Goose Mail Gone Wrong at Long Branch Post Office
On a January 1 at the Long Branch Post Office a series of odd packages including live animals and bees arrived at the stamp window. Bees escaped causing stings while post office staff and bystanders watched a memorable scene prompting talk of postal reform renaissance.
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Long Branch Postofice
Harry Nelson
Annie
Farmingdale
Sonny
Nelson
Tinton Falls
Wayside
Oceanport
Walter Woolley
Pop
Jim
Hock Hockson
Middletown
A. T. Woolley
Samuel Waitt
Parcel Post Delivery Begins Changing American Life
The text describes the dawn of the parcel post as a revolution in trade, enabling eggs, chicken, celery, turnips, hairpins and hatchets to move through the mail. It promises vast convenience, broader commerce, and possible food price reductions across Long Branch and the United States.
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Terie
Maila
Long Branch
United States
Fine Cantata at Asbury M. E. Church
The cantata featured a large cast including Ben Hur Orpah Charlotte Wright Minerva Flavia Vesta and many others with roles from Harold Weat to Hercules. Musical numbers ranged from His Birthday Star to Oh Beautiful Morn and the program concluded with candy and fruit for Sunday School members.
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Ben Hur
Plain People
Harold Weat
Orpah
Hannah West
Eather
Mia
Charlotte Wright
Minerva
Flavia
Vesta
Augustus
Florence Attison
Alma West
Hilda Smythe
Claudius
Maurice Potter
Valeria
Rae Whiting
Hercules
Cecil West
Sarah Barber
Myrtle van Brunt
May Gulick
Eunice Gulick
Anna Cook
Mina Luther
Florence Barber
Annamay Hoyt
Dorothy Gulick
Esther Hoyt
Elizabeth Robbins
Madalin West
Anna Jones
Frances Luther
Flora Luther
Bertha Reed
Marion Reed
Billa Barber
Helen West
Addie West
May Presley
Grace Jones
Helen Davis
Temple Boys
Freddie Smythe
Claude Potter
Harold Lockwood
Everett Covert
Robert Hoyt
Carl Hoyt
King
Bethlehem
Morn
Bertha
The Calm Spirit Cultivate a Calm Spirit
The ease and steady pace of diligent workers adds calmness to the community. A calm spirit prioritizes one task at a time, completing duties well and efficiently without haste or disruption to other obligations.
Advertise in the Daily Record It Will Pay You
An advertiser notice urges local businesses to place ads in the Daily Record promising strong returns. It emphasizes broad reach and quick impact for sales promotions and announcements.
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The
Daily Record
Colum
New Year's Day Reversal of the Trent Affair Influence
The piece recounts the 1861 Trent affair and Lincoln’s decisive choice to back Seward’s view, avoiding arbitration and avoiding admission of a right of search. It notes Mason and Slidell’s capture, British anger, and Lincoln’s dramatic disposal of a dispatch that favored arbitration. The story cites John Hay, Charles Webster, and cabinet deliberations in Washington.
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Uncle Sam
John Bull
Tili
James M. Mason
Virginia
John Slidell
Louisland
United States Senate
Confederacy
Great Britain
France
Charleston
Havana
England
Trent
Charles Wilkes
United States
San Jacinto
Sumter
Port Warren
Boston
Canada
Washington
Seward
Frederick
B.D. Webster
Mr. Benard
Lincoln
John Hay
Young Webster
Wilkes
Mason
Slidell
Legation
Paris
Colonel Webster
Bradford
Webster
Hay
Boston Globe
The Old and the New New Year’s Tone in 1912 Epitaph
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune poem reflects on the passing old year 1912 and the approaching new year 1913. It evokes bells drums and fate held by the infant year while contemplating mortality and time. The verse contrasts dark and bright weather across the borderland of life and death.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Sea Brights Six Live Wires Ready to Boost the Town
The Sea Bright neighborhood boasts six political and civic boosters who energize the resort. P Hall Packer foresees a new hotel and trolley on the Sea Bright Red Bank route. Dr James J Reed, ex mayor, runs a major practice with NY patients. ex mayor Charles W Shropshire, a builder and Y M C A activist. Col B H Nesbitt, venison and mistletoe distributor, ex postmaster and banker. Henry L Zobel, a busy automobile dealer and printer ink advocate. Mayor George Washing ton Elliott champions progress and even lends to a Sea Bright trolley song.
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Sea Bright
George
P. Hall Packer
Sam
Justice of the Peace
Sea Bright-Red Bank
P. Hall
New York
James J. Reed
Reed
Charles W. Shropshire
Bull Moose
Shropshire
Y. M.C
A. Boomer
Rumson
BH. S. Nesbitt
North Carolina
Ben” Morris
Col. Nesbitt
Long Branch
George Washington Elliott
Packer
Dr. Reed
Engineer's report on new pavement conditions and costs
City Engineer J Wesley Seaman notes mixed results on new blocks from Grant to railroad and near Ocean avenue. Two problem spots required excavation and new concrete with a predicted total cost around 1000 dollars. Central Railroad Company to cover grade raising. concrete quality deemed weak in places due to winter conditions and sewer gas work.
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Avenue
Grant Avenue
Ocean Avenue
Bette
Central Railroad Company
J. Wesley Seaman
Independence Warnings and Self Reliance Admonition
A short editorial warns against excessive independence noting the danger of imagining self sufficiency and the world’s need for one another. It cautions that thinking the world cannot do without someone is a greater illusion.
Passaic Doctor Loses Share After Wedding Gift Check
Passaic New Jersey December 26. Dr Wallace Watson a local dentist and his bride Teun Hart sparked anger in Peter Reid by displaying a wedding check from Reid. Reid died December 7 and cut Watson from a 3 000 000 estate largely left to relatives in England Scotland and America and to charities including Passaic General Hospital Passaic Home and Orphan Asylum Jane Watson Reid Memorial Library St Mary's Hospital Passaic Y M C A and St John's Episcopal church. The will allocates 909 000 to charity and 640 000 to Britain and Scotland with many relatives receiving sums from 10 000 to 50 000.
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Passaic
N. J
Wallace Watson
Teun Hart
Peter Reid
Eid
Binaff
Reid
Mr. Reid
England
Scotland
America
Passaic General Hospital
Passaic Home and
William Wallace Watson
Alexander Reid Stevenson
Massachusetts
John §. Tilney
Orange
Peter R. Watson
Brooklyn
Robert P. Watson
Gavin Watson
New York
Thomas R. Watson
Warren E. Clark
Cleveland
Mary G. Tilney
Harriet P. Sheldon
Georgianna
Tilney
Michael Cavanaugh
Margaret Daley
Thief Steals Shoes Watches Money in Denville Larceny
Abren Van Orden of Denville explains he would not press a complaint after James Fletcher of Paterson was arrested for larceny following a night in a saloon. Van Orden says he lost a silver watch 12 dollars and his shoes, and notes the thief was neat enough to steal his footwear.
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Denville
N. J
Abren van Orden
James Fletcher
Paterson
Fletcher
van Orden
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W. H. Woolley & CO
Broadway Long Branch
Parges
Asbury M. E. Church
Hanson
Frank L. Stanton
Earth
Tate
Henry L. Zobel
Henry
Zobel
Man About Town
Europe
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