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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1914
Page
7
Readable items celebrate Christmas and New Year humor from a late edition. Cartoonish scenes show Santa filling stockings, classic New Year resolutions, a word puzzle behead riddle, Dr. Diddeys donkey party game, and a light pitch for advertising in the Daily Record.
A submarine officer recalls a perilous chase to within hundreds of yards of a cruiser. Amid missteps and a pump failure, the crew works under extreme pressure to lift the craft, survive, and finally rise to the surface before striking the cannon or torpedo.
A vintage fashion note extols inexpensive serving aprons as ideal Christmas gifts. It suggests using inexpensive cottons and simple laces, cutting panels from short lengths, with pockets and bows as embellishments. Also notes fashion trends with wide skirts and new coat styles for the season.
A Daily Christmas Hint describes Milady’s fondness for bags as gifts. The illustration shows two bags, one with gold thread embroidery, emphasizing their beauty and usefulness during the holiday season.
A guide urges using odds and ends from a workbasket to craft useful gifts. Silk sieves and bits of brocade can be transformed into attractive bag parts, with a message that unity comes from many into one and tyranny arises from rigidity.
A vintage kitchen guide describes roasting a turkey with butter and basting, plus chestnut dressing and giblet gravy. It details heating, simmering, and thinning sauces, and includes steps for preparing chestnuts, breadcrumbs, parsley, and poultry seasonings.
Fur capes and ruffs dominate this season’s dress accents. The Dry Goods Economist notes fur finished collars, standing rubes, and marine fur bands at the back. Elaborate ties for evening gowns feature fur trim with opalescent spangles and beads.
Practical tips mix kitchen hacks and maintenance notes from a dated page. Cautions cover boiling water for color retention, greases on candles, and keeping jelly from sticking to spoons along with cleaning ideas for varnished wood and potatoes ideals. The excerpt ends with a comic verse about New Year’s resolutions and self-control.
Fair Haven Vermont resident Mrs James H Envy describes improved energy after using Vinci cod liver and iron tonic. The testimonial claims increased appetite, digestion, and blood strength with a money back guarantee from Wert's Pharmacy Long Branch New Jersey.
Fragmented OCR note describes native events and gossip with unclear timing and mentions sickness, keeping, luxuries, and a lighthearted remark about a trial. Names and context are obscured, yielding a garbled historical snippet.
An advertisement touts Kline's Rheumatic Remedy as a near cure for rheumatism lumbago and gout. It claims wide popularity and rapid results and urges testing the prescription. Stores listed include H. S. Meyers at 119 6th Ave Long Branch Cooper's Drug Store Schroeder's Pharmacy Red Bank and H. C. Van Note Oakhurst.
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