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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1912
Page
7
A State Bureau report shows 205,205 manufacturing workers in New Jersey earning an average $10.46 weekly and totaling $166,172,529 in wages while product value reaches $940,760,562. Capital rises 7.3 percent to $848,600,943, refuting claims that employers liability laws would harm industry and signaling social reform progress.
New York City will enforce an ordinance effective next month banning plain white sulphur matches and ordinary parlor styles. The rule requires chemically treated sticks that prevent afterflow after flame extinction. The National Fire Protection Association notes improper matches kill more yearly than dynamite.
A collection of 19th century editorials weighs the value of investigations. It cites the Lorimer Archbald and Titanic inquiries, questioning whether grand jury led probes truly yield reform or merely feed sensationalism. The piece contrasts trusted investigations with broader public curiosity.
A discussion on investigations, media skepticism, and the dangers of lynch law. The piece argues that executing suspected criminals without due process risks innocent lives and erodes society's legal protections, urging adherence to lawful proceedings over mob justice.
The piece argues limiting discussion on four topics would curb talk yet juvenile crime rises. It notes police court cases with three boys and questions the moral training of the new generation. It also mocks women voters and a fashion fad of perfume injections.
Editorials mock calls to praise juries for public pleasing verdicts and condemn a district attorney for fairness. The piece attacks Congress mileage pay as graft, arguing actual expenses should replace the 25 cent a mile rule, noting historic context and incentives for members.
Mary Green Conklin, a Radcliffe student and author, promotes slang as a forceful and worthwhile language element. She lists expressions like the cats and go hang, arguing slang can uplift language, though she admits much slang signals ignorance, indolence, or a lack of vocabulary and can impoverish communication.
A collage of newspaper clippings notes empathy for the poor, critiques of reform politics, and critiques of public figures. It includes glosses on appearances, emancipation, and a courtroom scene where a man steals to shelter his family as detectives discuss jobs.
The wife of Attorney General Wickersham proposes a social code to banish boredom. She jokes that a person won t be a bore if they avoid the four D s: organ recitals, the baby, and bears, regardless of charm or distinction.
The verse speaks of a mythical king who rules over natural phenomena and forgotten places. It mentions a land of graves and a spring that returns, a broken heart, ruined dream, and forsaken things. It references the king of last year’s snow and a country of lost faces associated with Allentown Call.
An editorial fragment reflects on life and faith, urging a reverent view of the world as part of God's creation. It emphasizes contemplation and moral perspective, inviting readers to consider divine significance in daily experience.
Fifty years ago Lexington Tennessee saw Forrests raiders capture about 100 men including Colonel Robert G Ingersoll at the Federal post. Fredericksburg marked over a thousand Federal dead buried on the field. Twenty five years ago Chicago anarchists were buried in a granite vault after the November 11 execution.
A Ceylon Royal Asiatic Society report details Aruma gan, a sixteen year old Tamil youth with six fingers and six toes, who speaks no English beyond numerals yet performs rapid mental calculations. He claims divine gift from Rubramana and cites past stunts by legendary calculators like Griffith and Mangiamelli as peers in feats of memory and rapid arithmetic.
Coleridge amazed with lengthy talks over poetry during breakfast with Hookham Frere, three hours of eloquence. Wordsworth and Coleridge later conversed in Pall Mall lodging, two hours of uninterrupted speech, Wordsworth failing to grasp any of Coleridge's rhetoric.
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