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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1912
Page
15
Consolidated Gas Company of New Jersey, located at 176 Broadway, is identified in this notice. The brief entry notes the corporate address and primary business location without additional details.
A Victorian shopping guide outlines vanity cases with riblon and satin ribbons, a compact mirror, and powder envelope, plus a house gift screen in gold leaf, a silk bag for invalids with scented lining, and a decorative dressing-table frame tray. An old Russian proverb about Russia’s gates closes the piece.
Professor Dewar demonstrated a frozen soap bubble in liquid air at the Royal Institution. A snowstorm-like cold caused rapid color change and contraction, breaking the bubble into two pieces that floated on the liquid surface for about an hour, accumulating a tiny snowdrift from continuous precipitation.
The article details Robert Louis Stevenson’s burial on Vaila peak in Samoa after his death in 1894. Sixty Samoans carried his remains to the forested summit where a grave is marked by two bronze plates, one with Tusitula’s tomb and the other with his own requiem.
A country grocer tests blind Henry Perkins with a scoop of sugar and the blind man answers with a confident touch. The piece then wanders through notes on dead suns, Japan's great bronze bell, and igneous rocks, linking curiosity about senses and natural history.
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