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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1913
Page
2
A New York World report explains eye strain stems from nervous fatigue of eye muscles and refractive errors like myopia and astigmatism. It links headaches, dizziness, indigestion, and poor school performance to untreated vision issues in children.
Robert Michens describes travel to the Marathon plain near Athens as a tranquil pastoral scene away from railroads. He praises Greek cheerfulness, simple brightness, and light soil, noting a two hour visit yields a fresh joy before returning to the capital.
William O’Brien presents Timothy Healy’s first parliamentary appearance. Healy, small in frame and sardonic in face, stood with hands in pockets and scorched the chamber with a bold incitement to PDP and Cavendish figures, vowing to knock them into a cocked hat.
The article notes thick straw mats as furniture, unheated houses with residents wearing kimonos in winter, and charcoal braziers for warmth. It mentions worship at ancestral burial grounds or shrines, cherry blossoms, and the risk of earthquakes or fires with a proverb about Tokyo. It concludes with a refrain about the lack of help.
Mr Bowser agrees to mediate a dispute between Moving Van union and employers over back loads. He faces pressure from beer, a raucous meeting, and a brawl that leaves him battered at home. Mrs Bowser tends to his injuries in a final quiet reveal.
A rural woman brought a morphia mixture to a suburban drugstore for an orphan girl. The druggist weighed the dangerous drug with utmost care, while the woman lamented the stigma of the prescription.
A light exchange in a Louisville Courier-Journal item shows a groom lamenting his cold wife who refuses his offer of two kisses to rekindle their fire. The dialogue highlights marital strain and humor in domestic tension.
Alarkaway asks Jimpson how fast his car is and Jimpson quips it keeps about six months ahead of his income. The exchange appears in Harpers Weekly with a humorous tone.
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A vignette on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s decline in memory shown with grace and humor. The piece contrasts his waning recall with retained intellect and amiable spirit, illustrated by his care for guests and warmth at tea, plus related light anecdotes from The Last Leaf and other captions.
A woman enters a shoe store and asks to buy. The lazily seated shopkeeper yawns and says he cannot wait on her today, suggesting she return when he is standing. This rustic quip from Argonaut captures a comic moment in local shop life.
The London Times tells a tale of the late stamp dealer Mr Stanley Gibbons. A West Indian postmaster once returned a money order claiming the ordered stamp did not exist, but the prepaid letter bore the stamp in question.
A humorously framed quote contrasts love and misery with a gambler’s logic. The Louisville Courier-Journal cites a line about preferring misery with a loved one over happiness with others, paired with a Henry Sutphin remark calling persistent losers colossal fools.
A humorous exchange unfolds between Lady Jane and Soapy Sam in a Sydney scene. Lady Jane offers to feed the needy man, while Sam maintains a sharp, ironic tone about appearances and decency.
In a witty exchange, Daniel Webster laments the razor for wasting time and energy. Rufus Choate derides the razor as a tool of hellish invention. Edward Everett supposedly avoided profanity but mocked shaving slang before a shave.
A Chambers' Journal quip presents a witty exchange between a dull professor and a student. The student cites Alexander the Great’s early conquests and attributes Aristotle as his teacher, turning the thrice-remarked challenge into a clever retort.
A London Tit-Bits item features a cartoon caption where Clent asks why someone chose law over the army and the Lawyer replies that high charges would leave little of the enemy. The humor hinges on professional choices and punchy quip about money.
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