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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1913
Page
4
Publisher offers Gl en L Saxton plains book American Tyvellings for a dollar. The Minneapolis architect details 254 cottage Walgalow and residence designs priced from 1000 to 6000 dollars.
The article notes President Wilson drives selections for offices, presses tariff and currency bills, and backs efforts to clean up Washington and its slums. It cites Mrs. Wilson pushing for reforms, and details rules knowhow from Rep Gardner and Dwight’s lobbying system. Booher remarks on heavy applicant demand for small post offices.
The article notes growing tensions between the senate and house over tariff policy and staffing costs during the extra session. It highlights critiques of the house for stationing $125 and the senate for hiring too many employees, signaling potential delays in passing needed bills. A quoted observer shifts views on former Senator Bourne of Oregon, praising his level headed approach and ideas for governance.
Charges filed against teacher Katherine Long and janitor William Jolly in Jamesburg New Jersey accuse them of binding the ten year old Thomas Snedeker, gagging him with a soiled cloth, and locking him in a dark cellar room. A hearing was held with action postponed after Miss Long’s file is reviewed. the boy’s mother says the incident involved a ball of paper tossed across the room.
In Atlantic City Miss Jeannette May Russell wed A. B. Witham after eloping to New York. Her mother Mrs Arabelle Russell had wished for a fall wedding and did not object to the engagement. The couple are now at Niagara Falls before returning. New State Oyster Commissioners named to fill vacancies include Somers H. Isard and Samuel M. Errickson.
Charles A. Becker lawyer Joseph A. Shay moves for a retrial citing new affidavits. Alleged new evidence claims Sam Schepps acted as an accomplice and that a juror was seen near his home during deliberations. Assistant DA Moss argues the evidence is old and could have been used at trial.
Lightning hit Overmead, the Kohlsaat country house in Lenox Massachusetts, injuring Miss Amy Kohlsaat Miss Edith Kohlsaat and John Kohlsaat who were in their rooms. The villa caught fire. Stockbridge fire brigade responded with over 100 firefighters to save furniture and rugs before a cornice was destroyed.
Regina Sask June 5 An engineer James Arthurs who has worked on the Panama canal for two and a half years says the canal has been ready for warship passage for eighteen months if needed He adds that sending ships through now would be risky but possible with twenty four hours of flooding to float any American navy vessel
A brief exchange quoted from the Houston Post shows a man asking about a wife’s age and another person inviting the wife to answer. The humorous back and forth highlights social norms and witty responses.
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