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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1913
Page
5
A letter sent to Red Cross Seal Headquarters in Washington asks for a bottle of medicine labeled good for consumption and other diseases. The writer, who signs as requesting immediate reply and payment, expresses eagerness to send money once the price is known.
The Central Railroad proposes a signaling change at grade crossings replacing the white flag with a bold red disk bearing Stop. The disk would be held by a watchman to warn approaching vehicles, and night protection would use red lamps as required by New Jersey road rules.
Oceanport Hook and Ladder Company No 1 elected officers at the regular monthly meeting including Frank Price foreman George Davis 1st Assistant Foreman Albert Smith 2nd Assistant Foreman D Glenn Riddle secretary EB Champlain engineer and others. Mrs Matthews Keakes has moved to Jonestown for winter and will join her husband who trains a string of 44 horses for Mrs Lt A Livingston. Sunday night the M Church pastor Rev J F Heilenman led a discussion on church decline preaching duties and alternatives with plans for another series next Sunday.
U S S federal court must determine Harry K Thaw mental condition after Concord judge Edgar Aldrich ruled the extradition dispute hinges on Thaws sanity. Extradition by New York authorities is suspended and Thaw remains in New Hampshire for the time being, with months likely to pass before a final federal decision.
Washington reports Attorney General McReynolds urges genuine dissolutions to strip the same men from control of split trust parts. He cites the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific cases, notes forty antitrust prosecutions, and proposes senior judge appointments and fixed-term court clerks to improve federal justice.
In Paterson New Jersey on December 10 Ralph Stoxenheim president of the Augustin silk mills announced a shutdown. About 100 rib bon weavers have quit at 4 pm for days to push a nine hour day, and the mill will not reopen until workers agree to ten hours. The plan targeted the Augusta mill as the first to enforce the change.
President Wilson, walking in Rock Creek Park, helped Ruth Donaldson aged thirteen who had been thrown from a riderless horse. Secretary Tumulty and Dr Cary T Grayson accompanied him as the girl, slightly bruised, mounted her horse and rode away after reassurance.
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