Personal notices from Long Branch social column
J O Donohue Jr left for Princeton where he is numbered among the 1910 graduates Mrs J J O Donohue arrived at her summer home in Cedar avenue A W Stevens formerly engineer at the Takanassee Hotel arrives at Long Branch to fill the same post I Alexander and family New York have taken How ard Greens cottage at Franklin and Second avenues Mrs Arthur Nelson Bath avenue returns from Bloomfield visit Mrs A Freidlander New York inspecting her West wood Cedar home to arrive later Mrs B Guggenheim staying at West End cottages leaves for New York Mrs M F Untermeyer New York visiting Mrs Marks Arnheim Ocean avenue Miss Ford now Mrs Dangler Anna L Ford and Mortimer H Dangler wed last Sunday at Simpson M B parsonage Garfield avenue wedding party spokes to bride home for dinner couple will reside with bride's parents J V West house sold to Santo Morelli resident long branch for years West house repaired after fire Ocean township owes Asbury Park schools 480 for tuition of Loch Arbour Interlaken and West Allenhurst pupils this term not yet paid
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. O’donohue, Jr
Princeton
J. J. O’donohue
Cedar Avenue
A. W. Stevens
Takanassee
Long Branch
Arthur Nelson
Bath Avenue
Bloomfield
A. Freidlander
New York
Westwood
Cedar Avenues
B. Guggenheim
West End
M. F. Untermeyer
Marks Arnheim
Ocean Avenue
Miss Ford
Dangler
Anna L. Ford
E. F. Ford
Janes Street
Mortimer H. Dangler
High Street
Simpson M. B. Parsonage
Garfield Avenue
Alfonso Dare
Ocean Township
Asbury Park
Loch Arbour
Interlaken
West Allenhurst
Protests and local notes from the town meeting
Protests over licenses were discussed as a fire engine repair issue and a moving picture show permit for the Bowser building was tabled for a special meeting. A flower-bed project on Ocean Avenue was awarded to William Mears. The Monmouth Beach pool nears completion with July 1 opening planned. Other items include Kelly Cottage rental, a clam feast for the Al Heiles Association, and social visits to local hosts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Brehm
Bowser
William Mears
Ocean Avenue
al. Heiles Association
Charles Brewer
al. Heiles’ Association
Charley
Barnegat
Roosevelt's Narrow Escape During Kenya Elephant Hunt
In Scribner's Magazine 1910 excerpt Roosevelt recounts a perilous moment near Mount Kenya as a rogue elephant appears at close range and the group narrowly avoids disaster. He and companions later recount a fierce encounter in Meru with a massive leader and discuss elephant versus rhinoceros intellect and evolution.
Charging Elephant and Early Gyroscope Planes Featured
A hunter recounts a near ambush by a charging bull elephant and a grazing shot that felled the first beast. The piece also notes Stanley Beach testing a gyroscope stabilizer on an experimental monoplane in Stratford Connecticut. Additional briefs cover chief aviator von Parseval’s German winged craft able to fly and swim, and Hugo Lilienthal’s claim to graft 2000 rose varieties on a single bush in Berkeley California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Y. Beach
New York
Stratford
Conn
Beach
Bleriot
Hugo Lillenthal
Berkeley
Cal
United States
Lilienthal
Starching Taught in London by Flemish Masters
In 15 4 the art of starching was publicly taught in London by eight Flemish women led by Mistress Bingkem Vandh Plesme. Her price was "Toure or five pownd" with an extra fee for demonstrating "how to meth the ar" as described in the period notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Bingkem Vandh Plesme
A Little Sermon Fragment on Sermon Length
A brief, archaic verse fragment argues that length does not define strength. It notes excess weariness weakens impact and suggests brevity can be virtue, warning against wearying the audience with overlong preaching.
Roosevelt Defends Word Choice In Egypt Speech
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, recently honored with an LL D by Cambridge, replies to a critic who urged him replace sentiment with sentimentality in his London guildhall address on Egypt. He argues sentiment is the opposite of sentimentality and would change his meaning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Roosevelt
Cambridge University
England
Guildhall
London
Roosevelt
Egypt
Britain
Pembroke College
Cambridge
Colonel Roosevelt
Columbia University
Hope College
Yale
Harvard
Northwestern University
University of Pennsylvania
Clark University
Bombs From a Aeroplane Tests To Decide War Use
United States government plans a series of experiments at Chickamauga park Tennessee from June 20 to 24 to test if aeroplanes can be used as engines of war. Aviator Charles K. Hamilton will drop 800 pounds of nitroglycerin from a Curtiss biplane at fifty five miles an hour from a quarter mile up. A government dirigible will aid the tests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Chickamauga Park
Chattanooga
Tenn
United States Army
Charles K. Hamilton
War Department
Thomas 8. Baldwin
Hamilton
Dinner Pails for Buckets Firefighting Carpenters Save Stage
Three Long Branch carpenters John Rohbeck George Hall and Arthur Hearn turned firefighters after sensing a fire on a stage owned by Claude Wilmot Temple near Goose Neck bridge. They used dinner pails and water from the Shrewsbury to extinguish flames that started under the driver’s seat. The driver escaped unharmed as the cause remains uncertain, though wagon grease is suspected. Reed Conk wedding tonight in Sea Bright with Mabel T. Conk. The ceremony will be at the Conk home on Morrell street followed by a reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Rohbeck
George Hall
Arthur Hearn
William Barbour
Rumson
Claude Wilmot Temple
Goose Neck Bridge
Shrewsbury
Vilage
Reed-Conk
Walter C. Reed
Sea Bright
Mabel T. Conk
Conk
Morrell Street
Monmouth Beach School Concert Program Details
A patriotic program at the Monmouth Beach school features recitations songs and drills led by students including Edith Jones Vivian Johnson and Charles Davis. The event lists sections with solos duets and a Rip Van Winkle sketch and ends with the Star Spangled Banner. A separate legal notice reports Lakewood lawyer Williams Myers facing possible disbarment after alleged funds misappropriation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Monmouth Beach
John Potter
Edith Jones
Garrett Johnson
Dirty Face
Isles of the
Ben Et Tk Jones
Black
Elba
Charles Davis
Claes
Vivian Johnson
Garden of Dreams
Rip van Winkle
Defly Record Ad Prompts Curious Quote About Lifelong Work
A fragment from the Defly Record advertises a reporter’s quizzical exchange. The editor cites a late Captain whose life work began at the bottom, prompting the question What was it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ocaprata Papasteine
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SRY Cmll Leu
J. W. West
Third Avenue
Santo Morelli
Mr. Morelli
West House
William Raleigh Smith Springer
Laird Street
Canaius
Long Branch Building and Loan Association
Thomas R. Woolley
Ocean Grove
Asbury Avenue
Pitman Avenue
W. F. Day & Bro
Monmouth Beach
Frank Heim
Samuel Megill
Nathaniel Slocum
Cooper Avenue
Corntessel
Washington Star
Broadway
Theatre
Star Agts
Reels OF Pictures
Geo. W. Husey & Co
ED. Shaw
Curtis Sisters
Leon Foster
Bill Diamond
Ispegial
Casino Theatre
Criterion Theatre
Moving Pictures
Narrow
Opyright
Charles Scribner
Bons
Scribner's Magazine
Mount
Kenia
R. J. Cuninghame
Mr. Roosevelt
Meru
Mr.roosevelt
Cuninghame
East Africa
Kilimakin
von Parseval
Bremen
Germany
Major von Parseval
Hote
American Press Association
Silver
Spalding Sporting Goods
Pocahontas Council
Red Bank
Massabesh Council
Pocahontas
Second National Bank
Waneta Council
Nealie Nelson
Ion van Dyke
Burrell
Oceanic
Keyport Counci
Keyport
Edward
Edward IV
The
Daily Record-It
Long Branch Carpenters
Rume
Goose Neck
Eee 8 ET Company of Indies
Ap Carter
Monmouth Beach School
the Nationa
Wee
Mae van Brunt
Herr Katzefiammer
Sessee
Uncle Sam
Carl Milem
Lakewood
Trenton
Marty V. Osborne
New Jersey Bar Association
Supreme Court
Williams Myers
Elfent
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