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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1910
Page
7
A vintage ad lists various sale items including Top Sirloin and smoked hams by weight. Canned Del Monte peaches cherries pears plums and pineapple are priced at 16 to 19 cents per can amid general low prices for meats and produce.
S Scheuer Co describes a volcano crafted from coal at Brule France. Once a mass of coal millions of tons burning since a century ago, the summit forms a genuine crater, noted as remarkable in manmade volcanism. The excerpt also includes gossip about a girl named Bittie-Paul.
Alan R B Hawley and Augustus Post won the Gordon Bennett cup balloon race covering 1355 miles from St Louis to Chicoutimi Quebec despite a week lost in northern Canada. They survived snow nights and aided by a trapper’s cabin before reaching civilization and setting a new world distance record surpassing 1193 miles by Count de la Va nix.
Harvard historian Professor Albert Bushnell Hart warns the Yankee race is nearly extinct due to economic pressures late marriages and costly education. He cites U S census data and Harvard class histories showing shifts in marriage ages and family size since colonial times with notable changes in Yankee bloodlines.
Professor Hart notes that in the 1671 Harvard class of eleven graduates none remained bachelors and ten husbands had seventy-one children. He argues that by 1880 one hundred seventy men earned degrees yet there are not equal numbers of sons, suggesting Harvard would die out if it relied on graduates' sons for undergraduates.
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