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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1906
Page
2
Opinions from the Chicago Journal on life and environment. The world smiles back if you smile and frowns if you frown. People create their own mental worlds filled with fortune or misfortune. Melancholy thoughts demand medical attention and fate punishes the whining. Conquer trials and avoid borrowing trouble.
A Springfield Republican piece urges Massachusetts educators to designate a special observance day for universal brotherhood and humane values, arguing patriotism must align with love of humanity and nonviolence, citing The Hague and shared human origin. It also pressures women to demand stricter morals from men and criticizes legal technicalities that shield negligent corporations from accountability.
A father recalls rocking his baby to sleep and answering her plea what he would take for her. He muses that a dollar or even the world could not replace her soft heartbeat and smile, treasuring the child above wealth as night deepens and he dreams of Eugene Field.
A shy Englishman named Conynghame pursues letters at the Alvaretta post office while Miss Fasset, the post master’s daughter, watches. Weeks pass with no mail, then a mysterious ten dollar envelope appears, altering his fortunes and quests as he endures cold, loneliness, and a looming return of the owner.
In a barren hill country dug-out, Coninghame’s cave home, a pale giant wakes to a letter about his father’s death. A young woman reads, learns he had been cut off for six months, and vows gentle support as he speaks of repayment.
An amused Chicago note recounts a feminine vocal teacher requesting to bring a class to visit Misa Julia Marlowe and “sook down her throat” to study vocal cord positions, a demand the actress humorously refuses.
Senator Nelson of Minnesota predicts Alaska will seek admission as a state as early as future generations. he notes the Aleutian and British boundary archipelago regions and southern Alaska will press Congress for statehood along with interior districts like the Yukon and Tanana valleys and Seward Peninsula with its gold. He imagines three states arising from today’s Alaska Territory within a century.
A fragment notes payments in Mayo, Kerry, Ponegal, and Leitrim Ireland with over the counter settlements for tea sugar ment oil bread tobacco patent medicines and general laberdashery. It mentions accounts kept open and goods supplied on credit in eggs. Also a line about old age noticing more ants and chiggers than woods and sunshine at a picnic.
The excerpt explains forging signatures on notes, the origin of U S homestead law, patent and trademark limits for fruit trees, and issues around counterfeit money, inheritance, pensions, and overlapping tax claims. It also covers road rights, highway use, and objections to misapplied personal property taxation across jurisdictions.
Reporters press the prima donna about marriage while she quips that staying single is more unique than any stunt. The scene captures her playful deflection as a Philadelphia Ledger note. A remark about a lost handkerchief adds a light aside to the exchange.
The Southern Workman notes Taos Pueblo as unique among pueblos with an underground temple and daily sunward gaze by priests for Montezuma’s return. It claims the sacred fire moved from Pecos in the early 1800s and never extinguished since Montezuma left earth. Taos also bred Kit Carson, Fremont’s famed scout. The piece laments local politics in elections as quarrelsome.
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