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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1900
Page
2
A compilation notes evolving prison practices and brutal penalties from isolation and gallows to torture methods used in various eras. It cites Sing Sing labor, British and colonial executions, and brutal devices like the iron coffin and thumbscrews, contrasting humane ideas with past cruelty.
A licensed Maine guide Bill Moriarty invents a still hunting method using guinea fowls to lure deer. He observes deer feed on birch sprouts at clearings, then return to the woods to chew their cuds, planning to profit from this behavior this fall.
The Westminster Review notes monogamy without a marriage ceremony but with a wife’s rights under a contract. Women participated in public festivals, held priestly offices, and managed homes from births to burials. While noble women enjoyed embroidery, others labored in spinning, cattle tending, and water carrying, facing harsher punishments though some freedoms existed.
A Berlin watchmaker named Damm built a kitchen clock that starts when water boils and rings at soft medium and hard egg stages. The device uses a tiny spring and three distinct alarms to signal each preferred doneness.
Captain McClintock reviews a piece from Ainslee's Magazine on Western herders. He contrasts cowboys with sheepherders and notes the rough, perilous rides, campfires, roping, and mess of the night stampede, plus layers of regional cloak and saddle customs among Californians Texans and Basques.
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