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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1912
Page
22
An inexpensive colonial design with wide front piazza and large vestibule features a 23 foot living room, open fireplace, rear stairway, dining room arch, built in kitchen cupboards, two bedrooms, bath, linen and coat closets. Size 24 by 28 feet with full basement and two stories. Cost to build $3,000 excluding heating and plumbing. Publisher offers Saxton's book of plans containing 254 designs priced from 1,000 to 6,000.
The article recalls Napoleon I visiting Paris markets to verify food prices and ensure honest economy in his household. A minister confirms the price of an ivory egg, prompting a shopper to learn true costs by dressing a valet in plain clothes and buying items at lower rates, exposing overcharges. General Grant’s courtesy to the mikado is noted as graceful.
Cicero tells of two Arcadians in Magara Greece where a dream warns of an innkeeper’s murder. The dream prompts a dawn vigil at the city gate revealing a hidden corpse and leading to the innkeeper’s execution. Also notes that no telecommunication system is truly secret as skilled readers can tap Morse code, telegraph, or telephone lines.
In 1880s to 1890s Navy tests, Henry C Mustin solved gun telescope lens breakage by a metal band on the lens. He demonstrated the unbroken disk by dropping it from a navy yard window, proving a nonbreakable lens and enabling accurate long range firing for dreadnought construction.
A 1649 Massachusetts protest signed by Endicott Dudley Bellingham Saltonstall Nowell Hibbins Wiint Bridges Bradstreet opposes long hair as unmanly and unchristian. It urges elders to enforce sobriety and reform among church members, dated March 10, 1649.
A collage of notes on high pressure water jets at power plants showing how a 200 pound man failed to wake a dent in water from a nozzle. It recalls archery feats from MacRae of Gairloch and Turkish and Ottoman marksmen with distances up to 800 yards. The piece moves through anecdotes on Gladstone seating, New Zealand geysers as cookers, and light humor about court dress and wedding bands.
A compact proverb-like note emphasizes prudence in giving and being helpful without overexerting oneself for others. It contrasts practical kindness with self-renewal, framing value in steady, modest aid.
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