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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1913
Page
7
A magazine column offers etiquette guidance on accepting invitations and behavior at private entertainments. It covers polite conduct, avoiding loud clapping, and the proper way to announce engagements with a creative shell puzzle. It also advises business girls to limit personal calls and keep private matters private.
A young London gentleman visits Mrs. Meriweather at a country estate to learn her status amid a long running feud over adjoining lands. After cautious courtship and repeated meetings, the two lawyers agree to a marriage that unites the properties and ends the litigation.
A father narrates to Evelyn and Jack about dawn fairies unseen by humans. The fairies wear gray dresses before daybreak, then bright colors after sunrise. The fairy queen guards them and punishes any child who wakes early enough to glimpse the dawn fairies.
Fashion note describes a hunter’s green broadcloth suit with striped trim and a Trussian blouse style coat. It details pattern sizes 8 to 4 inch bust and skirt 22 to inch waist, requires four and three quarters yards for medium coat, and urges sending 10 cents for coat 7794 and skirt 7888 with optional 2 cent postage.
A poem by J A Waldron in Judge contemplates vows and temptations for the new year. It contrasts the hopeful resolve of the virtuous with the lingering temptations of youth and sin as people pretend to mend their ways.
The Washington Star column humorously follows Mr Dhroweler over four December weeks as he dodges early shopping, sighs at wreaths, and finally admits he will shop in July for special friends, illustrating a reluctant but evolving stance on Christmas buys.
Steaming uses heated water vapor to cook foods slowly and tenderly. Recipes include Steamed Apple Pudding, Steamed Fruit Pudding, Steamed Bread Pudding, and Steamed Chocolate Pudding with steps, ingredients, and cooking times.
Boston policemen quit chewing tobacco on duty. Melvin Shaw, aged 87 from Ottsfield Maine, splits sixteen cords of wood. At a Au teuil race, an American woman wore a $6,000 tiger skin. Dr C A Boline in New Orleans threatened by a hawk attracted to headlights. A Jersey City boy, age eight, retreats home after a scolding. A Michigan farmer, 70, burns a school to force his foster daughter to return home.
Disjointed notes report Baltimore leading with tango pedometer garters for fair sex and a riverhead inmate convicted of a grave offense. Chicago clerks mention a long concrete stretch and skaters receive gear. German science studies mouse extermination by exploding bowls. Orange board bans pupil fundraisers for gifts to teachers and citing mat ents in schools.
Adelaide Branch and her brother Herbert Branch reunite after fourteen years in Cooperstown jail, where Herbert helps arrange a secret transfer to a sanitarium. The siblings share a poignant, emotional reunion as Herbert consoles Adelaide and she recalls her late partner Couch.
Report from Pineville Kentucky says Solomon Daiekwon and Tate Louder, both from Hert city, killed each other in a bizarre duel. Officials note the men shook left hands and used a pistol held in the right hand, resulting in both deaths.
Washington reports a large rebel force destroyed a federal convoy sixty miles north of San Luis Potosi on Thursday killing thirty four federals. Indignation rises as Belgium's Minister May faces limited courtesy from U S officials amid calls for restraint and protection of Americans in Mexico City.
Admiral George Dewey marked his seventy sixth birthday by visiting the navy department to handle duties as president of the general board. He said he felt fine yet noted Charles Francis Adams is two years older, and admitted giving up horseback riding years ago to drive a carriage instead.
Thirty state felons are slated to start construction on a new road linking Elmer and Malaga in South Jersey. A Salem county committee bought land near the old Goal I Hope schoolhouse for a convict camp, possibly named Gail Hope. The site lies near the Gloucester county line and may also host work crews.
Cattle supplies steady with prime at 8.20 to 8.50 and common to fat cows and springers. Sheep and lambs tight with steady market. prime wethers around 5.25 and mixed lot values. Hogs receipts large with market active. prime ho rne and heavy mixed hogs prominent on the deck.
Fragmentary note references Speer nes fund invested wed Ip hand low amounts at Leas Branch. Details unclear due to damaged OCR. The item appears to record a small investment action related to the Glenwood Cemetery context and a place named Leas Branch.
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