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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1911
Page
7
The Independent fire company of Red Bank has prepared a charity Christmas event on Mechanic Street with a large tree on the firehouse first floor. Children are urged to attend Monday at nine o'clock for gifts, with many donations to help needy families in the Borough.
San Francisco officials announce plans for a 850 foot high tower as a permanent feature of the Panama Pacific Exposition to be built on a knoll overlooking the Golden Gate. The granite base will support a steel and marble shaft capped by a glass dome, at an estimated cost of 1 million dollars. After the fair the tower will serve as a light tower.
New York December 23 Shelton C and Eugene Burr with Charles Tobey and Edwin Wesley Preston pleaded guilty to a mail fraud indictment in federal court. Judge Holt sentenced each to one year in Blackwell's Island or one year and a day in Atlanta. they chose Blackwell's Island. Since 1906 the Burrs sold stock in twenty nine companies acting as fiscal agents and then organizers. From 1908 to date six oil companies raised about 127000 with assets largely exhausted.
Professor Herschel C. Parker formerly of Columbia University will depart January 10 on his third Mount McKinley expedition in Alaska. Belmore Brown joins from Tacoma with Parker. Arthur Aten and Merl Lavoy complete the party. They will carry sled and dog teams and about 1800 pounds of provisions. Weather indicates rain today with brisk winds tomorrow. Local markets report steady butter, firm cheese, and mixed hay and straw with poultry prices easing.
A New York Press brief quotes a quarrel line where a parent refuses to see a boy they called the light of their life, saying they do not see the fight in their eyes. The exchange hints at a domestic dispute tone.
New York December 23 speculates on George Sheldon letters and Theodore Roosevelt responses as signals for a possible 1912 presidential bid. Sheldon says his letter was justice delayed and at Roosevelt's request while Roosevelt rests at Oyster Bay with no statement planned.
A Russian Octoberist declaration to the duma president outlines a tariff bill aimed at the United States. If enacted it would bar American imports, claim US foreigner laws are harsher than Russian rules, and impose doubled harbor duties and other charges alongside retaliatory measures.
The remains of John Bigelow, New York's Grand Old Man, were interred in the Pearce date cemetery in Highland Falls New York. A long funeral procession passed through town as 100 citizens greeted the bearer and escorted the coffin to the grave. The Rev Jordon Smyth of the Swedenborg church read the committal service with Major General Thomas A H Barry and other officers in attendance.
The Choir of Grace Methodist Church Red Bank will postpone its Christmas program to the evening service on Sunday December 8. They will perform Story of Bethlehem by West with sopranos Mrs Warren H Smock and Mrs Catherine Throckmorton altos Mrs John Ely Mrs Alvin A Whiting tenors Joseph Lynch Ivar Bjornstad bass George K Spinning and Alvin A Whiting.
Census data from 1910 to 1900 reveal foreign born whites rising faster than native whites in four of six divisions led by Middle Atlantic. New Jersey totals show 1910 population 2,557,167 with 34.7 percent growth since 1900, native whites and foreign parents increasing notably while foreign born whites also rise. Local notes report Bath avenue residents visiting for holidays and Red Bank High a basketball win over Woodbridge High 66 to 12 at the YMCA court with Ryerson and Aries standout.
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