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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1912
Page
14
A historical account describes the bagno punishment in Venice where prisoners stood in a water-filled vat and baled out incoming tides with a scoop. The ongoing influx of water created a relentless, exhausting struggle to delay immersion until fatigue or sleep ended the victim’s endurance.
An eminent actor at fifty nine boasts of keeping hair and a slim stomach as the secret of youth. He shares a comic story about a fat man and a bow legged stranger who jokes about barrels and stomachs, illustrating a humorous take on corpulence.
The poem extols a distant town Get There atop a rocky hill above Courage sands and Will swamp. Many pass the pleasant way and grumble at climbers who reach Get There while others start a thorny path toward it and falter. The piece praises self denial and ambition as rewards for those who strive, though Get There itself has no inhabitants.
Susanna Whitmore flees the theater to live incognito at Apple Tree farm. There she befriends Florine Tanner and the hired man George Milbank, who reveals he is the actor he pretends not to be. They confess mutual love and connection in a rural setting.
Ralph Pulitzer son of the late Joseph Pulitzer addressed Columbia students in the Earl Ball Auditorium. He praised his father’s quest for knowledge and criticized newspapers that print inaccuracies, arguing accuracy was a religion and editors obsess over precise facts even at the cost of delays. He described truth as the volatile raw material from which newspapers are made.
A farmer from Alpine, John Rouloff, fell 240 feet from the Palisades into the Hudson but landed in a tree. He clung there until Michael Neafrey and two helpers arrived with a rope, securing Rouloff and lifting him to safety.
English welterweight Johnny Summers retained Lord Lonsdale's belt by defeating God Burns at the National Sporting Club after twenty rounds. He prayed before the bout, touched a rosary on his ankle after each round, and bowed on time signals, drawing quiet titter from spectators.
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