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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1911
Page
5
The Long Branch Record notes a Christmas shopping drive across Asbury Park and Red Bank with merchants offering to pay out-of-town transit fares. It argues Long Branch must match such campaigns to avoid losing business, stressing constant enterprise and awareness to stay competitive.
The piece surveys President Taft blaming war hysteria on many, judges party reform as key, and hopes for Republican renewal. It quotes him criticizing clouded rhetoric and calls for clear principles. It also reports on a New York marriage swindle where couples cash clergy checks, showing ongoing scams and a critique of clever deceit.
Arthur Brisbane in Sunday American argues that money and gifts matter little in life. He says only kindness real affection and personal devotion count when life ends. Presents that replace affection hurt and gifts given without effort or self-denial are worthless.
The nation entered mourning for Prince Albert. The United States Congress imposed a war tariff on tea coffee sugar and molasses aiming to raise seven to eight million dollars annually. Lord Randolph Churchill abruptly resigned from the British cabinet triggering a grave political crisis.
A metropolitan paper contrasts mob violence by the McNamara brothers with Senator Borah’s rhetorical hyperbole about Roosevelt and the presidency. The author notes winter’s solstice arrival and a harsh winter that mocks the calendar, while questioning the newspaper’s decision to feature the Roosevelt headline.
A collection of editorials notes political patterns since the Civil War highlighting Ohio’s influence in presidencies and votes, royal capital relocation rumors, mercy in justice, and women’s suffrage enthusiasm. It cites Taft era politics and the evolving suffrage movement with humor about holiday manners and public taste.
A multi-voiced Christmas reflection urges readers to give thoughtfully to children, avoid cruel or frivolous gifts, and practice kindness amid festive excess. It contrasts harsh social realities with a plea for mercy and mercy through charity to those in need this season. Georgia Wood Pangborn’s verse criticizes hypocrisy and calls for tangible gifts to the needy and overlooked.
A major fire in Williamsburg destroyed part of a block between North Eleventh and Tenth streets, Berry street and Bedford avenue. Three firemen were injured when the BE and M Vernon book bindery building collapsed onto two tenements. Loss pegged at 500000, leaving twenty families homeless. In a separate report, Emilio Estrada, president of Ecuador, died in Guayaquil on December 28.
The senator likens two dynamite cases to the McNamarags, arguing both dynamiters and trust magnates share greed and extortion but murder remains incomparable. He condemns the plea of principle used to justify crime and insists deliberate murder is the gravest offense.
An old style advertisement lists 3 lbs of blue fish and 2 lbs for 25 cents, cod fish at 8 cents per pound, scallops 45 cents, oysters 25 cents, clams 2 quarts for 25 cents, and oranges available at noted prices, reflecting a period market sale.
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