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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1912
Page
10
A society woman named Mrs Julian Heath is seen handing out eggs to a purchaser in a local social eggs event. The scene captures a charitable or community exchange reflecting midcentury social rituals.
Little Rock, Ark December 17 Governor Donaghey will pardon and free 360 convicts from the state penitentiary in a move aimed at ending the convict lease system. The action follows his Richmond speech urging abolition and will wipe out three convict camps leased to contractors. Most pardoned inmates are serving minor felonies, though some faced fifteen years or more.
New York market report shows steady butter with varied class prices and strong receipts across dairy products. Eggs firm with steady to higher quotes. hay and straw hold. live poultry weaker. cattle and sheep and hogs lower as buyers stay cautious amid ample supplies.
Mrs Hallenback, wife of a former Montclair mayor, intervened in a fight between her coachman James Woodgate and gardener Andrew Dorsey at the estate on Upper Montclair Avenue. Woodgate shot Dorsey, who grappled for the revolver until Mrs Hallenback seized it and called police, then ambulance. Dorsey was wounded. Woodgate surrendered to police.
In Newark on December 17 Daniel Loewenstein Jr. shot his wife in front of their four children ages five to seven at 360 South Street, then killed himself with a second shot after handing her a satchel at the door. The couple had separated after he began drinking.
In Waterford New Jersey on December 17 a spite fence was built by railroad telegraph operator R A Britton between his property and the Waterford Presbyterian church after a dispute over shared costs. Britton erected an eight foot fence and painted the church-facing side bright red with a large white headline reading Cause and Effect, after trustees claimed Britton encroached ten feet.
The Edison storage battery car scales Orange mountain grade nearly one mile long with a steepness of 9.14 percent. Ralph H. Beach says he was surprised by the feat while an official test, with Thomas Edison and public service commission officials aboard, is planned. The Mountain Railway president notes the trip from Valley Reids to Rock Spring costs 50 cents round trip. the Edison car uses five kilowatts at a cent per kilowatt, reducing operating costs by about 20 percent.
President elect Rieck Wilson returned from Hermiuds yesterday and said he expects to meet Mr Bryan soon. He declined to discuss cabinet possibilities. The posed Burtington New Jersey photograph captures the early Wilson for president beam.
Washington reports no rush to settle the Panama Canal controversy with Great Britain until President Taft returns. He aims to discuss broader canal operation with Colonel Goethals, review records, and form a fresh view, while not delaying useful action before March 4. Officials will draft memos for the United States versus Britain even as pace slows.
President Taft, suffering a cold, canceled all executive office appointments and stayed at the White House. He spent a few hours working on a message for Congress and plans to travel to Pannonia on Friday night, with Ambassador Reid’s death not delaying the trip.
Former President Theodore Roosevelt will speak at St. Patrick's church in Huntington on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Rector John York's ordination. The jubilee events began with high mass on Sunday, Roosevelt a close friend of the dean.
A Lake Shore train collided with a trolley at a grade crossing on the Ashtabula Rapid Transit line. Six people were killed and three injured. The dead include Mrs Laura Leapheart Mrs W H Cook Mrs George Kitson Mrs Frank P Bartlett and two unidentified victims.
Increasing cloudiness today leads to rain in the south and snow or rain in the north tonight and tomorrow. Moderate southeast winds accompany the unsettled conditions across regions.
Former New York Commissioner of Accounts Fosdick will testify before the Curran committee that he warned Police Commissioner Waldo years before Rosenthal's death about Becker grafting in gambling houses. He will detail graft complaints, investigations, and vice conditions at Coney Island under Mitchel and Baker.
President Elect Wilson arrived in Princeton and received tickets for the Triangle club’s musical Once In a Hundred Years. He chose to attend to state business instead and sent a cablegram of sympathy from Mrs Whitelaw Reid at the American Embassy in London.
Chicago readers report a clash between marriageable girls and a proudly named six thousand dollar club. The Young Women's $6,000 club pledged not to marry men earning less than $5,000 annually. A counter resolution was adopted by local YMCA members demanding that if parents trained their daughters to require $5,000 to live, they must fund that amount for their sons-in-law who marry those daughters.
Washington reports Senator Burton of Ohio urged reducing letter postage from two cents to one cent per ounce arguing no change in thirty years has kept first class mail revenue over 162 million dollars, with 62 million profit, and a lower rate would boost mail growth. The bill proposed to take effect July 1, 191%.
An article notes a link between the spiral snail shell and the screw design. It argues the snail’s spiral motion suggested a screw shape, revealing how a screw resists straight withdrawal. Warner's.
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