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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1900
Page
2
Excerpts reference wage gaps between men and women and discuss social pressures about marriage. The text notes rewards like stamps, gifts, and calendars offered as premiums and reflects period newspaper tone on labor and gender roles.
An array of vintage ad snippets promote Cascarets a beauty tonic for ten cents and Jell O dessert in multiple flavors. It notes military court-martials dropping by 1 000 from 1892 and claims the Congo region exports about 5 000 000 walking sticks annually.
A roundup of historic mail fraud cases and clever schemes by promoters to swindle the public. It describes the Franklin syndicate’s exposure and other deceptive practices including an ad for a “model bicycle” that yielded a tiny wheel charm, and the Ex-Slave Petitioners' Assembly pushing pensions through Congress. It also details crude, African market huts and daily life observations from the International Magazine.
The U.S. Fish Commission publishes a Florida fish life checklist noting sixteen shark species including nurse shark tiger shark and hammerhead. It lists thirteen ray varieties such as electric ray and butterfly ray and six types of sting rays feared for venom. Also described are three gar varieties including alligator gar feared by fishermen.
A New Orleans Times Democrat note recalls a bachelor party in 1896 that shrank to thirteen and sparked a wave of misfortune. The account claims two deaths, business failures, injuries, embezzlement, divorce, and drinking decline among twelve or thirteen men as proof of bad luck tied to the number thirteen.
English artist Walter Severn has invented and patented movable breastworks to aid attackers in Boer intrenchments. He envisions fortifications on kopjes being captured with reduced losses by deploying the portable shields.
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