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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1913
Page
5
Commissioner Marevail Woolley praised pristine Larcombe Way as a key asset for a Jersey shore summer resort. The article highlights local leaders and residents like Augustus Thomas and Charles A. Wimpfheimer, noting their community roles from church to commerce and masonry groups.
Dr Aaron E Ballard aged ninety three, president of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, will celebrate his birthday on Thursday. He remains mentally bright and physically vigorous and recently preached funeral sermons for two close friends, John Hubbard and Edmund Dayton, both directors at the Asbury Park and Ocean Grove Bank.
A six o'clock Christmas morning service will be held at St Luke's M. E. Church with Rev. Dr. John Y. Dobbins in charge. The program includes a service of song and testimony.
An advertisement listing numerous ladies undergarments and garments with prices. Net bodices, gowns, combinations, skirts, bath robes, shawls, aprons, corset covers, and full lines of chemises, skirts, drawers and gowns priced from a quarter to twelve dollars.
A local sale ad shows rugs in multiple sizes including 27 by 54 and 36 by 63 with PONCE 1535 code. Prices listed range from 9.03 to 69.00 for various 4 by 6 and 6 by 9 and 4 by 7 sized pieces.
A fragmented catalog lists popular works and period pieces including African Camp Fires and Wild Animals at Home. It mentions A Christmas Carol My Christmas List Uncle Remus and His Sayings and Wood's Natural History among others with scattered prices and garbled annotations.
A catalog note lists a selection of holiday and moral titles including A Bundle of Good Cheer A Prayer for Christmas Morning The Story of the Other Wise Man Cupid the Surgeon Friendship and Cheerfulness Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in limp leather and assorted vellum bindings. The text resembles a shop inventory or literary display for seasonal reading.
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