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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1913
Page
2
An advertisement touts Hay's Hair Health as a quick fix for grey or faded hair, claiming immediate restoration to natural color and dandruff prevention. It cites Druggists' strong sales, guarantees satisfaction, and offers bundle freebies through local pharmacies Wert's, Seiler's, and others.
In a lighthearted domestic vignette, Mr. Bowser avoids every sales pitch and extra work to keep a quiet Sunday at home. Visitors arrive including peddlers, a powder seller, a burglar alarm tout, and an inventor with a three-wheeled wagon, while Mrs. Bowser frets over his health and a restless household bustle continues.
In a comic scene Ons occasion Te Taly becomes the third wheel as the inventor stops speaking. Mrs Bowser peeks out to find Bowser and the cat sound asleep, the talking three wheeler having lulled them into slumber and the day ending quietly.
Harper's Weekly notes a curious link between hat shapes and buildings across cultures. The article cites examples from Hawaiian glass houses to Jewish priestly turbans and Gothic hennin spires, suggesting designers used architectural forms as models for hats.
A publisher notes how popularity can rise by chance. J H Shorthouse, a poor chemist, printed John Inglesant after failed support. A photographer bought a copy, photographed Gladstone studying it, and readers misread the title as John Inglesant. Within a year 300000 copies sold, making Shorthouse a success.
The excerpt recounts James Kendall Hosmer's The Last Leaves, portraying Louis Agassiz as a curious naturalist who fears provoking students with living creatures yet remains eager to engage them. It includes an anecdote of a wriggling snake shown to schoolgirls and Agassiz’s polite apology.
A Philadelphia Ledger caption presents a comic exchange between an angry artist and a smiling model. The artist rejects a model, insisting on painting flowers and fruit only, while the model jokes that she is a peach.
A survey of vanished trade secrets from art to metallurgy and architecture. From Raphael to Greek fire and Roman mortar, the piece notes how precious techniques vanished with time, the lure of rediscovery, and the stubborn secrecy of master craftspeople.
A description of the optophone using selenium cells to convert light into sound. It explains how a lighted match over a selenium cell attached to a battery moves a sensitive indicator, enabling the blind to locate light by sound. Moonlight and sunlight produce distinct sounds, and darkness changes the audible response.
In two brief quotes from periodicals, a wife accepts blame for a failed marriage while her husband offers self blame. A child recounts a teacher’s praise that surprised a parent, revealing mixed effects of achievement and recognition in a domestic vignette.
Plan describes a spacious mansion layout 80 by 40 feet with full basement and distinct room arrangement. First floor height nine feet, second floor eight feet, finishes in birch or red oak, estimated building cost 5200 dollars excluding heat and plumbing, plus offer for Saxton's American Dwellings book for a dollar.
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