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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1907
Page
3
The Nantucket lightship station forty miles south of Nantucket faces extreme isolation and danger. Sailors endure months without shore contact, with limited wireless messages, drifting buoys, dense fog, and harsh winter weather testing endurance and morale.
The passage describes sailors aboard the Nantucket Shoals lightship facing dangers from heavy seas and seasickness. It notes the peril of life saving when vessels founder near shoals and praises the crew's bravery despite rough conditions and cramped quarters below deck.
Bars Wolf von Schierbrand describes the German emperor’s daily routine as highly regimented. He rises early, baths, dons undress uniform, breakfasting simply with the empress supervising meals and often planning the day’s menu with his wife.
The first magazine for the blind is nearly ready for distribution to sightless Americans funded by Mrs William Ziegler. It will cost the widow roughly 60 000 to 70 000 dollars yearly and reach about 6 000 readers plus 4 500 blind students. The issue includes letters from President Roosevelt and Helen Keller, a serial, maps in raised dots, poetry, music, and articles without religious tone.
George Harvey argues in the North American Review that bachelors should face taxes for government costs, citing census data on widowers and divorcés to claim women bear more marriage risk. He suggests federal action to curb bachelorhood and urges presidential consideration.
The Nantucket lightship endures brutal seas and isolation as crew members guard the vessel through winter gales. They battle sleep loss, cold, and drift dangers while two towering copper beacons keep ships from wrecking off Nantucket, saving hundreds despite storms and long separations from port.
A fragment from the Atchison Globe contemplates a family with one baby and several old aunts. It muses on how sisters in love with each other and an old maid’s bond with the baby mirror a child’s devotion to its mother, expressing a wish to be cared for by such elders.
A garbled observation notes men and wives at a dance and contrasts their visible devotion with a deaf person’s response to sound. the fragment mentions Tong but provides no clear context or names.
London physician Dr W Ticket Turner argues tuberculosis is an animal disease derived from cattle. He claims humans contract it by ingestion or inoculation, not inhalation, and that sunlight-activated cattle bacilli become pathogenic only when activism is deprived, suggesting eradication via restoring activation.
A Wide World Magazine note describes Maughapir near Karachi as a pilgrim site famed for hot waters said to cure over 60 percent of lep ry sufferers who bathe there. Crocodiles reportedly live in the hot water with no discomfort.
Report notes Mauna Loa in the Sandwich Islands surges to 13 050 feet above the sea, describing it as the highest mountain rising directly from the ocean floor.
Mrs Emma Shirley of St Louis followed John Wesley’s economy rules to give nearly all her cash, about 1000 dollars, to endow a Bible tract in Japan. Savings came in ten cent increments. the rest was raised by taking boarders during the fall of 1904. Interest will support a Bible woman or deaconess in Japan.
In active service the Prince of Wales visited a P and O steamship at Malta. The captain, eager to greet him, summoned the first officer to report the prince’s approach and hurried the crew to ready the ship. A younger officer’s exasperated remark followed as the prince’s arrival loomed.
An AD account reports discovery in Peterborough England of oak trees buried seven feet deep dating back about two thousand years. About eighty trees have been raised and sold for furniture making with others left in place. the timber is extremely hard and requires machinery to work.
The Cleveland Leader recalls an early Secretary of Agriculture famed for keen insight and deliberate pace. At a cabinet meeting his tardiness drew good-natured rebukes, ending with a quip about brushing files off the administration.
An invalid soldier died in 1827 after a long career beginning with a cadet nomination in 1818. He served in the Bombay forces as a lieutenant in the Eighth Bombay regiment and received Lord Clive’s pension for most of his seventy-nine years, dying from weakness due to old age.
George G Tugel reported a near total loss of his potato crop near Whitelake due to earthworms attacking the roots. Despite trying to stop the worm invasion, Tugel returned from harvest to find five worms by the geese, prompting concern from local observers.
A new modelling phase of the arts is described with reference to Mlle Susa and related practitioners. The note suggests innovative approaches and ritualized methods gaining attention in artistic circles.
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