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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1914
Page
2
The piece surveys traditional headwear from Russia to Alsace including the kokoschnik worn by married women, bat-like caps in Spain, inverted flowerpot tethers in Amsterdam, Marken wings, and Alsatian winged dresses. It notes practical concerns like wind stability and comfort.
A fragmentary 19th or early 20th century article discusses human skin evolution, claiming race reflection varies across spectrum colors and predicting an ultra white future with ultraviolet reflectivity. The piece then shifts to a Perryville anecdote about General Leonidas Polk confronting Confederate veterans under dusk, followed by a reflection on the virtue of old things versus novelty.
The excerpt notes George Bernard Shaw’s sharp, brief remark about a production titled Poor Jonathan. It mentions his mixed reception after Widowers’ Houses and his quip about becoming infamous in a single night and the play’s backlash.
Cartoonish dialogue from Washington Star and Chicago Record-Herald jokes about foreign relations and marriage, proposing that the foreign relations committee tracks marriages of wealthy girls while linking cold feet to brains or money.
Don Pedro II of Brazil offered fake nobility titles to fund a Rio de Janeiro hospital. Subscribers could buy baron or chevalier titles for large milreis donations, with inscriptions claiming vanity versus merit. French nobility certificates priced for diplomats included high fees and a seal from the republic.
The piece extols plain living as a direct bond with nature and self. It cites simple pleasures such as swimming unclothed, chopping wood, collecting clean water, and savoring stars and birds as rewards of simplicity, quoting Joan Burroughs in Our John Burroughs.
The piece notes poets connected to Westminster Abbey facing poverty, including Chanser in a monastery garden, Spenser said to have died for want, Ben Jonson in poverty near St. Margaret’s, and Dryden. It recalls Chaucer’s demolished house and Gray’s 1355 tomb, funded by Nicholas Brigham, reflecting poets’ fragile fortunes.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes a flexing exchange about nerve and risk in early air travel. A boastful line about handling a risky air slip navigator is highlighted alongside a humorous, self-deprecating remark about four nervous passengers in a canoe.
A British Weekly piece recounts a boastful Ulsterman and a marquis who won tenants with rustic humor. An Ulster funeral quip on finding a shovel amuses observers, and a flirtatious exchange ends with a cannibal joke.
In Southwark the three men John Grose and Thomas Satterly both tailors and George Sandham a Bermondsey street grocer met after work at a Tooley Street pub. They planned to petition Parliament during Catholic emancipation when Canning was prime minister, starting their document with Wa the people of England.
A fragmented quotation from the Philadelphia Record contrasts chivalry and money with the idea that genuine success lies in doing the common things in an uncommon way. The exchange references marrying for money and an old man. It hints at social norms and personal ethics from a historical paper snippet.
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