Long Branch Rates and City Conspiracy Implications
The notice lists subscription rates outside Long Branch and details city corruption concerns. It notes allegations of property confiscation on Princeton Avenue and secret contracts among contractors and lobbyists. A figure, Justice Garrison, cites Warren Brothers’ secret arrangements and the Atlantic City decision as a warning against street paving contract abuse.
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Princeton Avenue
Common Council
Justice Garrison
Warren Brothers
Atlantic City
Causes of Juvenile Delinquency Debate
State official Wight blames rising juvenile crime on moving pictures and newspapers and urges censorship. He argues newspapers often teach a moral lesson and condemns his own view as superficial and misguided, attributing faults to parental discipline rather than media influence.
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State, Charities and Corrections
Wight
Court voids Atlantic City street paving contracts over bid rigging
Supreme Court voided several hundred thousand dollars of street paving awards in Atlantic City after finding secret agreements between United Paving Company and Warren Brothers that restricted competition. The decision cites officials’ involvement and notes similar bid manipulation concerns in Trenton.
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Supreme Court
Atlantic City
Justice Garrison
United Paving Company
Warren Brothers
Kithulithic
Roosevelt on the Peace Treaty Cracks at Arbitration Ploys
The article reports on Theodore Roosevelt denouncing arbitration treaties, arguing they threaten peace and harm US honor after Russia treaty abrogation. It contrasts Roosevelt’s stance with Taft’s universal peace policy ahead of a New York Peace Dinner attended by Taft.
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Mr. Roosevelt
New York
Taft
Senate
United States
Russia
Federal approach to trust regulation urged by Newark Star
The Newark Star argues in Roosevelt era terms that regulation must be national rather than state driven. It praises the Interstate Commerce Commission but opposes a Commerce Court, warns against trusting automatic settlement of big economic problems, and calls for a concrete, inspectable plan for national corporate regulation.
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The
Newark Star
Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commerce Court
Michigan professor’s shorter alphabet proposal dismissed
A view to each establishing the other's eligibility to membership in the Ana nias Club both seem to have carried their point with too much facility to stimulate any popular interest. It's a pity that the Michigan professor who has invented a shorter alphabet didn't devote his time and energy to something that would be of some use to somebody.
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Ananias Club
Michigan
Editorial chiding tariff pleas and meat trust praise
A roundup of editorial snips criticizes Taft for delay in tariff reform and Oscar W. Underwood for engaging with the people. It mocks meat packers’ philanthropy and notes a census table on U S insanity rising 25 percent from 1904 to 1909, with New Jersey housing 6 044 inmates.
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Pittsburg Dispatch
United States
Census Bureau
New Jersey
Newark Star
Christmas Crime Surge Hits Atlanta Hospitals and Courts
A Prohibition era Christmas in 1911 Atlanta sets grim records with 3 deaths and dozens hurt from pistols knives and fireworks. Grady hospital staff faced insistent fatigue as emergencies piled up while police dealt with chaotic scenes at the station.
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Grady Hospital
Atlanta
Jvet
Christmas Eve Chaos and Masks of Woe in Atlanta
Descriptions of festive disorder fill a crowded jail on Christmas with 300 cases ranging from minor drunkenness to murder. The chaotic scene blends broken heads, swollen faces, ribald laughter, and remorse as police struggle to manage the holiday surge. Mary Ainge DeVere offers a moral poem about giving and returning goodness.
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Ard
Atlanta Daily Georgian
Prohibition Organ
British warship Conqueror wrecked on Rum Crag reef
Fifty years ago today the British warship Conqueror, a hundred gun frigate dating from Nelson's era, was wrecked and destroyed on Rum Crag reef between Port Royal Jamaica and Bermuda. Comet LSL of 1861 was discovered at Cambridge Observatory. Twenty five years ago today Rev Edward Beecher marked sixty years in the ministry in Brooklyn after serving as Congregational pastor there and later president of the University of Illinois.
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Conqueror
Rum Crag Reef
Port Royal
Jamaica
Bermuda
Nelson
Cambridge Observatory
Edward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Brooklyn
Beecher
University of Ilinois
Saved Anna Ducking Turns on a Town Defender
A defender argued against ducking Anna Willett, a known scold, claiming curing her would loose public tongue control and set a precedent. The plea persuaded the town, and Ann Willett was never ducked, remaining a single woman without a family to punish.
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Anna
Ann Willett
Ann
Old Time Verdicts on Lightning Cases in Medieval Jurisprudence
The Oxford and Cambridge Review recounts medieval juries in lightning deaths delivering terse verdicts such as No one is suspected and she is not suspected. It notes later shifts to modern language like temporary insanity and references verdicts attributing actions to temptation of the devil.
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Oxford and
Cambridge Review
The Modern Practice in Lawyer Portraits
The younger Pliny notes Regulus painted his right eye for plaintiff work and left eye for defendant. In modern times a painted eye signaled a clash after court, and both eyes blacked meant a double salute. a sharp, concise moral about courtroom conflict.
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Pliny
Regulus
Los Angeles Express
Cost of Revolutionary War Estimated by Jefferson
Justin Winsor cites Thomas Jefferson asserting the cost of American independence at about 140 million dollars. He notes England spent roughly five times that amount, near 700 million dollars, illustrating how some modern Americans are wealthier than the price paid for independence.
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Justin Winsor
Thoms Jefferson
England
New York
Taking His Meals Out in Village Probe
A village inquiry questions a resident on meal takeout while he remains at home after a city visit. The anxious courier notes the suspect’s reluctance, and the judge’s library setting frames the scene.
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Judge's Library
Silly Cartoons Spark Offbeat Publisher Exchanges
A string of quips pokes at vanity and hypocrisy from the Boston Transcript and Kansas City Star. One panel mocks a surgeon’s extra charge for sterilization while another ties a pen name to a convict’s submission.
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Kansas City Star
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Brooklyn Eagle
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Boston Transcript
John G. Sacco & Sons Bankers
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Broadway
First National Bank
First National Bank of
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Long Brangh, WN. J
Hotel Directory
Pleasure Bay
Shrewsbury
New England
H W. Green & Bro
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Richard R. Hughes
West Long Branch
West End
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