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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1912
Page
4
Residents urged to donate ash clothing and provisions at Lou Tetley’s Mechanic Street store Red Bank to assist every poor family nearby. A large Christmas tree will be set up at the warehouse on Christmas morning for the children.
On Christmas Eve Dr John Linden, a famed physician, recalls Cicely Ange the hospital miracle who vowed to marry him when grown. Years later Cicely, now grown, visits in disguise with groceries for Dr Weldon, but reveals herself and rekindles the long awaited bond. Linden imagines a future with a wife and family, fulfilled when Cicely keeps her vow.
Ethnologists suggest Porto Rico and nearby isles may have been peopled from the Orinoco valley rather than Yucatan. Early inhabitants left interior relics of high culture, with carved idols, pottery, and South American style houses. Funeral practices resembled those in the Orinoco basin.
A stout shopper rejects eighty pairs of shoes stating they are too narrow and pointed in the toes. The sales assistant insists fashion dictates the long Barrow pointed style, but the customer replies he is still wearing last season's shoes.
At the Hudson theater in New York Sir Beerbohm Tree lectured on Our Betters to a mixed audience of notable figures. He mocked social reverence, argued being oneself is luxury and expensive, and praised the boy scout movement for reducing artificial distinctions.
Eight Chicago policemen tested a pedestrian traffic rule, signaling pedestrians to await officer signals like vehicles. The plan would grant pedestrians the same right of way rules, with one whistle blast for north south flow and two blasts for east west flow.
A long list of donations from banks, lodges, companies, and individuals totals various sums for a local society appeal. Red Bank area residents Herbert Chamberlain and May Harrison face illnesses. Mrs. James H. Minton and Charlie A. Minton are also ill at home. Dr. Browning Wilson attends.
A stork visited Red Bank on Wednesday delivering a girl to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Reynolds who live with Mrs. Reynolds' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hagerman of Spring Street. Both mother and child are doing well. Mrs. Reynolds was formerly Miss Helen Hagerman.
The annual election of officers was held Friday night with Mrs. Emily Rockwell named Noble Grand and Mrs. Fiorella VanCleaf as Vice Grand. Other posts went to Mrs. Annie Lane recording secretary J B Terwilliger financial secretary Frances Deckert treasurer and trustees Mrs. Annie McLain Mrs. Charles B Harvey and Mrs. Shade Tallman. Installation is planned for the second meeting in January followed by a banquet in the banquet hall inviting all Rebekah Lodges.
The New York Shops column highlights luxury gifts including rare Persian calf leather bags from a specialty house with prices from 6.50 to 12.50, card cases at 2.50, Empress bags at 10.00, ivory fans for 1.00, and a Mother Goose A B book for 0.10. Also listed are parlor games, old American silver, Chinese embroidery strips, opera bags, and household gift sets priced to attract shoppers.
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