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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1913
Page
4
A fragmented report traces the Countess of Suffolk, wife of the Earl of Buffalk, and Harry K. Thaw through accusations and legal maneuvering. It notes Thaw's attorneys contesting sanity claims, with medical testimony from Dr. Gam e and references to movements between Canada, Pennsylvania, and a New Jersey-era context. An asylum transfer and a murder-linked motive are mentioned briefly amid scattered local details.
The seventeen year old Nav Secor, daughter of banker George Secor of New York, drowned after falling from her father's yacht near Croton Point. A night search recovered her body using a weighted rope across the Hudson. The Secon family, including Mrs and Mr Secor and two sons Andrew and Frederick, were aboard the yacht L egacy Tobey bound for the Shuteuvnc Yacht Club.
Victor Webb of Chicago was arrested in London on an embezzlement accusation involving several thousand dollars from an automobile supply house of which he was manager. Webb was arraigned in Bow Street police court without funds and extradition was requested by Chicago police through Scotland Yard.
Berlin reports that Germany negotiates to acquire Gustav Unger’s steel clad airship. The design uses steel tube frames and parabolic stern bow cabling, six screws, five centimeter machine guns, and a claimed 11 000 pound lifting power. At 400 feet long and about 100000 dollars in cost it aims to be wind resistant and highly maneuverable.
An excerpt describes a popular New York actress whose self view is questioned by a dramatic writer. An interview seeks her honest opinion on the state of drama while she aides and retreats from the conversation, revealing tension between public image and personal belief.
Newark, Aug 25 A probe will determine if missing bank official Smith held shares in a company to be turned over to the receiver at Roseville Trust. The investigation also reviews a $75,000 securities list amid a total $378,000 bank shortage.
Hudson Maxim announces a movement to abandon the Morris Canal in New Jersey. He proposes using the canal bed to create a 100 mile automobile boulevard and parkway with adjoining building lots, condemning land along the stream for restrictive residential development.
William Shauger, arrested at gunpoint for a year old Paterson crime, picked his cell lock and briefly escaped only to be recaptured. He had been part of a trio that robbed the Little Falls Erie railroad station. one robber was wounded, a third fled by car. Half an hour after confinement, keeper John Van Geisen watched Shauger walk out of the jail.
The old home of George Svnessii, renowned landscape painter, in Montclair is demolished after sale to a real estate company. Grounds are to be developed into modern suburban houses. In Millville, light fires lit under three glass factories as production restarts Sept. 2 amid strong orders. A 15 year old boy drowned at a reservoir in Passaic County after wandering near the water and failing to be revived.
Washington reports by Commissioner Worcester to the governor general describe peonage and slavery flourishing in the Philippine Islands. He details forms of human trafficking, involuntary servitude, and chattel slavery despite laws and attempts at new legislation since American occupation.
About 1500 harvest hands en route to Winnipeg caused a riot at the tunnel station in Port Huron Michigan on August 25. They refused a four dollar head tax and smashed furniture before police curbed the disturbance. After agreeing to pay the tax they were allowed to depart.
B Kiley superintendent ordered that convicts at Auburn prison receive a cooked dinner served in the mess hall on Sundays and every Sunday thereafter. The fire was set so the meal could be served, a change from the past when Sundays meals were served in cells.
A garbled excerpt mentions someone unable to afford care and a doctor warning about work and health. The legible parts suggest financial stress affecting medical or daily needs, with an implied urgency.
Albany dispatch notes ongoing attempts to subpoena James Q. Garrison the governor's press agent as bribery allegations surface in the impeachment inquiry. Acting Governor Glynn consolidates control while departments split allegiance with Sulzer and Glynn avoiding direct confrontations.
In Wilmington a man named Alphongus M. Acton was held on a peace-bond for breach of the peace in a dispute raised by his wife. The judge added a second charge of idleness citing Blackstone and ordered Acton to post 300 bail for a hearing on the idle ness charge, noting many husbands avoid work and seeking a remedy.
The universal peace congress in The Hague records appreciation for President Wilson and his Mexican policy. A motion commends his undertakings and notes the United States should not fortify the Panama Canal. Chaplain Percy Silver is appointed chaplain at West Point Military Academy.
Savings of 25 000 dollars on Finestos Imported China Cut Glass and Lamps offered with utilitarian to luxurious pieces. Prices range from 23 cents per dozen tumblers to 264 dollars for an electro senior piece, with 50 percent discounts on finest decorated china.
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