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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1911
Page
8
A fragment lists numerous items with prices including tomatoes, crackers, corn starch, sauces, mustard and laundry soap. Brand names include Lea & Perrins, Premium, Coleman's, S. & Co. and Babbitt Naphtha. Several entries show 19¢ to 29¢ pricing and brief product notes.
Fragmented OCR lists various baked goods and prices such as Locoa Gold Medal items, biscuits, lemon snaps, evaporated milk, and pound cake with an 18 cent price note. Mentions 2lbs packages, Bic Campbell can references, and stray brand names. overall appears as a catalog or advertisement page.
A historic Notre Dame bell dating to 1400, known as the blessed bell, rang during Joan of Arc’s August 1429 Paris siege. It was refounded in 1686 and renamed Emmanuel Louise Therese. A Tennessee scene follows with a character named Jim confessing bleak homecoming.
The text captures a rustic exchange with Sam speaking in phonetic dialect about cooking and outcomes. The boss asks about chickens and setting them, while Sam replies in a folksy cadence reflecting regional speech. It resembles a vignette of everyday rural life.
Quick Time reports a humorous exchange where Ada notes the proposal took nearly two hours while Floss asks about the reception. Ada quips she accepted in just two seconds highlighting a playful domestic moment captured in the column.
The text recounts Napoleon’s views and episodes related to suicide and poisoning. It notes a 1794-like impulse before Waterloo, an attempted poison draft, his ban on soldiers grimly succumbing to grief, and his later statements with Goethe and O Meara on courage and enduring misfortune rather than ending life.
Five men including the principals seconds and a surgeon gathered before sunrise for the Hamilton Burr duel. Pendleton asked Hamilton about hairspring setting. Hamilton declined. Burr fired first, Hamilton reeled and fell, later dying at about 2 PM the next day after being revived by fresh air.
Lieutent Mackenzie notes two stone amulets used in snake charming. The stones are triangular to rounded with smooth black surfaces and said to come from Tibetan hills. They are claimed to be the solidified saliva of the markhor with supposed antidotal powers.
A humorous dialogue about sweetness and self perception. He compliments her as sweet, she jokes that the degree of sweetness depends on how sweet she is truly capable of being. The exchange plays on irony and social tact.
The New York Tribune reports a 700 B.C. Egyptian papyrus showing schoolboy arithmetic with addition and multiplication, no formal subtraction or division, and equations. It includes problems on fair division of barley, sevenfold chains of quantities, circle area attempts, and pyramid volume estimates.
The London Graphic recalls a youth tale of Christian Brandes the dramatist whose strolling company staged Hero and Leander. Hero improvises lines and retires when urged by the manager, while Leander presses with devotion and the disloyalty subplot fades.
The Musical Courier recalls a Rossini joke where a trombonist, invited to the opera orchestra, tests his instrument after a dish of macaroni sticks is released. The musician fails to produce music until Rossini reveals the gag and offers the player the job the next day.
An instructive test sowed anthrax germs on two gelatin plates. After ten minutes sunlight plate showed 860 colonies while the dark plate had 400. After an hour the sunlight plate had 2,520 and the dark plate none. The report states no disease germ thrives in sunlight.
The piece discusses modesty as a valued trait that can hinder advancement when overdeveloped. It notes modesty can oppose aggressiveness, which the author implies is essential for achieving substantial success.
A quirky note describes Wits-A-Tree as self-garbed yearly with a hat parasol and other items, highlighting its automatic self-dressing habit and the humorous personified antics of the tree figure.
A fragmentary quip suggests a social worry about germs and courtship. The text mentions a husband figure and urges resisting inclined romance, attributed to Thomas a Kemps in a late 19th or early 20th century style.
A playful exchange between Hise conundruma and a youth about conundrums. The text references a mother telling Aunt Mary that someone keeps her guessing, suggesting a lighthearted, comic moment from a period piece.
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