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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1910
Page
6
A lively topsy turvy Christmas party plan with reversed timing and upside down decor. Guests receive refreshments first, a tiny ceiling tree hangs inverted, and packages labeled even for girls and odd for boys contain gendered toys. Santa arrives with an empty basket and guests trade forfeited gifts for reversals.
A craft note describes making a laundry bag from two hemstitched towels with a drawstring top and fringe finish, plus a Conundrums section of jokes. Mercy age three expresses confusion over Santa Claus claws.
Fragmentary Christmas verse extols joy and cheer with imagery of stockings trees garlands and gifts. The garbled lines reference peace light and benevolence spreading across the land during Christmastide.
An American reader learns of the British Christmas plum pudding, its heavy black richness, and the tradition of brandy ignited at table. A humorous note imagines a fifty foot pudding covering a city street, with a blue flame and ceremonial serving adding festive flair.
The article describes a home method using two boards at 45 degrees and a post to sight the tree top. By aligning a line with the top and adjusting, you measure from ground to trunk base to estimate height. It also notes centuries old ages for certain fish and whales, including a pike found in 1497 and a whale with year-based dental plate growth.
These lines present a playful set of word puzzles and riddles. They reference making toys with Bute and burnt matches, Christmas requests, questions about things returned but not borrowed, caught but never ses, a riddle about a butler, and the notion of keeping your word after giving it away.
Mrs. Lillian Peer remains confined at her daughter's home on First street while Anna Antonides recovers from appendicitis at Monmouth Memorial Hospital in Long Branch. Harrison Construction advances sewer work with a carload of pipe. Keyport Literary Club meets tomorrow at Mrs. Harvey Bronner’s on Mott street to discuss Brutus and clubhouse plans. Junior bowling team loses a roll off to Second Century at Brunswick alleys after two wins and a tie.
Miss Sarah Wolcott of South Eatontown visits relatives in New Haven Connecticut. Grocer William E Morris improves from a lumbago attack. Miss M F E Higginson visits Mrs Jack Johnson at Freehold. Mrs Opferman of Englishtown visits Mrs Meta Muhlenbrink. Snow limits school to thirty pupils and the Locust Grove route car does not run. Miss Bessie Dennis recovers from a week of illness. Presbyterian choir and Sunday school rehearse for Christmas. Long Branch students from this area miss two days due to snow.
A fragmented historical clipping presents dialogue about business and a deceased husband, with a widow lamenting his absence and a drummer recalling a long association. It includes a quote praising farming attributed to Daniel Webster, and a stray remark about earth’s cultivation as humanity’s vital labor.
The funeral for Mrs Kate Smith of Highlands was conducted at Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church with Rev Thomas Huss presiding. Survivors include her husband Henry and five children all residing in Highlands. Storm damage along the coast damaged new pier planks, old dock railings, bathing pavillions, and cliff sections between Hiltons and Water Witch. Grand View Hose Company elected officers for the new year. Atlantic Highlands Board of Trade assists in ocean highway plans ahead of a town administration change.
Pendleton cites two great wishes of a medical student as earning the title "Dr." before his name and applying the title to others. The exchange underscores Beecher's view that adversity reveals true manhood.
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