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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1913
Page
5
A Detroit News Tribune reader tale recalls a man challenging Square Perkins about high living costs. Perkins claims the cause is lazy farmers not growing crops and households relying on wives' washing. The crowd reacts as the riddle is resolved in minutes.
A Paterson dispatch ridicules a claim of a southern "jumping over a broomstick" marriage ceremony. The Times-Union attacks Paterson for straying from anarchist topics, insisting on factual reporting.
In a troubled bowling card Elbenon Bowlers struggle to score against Lakewood and Red Bank Y.M.C.A. A. Grant and White top Lakewood with 220 and 200 as Alberon scores lag. Keyport misses a match, planning to bowl Monday. France's prison governor's wife Jenny Porcher seeks successor post after husband falls ill.
A long report covers rising egg prices tied to the Mesxico crisis, group boycotts, and new methods to cut costs. Experts propose using dried eggs, freezing, and a French precursor process for longer preservation. Officials caution against a nationwide cold storage trust while lab work promises better egg storage.
Futurist artists of the Paris based Nioset ivanced school claim sounds, noises and smells are now incorporated into art and architecture. They describe a palette where colors like yellow red indigo sky blue and violet express auditory and olfactory elements across forms from pulses to concave and convex shapes.
The article describes eggs being transported on roller trucks into a large cylindrical sterilizer. Gases are exchanged to remove air and modify albumen. Carbonic gas is injected, absorbed, and removed, then nitro cen is fed for cooling, with storage rooms kept at controlled temperatures for safety.
A scientist notes radium could power ships, estimating oceans contain about 20,000 tons. The claim is part of early speculative research on energy sources for marine propulsion, with cited experiments and theoretical potential discussed amid technical challenges and safety concerns.
An unclear report describes a fatal event linked to an unnamed locale and persons near a place called Pasente Nod We o. The account mentions a Joseph Riciter and Geert Neteh as acquaintances, with rough details of a crest and warning signs, but the text is garbled and hard to parse.
Daily Record notices urge readers to watch the classified pages for bargains and rare items. Shoppers are promised affordable pieces and potential steals as listings refresh with new offerings each day.
Asbury Park faces a pier proposal with a wary eye on finance, echoing a Long Branch plan from years past that collapsed. Mayor elect Berry probes backing, while Long Branch’s near completion pier promises passenger landings and merchant benefit next summer. Local notices describe residents moving, hospital progress in Monmouth Memorial, and ongoing Broadway improvements amid a town in steady advance.
Richard W. Bennett, former Bennett & Sacco member, bought the stock and fixtures of H. W. Davey pharmacy in the Broadway theatre building via a chattel mortgage held by Citizens National Bank. Benj. P. Morris started at 800, rose to 815, with no other bidders. Bennett leased and planned immediate reopening. prescription books remained with Bennett.
The medical missionaries have spurred China toward using Western medicine while half a billion natives still lean on traditional healers. The London Lancet notes locals burn gold and silver paper with incense to avert plagues and frighten away malevolent spirits, a practice tied to fear of cholera plague or smallpox and aided by drums and cymbals.
After a women teachers training college exam in Arne berg Prussia the examiner told fifty six candidates they passed and urged them to seek husbands, claiming the outlook for women teachers was very poor.
Ghat tle suffered a narrow defeat at Highlands as Beebe’s foul shot and Skillman’s basket near the buzzer altered the outcome. A disputed time call denied Chattle a chance to respond, robbing him of the game. Chattle will face Asbury Park next Saturday after a campus intermedial event.
The Greek government approved plans for a Byron memorial in Mesolongi near the site where Lord Byron died in April 1824, to be set in a small garden beside a monument already named Heroon. Prime Minister Venizelos championed the project, reflecting his admiration for the celebrated English poet and his support for Greek liberators.
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