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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1910
Page
14
The article details social visits across towns including Miss Anna Kirby and Miss Mary Wessley, plus nuptials and church announcements. It notes two women jailed for street walking and drunkenness, and reports on Jeffries versus Johnson boxing weigh ins and betting shifts ahead of their Monday bout in Reno with fight imagery and betting odds.
Aroused by a balloon ascent at Albury, Ralph Bradley twenty four, plummeted two thousand feet when his parachute failed to open. He died at once, his body reportedly broken in numerous places, as onlookers from a July 1 picnic reached the scene in Muncie Indiana.
New York July 1. Clifford B Harmon feared collision with a Curtiss aircraft driven by George B Russell and landed near Mineola after giving Mrs William K Vanderbilt Jr a brief flight. The novice Harmon attempted a takeoff but stalled his Farman biplane and landed in a hazardous Mineola field area known as the grave yard to aviators.
New London Conn July 1 Harvard varsity eight won the four mile Thames race by about six lengths over Yale after also sweeping the freshmen eight and varsity four. Yale captain Wodell faltered late, but Yale sailors showed grit as Harvard posted time marks of 20 minutes 46.44 seconds for the varsity eight with Yale close behind at 21 minutes 4 seconds.
Atlanta July 1 Senate passes a stringent antifight bill then revises it to ban any contest with violent blows, with gloves or without, expanding the ban to include amateur and professional contests. The amendment seeks to curb prizefights by prohibiting violent conduct in all forms.
Prime Minister Asquith announced in the House of Commons that the government will adjourn parliament at the end of July and reassemble in November. July 11 and 12 will be devoted to the second reading of the women's enfranchisement bill.
In a humorous exchange Mr Bullion presses home questions about wedding style and income. The tactful suitor defers all major details to Mary and Mrs Bullion, prompting comic responses about who controls the date, style, and finances. The banter highlights family dynamics and social expectations of weddings.
The advertisement claims L and M Paints, with Zinc Oxide and White Lead, wear like gold and resist fading. It asserts coverage lasts 10 to 15 years, prices about $1.30 per gallon, and lists Davis Smith Lumber & Coal Co along with Palmateer Bros and others selling the product in multiple New Jersey towns.
A sheriff sale will be held on August 1, 1910, at the Freehold Court House for two acres in Long Branch east of Norwood Avenue. The property, owned by Thomas T. Green, is subject to two strips previously conveyed to School District No. 11 and No. 85. Proceeds go to Elizabeth C. Walling in the case initiated in the Court of Chancery.
White Hosiery for Women plain or fancy from 15c to 1.00 per pair. Tan and Black Hose Lisle Silk or cotton 10c to 1.50 per pair. Women's Ribbed Underwear sets of fancy trimmed Vests at 25c. Kayser's Silk Gloves 50c up. Long Silk Gloves 69c. Children's Sox sizes 44 to 84 in multiple colors. Handkerchiefs of fine sheer linen lace trimmed with colored embroidery 25c.
Local residents visit family at West Point and on Long Island. Choir fair for Christ Church planned July 19. Monmouth Presbytery meeting attended by Rev Parrons and J G Breese. Breese delegates Shrewsbury and East Monmouth churches. Mrs Parsons mourns cousin Mary Parsons in Charlottetown and Massachusetts trip for Parsons and son Reginald. Battles rent rooms with Fahenstack gardener role. Peter Campbell returns from Northern New Jersey. Shrewsbury Hose Company hosted a reception and dance with over 126 attendees and 75 dollars raised. Red Bank band Thomas Brockhurst's orchestra provided music.
A quotation notes that the first thirty years mark a man’s life as preliminary while a woman’s is described as having a “Golden Aphrodite” phase, suggesting differing life expectations and mythic framing of gendered development.
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