground and watering to improve beech leaf condition, and careful shrub transplanting with thorough watering and root soaking.
Week long program features Anna Nilson Rockcliffe Fellowes in The Regeneration and several serials and dramas from Selig Kalem and Biograph. The lineup includes The Iron Claw The Detective and Powers Elephants acts with vaudeville performances noted for June 11 12 13 14 15 16 and two weeks more of Powers feats.
A $15 000 organ to be heard for the first time at the Montauk Theatre Passaic on Monday afternoon alongside the feature photoplay The Feud Girl. The new instrument promises a grand concert mood for patrons attending the screening.
The new season opens at Olympic Park’s refurnished opera house on Monday evening June 12 with the Aborn Opera Company presenting The Chocolate Soldier. The cast includes original singers from the two year Casino Theatre run and several stars making Newark debuts.
In a dialogue from the New York Times, young Patrick denies wrongdoing to old Patrick who remains unconvinced. Old Patrick challenges the youth’s innocence and brazen demeanor, insisting the look is deceiving and that the title remains black in the face.
Sunday programs include Bible study at 9 45 a m and Children's Day at 11 a m with songs recitations cantata and baptism. Evening Epworth League at 7 p m led by Raymond Symonds. Other events include hospital corps first aid class 8 p m Tuesday and officers meetings, prayer meeting Wednesday 8 p m, Boy Scouts Friday 3 30 p m, Battalion drill 8 p m. Morning service 10 30 a m and Sunday School 2 p m. Mass schedule noted for Holy Family Church tomorrow at 8 30 a m and 20 30 system time with Sunday School at 2 30 p m.
In Roumania a fair gathers marriageable girls with dowries and household goods. Girls and men line up, parents behind, and suitors talk to chosen girls. If a match is satisfactory, a marriage occurs and the bride moves to her new home.
The London Standard cites a May 1885 Castlewellan Dow event with heavy rainfall producing red and white pellets that stained fingers when squeezed. Similar blue and red hues appeared in Minsk five years earlier, sparking theories that mineral salts cause the coloring.
The guide outlines planting in even rows with equal spacing, marking beds before transplanting, and using lines or cords to ensure uniform placement. It advises making holes just deep enough for roots, firming soil, and applying water, plus dust mulch and careful watering only after plants establish.
Two rival boards of trustees for West Ridge Lawn Cemetery Association face a rule to show cause on June 20 before Vice-Chancellor Stevens. Ray mond Dawson of Jersey City seeks a receiver for Adam Frank of New York, president of one board. William Bittles of Passaic leads the opposing board. Delawanna property borders East Ridgelawn, where the rival group claims control.
A Louisville Courier Journal fragment shows a quip about a girl giving up painting lessons to wash dishes first, implying social expectations and domestic duties influenced artistic activity. It reflects early 20th century attitudes on gender roles and education.
A Baltimore American quotation notes a paradoxical saying about a wife and her billy goats with the line about contracting them causing expansion, reflecting a humorous or ironic daily item. The brief is presented as a clipped newspaper quip.
A husband is praised for his dedication to his children. He will do anything for them, even buying two old golf balls for play, reflecting a caring, supportive parenting stance in the Detroit Free Press.
A humorous collage reflects on manners in close ties with quotes about gentleness toward intimates, the distrust of policemen, and the sting of drones. The snippets show Victorian style wit and social tension through sketches and dialogue.
The Woman's Club plans a Monday meeting to discuss the budget and biennial reports. A flower show is set for Thursday June 15 with Nutley Improvement Society. An afternoon card party Monday June 19 led by Miss Elizabeth ONeil and assistants. Dancing at the club house July 4 afternoon with a public dance at Town Hall that evening. Executive board meets July 6 and a picnic at Yant scam Park July 10. Board to meet August 8.
The local post office pages list unclaimed mail for Mrs. Gusick and Miss Ethel Storms, Mr and Mrs Eliot C R Lad law, C F B Lethbridge, W G Scott, Frank C Drake, and Supt. The notice names names and ranks, urging recipients to claim promptly.
A reader quips about laundering habits in Richmond Times Dispatch style. The exchange contrasts doing laundry by the piece versus by the dozen, noting a shirt piece returned from a wash shop.
Foxhounds are extraordinarily swift with a dog of this breed reportedly beating a bred horse. The race lasted four six and one half minutes and the dog covered nearly eight yards per second.
A quotation from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat notes a remarkable gun sent fort shells in one minute with thirty three hits while contrasting a wife who could fire forty sentences per minute with forty hits.
Charles Stewart of Center Street reports a January 6 burglary in Brooklyn in which a rear-door entry allowed a thief to steal several jewelry items including a watch valued at $30. Police cooperate with New York detectives to solve the case.
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