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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1910
Page
3
Laundering items offered include hemstitched lawn handkerchiefs in plain and colored borders priced at 5 and 10 cents. Unfinished unstitched handkerchiefs are listed at Se, 10, 1214 each with unclear details due to damaged OCR.
Joseph Sala, Red Bank merchant, dresses his shop as a Santa Claus abode with new novelties and eye catching displays. Show windows praised as among Monmouth county’s best with Santa guarding a dirigible balloon and a handkerchief aeroplane. Camp 85 P.O.S. of America plans a Town Hall ball in Red Bank next Monday with music and a committee led by Thompson, Eschel batch, Bennett, Voorhees, Tannenbaum, and Vernon Bennett.
Oceanic firemen hosted a Wednesday night dance in Red Men's Hall Church street Oceanic. Wyman's orchestra provided the music and the event was largely attended with attendees enjoying the evening. Stages for Red Bank Fair Haven and Sea Bright departed after the dance.
West Long Branch Fire Company No. 1 held its meeting and elected officers for the year. President William Morris, Vice President R. R. Hughes, Chief F. Denyis, Assistant Chief James Atchéton, Foreman Eugene Poemant, Assistant Foreman Frank Sherman, Engineer Frank Sherman, Engineer William Norton, Insurance Officer F. Vanhuel, Secretary R. S. Krug, Trustee P. F. Krug.
Community members and families are listed visiting, traveling, and hosting in Belmar Oceanport and nearby towns. Names include Frank Dennis Bert White W E Norton Theodore Lavance Florence Poole Dor othy Dangler and many others touching New York Haddonfield Newport and Long Branch with updates on repairs after a fire and a Christmas cantata for Sunday school.
B Norton spent Wednesday and Thursday in New York. Mrs. Charles Mitchell of Norwood Avenue spent a few days in Boston in the past week. Mr and Mrs W E Norton entertained the Friendship Club Thursday evening.
Mrs R B Frost hosts Mrs Charles Breker from Brooklyn for a visit. Lester Sickles, Omar Sickles son, completed a course at Colemans Business College Newark after graduating Atlantic Highlands High School last year. The Methodist Episcopal Church heater troubles forced Sunday services into the small room and may push use of the Sunday school room next week. Mrs J H Brainard sprained her shoulder moving between floors last week and has been sidelined since.
A New York Tribune tale recounts a backwoods ruse where a hunter sold a seven pound meat portion to a wary game warden for a dollar per pound. The warden seized the meat and reported the violator, only to learn the meat was real and later found harmless, making the warden the butt of a storied prank.
Columns of St Mark in Venice, brought from the Holy Land in 1120, stand near Piazzetta. One bears the Lion of St Mark, the other St Theodore on crocodile with sword, echoing Venice’s motto Defense Not Defiance. A Montevideo letter offers dubious sales tactics, while jokes recount Welsh Jones, Oxford, and hens teeth quips.
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