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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1914
Page
3
An old notice from Leonard Samartino successor to Fred Reichers at 213 Broadway invites customers to have clothes made to measure. It promises reasonable pricing and personal fittings with pressing and repairing services offered to ensure the best possible results.
Advertising a repair shop and custom work for draperies lace curtains and wall hangings at 87 Broadway Long Branch. Offers upholstery services and curtains to order with extensive repair capabilities.
Post office hours and mail routes outlined for New York City region, Philadelphia and Trenton, Asbury Park and southern points. Incoming and outgoing times listed for morning and evening deliveries, money order window hours, Sunday lobby, and two daily residential plus three business area mail collections. Note credited to T L Slocum P M.
The Ladies of the Long Branch Society for the Improvement of the Poor plan a Christmas treat for Grand Theatre children on December 28 at 2 p.m. in Long Branch New Jersey. Donations list numerous individuals and organizations including First National Bank Oceanic Fire Company Amerigo Vespucci Society and various fraternal orders and locals.
A donor roll lists Mayor B B Newcomb and Dorothy Quinn among contributors to community groups. Various organizations including Slocum Coal Co Elberon Engine Co and Foresters of America receive sums from individuals such as Louis Runkel John W Slocum and Mrs William S Heyer plus civic bodies like Long Branch Patrolman’s Benefit Association and Branchport Hose Co. amounts range from 0.04 to 10.00 with multiple entries for MME and Patriotic Orders.
Belford area updates include free Friday transport for Belford grammar pupils to Belford Middletown High School for photo plays in the Belford district. Redevelopment at the Belford Methodist Church and redecoration by John Heins. Greenhouse workers plan a New York excursion over Christmas. Local residents, including Loretta Newman with typhoid fever improving, Charles Casler buying the Albert Yarnell house, August Tarow recovering from pleurisy and liver trouble, and Mrs. Harriet Cottrell building a new poultry house after buying chickens. Housing and property work by David Hampton, Mrs. David Bohner's recovering illness, Dr. Silecox attending Henry Coe’s barn improvements, Max Koerber’s New Point Comfort house repairs after storm damage.
Money to loan amounts of 1000 2000 3000 or 5000 on first bond and mortgage. Apply to W A Stevens at the Post Office Building.
Real estate column lists multiple six room houses for rent including addresses 70 North Fifth Ave Forty Rockwell Ave and Campbel and Oakwood Aves. Offers include free rent to January first and improvements. One listing notes near Broadway with contact Ryle at Union Ave and Hartford Restaurant at 120 Broadway.
A collage of small ads and notices lists help wanted for a female helper, several rental offers for houses and flats including addresses 66 Second Ave 165 Third Ave 46 Sixth Ave and 269tf, and a 11-point pool match result between Otto Keller and Norman Carhart of Keansburg with Carhart winning by ten points. A lecture joke sequence and a daily Emerson thought appear, followed by a six room house for let by R H Hughes and a week of prayer schedule in Red Bank starting January 4th with multiple church services and a Sunday night gathering on January 10th.
Sewing machine offered cheap at 130 Union Ave. Another ad lists chickens for sale at 133 Lippin sectott avenue with contact 184 J Foster.
The Red Bank Reformed Church auditorium overflowed with families for its annual Christmas exercises. Sunshine choir leader Miss Rachel Osborne received a lavallier from the Sunday school and youth societies. The cantata Down the Chimney with Santa Claus featured Amory Osborn as Santa, Clifford Chandler as Sandman, and a 26 child cast with Dorothy Crelin and Ruth Gardner among the instructors.
An advertisement touts Kline's Rheumatic Remedy as a near miracle cure for rheumatism lumbago and gout. It claims broad success and urges testing the product now with purchases through H. S. Meyers 119 6th Ave Long Branch Cooper's Drug Store Schroeder's Pharmacy Red Bank and H. C. Van Note Oakhurst.
Readings at the High school Tuesday morning include William Mathews with The Smaller Things. A Mrs. James L Worden of Shrewsbury avenue visits her ill niece Mrs. Howard VanDensen in Bayonne. Patriotic Order of Americans Camp 89 moved meetings to G A R rooms at the Child Building. A child damages a feather from a doll and asks why. Quips and adages close the column with a proverb about happiness.
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