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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1913
Page
3
January 30 editorial praises the Chattle Spirit as clean and readable while contrasting other school papers. The editor notes about 300 pupils and 325 families, 400 copies sold this month, and questions fundraising reliance on alumni to cover costs. They urge student duty to support the paper’s success and ask what February issue should publish.
A constructive critique of the Spirit shows editors publish for the school audience not personal flair. Recommend clearer aims, balanced coverage, and tighter editing. Principal Dare moves term prep. exams decide Senior B viability if Junior A scores falter. Basketball game vs Atlantic Highlands noted. Highlands’ star Mel Johnson and Weber shine. Cubs to face Highlands second team tomorrow.
A contest offers a prize for the first to answer. The text mentions a complex riddle asking for a fifteen letter word from which twelve subtracted leaves ten. It cites dates and local notices from Long Branch New Jersey about city improvements and a council meeting in 1913, with attendees and procedural details. The fragment also references a sale item and a group attending a trade school, plus a late winter break note and various names.
A new member admitted this morning proved to be a dog with four feet two long ears and brown and white hair. The dog kept still. Advertisements warn Bull dog for sale and a boy wanted partly inside and partly outside a counter. Widow seeking marriage to her sons. Animal sale now on and warnings not to be cheated. Public notice.
A mixed set of vintage notices includes a woman selling her plane for travel abroad in a strong iron frame, an umbrella lost near Highgate Archway, a furrier offering made up gowns from personal stock, requests for airy bedrooms for four gentlemen, sales of a cow with brain knobs on horns, and a piano described by a girl with mahogany. An error corrected notes a previous Straus Co. ad misstated closing time. White Sale draws customers. Hirschfeld presents souvenirs, miniature cows, at a reception for police and guests.
An old borough ordinance lists annual salaries for the Borough Clerk Assessor Collector Borough Attorney and Borough Recorder plus physicians and police pay. It sets Clerk 300 Assessor 250 Collector 350 Attorney 300 Recorder 50 physicians 50 and police at 70 per month June September and 60 per month rest of year. Also includes dates and signatures.
Edward McGregor, a Liberty Street Postal Telegraph messenger, was thrown to the pavement near Jacob Steinbach's Third Avenue residence after striking a hole in asphalt while heading to the Howland Hotel fire. He suffered a compound fracture to his right arm and now wears a sling while seeking damages for medical bills, though he offers to pay for wheel repairs.
A notice announces a February meeting in the Connett Chamber City Hall Long Branch N J at 10 o clock. Discussion will cover the Third Avenue improvement from Morris to Bath Affected property owners bear a share of costs proportional to special benefits. The notice is dated January 22 1913 and signed by Winfield R Warwick.
The Weather Bureau forecasts the next 36 hours in New Jersey as fair tonight with warmer northern areas, increasing cloudiness Friday, and warmer interior conditions. Winds are southerly to westerly with a 8 a.m. temperature of 31, last night 38, high yesterday 41, and barometer around 30.27. Relative humidity near 100 percent, with 0.18 inches of precipitation in the past 24 hours.
Partial readable text mentions locations such as Baltimore Atlantic City Red Bank and Freehold with times like 6.28 9.88 am and references to Sundays and Saturdays. The garbled data appears as a transit or timetable fragment with several numeric values and place names but lacks complete context or full sentences to describe a clear event or notice.
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