Long Branch Coast Considers City Consolidation
Newark News notes a possible quiet movement to merge ten coastal towns from Long Branch to Ocean Grove into one municipality. It cites population figures for Asbury Park Neptune Ocean Grove and others, weighing potential economic benefits against loss of local identity and governance hurdles.
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The
Newark News
New Jersey
Long Branch
Spring Lake
Asbury Park
Neptune Township
Ocean Grove
Bradley Beach
Belmar
Avon
Deal
Allenhurst
Board of Education
Political lines in city rail control debated in Philadelphia Record
The Philadelphia Record questions the impact of government ownership of railroads and party power on employee voting. It notes firefighters and police independence from municipal bosses, and asks if railroads should be annexed to political organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Voters Rights in Secret Ballots and Public Service Workers
The passage argues that police, paid firemen, and railroad workers would not vote as instructed by government ownership or officials. It claims these groups are independent and would not surrender citizenship rights to secure employment, highlighting faith in their autonomy under secret ballots.
Monmouth County Cheers Slocum as Acting Governor
Gratifying to city and county Monmouth County celebrates having one of its sons, John W. Slocum, serve as Acting Governor. The honor is heightened for Long Branch as the first native Chief Executive of the state, a member of a pioneer local family.
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Monmouth County
Senate
John W. Slocum
L Long Branch
Slocum
Refugee Fakes Spark Border Story Debate
An El Paso reader argues many sensational Mexico border tales are false and outlines hoaxes about brutality and invasions. The letter accuses fabricators of seeking intervention then notes supposed “eye-witness” reports lack truth and warns against sensationalism shaping public opinion.
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Mexico
el Paso
Louisiana
Madera
Cananea
Denmark proposes coin tribute for blind children
A Copenhagen report in the London Daily Mail says Denmark plans a coin bearing a tribute to a child who will never see. The idea aims to raise funds for indigent blind, suggesting a similar scheme could work in the United States.
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Denmark
Hamlet
Genee
Copenhagen
London Daily Mail
Herbert’ Samuel
A Harsh Note on Labor and Wheat Harvest Wages
The piece argues Kansas needs 42 000 more workers and Oklahoma 12 000 to 15 000 more to harvest wheat at up to 2 50 a day with board. It notes unemployed would work if they could reach jobs, criticizes lazy reach, and valuates a rainy day as priceless. It adds a headline Mellen Scores Wilson and mocks the president’s reaction.
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Kansas
Oklahoma
Editorial Snips On Law, War, and Wealth
A compilation of editorials criticizes the mercantile class as tired, notes the saddest words in Kentucky, and satirizes mapping rivers. It questions uniform divorce laws, ponders federal reform limits, and recalls Lord Strathcona’s Canadian railway impact and wealth.
Million Men March On In Memory Of Heroic Days
Ninette M. Lowater reflects in the N Y Sun on how a million men, led by Sherman, Sheridan and Grant, endure in memory and heroism. The poem honors those who bear the flag and march toward victory, their deeds echoing through time as living ghosts of the mighty dead.
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Sherman
Sheridan
Grant
Ninette M. Lowater
N. Y. Sun
Thoughts Worth Reading Observation on Four Societal Types
Quotable meditation contrasts four social types lovers ambitious observers and fools. Taine notes fools are the happiest and hints at human motives and happiness in life. The compact aphorism invites reflection on character and society.
Civil War Actions Mark June Dated Anniversaries
Fifty years ago today Johnston evacuated his line at New Hope Church and retreated southward his army intrenched a new line north of Kenesaw mountain extending from Pine mountain. Twenty five years ago today the Fourteenth regiment of Pennsylvania militia reached Johnstown to preserve order.
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Johnston
New Hope Church
Kenesaw Mountain
Pine Mountain
Fourteenth Regiment of
Pennsylvania Miliia
Johnstown
Eccentric Funerals Across Early Chester and France
A Chester crowd attended the funeral of an electric engineer who was carried in a coffin made from 4000 match boxes. The pieces bore makers marks and were finished with varnish and wood with an electric battery placed atop. In Calemis sur Lys France a maiden who was a chess pioneer reportedly wished her coffin filled with tobacco and the mortuary floor carpeted with it before burial.
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Chester
Hagland
Indy
Calemis-sur-Lys
France
National Advertising and the Daily Newspaper
National advertising focuses on local newspaper reach to the nation’s people. The daily paper is presented as the best medium to contact individuals, build trust in distributors, and boost advertising productivity.
Seeing by wire claims from Dr. A M Low on telephone sight
Dr. A M Low, a British investigator, demonstrated a device that could let people on a telephone see each other. He described a selenium cell screen and high voltage transmitter enabling distance picture transmission, with potential for maritime use and even distant military reconnaissance.
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A. M. Low
Dr. Low
Low
Plans Great Submarine Uses Batteries Like Destroyers
Washington navy department officials unveil a seagoing submarine roughly destroyer size with 20 knot surface speed and 12 to 14 knots submerged. It will engage underwater and on the surface, carrying a disappearing battery of three or four four or five inch guns above deck with waterproof shutters for underwater use, in addition to torpedo tubes.
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Navy
Navy Department
Washington
Department
Lives Lost at Sea Since Titanic Sank List of Vessels
A compiled roll of ship losses with date, flag, cause, and death toll since the Titanic disaster. Entries include the S Texas, Amerika, Volturno, and Empress of Ireland among others, noting fires, collisions, gales, and sinkings with hundreds of lives reported.
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S. Texas
United States
Gulf of Smyrna
Griecieth Castle
Southern Pacific
Port Stanley
Goodwin Sands
Fagundes Varella
Brazil
Commodore Lust
Nuevitas
Morien
Florence
Nova Scotia
Halifax
Julia Luckenbach
Tangier Sound
Chesapeake Bay
Rosecrans
Oregon
Cheslake
van Anda
Vancouver
B. C
Cameron
Huntress
Cape Canaveral
Fla
el Dorado
Gulf of Mexico
Jura
Baltimore
Therese Horn
Port Arthur
Rotterdam
Commercio
Luzon
Wynette
Barbados
Guayaquil
Strait of Magellan
Volturno
mid-Atlantic
Bridgeport
Montreal
Sydney
Leafield
Lake Superior
Oklahoma
Sandy Hook
Acilia
Corral
Hamburg
Magellan
Monroe
Virginia Capes
Uncanny Wisdom Across Generations
A reflective line on men whose wisdom appears timeless and born from a bygone era, suggesting superiority of intellect beyond contemporary norms.
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Benj. Boisseau Bobbitt
Se Ieee
Tons Branch
F. M. Taylor Publishing Co
Broadway
Chas
L. Edwards, Sec’y
NEW Jersey Telephone
Bergen Point
Communipan
Bayonne
Bank of Personal Service
Citizens National Bank
Long Branch, WN. J
Pittsburgs Post
Kentucky
Louisville Courier Journal
Washington Star
Ohio State Journal
Presbyterian General Assembly
South Carolina
N.o. Sun
Canada
Dominion
England
Lord Strathcona
Strathcona
British Northwest
Newark Star
Britton
MACY
Norwood & Bath Ave
Wns
Christian Science
National Advertising
Bureau of Advertising
American Newspaper Publishers Association
World Building
New York
First National Bank
Conao
N. J
Bran
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Mr. Vanderbilt
New Jersey Mortgage & Trust Company
Long Branch, N. J
Hyer & Flock
Undertakers
Cook’s
Cord Man
Allaire DeLisle
Jersey Coast
Close Cafe
Dansant A la Parisienne
Allaire
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