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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1913
Page
4
Garden guidance outlines peas peppers parsnips and radishes with varieties and spacing. It covers sowing depths stalk heights and succession for a steady harvest including smooth and wrinkled pea types and recommended storage vegetables like pumpkins and parsnips.
Keyport notes feature family visits and health updates including Joseph B Harris of Keyport and William Rapp's recovery after head injury. The Second Keyport Building and Lawn Association plans its annual meeting at Keoughs hall. Local figures relocate, entertain, and engage in community efforts with Red Cross seals fundraising and a Bayside hotel sale.
Local notices recount families and residents in Belford and nearby towns. Fathers are praised for early Christmas shopping while relatives travel to Chicago and Florida, and community members recover from illness or welcome a baby.
Keansburg and Port Monmouth residents report active real estate moves and building plans. Mrs Abram Morris visits daughter in Keyport while W 8 Wardell closes Granville Park cottage for winter. Buyers purchase Keansburg Beach and Point Comfort Beach lots for bungalows. Contractors named for new homes, garages, and ship repairs. Public auctions and sales of late William Perrys Main Street holdings noted. Families relocate to Hackensack and Riverhead as others plan improvements and additions.
In Wanapolis Indiana December 2 business chaos sweeps Indianapolis as teamsters and chauffeurs strike. Wagons halted for deliveries with drivers assaulted and blocked at mills factories and stores. Few coal and produce shipments reach grocers as union opposition disrupts commerce.
Washington Dec. 2 The senate failed to confirm the nomination of Henry M Pindell of Illinois as ambassador to Russia or Alexander A Sweek of Oregon as minister to Siam. Six secretaries of embassies and eleven secretaries of legations also failed confirmation. Denison of New York will require renomination.
Mexican slayer Rafael Lopez, linked to six or seven killings, tried fleeing through the Minnie or Apex mine tunnel but was halted by armed deputies. Miners report cayenne pepper and sulphur burned to smoke him out as he shields himself in the 700 foot level tunnel amid fumes underway.
A London Telegraph line notes a young man described as refined. Liza of Shoreditch says he never blows his soup like a Common person and instead fans it with his hat.
Freeville New York December 2 An inquiry into the conduct of William R. George founder of the George Junior Republic and director of the National Association of George Junior Republics nears completion. Charges of grave import loom after long informal hushed discussions. Testimony totals over 800000 words gathered from witnesses across Kentucky and the west. Choate Seabury and Lillian D Ward named as judges to decide if George was guilty of willful misconduct.
The Lackawanna Limited running New York to Buffalo carried wireless telegraph equipment. A ill conductor, thirty miles east of Scranton, relied on the wireless operator who relayed instructions during a 50 mph run. The incident prompted hopes the system will revolutionize railroading by enhancing safety and convenience.
On his seventy-eighth birthday Andrew Carnegie declares he is still a young man and desires to live as long as possible. He touts mental nimbleness and weighs world events, noting uncertainty over the Mexican situation and the likelihood of war and property destruction.
Fragmentary lines from a New York Times poem urge Mexico toward unity, peace, and restraint in a time of internal strife. The text invokes sorrow, calls for healing, and warns against immediate escalation or intervention by external armed forces.
Samuel Lewis Shank, longtime auctioneer turned mayor of Indianapolis, resigned after a reforming term. He used humor to govern and staged publicity stunts selling produce below market, enforcing anti-saloon rules and a municipal marriage bureau.
A witty exchange mocks Plimbock's self-importance with a remark about his shaving habit and sense of historic impact as reported by the Birmingham Age Herald.
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