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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1914
Page
12
A man praises Kline's Rheumatic Remedy after taking a couple of bottles. He says pain and swelling vanished and he now feels able to do things. The testimonial lists vendors H. S. Meyers Long Branch Jas Cooper Jr's Red Bank and Schroeder's Broad Street Red Bank.
The notice lists arrival and departure times for mail from New York City, Philadelphia, Trenton Asbury Park and other points with direct routes. It notes the Money Order and Postal Savings window hours from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm and details two daily residential and three daily business deliveries. Postoffice lobby hours on Sundays run 11 am to 5 pm. Signed T. L. Slocum P. M.
In a comic vignette, Bowser an eccentric improvident husband tends to a sick wife. He insists on cooking and reading while declaring woeful remedies, finally easing her headache with his odd bedside routine and a voyage tale. She recovers as he proclaims the moral lesson of his devoted if flawed care.
A courtroom dialogue shows a defendant asking for funds to take a trip while the judge notes the shifting motives. A humorous exchange arises as plans to visit the mother are debated, highlighting the changing circumstances in the case.
A shopper asks for a pair of button shoes for his wife, preferring no back buttons. The clerk asks for preference, but the customer says any style is fine as long as the shoes avoid back buttons. Public ledger ad style exchange.
A Detroit Free Press snippet records a child asking if someone enjoys baseball and a quoted reply praising watching a popcorn man catching nickels tossed to him, illustrating a quirky exchange.
A skeptical column reviews romantic and mystery books, criticizing The Love of Theodore for long unfruitful love and dubious virtues, praising a red woolen shirt romance while condemning The Hatbox Mystery. It notes the author Major Shortwell's failed Washington stint and dismissal of his later writing.
Everett Marlor, thirteen, son of contractor William Harlor of Paterson New Jersey, was found hanged in his cellar after a plan to film country scenes with two friends. Authorities and family suspect he attempted feats seen in a film, using a rope and handkerchief to avoid soiling his collar. The boys stated they saw acrobatic rope feats in a movie and the idea may have led to the tragedy.
Morristown New Jersey June 1 1910 Franeig Riley five years old and his father Patrick Riley were killed near Whippany when the boy tried to drag his father from the Morristown and Erle railroad as a locomotive struck. The engineer believed he struck a man only after stopping and examining the scene. The bodies lay between the rails. The two were visiting a relative in Whippany after an evening in Morristown.
Christian workers from eastern cities gathered at Keswick Colony of Mercy near Whitings New Jersey to discuss creating a women’s reform colony along similar lines. The conference began yesterday and will continue. Mrs. William Raws presided as discussions focused on founding a secluded women’s refuge in South Jersey.
William Philp aged 87, long time inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Kearny New Jersey, died of Brights disease after a period of critical illness. He served in the First New York Mounted Rifles Company F and earned a promotion for bravery. While serving as a messenger on an important mission he was shot in the left leg and his leg was paralyzed.
In Camden New Jersey a twelve year old Black boy named Tolu Jordan was committed to jail without bail by Acting Recorder Knight on a charge of highway robbery. A woman reported a stranger robbed while asleep on a step. police sought to identify the victim after he had not filed a formal complaint.
A playful, mid topic excerpt explains that aqueous vapor and ice are dry until they change state. It notes dry steam and dry gas before condensation and reflects on life by urging simplification to free time for lofty aims. The piece ends with a meditation on purposeful living.
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