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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1911
Page
4
The Long Branch newspaper reports council debates over street conditions amid 120 miles of streets and limited funds. It notes delays in improvements due to ignored motions and calls for action. It also discusses U S Supreme Court tobacco trust decisions clearing the business climate and affirming anti monopoly protections under the Sherman Act.
The court emphasizes a proper regard for private property interests of investors harmed by the tobacco combination. It notes that punishment should consider stock ownership and lack of guilty knowledge while acknowledging the wrongs that dominated the merger. The ruling aims to restore confidence and stimulate business in the long run.
A Fort Myer commanding officer wrote on an examination paper that a Jewish enlisted man would not serve as an officer or social associate due to Jewish extraction. President Taft reprimanded the colonel, calling the attitude strongly disapproved and contrary to American ideals.
Congressman McCall of Massachusetts rails against a recall system depriving judges of independence. He warns a judge would bow to mob power or threats from politicians corporations or unions, instead of consulting law and jurisprudence before ruling. The description argues the danger of politicized justice.
The Philadelphia Times notes a new era as tyrants are replaced by true representatives in Mexico Venezuela Nicaragua and Colombia The piece warns future self government must prove durable else new tyrants will rise and repeat past patterns in these nations
A heavy rain from yesterday and today ends a ruinous drought. The precipitation will save crops berries and gardens, with Monmouth County alone benefiting by about a million dollars. Magistrate House in New York has sent four men to the workhouse for insulting women on public streets, a precedent toward safer streets and discipline.
The Independent notes a column error labeled as a heterophemous slip, a formal description that downplays the misprint. The piece frames the slip as a linguistic error rather than a substantive edit mistake.
The piece notes Francisco Madero Jr. adopts the capital I with unusual zeal, inviting speculation that he aspires to be Mexico's Roosevelt, as observed by the Times-Democrat of New Orleans.
The piece comments on Democratic gains from Republican errors, and on public health rules banning exposed summer foods. It also discusses the use of Esq in American letters and notes changes in presidential legislative influence with both parties.
A reader questions the President's closer alignment with the Republican party and his drafting of bills before Congress. The piece weighs efficiency benefits of pre negotiated actions against the erosion of the traditional impartial arbiter role. The author suggests this trend may be lasting, reflecting a practical, results driven era. The poem by Anne Cleveland Cheney follows.
Quote by Gifford Pinchot on the necessity of conserving natural resources for national welfare. It defines conservation as developing and protecting resources with prudence and common sense for present and future generations.
A Japanese steamboat separated decks by race with English and Japanese signs. The English deck bore a sign reading No admittance beyond this line. The Japanese deck used a respectful phrase referencing the master’s teaching that “The princely man is sel...
Representative Owen J. Evans admitted soliciting a $100 bribe linked to the salary loan bill and pleaded guilty in Columbus. Judge Kinkead fined him $500 after the Franklin County grand jury indicted him, following an agreement with county and state prosecutors.
In Absecon New Jersey on June 6 farmers and truck gardeners rejoiced as a gentle downpour started after Rev H D Speakman rector of St Luke s Episcopal church Pleasantville offered a prayer. The rain, first in thirty two days, saved many crops and thousands of crates of strawberries ending a costly drought for local parishioners and farmers.
Relatives in Newark report the death of Charles Huntington Jackson in Estes Park Colorado he died suddenly according to a telegram from Rev B W Barnett of Greeley. He was a member of a prominent New Jersey family son of the late F W Jackson and Nannie Nye Jackson whose father directed major railroads.
A Louisville Courier-Journal quip notes a man’s error after starting a flirtation with a woman who proved to be selling an encyclopedia set for 200 dollars. The humor turns on mistaken romance and a costly discovery.
Rose I painted this picture to keep the wolf from the door. Fleming If the wolf is anything of an art critic it will do it. Smart Set. Happiness does not consist in things so much as in thoughts.
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