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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1911
Page
13
A fragment from a piece recounts playful schemes to rattle Liszt by depriving him of a well made bed and notes a German counterfeiter who painted twenty dollar bills. It also includes quips about Macaulay and Sydney Smith on talkativeness and wit.
A humorous dialogue between Mr. and Mrs. Perkins over flour buying habits. He cites ten reasons plus elaborations about barrels, sacks, credit, and domestic economics, ending with comic quips and a burglar anecdote. The piece satirizes marriage talk and thrift in a whimsical 1911 style.
A fragment suggests a jab about the boy emperor of China and the idea of him being taught a useful trade as military or political pressure grows. The quip mentions scanning Help Wanted advertisements in a light mockery of current events.
A garbled exchange features lines about youth love and marriage with stray dialogue tags and mis-typed names. The text includes references to the Chicago Record-Herald and Yonkers Statesman language fragments.
Fragments recall a moonlit New England night with vivid imagery of rain. The Boston Transcript tone hints at a stormy scene, lightning arcing and rain pouring as the night unfolds.
An odd Corot relic is shown in a Champs Elysees gallery a wooden frame holding a gray high hat. A landscape scene appears in the crown as a genuine Corot work created when a friend’s new hat was daubed by the artist. Corot laughs and completes the hat landscape making the owner depart with a far more valuable hat than he brought.
Coral reefs surround many Pacific islands and fix navigation as inlets form opposite streams. Reefs are carbonate of lime built by coral polyps that cannot live in fresh water. Matches consume vast wood, with millions struck every minute worldwide.
A passage recalls a statesman diplomat in an Autobiography of A ffed Austin with a social scene at Hewell Grange. Guests include Lord and Lady Balls bury and Lord Salisbury who visits for a public meeting. The dialogue centers on what not to say before a speech and witty exchanges on clothing and manners.
Read Cent-a-Words on the third page for bargain listings. The column highlights low price items and deals, inviting readers to skim for discounts and special offers.
Trenton reports the State Board of Equalization of Taxes issued an appendix to the annual report detailing New Jersey revenue. It covers taxes going to the state treasury and those redistributed to municipalities, including local annual levies, state school taxes, and school funding guarantees. It cites figures for railroad, canal, franchise, and public utility taxes and explains apportionment among counties.
The report details state levies on utility and insurance firms with street railways taxed at 5 percent on gross earnings, totaling 1 112 748 in 1911 including 610 199 for street railways. Inheritance and foreign insurance taxes are itemized: collateral inheritance 745 777. foreign nonlife premiums tax 50 796. foreign fire premiums 52 564. foreign life tax 123 952 under retaliatory provisions.
John F. Shanley millionaire and builder of Allenhurst and Monmouth roads died at his Newark home after a brief illness. He was stricken at Red Bank while en route to Lakewood. A familiar Deal golf link figure and participant on Lakewood courses in fall and spring.
The J. B. Collins steamer, owned by the Collins brothers of Keansburg, now hauls freight between Chesapeake Bay points. In summer she ships produce to New York markets, and last fall she operated on the New York Providence line. Advertise in the Daily Record.
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