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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1910
Page
8
The rurales, once notorious bandits under Diaz, became a formal elite force after a truce. Recruited from freebooters who preyed on travelers, they wear dramatic sombreros and vivid attire. Their existence shaped security in northern Mexico as they patrol, backstopped by a salary system and emergency duties.
Paris once feared wolves that snatched children and raided graves. A notorious wolf named Courtant was hunted on the vigil of St Martin, killed and paraded through Paris, ending a reign of cruelty that left fourteen victims in a single week. Citizens celebrated his demise.
A bakery owner explains renters use ornate wedding cakes as showpieces to save costs. Cakes are prepared in parts, boxed for guests, and reused after each wedding with a fresh icing coat, earning about three dollars per event. The passage contrasts this with aspirational prose about simple language.
Kansas center for broom corn reports largest crop in history with Liberal as the major shipping point. About one third of the harvest has sold for roughly 250 000 dollars with prices from 40 to 140 dollars per load averaging 75. lungo
An 1817 Pike County dam on Peno Creek yields a gavel for Champ Clark. Enoch Matson and Warren Hatcher cut an apron log, shaping a historic tool from the first mill north of the Missouri River. A legend surrounds an Indian maiden and a white lover, a chief's wrath, and a tragedy blamed for the dam’s haunting years ago.
Cincinnati physician Dr. Benjamin Merrill Ricketts argues criminals should be offered vivisection under certain conditions as a path to rapid medical progress. He calls for abolition of capital punishment and suggests surgical measures, disfranchisement, and labor as tools to replace death penalties.
Report notes vast salt deposits in Chile with ore reported at 19 percent purity ready for refining. Analysts say these salt bodies could bolster global supplies for years, prompting interest from mining firms and regional authorities.
Third Page lists bargains in cent-a-words section with low prices and limited quantities. Shoppers find small items and discounts emphasized for quick buys.
A mosaic of historical notes recounts the 902 Venice bridal rite and aTrieste sea raid in which brides were seized and recovered by the doge. The piece also mentions a 1379 Marian festival and a sarcastic anecdote about a stingy nobleman and a cabby. It closes with a note on the aeroplane as an airboat analogy.
A fragment shows a dialogue about gambling on horses with a $25 stake cited as a melodrama moment. Washington Mercury style line hints at a sensational local report.
Joseph Keller of Scranton spent part of last week with Mrs. M. E. Wimm of Pemberton Avenue. Mrs. Charlies Pinkernilly returned from visiting friends in New York. Mrs. Edwin Craven, Myra Craven and Mr and Mrs Holmes Holloran and daughter Frances of Matawan were weekend visitors at Mrs. Craven’s sister Mrs. A. T. Smith. Mrs. George Loper Jr and Irene B are spending part of the week at Trenton. The Junior League of the M B Church will have no meetings until after January with new courses for younger members. A B Tillotson of the lumber firm Gifford Lacour Cranmer & Co of Long Branch must remain at his office during the recent storm.
The London police rely on fingerprint records to identify more than seven thousand prisoners annually. Authorities note the system improves intake accuracy and reduces mistaken releases.
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