Many New Features At The County Fair
The Monmouth County Fair will host free from liquor policies and daily racing with prominent eastern horses. A government coast defense exhibit in a 20 by 40 foot tent debuts at the fair, including the latest gun technology for balloon and aircraft defense. A bond ensured safe return of the exhibit from the World's Fair and planned for San Francisco 1915.
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Monmouth County Fair Association
Melvin A
Middletown Township
Chicago
St. Louis
San Francisco
Cal
Local favorites stage hit at Broadway Theatre
The benefit for the Grape win Starg baseball team drew a smaller crowd than expected. Sweethearts and Wives featured Charles Grapewin Anna Chance and Mike Donlin in a three act farce full of laughter. Grapewin as Jep Hoover, Tillie Tuttles and Jack Hawley with Anna Chance and Rita Rose delivered strong comic performances.
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Grapewin
Broadway
Charles Grapewin
Anna Chance
Mike Donlin
Jep Hoover
Charley Grapewin
Tillie Tuttles
Miss Lillie May White
Mrs. Hoover
Jep
Rita Rose
Annabel Wendell
Jack Hawley
Miss Ross
Mr. Grapewin
Georgie Hawley
Mabel
Archie Sell
Edward Croscrew
Rahway visitors on Sunday from John H. Houghton party
John H. Houghton and daughter Miss Verna Houghton of Rahway were Sunday guests in town. Englands Royal Vine near Cumberland Lodge Windsor Great Park bears 500 to 600 black Hamburg grape bunches this year, each weighing about four to five pounds, some up to six pounds.
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John H. Houghton
Verna Houghton
Rahway
Prominent Nunckatessett Canoe Club Member Hist Hospitalized
A Nunckatessett Canoe club member was sent to a sanitarium for treatment after suffering nervous prostration. The individual reportedly struggled to spell a name twice, prompting the decision.
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Nunckatessett Canoe Club
Brockton Enterprise
Germans discuss politics and marriage in Broadway cafe
Three German men in a Broadway cafe spoke in private about politics and a mutual friend's second marriage. One man remarked that a man who remarries a second time doesn't deserve to have lost his first wife, a comment noted by Lippincott's.
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Lippincott's
Diamond Head the Lion of Hawaii in Pacific Defenses
A vivid account of Diamond Head and Oahu fortifications. Describes Fort Ruger and gun batteries from Diamond Head to Pearl Harbor, the crater observatory guiding fire, and the role of Hawaii in Pacific defense as cited by Honolulu writer Albert Pierce Taylor and poet Frances Bent Dillingham.
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Diamond Head
Honolulu
Oahu
Hawaii
Oulu
Pacific
Sim
Sam
Oatia
Albert Pierce Taylor
Pearl Harbor
Earl Harbor
Kamehameha
Tenotula Harbor
Fort de Rossy
Waikiki
Cuba Coast
Diaond Head
Fort Ruger
Hiva
Milton
Ewa
United States
Lion
Frances Bent Dillingham
Jas
Navy
Harald Sands
Lox
Fragmented Comic Dialogues From Old Papers
A collage of humorous exchanges from historic newspapers includes a vow of marriage debate with Mrs Ellsworth and a maid at Mixx Flora s door, a staged exchange about marrying a daughter, and a quarrel where Confucius is contradicted, all in colorful early 20th century tones.
Shaw the Eccentric and His Cocoa Coloured Life
A profile of George Bernard Shaw describes his obsession with order and his cocoa coloured attire. It recounts early struggles in London, rising literary earnings, and his candor about living off his brother and father’s support while embracing the public persona of a court jester to King Demos.
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George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
George Kennard Shaw
Demos
London
A Curious Love Scene and Royal Proprieties Recalled
A fragment from a London scene describes Rochefort arranging a secret engagement for servants of a noble household. The chambermaid and her partner face dismissal under aristocratic rules, with the couple defying convention amid mixed commentary from newspapers and a social column.
Recorder Court Dismisses Cases Under New Traffic Ordinance
In Long Branch this morning Recorder Arrowsmith presided over a lively session. Alex Brodie faced the court after a Saturday night incident with Officer Harvey at Liberty street and Broadway, with a suspended sentence under the new traffic rules. Leig Pollock was fined five dollars for taking pictures without a license on South Broadway, claiming Newark origins and a Sunday restriction. The Hoehe household case against Harry and Joseph Kaplan was dismissed after testimony on a doorway dispute and alleged drunkenness. George Robinson, accused of being drunk and disorderly, was dismissed when his wife did not appear to testify.
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Alex Brodie
Recorder’s Court
Bie
Harvey
Liberty Street
Broadway
Brodie
Recorder Arrowsmith
Leig Pollock
South Broadway
Vetter
Pollock
City Hall
Pollock Ha
Newark
Long Branch
Lut
Gien
Verter
Kate Hoehe
Harry Kaplan
Joseph Kaplan
Ric Arrowsmith
Haehe
Liberty’ Street
Hoehe
Young Kaplan
Kalpan
Hohe
Kaplan
Arrowsmith
Young Kaplaci
Chief Leyton
George Robinson
Atlantic Avenue
Pleasure Bay
Recorder Arrowsith
Clayton
Retirement merchant jumps to death in New York
William T. Hulburt a 64 year old retired merchant of Allenhurst jumped from a fifth story rooming house at 114 West 79th Street New York early Saturday and died later at Polychlinic hospital from a fractured skull and injuries His wife died ten months ago and he had suffered melancholia Friends say other troubles may have contributed to his act and the death remains under question.
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William T. Hulburt
Spier Avenue
Allenhurst
West 79Th Street
New York
Hulburt
Mrs. Dettlinger Dies in North Long Branch
Caroline Dettlinger died at her stepdaughter Mary A. Hennessey residence on West Street North Long Branch from paralysis. She was 71 and had suffered declining wealth. Survived by son Fred Dettlinger two stepdaughters Mary A. Hennessey and Mrs Joseph N Flanigan and two stepsons George and Sidney Dettlinger. Funeral services set for Wednesday at 2pm from the Hennessey home with interment at Green-Wawn Cemetery by John G. Sexton, Rev. John G. Lovell officiating.
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Caroline Dettlinger
Mary A. Hennessey
West Street
North Long Branch
George Dettinger
Fred Dettlinger
Joseph N. Flanigan
George
Sidney Dettlinger
Hennessey
Green
John G. Sexton
John G. Lovell
First Presbyterian Church
Two Tennis Championships Open Across U S Cities
Two tennis championships opened in one day under the National Lawn Tennis Association of America. Jersey Coast championship began at Bay Head Yacht Club, Colorado state championship started at Denver Country Club, with matches also scheduled at Niagara Lawn Tennis Club in Niagara Falls and Nyack Country Club in Nyack New York and an open tournament at Winchendon Massachusetts and Altoona Cricket Club in Altoona Pennsylvania.
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New York
National Lawn Tennis Association of America
Bay Head Yacht Club
Colorado
Denver Country Club
Denver
Niagara Lawn Tennis Club
Niagara
Western Pennsylvania
Altoona Cricket Club
Altoona
Nyack Country Club
Nyack
Toy Town Tavern
Winchendon
Masa
New Horticultural Idea Involves Mercury Lamps For Growth
A Scottish horticulturist experiments with mercury vapor lamps in a greenhouse to speed seed germination and plant growth. The method claims quicker sprouting and deeper color growth under controlled lighting.
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Red Bank
Asbury Park Business College
Gmles
Ernest L. Bean
Uncle Sam
Gibraltar
Suiter
Boston Transcript
Confucius
Henry Eflton
Brooklyn
Rochefort
John
Charlotte
Londoun
Inneh
Monsieur Rochefort
Joli
Amos
Jatin
Westminster Gazette
Ahig
London Lancet
Longlees
Jean Webster
Bobbie
Willie
St. Aul
Sour Church
Brudder Rambone
Washlutton Herald
Clarence
Bannockburn
Copenhagen
de Medici
America
Axsala
Strinkard Company
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Recorder's Court
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