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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1914
Page
3
The piece argues joy arises from within not from external goods. It contrasts contented inner joy with those who complain and spread gloom, calling outward riches insufficient for happiness and praising a reflected image of joy in the soul. William Walker Atkinson, Nautilus.
Ridiculous claims about a new remedy for rheumatism are advertised with no hot liniments or plasters. The ad asserts rapid relief of pain and stiffness in joints and muscles and offers mail orders and local sales by H. B. Meyers, 119 6th Ave, Cooper's Drug Store, and Schroeder's Pharmacy in Red Bank.
The New York City and northern routes list morning and afternoon arrival times. Philadelphia and Trenton direct schedules are noted along with southern points asybury Park. Mail departures for New York north and other regions are given, plus money order office hours and Sunday lobby times. Postmaster T. L Slocum signs the notice.
Survivors recount the Empress of Ireland disaster near Quebec with graphic detail. Reverend J Wallett describes the long scramble to lifeboats, the ship’s sudden tilt, and rescue by the Lady Evelyn and Storstad boats. Families search coffins and identify bodies amid scenes of grief and heroism.
Washington reports the Interstate Commerce Commission session in New Haven examined Mellen's testimony on the Westchester deal and related transactions. Howard Elliott officials and directors presented records to counter statements, including a Millbrook letter and disclosures on 11,000,000 spent by the special committee with Morgan, Rockefeller, Miller among members.
In Brooklyn and Manhattan two-robberies netted $5,900 from unsuspecting messengers. The John W Masury Paint Co. guards yielded $3,100 after pistols were leveled. An American Co. crew lost $2,700 when beaten with blackjacks. A chauffeur confessed to driving the getaway car after capture.
Judge Hill warned he would reverse his own ruling if the Georgia Supreme Court required it. The remark undercuts the defense’s effort to set aside the verdict in Leo Frank’s trial. In a separate item, a petition from 200 New York authors and settlement workers asks President to intervene in the Colorado strike.
In Newark, Mrs. Marie Launay sues Elijah Winey for $10,000 claiming he promised to marry her after his wife’s death twelve years ago and repeated the pledge after her death last year. The case, backed by attorney Frank McDermitt, cites prior opportunities declined by Launay.
Supreme Court Justice Kaliseh upholds J W W Quinlan conviction for inciting to riot during the Paterson silk strike. Quinlan receives a 7 year maximum and 2 year minimum prison sentence with a F600 fine. he had been released on habeas corpus and may appeal to the Court of Appeals.
Fifteen thousand children form a procession for Paterson Protestant churches Sunday afternoon. Nine diphtheria deaths in Jersey City prompt health board actions as several schools are fumigated. A Perth Amboy handkerchief factory strike enters a third year with 500 workers quitting. Prominent Passaic women join as editors for today's Passaic News edition.
Excerpted humor and anecdotes from Ernest A. Wisetelly's My Days of Adventure recount Paris during the siege. Parisians joke about hunger horsefish health and aging soldiers as they endure ration shortages, cold weather, and duty around the fortress.
The page mixes a Weather Forecast noting fair and cooler conditions with garbled text about torches and an exchange at a jail. A fragment references glowing tapers lighting a way and mentions Goldsmith in a poetic aside.
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