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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1900
Page
2
A collage of cultural notes and opinions on canals, weather profits, marriage standards, suffrage, and urban manners. It comments on press behavior, women typists, Persia’s railway cost, coal and icemen, bachelor excess, poetic justice, Boston authors, bicycles, and Atlanta’s astrologer, mixing humor with social critique.
The piece reflects on census growth in the United States and its costs, urging public cooperation for accurate counts. It surveys business failures in 1899 due to capital shortages, incompetence, and inexperience, then explores how personal deficiencies in judgment and character ruin even capable people, with historical examples of rulers and a modern anecdote about a newspaper hoax.
A famed lawyer recalls a man who profited by faking injuries to sue towns for damages. For nearly twenty years he staged leg breaks across cities, securing settlements from $1,200 to $5,000. His odd career ended last week at a West Virginia health resort.
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