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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1913
Page
5
A quirky digest notes varied trivia from 1912 passenger balloon service in Germany where no one was harmed to Boston Women Homestead association members arming for safety against mashers. It also lists a 1909 directory with many Johnsons and a Pittsburgh tailor predicting fashionably high knee slits in mens trousers.
The Arnold Arboretum at Harvard reports that chestnut blight may spare Asian varieties. Japanese and Chinese chestnuts resist the disease, suggesting importing young trees to replace dying American stock. China’s common chestnut shows promise for New England, with trees raised from Peking nuts thriving and blooming.
French inventors press toward man powered flight with aviettes that rely solely on human exertion. Magnan claims a bird inspired formula guides design yielding a 440 pound monoplane with 16 foot wingspan and 2.67 square feet wing area for the pilot and craft.
Vice President Thomas R. Marshall told a 20 000 strong crowd at Mooseheart Illinois that a sign Tf C in the heavens was misread as preaching Christ when it should urge plow corn. He spoke at the cornerstone laying for a large industrial school and home for orphaned children and the aged, funded by the Loyal Order in a push for superior education.
A German magazine recounts 1871 Berlin performance where Wagner, after twenty years away from conducting, requested a repeat of the Panst Overture under his own baton. The orchestra and Verein der Berliner Musiker felt divinely inspired as the tone poem revealed a genius beyond mere technique, leaving pianists and patrons in awe.
A Cincinnati Enquirer quotation critiques American shoe care noting that polishing while worn creates wrinkles and bumps. The author compares European habits of removing shoes, polishing, then resting to press garments, arguing this keeps feet and outfits neater.
Energetic Frenchwomen are described as self supporting and capable after marriage. They maintain personal independence through earnings, rarely rely on others, and adapt with efficient, thorough knowledge. The piece contrasts them with Anglo Saxon sisters and praises their versatile, practiced skills.
A Sheffield Telegraph item describes a dockside con in which a man offers counterfeit wine by refilling an old port bottle with water and a cork, charging passersby a few shillings for tasting wine before vanishing with the money.
A theatrical man visits a northern New York town and jokes with a hotel owner about a troupe of thirty-two minstrel workers all named Cull except one named Props. The piece then shifts to a comic exchange about fate and age between Willie and a fortune teller.
A humorous exchange from the Houston Post depicts a wife claiming her husband hides earnings while she struggles with spending. The gibe contrasts financial control and personal money management within a marriage.
A witty exchange suggests music teachers have profited from Bella's voice, with over $100 earned already. The remark appears in Lippincott's literary miscellany.
A Baltimore American poem quoting Josh Wink depicts a stern big policeman pressuring Mexico to stop disorderly acts. It warns that defiance will invite swift consequences and a forceful intervention to restore order.
The Fourth district of the Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs asks makers and publishers to provide modest, up to date garments with skirts two yards wide for a 36 inch bust, reaching near the shoe, and to adjust patterns for next month.
Two eighteen month old twins in Philadelphia show progressive skin darkening from white to light chocolate tone. Doctors label the rare ailment pseudolukemia, noting a marked drop in red blood cells and unusual color changes from head to mid torso.
Henry Hoover Adkinson of Poca county West Virginia aged thirty and his nineteen year old bride Lillian Myrtle Blethen from White Sulphur Springs eloped after Adkinson swam the Greenbrier River with his bride on his back to evade her angry father and were married in Cumberland Maryland by Reverend Joseph Dawson at the Imperial hotel.
Millet's works the Bower and the Binders emerge from a damp studio heated by a stove with the artist wearing wooden shoes and a horse cloth to keep warm. Critics framed his labor as a class struggle while Millet painted a tradesman signboard that later featured in a School of Fine Arts exhibition. Nickel’s use in soapmaking as a catalyst is noted, producing deodorized, harder soaps. Julian Grande reports Damascus rivers polluted by street refuse, with water sold in streets and charity by pious Muslims echoing Isaiah.
A Princeton mathematics instructor, country bred, humorously reveals habits when referencing a colt from an old friend. He recalls the animal being fed from birth to a box stall, watered at a yard trough, and crossing a river at noon to drink, illustrating a predictable routine.
A Rhodes scholar explains Oxford jargon and quirks. He notes Magdalen pronounced Maudlin and terms like full term ordinary degree and inspector of arts. A newcomer quips about tickets, trains, and a possible passage by steamer to Marseilles.
The article surveys Antonio Stradivari of Cremona as a supreme master, noting his pupil Nicholas Amati and the Cremona school. It also mentions Amati’s sons Jerome and Antonio, Tyrolese makers Jacob Stainer and Matthias Klotz, and Villaume of Paris as celebrated modern builders in connoisseur circles.
A London Tit-Bits line jokes that a young shopkeeper, left by his father, denies being head of the firm and quips he is only the belt of the head, highlighting his minor role in the business.
Miss Rose and Miss Gilbert discuss a proposal moment while in a car where a person ran it backward for over a mile without noticing. Chicago News records the exchange as a curious social anecdote with playful dialogue between the two women.
A fragmented Pittsburgh Post item blends a dialog about work fatigue with a cryptic remark on value rising unexpectedly. The text references a bridegroom and an abrupt stock rise, then trails into nonsensical phrases and misread names, yielding an unclear short note.
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