Mazzini Orphanage - 1923-1970

Orphans Asylum Band, Sons of Italy in America, Nutley NJ

Orphanage was founded in 1923
by the Grand Venerable of the New Jersey Lodge, Francesco Palleria who
served as the orphanage's president until his death in October 1963.
The orphanage was inaugurated on Sunday, June 24, 1923. Major renovation
of the interior occurred in the early 1960's. *

Mario Pavone Papers

Nuovo Spirito Lodge #1862

Orphans' Home Commission

The Pavone, Mario. Papers, Italian American Collection, *Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota

Dyestuff Industries

History of Celluloid

First Release-Ski Bindings

Angelo's Statue House: Nutley Ruins (gone now)

Nutley Little Theatre

Nutley Hometown

Nutley Columbus Statue

Based on life in Nutley???

Wonderful Life In Nutley

It's a Wonderful Life

Nutley: True or False!

Buzz Nutley CD

Midlife Crisis Comedy

Nutley Class of 71 Yahoo Group

Filmed here:

Seven Minutes In Heaven

Filmed partly in Nutley.

New York Times: July 25, 1923

"The unusual coincidence of a course record -- amateur and professional -- being broken twice in one day was accomplished at the Yountakah Country Club, Nutley, N.J., yesterday. The first record-shattering achievement went to the credit of E.M. Wild of Baltusrol, who, visiting Yountakah, traveled over the 18 holes in 68 strokes. A short time later, Jack Beckett, the home club professional, shattered the professional record by eight strokes, negotiating the course in 62.

"Wild's phenomenal scoring broke the amateur record, previously held by Walter G. Pfeil, one of the home club players. The former mark was 70. Beckett's 62, subsequently made, broke his own record of 68 ..."

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Furthermore: Be it known that Jack Hobens, the Yountakah club pro from 1902 to 1904, was to become the first player to record a hole-in-one during the U.S. Open (1907, Philadelphia Cricket Club, 147-yard tenth hole).

_ source: Posting on NJ Hometown (POPS)

From the New York Times

September 18, 1983
IF YOU'RE THINKING OF LIVING IN: NUTLEY
By MARK B. ROMAN

A CENTURY ago a magazine editor living in what is now known as Nutley Town urged his friend Samuel L. Clemens to pay him a visit. ''There isn't much that is prettier than this end of New Jersey,'' he wrote. ''It is all upland, tumbling into shallow valleys and bright sunny reaches along the Passaic River, and hillsides white as snow with daisies, and everywhere trees.''

Today, the Empire State Building is clearly visible from some of Nutley's highest points, but its pastoral serenity is preserved in the town's 100-acre ...

PARKWAY FOR NUTLEY, N.J.;

To Connect with Other Parks in Newark and Essex County.

July 21, 1912, Sunday

Section: Real Estate Business Financial, Page XX2, 939 words

The sentiment for civic betterment markedly felt at the present time in the great majority of cities and towns throughout the country is being strongly evinced in Nutley, N.J., one of New Jersey's thriving residential towns, peopled, for the most part, by business men of New York.

Source: New York Times

A TORNADO AT NUTLEY, N.J.;

MADE A PATH TWENTY FEET WIDE AVOIDING ALL RESIDENCES.

Tore Great Trees Out of the Ground

-- An Elm, Three Feet in Diameter, Uprooted and Hurled End over End

-- Corner of the Railway Sta- tion Struck by the Edge of the Storm

-- Nobody Hurt

-- No Report of Damage at Neighboring Points.

June 22, 1896, Wednesday

Page 1, 485 words

NUTLEY, N.J., June 21 -- This village had a small tornado all to itself this afternoon. It does not appear to have visited any other place.

Source: New York Times

Travel Forecast

Weather per hour

A TORNADO AT NUTLEY, N.J.;

MADE A PATH TWENTY FEET WIDE AVOIDING ALL RESIDENCES.

Tore Great Trees Out of the Ground

-- An Elm, Three Feet in Diameter, Uprooted and Hurled End over End

-- Corner of the Railway Sta- tion Struck by the Edge of the Storm

-- Nobody Hurt

-- No Report of Damage at Neighboring Points.

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