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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
10
Auction sale notices list numerous parcels in North and Ocean Townships New Jersey including Atlantic Avenue Long Branch and Ocean Township. The items cover church lots burial plots and roadfrontages with detailed bearings and bounds and reference to Hoyt Parker and Hoyt estates. Also included is a Monmouth County Common Pleas attachment notice against Ellen Gilmartin for debt.
Notice that the executor Joseph Jacquin Rothschild will have the estate accounts audited by the Surrogate and reported for settlement to the Orphans Court of Monmouth County on December 26. Dated November 16, 1912.
Notice of settlement of account in the estate of Richard D. Thurston a minor guardian seeks settlement in Monmouth County Orphans Court on December 26 1912. Also notice to creditors of Ocean Construction Company to file verified claims with Frank Durand the receiver at 783 Mattison Avenue Asbury Park within three months or lose right to dividends. Dated November 18 1912.
Public notices announce the sale of lands of Mary Crean deceased by administrator order on December 12 1912 at 2 o clock in the afternoon at the Monmouth County Court House Freehold. Multiple Ocean Township Long Branch parcels described and a curb construction bid invitation from Monmouth Beach Borough due December 9 1912 at 7 30 p m with right to reject all proposals. Also a New York and Long Branch railroad timetable in effect November 24 1912 listing departure and arrival times for several routes.
A dialogue exchange shows Mrs. Benham and Benham debating candor and politeness as a humorous clash of opinions. The snippet mirrors a witty newspaper voice from a New York Press column.
Annual meeting of Glenwood Cemetery lot owners to elect three trustees will be held at the office 182 Broadway on Tuesday December 10 1912 at 2 o clock p m.
A New York board of trade conference on the high cost of living exposes how farm produce bears steep markups from farm to city markets. Speakers blame middlemen and the New York Produce Exchange for inflated prices, citing beans and cauliflower as examples and urging elimination of speculators in food products.
In Los Angeles a dairyman Joseph Rudolph died from bull wounds after entering the animal's enclosure to avenge a coworker's death. The bull had killed another employee earlier. Rudolph armed with a revolver knife and club, approached but was fatally charged. In Kansas City three men robbed a saloon near the police station, forcing $1400 from the till.
Reverend Evan Jones recalls a wealthy church member accused of not contributing fairly. The man admits a half sovereign hidden among two halfpennies in the collection box and urges skeptics to use spectacles when spying on fellow worshipers.
About fifty years ago Helvetius Otto announced a steam powered platform with giant bells to blow clouds away. He claimed pluvifuges could insure dry weather town by town, attracting high scientific regard, but the device never proved practical and he abandoned experiments after a few months.
The Countess von Voss records a tale of Crown Princess Louise who on her first birthday as crown princess receives Oranienburg castle as a summer home from Frederick William II. Her wish is for gold for the poor, “as large as the heart of my generous papa,” and she is noted as a beloved princess and daughter of Prince Charles of Mecklenburg.
The article critiques the term white for non white colors and recounts Salvation Army origins in Whitby Yorkshire with Booth’s wartime declaration and crowd drawing quip. It also includes a brief joke about interior closets from the New York Sun.
A Westminster Gazette excerpt recounts the life of Christian Meinecken born in Lubeck 1721. He reportedly spoke multiple languages and mastered Old and New Testaments by age one, becoming an extraordinary child prodigy who died at age five after being weaned.
The Princess de Valmont on her deathbed cursed the old French aristocracy and lamented her family's decline. She recalled marrying her five children to those of dubious character and noted her descendants’ varied trades from carriage making to coal mining as grafted branches of the De Valmont lineage.
Mrs Featherton shows a gown embroidered with lifelike butterflies. Her son Frankie, after a thoughtful moment, tells his mother with calm honesty that next time she should place the antennae on the opposite end. The anecdote captures a child's candid humor.
A reflections piece discusses how success often hides the methods behind it while failure is visible through the missteps and consequences. It notes that perseverance and strategy differentiate outcomes and hints at broader lessons for readers.
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