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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1910
Page
5
Great preparations made to ease Christmas shopping at the Steinbach store in Asbury Park. A full floor devoted to toys joins extensive departments with jewelry silverware cut glass and art ware. The store promises attentive service and early arrival advised to avoid crowds with deposits allowed to reserve goods.
Observations from the United States Weather Bureau show cloud cover and temperatures at various cities yesterday evening. Albany cloudy with snow in places. Atlantic City cloudy. Boston 36 clear. Buffalo 34 snow. Chicago 20 snow. St Louis 28 clear. New Orleans 50 clear. Washington 82 clear.
General markets show weak butter with 5 811 packages and specials at 81 to 30 cents. Cheese receipts 1 823 boxes state whole milk specials and quality grades, with white and colored varieties priced 15 to 15 1 2 cents and assorted skimmings and case numbers impacting current make.
Small ads list for rent on Union, Fifth and Sixth avenues with utilities. Pony for sale with cart and harness described as sound and safe for children. Homeless bachelor quotes about a cafe waiter and a New York Times anecdote on a fussing diner. Fire escape incident in New York as workers flee a garage blaze by sliding down a pipe. Abe Attell defeats Pat Moore in a ten round boxing match in New York City.
An 8 year old brown mare Teddy W guaranteed sound and fast with rubber tired runabout Stillings harness and various vehicles and harness items included. Also listed are items: Brewster Co leather top buggy, Rockaway coupe, pony cart and harness, single and double harness. Call 664 Berdan Place Branchport. Also chickens and farm gear including chicken netting and wire offered by A L Anderson Rockwell. Second hand stoves and gas ranges at 79 South Broadway.
In Michigan the deer hunting season closing after a November opening reports forty six accidents in the upper peninsula with twenty fatal. Many deaths blamed on carelessness and misused firearms. Four cases saw killers leave victims to die. Twenty eight hunters were shot thinking they were deer. eight deaths. Deer slaughter in the north estimated at five thousand with over twenty thousand hunters in state.
The piece rails at church fashion with a husband quipping that the finest garment a woman can wear is the man. It also highlights Sweden’s Church Boat that ferries farm families to services on Lake Vättern and back, while a joke about marriage licenses and costs closes the excerpt.
A group of East Indian natives were found seated on a platform after the train departed. When asked why they remained, one man replied in a respectful tone that they were waiting until tickets became cheaper.
Mrs Woolworth of Brooklyn a former Eatontown resident and granddaughter of Dr John P Lewis visited yesterday tracing family ties. She recalled living in the house later occupied by Dr J C Rush and was granted access to see the historic site during her call. In Derby England a plague relic and watched gardens are mentioned as curiosities from 1865.
Mr and Mrs Frank J Lynch and Robert Emerson of New York visit Dr and Mrs G G Hoagland on Main Street. Mrs A L Longstreet leaves for the South to reunite with Capt A P Longstreet. Miss Frances Sproul moves to Trenton where her brother and Miss Emiley attend school. Rev William E Compton fills English and German classes at the high school in Bertha Angell’s absence. Helen Osborn recovers at home on Main Street. Kenneth Geblhaus, ten, listed among local residents.
A fragment from a local report notes a life held by Henry Sheldon, a twelve year old lad, referenced in a two-handed bullet context. The scant text emphasizes a personal, human-scale moment within the ongoing story.
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