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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1904
Page
6
A poetic tribute to the bonny girl of Fall and the debutante season. The piece contrasts the Fall girl in tailor made outfits with memories of spring and summer fashions. It evokes autumn hazes, debutante balls, and seasonal fashion as the town anticipates her appearance.
In a timber camp near the Androscoggin, mastodon Maston confronts Peter the abusive cook who bullies Pocky the cookee. When a log raft risks collapse, Pocky signals danger and Maston saves him by placing himself under the crushing timber. Peter is defeated, injured, and later leaves. Maston rewards Pocky, praising his bravery.
In Kansas City a blue ribbon English bull dies leaving five newborn bull pups. A big Maltese cat becomes their foster mother, nursing the litter and a neighboring kitten. A young woman adopts the cat and kitten to care for the pups as they bond with their new mother and sibling.
Mr Pett Ridge shared an amusing baby tale at the New Vagabonds club summer dinner. A mother explains to a child how straw strewn along Grosvenor square marks a family’s newborn girl, while the child quips that she was actually packed for.
The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia awards James M. Dodge the Elliott Cresson medal for his cold storage system. Hans Goldschmidt is cited for his work in aluminothermics. The item also reports fused lapis by oxy hydrogen flame and notes studies in California silkworm culture as a potential commercial venture.
A reader recalls the era when lightning rod peddlers traveled rural states like Illinois and Tennessee. The revenue agents cracked down by 1895, and the lampooned fellows disappeared, leaving only stories of rods strung from roofs to ground.
A collection of religious and moral maxims from diverse authors including Fuller Seneca James Allen Jeremy Taylor and Dean Alford. The quotes celebrate wisdom gratitude temperance and spiritual love, offering reflections on faith poverty kindness and the value of tender guidance.
An editorial laments a New York ruling that a dog may be deemed not vicious after a single bite, arguing the magistrate correctly rejected the idea and warning against lax license. It contrasts human conduct and calls for modern common sense in dog bite cases. It also includes a feature on style in writing with anecdotes about De Quincey and Choate.
The article surveys how cattle, pigs, camels, and horses became domesticated and spread from their origins in Africa, India, and China into the Americas and other regions. It notes the roles, adaptations, and cultural rules affecting each species, including the camel’s limited global spread and the pig’s religious restrictions, with historical examples from Mexico, Texas, and Siberia.
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