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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1906
Page
6
The article describes a radiator hood shield that traps dust and purifies air while protecting walls from discoloration. It notes German gymnastic apparatus and a Berlin resident's patent for an exercise device with weighted pulleys. It also details a bird-shaped kite with a gas bag and flapping wings, operated by a tether cord.
An illustrated device for tracking laundry garments uses a frame with rods and counters to show issued items and confirm all pieces are returned. The article then recounts a Manila action where a gun crew improvises a fix by sewing a torn powder sack with a sailor knife, avoiding a jammed breech in the heat of battle.
The piece surveys world leaders and notable elders who remained vigorous well past traditional working ages. It highlights figures like Oyama Diaz the Marquis le Emperor Franz Ferdinand Fallieres Chamberlain Huet Hazlitt Bernhardt Ogden Pleid and Sarah Bernhardt as ongoing inspirations.
A fragment describes a five year old Robert Louis Stevenson in Edinburgh near Inverleith Terrace. The piece notes his blue fur-trimmed coat and fondness for a nurse, reflecting on his early appearance and family background. It ends with a remark about Sunday as a day of rest for men and hair washing for women.
A vivid Everybody’s scene at Millbank shows a family of four in ragged, emaciated clothes wandering through an orderly London county council housing court. The man sings Rock of Ages to a church tune as passersby toss pennies from windows, illustrating poverty’s grotesque impact on urban life. They confront city leaders as the era’s policy challenge.
The passage details Philippines population density, urban and rural distribution, and barrio structure. It notes sixty seven per square mile in the Philippines and twenty six in the United States, with most people near the east coast and Luzon hosting about half the interior population. Manila is the sole incorporated city with 210 923 residents, and the text ends with a child’s engagement anecdote about letting women attend to such announcements.
A narrator recalls Napoleon the energetic prairie dog and Josephine, with a woodchuck kept in the sitting room. Napoleon cautiously inspects the woodchuck’s wide mouth, then retreats unharmed. Napoleon lives years more and dies of old age. his mate escapes.
A brief item quotes an exchange about a brother making faces at another man's father and the response that the father pretended not to notice. The Cleveland Leader is cited as the source of the phrasing.
A collage of notes mentions Marion-Crawford as a Pope Leo XIII biographer, Millet family links, Henri Allerge the poet, Signore Carnse’s caricature book profits for charity, and Gorky’s Shakespeare view. It also cites Wilde’s bankruptcy payout, Olive Logan aging and poverty, and admonitions on childrearing and servants shaping future conduct.
A editorial note on deteriorating manners linked to parenting. It argues early training of politeness before age three shapes behavior, citing examples of children imitating adults and the harm of dismissive treatment toward staff. It emphasizes teaching deference to mothers and servants to prevent future rudeness.
A foreign business letter requests idols with prices and samples for wholesale India sales. The writer seeks sole agency across India Burmah and Ceylon and proposes a traveling allowance to a clerk to secure orders from merchants nobles and natives. He claims natives will sell their souls to idol worship and aims to dominate the market.
In a Washington Post item a couple quarrels over naming their infant. Mr Greening, dismissing mythological options, suggests Aurora as a daytime deity related name while Mrs Greening resists and the man storms out.
In Hawaii shrimp are harvested by women who wade crouching through mountain streams. They use coal-scuttle shaped baskets held in one hand and a short stick in the other to drive shrimp from under rocks. The shrimp fall into baskets placed under overhanging leaves.
The passage traces how the term fag originated from a small hay load and wagon load in English dialects and expanded to signify a journey and carriers load. It notes regional variants and related forms like tag and jag, including meanings such as fatigue and blister in certain districts.
Western merchant Bill Jones traveled to EKangas City to buy goods and shipped some home early. Neighbors heard his wife scream as she attempted to remove a large hex cover from a box labeled Bill Taside, prompting a frantic rescue. An amateur observer described another shaky performance, hoping for a fall.
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