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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1913
Page
7
A. Brady presents The Family Cupboard at Broad Street August 18 with a strong cast. The melodrama centers on Charles Nelson, a wealthy NY businessman, and a wife poisoned by high society, illustrating a house divided against itself.
The play traces a couple's drift as marriage frays under strain. The husband seeks companionship, while the younger son becomes entangled in family secrets. Across four acts revelations emerge and the final curtain rebuilds the family on a stronger, more stable footing.
A small boy visits a fruit stand and chooses six bananas at five cents, then refuses the five cent value when he only wants one. He walks away with a single banana and a penny, heading to the candy shop, undeterred by the choice.
A terse 19th century admonition echoes from Emerson urging restraint and quiet. The exhortation covers sleep, headache, leprosy, or thunderstroke and pleads by angels to hold peace and not disrupt the morning.
A reminiscence describes a young editor, Aldrich, newly at the Atlantic Monthly, at Oscar's with a briar pipe, tweeds and crimson scarf, chatting about ambitions and hopeful ties for writers including Edgar Fawcett, as rivals scramble to publish works and secure advantages.
Maud presses Marie for a detail about Jack’s compliment. Marie withholds, then relents revealing he called Maud "the human marsh mallow." The exchange hints at their playful, teasing rapport.
John Adams Thayer recalls arriving in Havana on December 31 1898 and witnessing the transfer of power as Spanish troops depart. Major General Brooke and Cuban leaders attend a palace ceremony while the Star Spangled Banner plays and Castellanos faces the end of a long era.
A brief meditation notes that prosperity carries fears and mistakes while adversity brings comforts and hopes. The quote attributed to Ba con frames resilience as a balance of challenges and optimism.
The London Standard notes that trepanning is among the oldest surgeries. References to Hippocrates describe skull pressure relief by removing bone, while earlier records and stone age skulls suggest the procedure was practiced long before classical times with rudimentary tools and no anesthesia.
A motion picture matinee prompts a courtroom memory about a murder case. Janet, four, asks for a handkerchief while a friend pretends tears, illustrating a moment of distraction during the trial.
In Rio de Janeiro at the Magnifbert Maux hotel a guest, Fereau, after being refused a second cutlet, returned and declared he had just bought the hotel and was now master. He dismissed the head waiter and ordered another cutlet to be served as he wished.
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