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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1912
Page
6
A Bristol resident writes of relief after using Vinci for grippe and a bad cough. The letter claims five bottles were the best five dollars spent and praises cedar livers and tonic iron for healing chronic coughs colds and bronchitis. Wert's Pharmacy in Long Branch New Jersey is cited as the source.
Seymour Cromwell president of the State Charities Aid and Prison Reform Association commends the Monmouth County branch for its rapid growth and expanded charitable role. He notes the county's poverty oversight, tuberculosis effort, and push for a county home and hospital, with a reader audience from Baltimore to Canada.
A Philadelphia Press quote contrasts a plain citizen asserting every man has a price with a lobbyist who says only the man who is Worth buying remains unbuyable, highlighting a moral tension between money and integrity in political life.
Long Branch women and local businesses push Red Cross Seal sales during the holidays aiming for a 20 000 quota. Eighty five percent of proceeds stay in Long Branch to fight tuberculosis with a broad campaign starting the new year. church and business leaders from multiple churches and firms are listed as selling or supporting the effort.
In Trenton New Jersey wire ropes for the Woolworth building elevators are completed. Twenty eight elevators require many ropes whose combined length would exceed thirty four miles if laid end to end, stretching from the Battery to beyond Sing Sing.
About one hundred fifty members and one hundred friends of Red Bank Lodge No. 223 BPO K attended a memorial service in the Davidson building. The program featured vocal selections by members and guests, remarks by J Powers Donellan of New York Lodge No. 1, and notes on the lodge's history and members who died in the past year.
The concrete arch bridge near Takanassee Lake, 250 feet long with seven foot sidewalks, opened for travel. Architect John Simpson of Newark designed it and Curlies Howland oversaw construction, adding $1,000 beyond the specs to achieve a lasting concrete structure.
Friends and the Treichtlingen born Pfahler, a first class mechanic and active Eintracht Singing Society member in Red Bank, was found earlier today with a rope around his neck. Coroner Fay is handling the case. Pfahler had a Bavarian father and sister, and he was unmarried. The rope came from a long line in the rear room and the display case bar held one end. The body was dressed in best clothes and the shoes barely touch the floor. Funeral arrangements are being organized by the Eintracht Society.
At Leonardo station this morning around ten o'clock Mrs Frances A Wheeler about sixty a longtime property owner in Leonardo and Brooklyn dropped dead. Dr B P Failing Atlantic Highlands said death was from apoplexy coroner Harry C Fay Red Bank issued burial certificate remains sent to Amzi Posten's Atlantic Highlands.
Joseph Conover alias Joe Bags admitted stealing a horse belonging to Timothy Newman. He took a sorrel horse from Lemuel Adams of Dunlevey Street to Red Bank, sold it to Hennessey of Middletown, who then paid $3 down with plans to collect balance but grew suspicious and informed authorities. Detective Broderick escorted Conover to Asbury Park for questioning.
Minugh reported the Adams horse theft to police, guiding detectives to Conover in a negro settlement. Conover confessed to stealing Adams and Newman horses. Detectives recovered Newman’s horse from Morris in Long Branch along with Adams’s horse. The piece closes with a local fable about the porcupine and possum conversation and a coon’s remark on flattery.
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