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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1910
Page
8
Missouri ex-governor Folk denounces Pennsylvania’s political bosses and party machines predicting future people power. He says bosses control major parties and laments Senate Lorimer’s exoneration as a national reproach.
Our stock includes dolls from 10c to 3.00 games 19c to 75c children dishes 25c to 1.98 ladies perfume 10c to 1.50 writing paper 10c to 98c jewel boxes 25c to 3.98 dollar and cuff boxes wide holiday napkins 75c to 3 per dozen table linen 25c to 1.50 yard sweaters 49c to neck wear 25c to 98c fancy boxed suspenders handkerchiefs 5c to 25c each collars 25c to 98c fine line items 25c to 98c.
William M. Mann sixty years old president of Vacuum 611 company in New York was arrested Saturday night on a Hudson and Manhattan tunnel train. He suffered a stroke of apoplexy brought on by indignation at the arrest and died in St Mary's hospital Hoboken after collapsing on the train platform following an altercation with Edgar Blackledge. Mann walked to police HQ protesting the arrest and then fainted.
Pittsburg reports sorrowful steel outputs as United States Steel cuts about 46,000 workers in recent months. Up to 75,000 may be laid off by year’s end, threatening a third of the firm’s active force. Holiday travel to Europe reduces local wages by at least 1 million dollars.
Cornell officials plan to appoint Philadelphia police lieutenant Theodore Temsteen as official proctor. He met with Professor W. W. Rowlee after trustees approved the position to supervise roughly 1 percent of students and monitor downtown activity and local saloons for misbehavior.
The Weather Bureau reports generally moderate temperatures nationwide for the coming week. A disturbance over the Great Lakes will move east bringing snow to that region and snow or rain in the middle Atlantic and New England today. A second disturbance in the northwest will track along the northern border toward the St Lawrence valley by Thursday, with non general precipitation.
A message signed George Powers, bound to a goose, was recovered from a killed bird by Fred Walton in Granite City. The note dated 1910 describes bleak conditions north of White Horse Rapids near Pine Creek, reporting a broken arm, scarce flour, and a solid gold vein nearby with a grim forecast of death and no hope.
Miss Leah Updyke married Pearn McCan in Niagara Falls in the same room where her brother Roger Updyke lay dead after an electric accident at a plant. The ceremony proceeded as planned despite the clergyman Rev. C. H. Pye’s emotional collapse. Roger’s funeral followed in the afternoon. The bride's remark referenced the brother in spirit as part of the wedding. Later, a New York death report noted George Washington Hall, a Black man said to be aged in his one hundred year range, claiming service to General Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War era.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey passenger station in Scranton was destroyed by fire. Two coaches burned while five others were damaged. Loss estimated at $50,000.
The story recounts Nicholas I ordering eight days to map a route from St. Petersburg to Moscow. After seeing a serpentine draft, he demands a straight line from city to city, ignoring large towns, to ensure the shortest path. The anecdote ends with a quip about the happy man and a father’s remark.
The annual reports to Governor Fort reveal crowded facilities at the New Jersey Home for Soldiers and the Home for Disabled Soldiers in Kearny. Inmates risen to 293 and 693 respectively, with calls for expanded hospital facilities and faster admissions. Expenditures total 67,051 with maintenance cost about 180.31 per inmate.
A Los Angeles driver towed a 110 ton locomotive using his car. Four men rode in the tonneau and one held the rope while the engine started and crept forward. The feat is illustrated in a January Popular Mechanics picture.
Tungsten is used as an alloy in steel to enable higher tempering temperatures than ordinary carbon steel. Despite rapid progress in electrical sign manufacturing, producers say the industry is still in its infancy.
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