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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1913
Page
8
A speaker at a Massachusetts society of the sons of the American Revolution recounts an experiment tracing the British retreat to Lexington. He timed his own pace from Lexington to Charlestown, noting he arrived after 7 30 p m despite the British leaving earlier, showing the British beat the trolley.
A Bristol bird fancier sent a parrot to Queen Victoria. Poll the parrot initially shy spoke only after the queen entered. Poll demanded £20 or she would return, prompting Victoria to provide the sum to all teachers to use for pupil instruction.
A New York World article outlines neurasthenia as a varied, puzzling nervous disorder requiring psychological care. It lists forms such as agoraphobia, monophobia, claustrophobia, nyctophobia, siderodromophobia, and arithmomania, noting each has its own features and that all are curable if treated early.
A popular author visited Washington to obtain a peck of diseased peanuts and photographed them amid a departmental debate on their lethality. The next day the peanuts vanished, later revealed to have been eaten by a janitor. The author concluded the peanuts were harmless.
After a lecture at Dart mouth college a telegram from President Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols asks Alfred Noyes and Mrs. Noyes to return for two or three days. It requests a longer engagement and playfully taunts with refrains about winter and Kew. The message mocks timing and distance with literary references.
An article contrasts modern hospital abundance with past overcrowding at the Hotel Dieu in Paris. It recalls shared bays with twelve or fourteen beds, the use of four posters through the seventeenth century, and patients climbing ladders to beds. It notes 1592 plague deaths at the Hotel Dieu.
Paris critic W. P. Francklyn notes Rodin uses a shaded lamp to reveal skin texture and subsurface details. He warns that other statues lack such carved relief, so light cannot create shadows beyond the stone’s surface roughness.
A brief exchange shows a matrimonial agent noting a woman’s wish for a perfect beau who avoids vice and lavishes treats while the judge highlights the need for a realistic partner. The humor rests on miscommunication and social expectations.
A fair girl remarks she will not see a man again and he believes she meant it. She adds that nothing should stop him from calling by phone. The Washington Star features the exchange as a short, witty aside.
After a woman spends twenty years shaping her son aong another woman arrives and quickly makes a fool of him in twenty minutes in Chicago News.
Exchange of affection quoted from a Philadelphia Record snippet with playful banter about love. Sillicus asserts knowledge of the girl’s feelings as she told him herself. The line references a pun on searching to find out, attributed to Hertick in Nothing is so hard but search will find it out.
Western archaeologists led by Dr. Robert F. Gitder locate the Quivera site north of the Platte in Nebraska. Excavations this summer aim to illuminate the ancient kingdom’s people, with details including evidence like a Moorish stirrup and accounts of early white expeditions seeking gold and corn.
Ernest Darling, a back to nature devotee and Stanford graduate, travels from Tahiti to California in a quest for a partner who shares his belief in costume and diet. He lives on a banana plantation, eats only fruits vegetables and nuts, and wears a loin cloth in the tropics while in America he goes bareheaded and shoeless.
The Cresta course at St. Moritz in Switzerland is a one mile iced track where riders in American flat toboggans reach speeds from twenty to eighty seven miles an hour. The downhill runs pass Church Ladder and Shuttlecock Row with precise timings from an electric clock.
A Phillips Brooks quotation urges immediate reconciliation and kindness toward others. It condemns lingering grudges and unspoken support, warning that delay leads to missed chances to help and comfort neighbors and friends.
At Monterosso near Spezia a cement Neptune statue eleven meters tall forms the reinforced body of a spiral stair hollow tower for Villa Pastine. Sculptor Signor Arrigo Minerbi of Rome created the lifelike figure despite difficult promontory conditions.
The article explains that drops vary in size by production conditions. A minim equals the drop used by druggists and 480 minims form a fluid ounce while 76,800 form a gallon. An ounce can hold about 400 drops, and average drops are 20 percent larger than a minim.
An old town judge known for stern majesty orders arrest for assault and battery during a quarrel. The defendant pleads not guilty and the judge, crimson faced, fines both breach of peace and contempt of court at one point declaring the court a farce for letting such conduct pass.
A fragment from Bacon’s Apo thegms recounts Pompey the Great facing a perilous sea while ordered to send grain to Rome. Advised by no men to embark he insists the voyage is necessary though it endangers his life.
The Washington Herald quotes a playful debate on pairing with a fairy godmother versus preferring a competent cook. The brief item contrasts magical and practical options in shaping a happy partnership.
A naval official recalled a New Orleans anecdote where a stage lightning calculator faced a probing question about hearing thunder. When asked how far off thunder could be heard, the performer replied he could not tell, prompting the audience to question his math and the stage dodged the query.
In a light moment at a drug store Ethel recalls buying more postage stamps after meeting Jack, prompting a humorous remark about her impulse to shop. The Boston Transcript notes the exchange as a brief local vignette.
A fragment shows a dialog about anger in marriage with lines from Life and an attributed note on perseverance by Bernard Barton. The style reflects a collage of aphorisms and attributions rather than a single news item.
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