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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1913
Page
2
Two sensational robberies on Main street east within a block yielded a large cash haul at the Housewife Market and Grocery company and the United County Creamery company. Entry was gained by jimmied windows and no identity clues were found. Property value not yet known.
Seattle August 20. Sixty eight people are believed dead from the steamship State of California disaster this afternoon. Forty three of seventy six passengers were saved. Of seventy five crew members thirty five are drowned.
Observations from the United States Weather Bureau report 8 p.m. yesterday show St Louis at 76 with cloudy conditions and New Orleans at 84 also cloudy. Washington records 74 with cloudy skies.
A fragment discusses Burmese beliefs about marriages between people born on the same weekday. To avoid ill luck, girls carry a birth record in their name with a weekday letter, and children are named starting with that letter. It notes Burmese customs differ from other oriental lands and highlight that youths may marry more freely beyond the birthday rule.
Smithsonian scientist Dr. Ales Hrdlicka reports evidence from southern Siberia and outer Mongolia suggesting the original American Indian stock arose from aboriginal populations in Asia. He cites ancient burial mounds, similar facial features, and ethnological collections supporting a pre Mongol and pre Chinese lineage. Gettysburg landmark: the old seminary cupola was struck by lightning and burned.
The state hospital governing the Matteawan asylum may place responsibility for the Harry Thaw case on superintendent Dr. Raymond F. C. Kiel and he could be removed as a result.
In San Francisco on August 20 Maury I Diggs testifies in a Mann white slave act case. He claims Miss Warrington urged the trip and persuaded Miss Norris to join. Diggs says Warrington called Caminetti a piker and says Caminetti warned about hospital bills.
Washington Aug 20 The department of agriculture develops a new chrysanthemum for the autumn flower show to honor Mrs Wilson. The blooms are named Margaret Jessie and Eleanor after the president and Mrs Wilson's daughters. The president and family are noted as flower lovers.
The Nanking Chamber of Commerce proposes a 600000 ransom to rebels to lay down arms as fighting persists for three days. Rebels totaling about 15000 have resisted assaults by northern troops as Shanghai reports the stalled peace effort.
Allie Burris seventeen and her sister Annie fifteen leaped into the river at Stockdale Texas to rescue their father who was trying to save Arthur Jackson sixteen from drowning The girls and Jackson died Burris was saved by a passerby.
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