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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1911
Page
7
Red Bank Police Chief J Frank Patterson reported 301 arrests in the year at a Mayor and Council meeting. The department also logged 349 overnight lodgings. Arrest categories include drunk and disorderly 212, larceny 11, burglary 7, assault 8, forgery 4, adulter y 4, illegal liquor 7, assaulting woman 7, robbery cases 3, and other offenses. The report was received and filed.
At the last regular council meeting in Red Bank the board set a special session to close the year and considered petitions to vacate Throckmorton Avenue and an unnamed eastward street. Public work disputes were discussed, and bids for 26 New York Fire Department coats were awarded to Ford & Miller with other bidders listed.
Professor F K Ball brings grand opera to Long Branch for a third season kickoff recital. Wagner's Flying Dutchman is presented with Radiopticon views, piano interpretations, and descriptive narration. Scenes from Berlin opera houses, key motives, and a dramatic finale accompany descriptions of Wagner life and the legend.
Sea Bright hunters returned from North Carolina with a revised tally: Quail 272, wild turkeys 2, rabbits 62. Col Ned Nesbitt notes the updated figures, while Captain Miller Newman and Win White added notes of timekeeping and participation. A mix of local Kearny figures and Sea Bright residents appear in the column, with other society items on Jacob Steinbach’s Michigan trip and Long Branch legal youth prospects. A separate note covers postal workers McGrath and Thompson charged with trimming a maple tree near Newman Springs Road, bailed, and a local basketball clash between Red Bank High and the Packer Social Club.
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