Keansburg Carnival Week Opens With Big Parade
Keansburg New Jersey gears up for a full week of carnival festivities with a 4 PM parade to start the celebrations. The executive committee led by Otto Gehlhaus oversees preparations involving 15 000 visitors and 7 000 summer boarders amid heavy local support and decorations along Point Comfort Beach.
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Daily Record
Keansburg
N. J
Keansburg Carnival Association
William A. Gehlhaus
New Point Comfort Beach
Otto ¥. Gehlhaus
New Point
Comfort Beach
Charles L. Olsen
Ideal Beach
Walter H. More
Keansburg Beach
R. Whitaker
Granville Park
Paul C. Hunter
Keansburg Heights Beach
Charles
Point Comfort Beach
Steamboat Pier
Bayside Grove
Camp John Association
Multitude enjoys big Long Branch pageant and masque fete
The Long Branch pageant drew ten thousand spectators as Governor Wilson and his party attended a children’s festival along Ocean Avenue. A champion list of prize winners was announced for go carts dolls and masquerades. The pageant featured floats and decorations with local families and out-of-town entries, and plans for 1912 were already under way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodrow Wilson
Brighton Avenue
Chelsea
New Jersey
Long Branch
Camp Wilson
Governor Wilson
Packer
Wilson
West End Shore Club
William Libby
Archibald Alexander
Joseph Tumulty
John W. Slocum
Charles O. McFaddin Lee W. Berry
New York & Long Branch Railroad
Harry C. Rehm
Carnival Committee
Orrin A. Clark
R. R. Hughes
Bath and
Ocean
John Hubbard Parker
Charles H. C. Clark
Rehm
Charles Rosencrans
Nere
Layton
Captain Walling
Mardi Gras Boat Ride and Harvest Home Bring Crowds
Patten Line schedules a Rockwell Avenue departure at 530 PM and Pleasure Bay at 640 PM with altered times. Grand stand seats for Saturday night concert and fireworks priced at ten cents. Mardi Gras on Boardwalk tonight followed by fireworks and music. Old First Harvest Home in West Long Branch draws large crowds with about 1000 expected on Wednesday August 16.
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Robert W. Reid
Cypress Hill Cemetery
New York
Oakwood Avenue
Thomas B. Hughes
First Baptist Church
Baptist Church
Royal Arcaue
West Long Branch Board of Education
Mr. Reid
Port Hudson
Winchester
Reid
Patten Line
Rockwell Ave
Pleasure Bay
West Long Branch
Salt Water Day Draws 5000 To Keansburg Resort
More than five thousand visitors arrived by wagon auto trolley and steamer for Salt Water Day at Keansburg. A special train from Freehold stopped at all stations while trolleys carried crowds from Middlesex County. Decorated grounds and readiness for next week's carnival marked a thriving resort day. Davis Smith Lumber and Coal Co updated their scales in anticipation of fall and winter business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keansburg
Freehold
New Brunswick
Bay Resort
Middlesex County
Davis-Smith Lumber & Coal Co
Weather Summary and Mardi Gras On Boardwalk
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts fair conditions tonight and Sunday in New Jersey with possible showers in the south. Northeast winds. temperatures around 70 with a 11 degree drop in 24 hours. barometer 30.20. Heavy rainfall reported in Jacksonville Yemassee Pensacola. Mardi Gras on Boardwalk tonight with fireworks and music. Grading contractor sought with equipment for a hundred acre project.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
New Jersey
North Broadway
Long Branch
Jacksonville
Yemassee
8. C
Pensacola
Long Branch Carnival Ends With Fireworks And Merriment
The 1911 Long Branch carnival closes with a masque fete repeat, fireworks, and a grandstand concert. The bluffwalk will open to revelers after the display. Athletics, saddle horse parade, and auto parade headlined today with many cups donated by local benefactors. Grand marshal Myron H. Oppenheim leads the saddle event as crowds expected to exceed prior gatherings.
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Long Branch
Sacks
Thethletics and
Saddle Horse Committee
Jos
Ephine Alexander
Richard Deeves
A. Rijur
C. A. Wimpfheimer
Thomas P.fay
Louis Sieghert
Alex Alexander
A. S. Pringle
Park M. Woolley
G. M. L. Sacks
Myron Oppenheim
Jacob Steimbach
First National Bank
Citizens ‘National Bank
Monmouth County
Myron H. Oppenheim
B. J. Greenhut
M. R. Rothschild
J. Housman
H. E. Shaw
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Finance Committee
William F. Manson
Queen Elizabeth Jr
Joseph Salz
Red Bank
Philadelphia Athletics
Hollywood Horse Show Grounds
Genevieve McSherry
Lillian Ehlers
Miss McSherry
W. Lucas
King of
Jerry Sheehan
Raritan Bay
Quen
Hull
Ocean Front
Gari
Sergeant Reid
Meuniere
Poussin de New Jersey
Grille
Petit Pois Nouveaux
Friandise
Dorothy Dietz
Mary Juska
Irving W. Davis
Mary Kasher
Susie Bonforte
Gwendolyn Nottage
Brooklyn
Catherine Kirby
Helen Wilkins
Florence Wardell
Priscilla Pigage
Bernice A. Wood
Long
Arthur Curley
Paterson
Angenetta
Cittadino
Helen Adams
Helena Hicks
Brent Good Orcutt
East Orange
Anna Orcutt
Norma DeCamp
Dorothy Coleman
Eatontown
John Baker
Grace Emmons
John T. Britton, Jr
Fionts
Priscilla Mitchell
Ernest Yale
Harry Surles
James Niles
John Weary
Newark
Michael Fornarotta
Joseph Terwilliger
Emma Wardell
Joseph Oxley
Vera Eaton
Avida Thompson
Edwin J. DeCamp
Myra Schanker
Margaret Ida Hull
Norma Schanker
Marshal Tattum
Olcott West
Samuel Gifford
Clarence Mason
Harold Robinson
Luella Pease
Jack Laws
Julian Mitchell
Norwood Avenue
Priscilla
Thomas Brown
D. K. White
Rynear
Vera Yale
Brinley Street
Yale
Eliabeth Surles
Liberty Hotel
Harry
Jacob Weiss
Elizabeth
Helen Davis
Yho
Canada
George
Clifford Niles
U. S.S
Tom Leary
Central Avenue
Victoria Oxley
Decora
Boardwalk
Weather Bureau Forecast
Record Office
Berton Bros., Undertakers
Broadway
L. B. Avs
M. L. Sacks
Miss Marguerite Sacks
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