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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1912
Page
4
Christmas is a season of peace and cheer. Happiness comes from harmonizing with one’s environment and adopting a positive mindset. Absorb the Christmas spirit and radiate it to bring pleasure to oneself and others around.
Senator Britan urges a constitutional amendment allowing the President to submit a measure to voters if Congress fails to enact a recommended bill within six months. If a majority of electoral districts and states approve, the measure becomes law. The proposal aims to curb Congressional delays and align legislation with popular will without drastic changes to civil administration.
A committee warns that holiday fire dangers rise with candlelit trees and cotton snow. It calls for a safe and sane Fourth and a communal effort to eliminate holiday tragedies, urging fireproofing and thoughtful action to protect lives and property. A second note highlights mail swindles, listing scams from fake mining stocks to spiritualist frauds, noting a 20 percent rise in proceeds to a new high of 120 million dollars last year.
Two New York judges in recent days ban counterfeit advertising schemes in Sunday papers and warn firms and contractors against paying newsdealers to insert flyers. A separate report details General Sickles facing a financial shortfall of about $29,000, raising his total alleged debts to around $197,000, amid notes of his wartime leadership and later notoriety as a spendthrift.
A Christmas storm heightens urgency to clear sidewalks promptly as Assistant Postmaster Waitt urges city action. The piece notes rising Christmas mail nationwide and cautions early shopping lessons, while reflecting on weather forecasts and a mix of editorial quotes about success and language.
A reflective piece contrasts warm holiday scenes with harsh realities of homelessness, poverty, and isolated lives. It cites Coler’s Weekly thoughts on meaning and immortality amid a restless world, then shifts to Dave Jayne Hill arguing there is no single average American.
A fragmentary reader note presents verses by Charles Francis Saunders and Edance Cook. The lines explore night, inner peace, and distant stars as two brief poetic snippets.
Twenty five years ago a Reading rail round committee ordered a general strike to include coal miners.
Severe snow storm hampers Christmas post office rush. Main carriers rely on six substitutes while Louise Felmberg Arthur VanDerveer Edgar Woolley and W A Britton aid the main office. Station B helper Russell Erickson and Station A Harold Reed assist. Monday was heaviest for mail yet Card mail very heavy this morning with fifteen sacks of packages. In past two days 20000 one cent stamps sold at main office. Extra clerks added at main office.
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