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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1913
Page
4
Mrs Bowser tricks her husband into a dentist visit after three days of feigned pain. Bowser endures the chair as his wife scolds and a cat observes. The extract proves painless and he boasts to friends about the “tiny toothache” ending his torment.
A humorous verse describes a man braving winter nights by tending the cat outside, warming the house, and winding clocks before retreating to bed. His wife rouses him at two to announce “The rubber tree,” a gag ending the scene with domestic whimsy.
Busy Street Waillie Dalziel the old shepherd retires after a life in the hills. He moves to a cottage above Crashie Howe but remains troubled and unsettled saying there is no peace for an auld body. A friend recalls three bicycles and a cart in one day.
The fragment notes Jones and The Browns purchasing eight cars with a light exchange on cheerfulness. A wife asks for more positivity while Jones criticizes the machine. Includes a Shakespeare quote about brief ripe things.
Major Thomas D. Dison brings eight reels totaling 500 feet depicting life and work of U S soldiers. The films approved by the War Department will be shown at West Point and in New York City for National Guard units, with plans for wider exhibitions nationwide.
Angelica Muceei thirty two of 58 Courtlandt Ave Bronx walked to Lebanon Hospital with a man claiming to be her nephew. She bore a wooden box labeled Dichloride of Mercury and said she had taken poison. She swallowed five tablets and later up to thirty seven and a half grains. Doctors say her condition is critical after treatment.
Dr Deininger a German scientist and his party including a German assistant and fourteen native police sergeants were killed by cannibals in Neuumeckienburg formerly New Ireland in the Bismarck archipelago. News of the deaths was received today.
An article recounts a purported sighting of a merman in the Athiutle region described as eight feet long with a human shaped body, brown skin, tusklike teeth, mossy beard, and ducklike fins. Captain Oliver Morin and pilot John Martin, plus 32 crew, certify the description as true.
Auburn December 22 The Osborne prison reform effort yields a permanent group named the Prisoners Aid League known to convicts as the Pals The league includes fifteen Auburn men from clerical to professional and working classes who will visit prisoners on Sundays advise on personal matters help write letters to relatives assist parole eligible men find work and extend welcome sympathy Chairman Osborne says the unofficial board aims to bring a human touch to isolated inmates and plans expansion to other state penal institutions Portrayed as an auxiliary to Superintendent John B Riley the group operates with his cooperation and hopes to rehabilitate inmates through personal contact.
John Barrett a sixty year old wealthy farmer was clubbed and shot in his bed at his home near Spraker's Station six miles east of Fort Plain New York on December 22. His daughter Helen twenty was struck bound and gagged then left in a room off the reading area. She freed herself later and alerted neighbors. Authorities sent for bloodhounds and conducted a day long search but no suspects yet. The motive appears burglary as Barrett was known to keep cash in the house.
Mrs. Kate Wool Ray refuses the appointment to police chief in Gary Indiana. Mayor Knotts named her days ago, but she says she will not accept the office or be involved in its creation.
The original Pip ob portrait, valued at $400,000, credited to Mrs Mary Emery widow of Thomas J Emery, has been presented to the Cincinnati Art Museum and will be hung next week. Mrs Emery declined to reveal her actions for the work but asserted the price is higher than expected.
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