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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1912
Page
6
The Six Year Term idea draws support from Otto Bannard Paul Warburg and others who argue a single six year term would reduce election costs curb political upheaval and boost business stability. Critics caution careful handling and potential pension needs for ex presidents.
Lionel de Jersey Harvard, descendant of John Harvard, has completed his first year at Harvard University and returned to England. He praises American college life, baseball, and football, and hopes to become a physician. He notes a lack of snobbery and says he finds Harvard democratic and plans to visit class reunions.
John P Warren, aged 74, was released by the Connecticut state board of pardons after 52 years in prison. He had been serving a life term for his June 185? murder of his wife whom he drowned in a brook after a dispute. He pleaded guilty and avoided the death penalty.
A larceny charge against Joseph Loch, keeper of dogs for the University of Chicago physiology department, will be fought as a test case. Mrs. Gary McCarthy seeks compensation for her collie valued at $14 after it was operated on. Judge Maxwell adjourned to seek settlement, the university insisting on contesting the charge.
General William Wotherspoon, chosen by President Taft to fill the vacancy caused by General Frederick D. Grant’s death, started as a naval enlisted man. He rose to lead infantry strategy expertise, spent years on the general staff and war college, and now commands the Department of the Gulf with headquarters in Atlanta. The plan favored Wotherspoon’s promotion before Bliss due to retirement timelines and pay, ensuring the next promotion opportunity for Bliss.
The article explains albinism as absence of pigment in skin hair eyes and internal organs including the brain. It notes albino traits occur in many races and clarifies albinism is not a disease nor tied to weaker minds while mentioning white animals and sacred white elephants in some Asian cultures.
In Joseph King Goodrich’s Africa of Today a tale is told of mummies shipped from the Nile to museums. On a moving boat the mummies appeared to rise their heads in mock gaze at the land they left, frightening boatmen and unsettling observers. The heat expands parts, explaining the illusion to many.
A young attorney in his first jury case uses scattered college notes to support his argument. The judge sighs and tells him to proceed. Also a London Tit-Bits quip about a house view contrasts with a widow seen from the opposite window.
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