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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1911
Page
3
A quick fix for a broken mercury thermometer column is to immerse it in cold water then heat until mercury rises and settles, restoring function. The note advises professional cleaning for stains, highlighting Gorcey & Son The Clothes Doctors at 71 Broadway Long Branch for dry cleaning with good value.
Washington declares the battleship Maine was destroyed by an external explosion in Havana harbor. The joint army and navy board found that a low order explosive outside the ship on the port side ignited the six inch reserve magazine and black powder, causing a sequence of magazine detonations and the vessel’s destruction.
Sir Walter Raleigh faced a death sentence that lingered eighteen years before a final voyage to South America. His expedition attacked a Spanish settlement on the Cayenne river in Guiana, provoking war against a friendly nation. He died on October 20, 1618, at the block after returning the edge of the rope with a grim quip to the sheriff.
A Bates passage notes Europeans' rough treatment of strangers, highlighting London and Toulouse as the worst towns. It describes shopkeepers jeering, foreigners being taunted as traitors, and occasional violence met with little official reproach. The text shifts to describe Persian houses built with secrecy and no street-facing windows.
Washington reports the House by resolution seeks details from President Taft on the pulp and paper section of the Canadian reciprocity act. It notes the section took effect despite Canada rejecting the reciprocity agreement and asks how the tariff operates and whether other nations seek similar concessions.
Four brave schoolboys, Joseph Stone aged seventeen and classmates Carl Schuessler Joseph Bomany and Herbert Sunsel, crawled through smoke to save Elizabeth Wells aged sixteen as fire consumed the Hichbaum building. Thirteen others aged fifteen to eighteen were saved. the rain coat protected the girl while the boys suffered severe burns. Fire loss estimated at $25,000.
Berlin authorities publish decrees dissolving the reichstag and fixing January 12 for the general election for the new Reichstag. The 1907 elected body known as Urlnce von Bue low’s reichstag is terminated.
Oscar Lawler and Wendell McManigal dominate federal grand jury proceedings in Los Angeles as the McNamaras face charges in a nationwide dynamite plot. Other witnesses include John Cruickshank and a yet unidentified stranger, with broader probes into related labor unions and planned charges against three San Francisco allied men. Local forecast calls for scattered rain and southerly winds.
Bargains advertised on Third Street include turkeys and ducks at low prices. Read Cent-a-Words for details and availability. Local shoppers can compare prices and snap up seasonal poultry offers.
Federal prosecutors edge toward proving a well organized dynamiting network run by McNamara with payments via his ironworkers secretary and other agents. Investigators expect to show mass evidence before next Monday's grand jury in Indianapolis, including a Los Angeles Times blast paid at $750. M. Ryan arrives from Washington disputing press and rival claims amid Ironworkers talks with Leo Rappaport.
A sculptor Dinocrates proposed cutting Mount Athos into a statue of Alexander holding a city and basin to collect mountain waters. Alexander declined citing insufficient food for the proposed inhabitants. The fragment preserves a mythic plan tied to a dramatic ancient ambition despite the later Xerxes passage.
In New York on Porter Charlton who discarded his wife's body in Lake Como Italy, the U S supreme court action appears indefinitely delayed. Hud son County prosecutor Pierce P Garven said the Italian embassy has made no effort to hasten the tearing and the case is postponed. Chariton rests in county jail smoking and writing poetry.
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