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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
2
A dense list of puzzles and enigma types including Beheadings Charade Diagonal and Zigzag with problems about letters, fish names, words and hidden trees plus crosswords and acrostics from 19th century puzzle pages.
A nineteen year old youth stands trial for breaking a baker’s window and stealing a two pound loaf. The hunger defense fails. a foundling ring story emerges linking a mother and her grown child in court as the king’s attorney is revealed as the father.
A collection of witty verse play and literary anecdotes notes Browning Byron and Ingoldsby spoofing rhyme. It cites a rime wager for porringer and Browning’s notorious lines in Sordello, with garbled rhymes and parodies echoing Byron.
A humorous exchange between Mrs Blowitt and Mr Blowitt notes a magazine claim that wearing hats can cause hair to gray. Mr Blowitt retorts that the expensive hats she wears likely cause his hair to gray.
Speech fragment shows a quarrel between wife and husband with sharp insult about marriage. Dialogue hints at unhappiness and mockery, suggesting a satirical sketch tone.
The lesson traces ambition to worldly greatness back to Eve and Satan, stressing that Jesus teaches true greatness is humility. He blesses a child as a model of entering the kingdom, warns against causing little ones to stumble, and reminds that angels aid believers while God rewards repentance.
In Agnes Repplier's collection Americans and Others, Leigh Hunt and William Godwin show lavish borrowing habits. Shelley and Byron lent money with shifting generosity, while Johnson repaid a tiny loan after twenty years and forgave a trifling debt on his deathbed.
Official reports describe two Alaska climates the ecoust region has rain and snow with mild temperatures Sitka winters resemble Washington Valdez snowfalls reach sixty feet and Sitka rainfall hits 111 inches Yukon basin shows a continental climate with harsh winters and brief warm summers summers can reach 90 F. soil stays perennially frozen beneath a thin summer thaw.
A historic note explains that atoms, once seen as indivisible, are complex systems with a positively charged nucleus and orbiting electrons. The passage asserts electrons are small negative particles and that electrons are electricity with properties of matter such as mass and momentum.
Costa Rica observes a weekly Beggars Day on Tuesday when mendicants may beg from shops. Businesses prepare for the visit and give small coins or trinkets. Some beggars hawk merchandise in poorer quarters to earn a few cents.
A weary tramp contemplates bad roads and the wonders of science. He muses that the earth spins fast and wishes for a grip to ride the sliding territory to reach the place he wants. The other tramp quips that they have not fallen yet.
The Turkish fez is praised for its religious justification. The London Globe notes that headgear is tied to prayer, as ramaz requires the forehead to touch the ground, so hats or cap peaks would interfere.
A brief dialogue notes friendship between two girls, debating whether true friendship exists as one asserts there is no such thing. The other replies that implicit trust and confidence can exist between two girls who have known each other only a week.
A humorous quip from the New York Sun noting Becker says Jones is clever enough not to ignite the fire himself and implying a sharp wit without direct action.
A playful remark contrasts grim medical humor with the seriousness of an appendicitis operation. The quip explores friendship and justice, noting that even fair men still need friendship.
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