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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1914
Page
2
A traveling magician wowed a sizable Ohio audience with over an hour of tricks and humor. He brought a local boy to the footlights and joked about pockets and a vanished rabbit as the crowd laughed heartily.
Macy presents Grandmother braided rag rugs, Miles Standish cretonne rugs, and Madame Butterfly cretonne fabrics in English and imported designs. Weatherproof Crex and Algerian rugs, Adirondack cedar furniture, and mosquito canopies complement bungalow and country house furnishings with custom upholstery and drapery services.
Washington reports expected developments in the Mexico situation. The Antilla’s voyage from New York to Tampico prompts fears Huerta’s three gunboats may intercept it, with U.S. warships potentially blocking off Veracruz or Tampico. Secretary Bryan discusses arms shipments to Tampico and implications for Niagara Falls talks. Shipping of arms from U.S. ports is viewed as conflicting with an informal armistice and mediator expectations.
Washington Jimes The House Post Office Committee has a Moon of Tennessee introduced measure to amend postal and civil service laws. It proposes readjusting pay rates for rail carrier classes, repeals the $100 postal savings deposit maximum, limits interest to deposits up to $1,000, and requires competitive civil service exams for assistant postmasters while allowing actions to curb railroad charges to the postal service.
A marble slab at Glenalmond School recalls Alexander Cumine Russell, a seventeen year old Seventy fourth Highlanders officer, who sacrificed himself during the Birkenhead disaster to save a sailor, at the cost of his own life as the ship sank.
A Norse legend explains the sea’s salt habit. Frodi and two giant maidens ground gold and peace, then a sea rover stole the quern and enslaved the maidens to grind salt. Their endless work sank the ship, binding the sea to grind east forever.
An ornate note on a green beetle devouring gypsy moth caterpillars, noting its ferocity and brief life with extraordinary feeding. It then recounts a story of Lord Suffield and the Prince of Wales in India, where a daughter suggests a garden party to calm potential trouble, turning prison grounds into a safe entertainment space.
Rev J M Bacon recalls a comic church scene where a farmer wardens backhanded his burly brother during a hymn. The injured man explains the blow came from feeling a lump as a mouse in corn to hide a market sample.
Quote notes life as thick with thorns and warns that dwelling on misfortunes magnifies their harm, urging decisive passage through hardship.
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