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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1911
Page
11
West Long Branch residents recount Thanksgiving gatherings at St Lukes and homes, Christmas plans for First M E Church, births, birthdays, and visits. Families including VanNote Poole Sherman and Wilsons figure in church entertainment, cantata, and a December 28 tree event.
The article records several gentle social items: a woman visiting her sister Mrs A D VanNote during the week. the Friendship Club to be entertained by Miss Henrietta Reynolds next Tuesday. Mrs Matia Mareh spending Sunday with her mother on Monmouth road. Thanksgiving day entertainments hosted by Mr and Mrs James Atcheson for C E Clayton, Mr and Mrs William Tully, Mrs Kittie Cooper of New York, and Miss Selina and Miss Eliza Atcheson.
A dramatic courtroom tale set in Sandy Bend recounts Judge Tom Hoke venting at Tarantula Jim and Joe Biff. Tarantula Jim’s bombing rhetoric clashes with Joe Biff’s stoic defense as a new trial is ordered by the higher court, leaving the town humiliated yet defiant.
An overdressed youth occupies the only vacant seat beside an elderly man on a travel car. When the conductor asks for fare the youth fumbles and exclaims he has been robbed. He finds only a coin. A booming voice from the side warns him about his hand in another pocket.
A fragmentary item notes a quirky remark about not using a notebook to jot ideas. The speaker mentions cuffs and a humorous line about a friend reacting to the cuffs, with garbled terms suggesting names or phrases like Landeau Peas. The readable text is limited and lacks clear context or full names.
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