Slight Increase in Corporation Tax in 1910
Trenton reports a rise in aggregate corporation taxes for 1910 to 2,539,897.79 across 7,143 companies, led by large Newark insurers Prudential and Mutual Benefit Life. Major capital stock firms such as Amalgamated Copper and United States Steel show sizable taxes, while Monmouth Summer activity and Red Bank church events are noted.
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Trenton
Irvine EB. Maguire
State Board of Assessors
Henry J. West
Prudential Insurance Company of
Newark
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company
Magma Po A
Amalgamated Copper Cr
Capital Stock
American Tobacco Co
International Harvester Co
International Mercantile Marine Co
Rock Island Company
Capital
United States Steel Corporation Capital Stock
Shrewsbury Commencement Promises Four Graduates
The Shrewsbury Academy in Red Bank will hold commencement at Leroy Place school Friday at 10 AM. Four graduates named Marguerite Morford Alice Hance Winsor Van Viiet Byron Davidson. Van Viiet to enter Stevens Institute. Davidson to study dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury Academy
Red Bank
Leroy Place
Mies Marguerite
Morford
Middletown
Alice
Hance
Scobeyville
C. Winsor van Viiet
Byron J. Davidsoon
van Viiet
Stevens Institute
Byron Davidson
Dental
the Universality of Pennsylvania
City Democratic Committee to Discuss Shore Dinner Plan
The City Democratic Executive Committee will meet Friday night at City Hall to consider plans for a shore dinner. Notices have been sent to members and full attendance is desired.
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City Democratic Executive Committee
City Hall
Red Bank Boy Helps Win Relay at Asbury Park
Charles Cake of Red Bank visits his brother in Washington D C. He helped win the half mile relay for the Baptist Sunday school of Red Bank at Asbury Park a short time ago.
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Washington, D. C
Charles Cake
Red Bank
Washington, D.C
Charles
Asbury Park
Baptist Sunday School of
Runaway horse trapped in fence after high speed chase
A delivery horse belonging to J. wian ran from a wagon on Brighton avenue toward West End station. The horse squeezed through a small opening in a fence but its wagon was too large, becoming jammed. The horse calmed, was pulled free, and returned home with its driver Taft after the incident.
Timely Warning on a Daring Dog at a Shoot
A London Serups tale records a spoksman praising a dog’s intelligence to a gamekeeper. The reply confirms the dog’s cleverness, recounting that it bit a gentleman who once offered a half sovereign after a day’s shoot.
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London
When I’m asked to sing I never say I can’t
A comic line from Jennie and Susie in Illustrated Bits invites audience participation at the piano. It features playful banter about letting the audience “Bud” it out themselves and aims for lighthearted entertainment.
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Susie
Jennie
The First Step Young Woman Notes Hat She Desires
A domestic scene shows a young woman admiring a hat and instructing her maid Marie to remind her to kiss her husband upon returning home. The exchange highlights personal vanity and affectionate routines within a marriage.
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Marie
Quick Subduing of a Domestic Dispute
An altercation escalates as Von Blumer confronts a decorator about papering a wall. The exchange reveals tensions over wife’s delayed response and a wager regarding proposed plans.
Lessons From A World Trip by Former Ohio Congressman
Former Ohio Congressman General Benjamin Le Fevre returns from a ten month world voyage with views on rice consumption and India’s architecture. He praises Hungary, notes poverty in the Balkans, admires Turkish devotion in Constantinople, surveys Indian mills in Calcutta, and remarks on lavish Western living versus subsistence rice in Asia. He sees potential in Philippine and Japanese developments and predicts Honolulu’s growth as a future resort hub.
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Benjamin le Fevre
Congress
Ohio
New York
Europe
Vienna
Budapest
Bulgaria
Roumania
Servia
Hungary
General le Fevre
Balkan
Turkey
Constantinople
Smyrna
Palestine
Jerusalem
Solomon
Port Said
Bombay
India
Taj Mahal
Mark ''Wain
Ower of Silence
Delhi
Agra
Lucknow
Cawupur
Bevares
Ganges
Calcutta
Louisiana
Texas
East
Canton
China
Burma
Singapore
Java
Manila
Willie's Brother and the Top Foundry Shock
A mixed item featuring a humorous verse about Willie and his ill brother with a grim punch line, followed by a report from Atlantic City on George Westinghouse and Wilfred Lewis discussing an apparatus to absorb shocks enabling a foundry to run atop skyscrapers.
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George Westinghouse
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Atlantic City
N. J
Wilfred Lewis
Aviators Discuss Big Distance Flights Between Cities
New York Times and Chicago Evening Post offer 25000 dollar prize for Chicago to New York race and World and St Louis Post Dispatch offer 30000 dollar purse for New York to St Louis race. Glenn Curtiss Wilbur and Orville Wright signaled participation with others foreseeing long distance flights this summer.
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New York
New York Times
Chicago Evening Post
Chicago
New York World
8&J. Louis Post-Dispatch
New York City
St. Louis
Times-Post
Third
Joplin
Glenn H. Curtiss
Curtiss
Wilburn
Orville Wright
Charles K. Hamiston
Thomas §. Baldwin
Clifford B. Harmon
Aero Club of America
Charles Heitman
Charles K. Hamilton
Thomas 8. Baldwin
Mara
Charles F. Willard
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Dayton
United
Champ Clark Sets Public Life Retirement at 75
Missouri statesman Champ Clark, House minority leader, says he intends to retire from public life around age 75 with possible earlier retirement if voters demand it. He cites Nathaniel Macon as a precedent for keeping a self imposed limit.
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Champ Clark
Missouri Statesman
Missouri
House
Nathaniel Macon
North Carolina
Routes Discussed for Chicago to New York Air Race
aviators in New York favor a Chicago to New York path via Chicago Hammond South Bend Fremont Bandusky Cleveland Ashtabula Erie Rochester Syracuse Albany and New York St Louis to New York contenders lean toward a southern Ohio Valley route over the Alleghenies to Philadelphia Tren ton and then to New York Curtiss favors a lakeward path crossing near Erie Pa then Erie railroad line to New York He says the Catskills would be about 1500 feet high and aerial prizes spur more contests.
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Canada
New York
Chicago
Hammond
Ind
South Bend
Fremont
Ohio Valley
Mississippi River
Pittsburg
Lancaster Valley
Philadelphia
Delaware
Trenton
Glenn H. Curtiss
United States Geological Survey
Erie
Erie Railroad
Catskills
T. Louis
Cleveland
Career of Rolls Aviator Who Conquered the Channel
British aviator Captain the Hon. Charles Stuart Rolls, son of the 1st Baron Llangattock, crossed the English Channel in a Wright biplane from Dover to Sangatte and back without alighting, a fifty mile continuous flight. He held many records in cycling, motoring, ballooning, and aeroplaning, founded the Aero Club, and flew with Wilbur Wright in 1908.
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English Channel
Charles Stuart Rolls
Dover
Sangatte
Calais
Llangattock
Paris
Norfolk
The
Aero Club of
United Kingdom
Wilbur Wright
le Mans
Burroughs on Sparrows Duty of City Police to Destroy Nests
W Edgar of Middletown N Y asked naturalist John Burroughs about sparrow attitudes. Burroughs replies that sparrows are a nuisance and nests should be destroyed, urging city police to locate and destroy nests, noting sparrows do no harm in winter but are pests April to December.
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W. Edgar
Middletown
N. Y
John Burroughs
Burroughs
Ulster County
Long Ride Fern Woman From Harbin To St Petersburg
A young Cossack woman named Kudasheff recently began a journey from Harbin in Manchuria to St. Petersburg on a Mongolian pony. She travels with only a St. Bernard dog and is armed with a knife and a revolver. The distance is about 6 420 miles.
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Kudasheff
Harbin
Manchuria
St. Petersburg
Fair Haven Graduating Exercises Set With Address
Rev Dr H Ridgely Robinson of Red Bank will deliver the address at Fair Haven school graduation exercises tomorrow night. Principal Roland Fennimore, who recently succeeded Prof S H LeQuier, will oversee the event. Fennimore, formerly of Farmingdale, has won many friends in Fair Haven.
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Fair Haven
H. Ridgely Robinson
First Methodist Church
Red Bank
Roland Fennimore
H. LeQuier
Fennimore
Farmingdale
Home Visiting Mother From New York
Mrs. 8. H. Lesch and her children from New York are visiting. Her mother Mrs. E. Magee of Monmouth Street Red Bank is mentioned. A playful quote from the London Telegraph about someone staying up all night reading a novel follows.
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Harry
H. Lesch and Children
New York
Lesch
E. Magee
Monmouth Street
Red Bank
Anna
London Telegraph
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Monmouth
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Green
Ushers’ Union
Ushers’ Union of the First Baptist Church
Albert Wilson
Canal Street
Norrow
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Thompson
Red Bank Fire Department
Independent Hose Company
Mechanic Street
Thomas Anderson
Thomas P. Anderson
Eatontown
Racers Peer & Company
Taree Broadway Stores
Taft
Washington
Senate
House Savings Banki
Hatteras, N
Erikson
Barkentine Good News
Neptune Corneil
Neptune Hall
Edwards
Ada
William Jt.edwards
Mere
Ernest Burr and Son
Presbyterian Church
Oceansie
Teddy
Secretary of the Navy
Meyer
Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson
Roosevelt
Captain Butt
Galilee
Pound
Lanach
Zinke
Herbert Booth
Bath Avenue
von Blumer
Passay
Mr. Golden
J Bell
le Favre
Philippines
Alaska
Hongkong
Japan
Honolulu
San Francisco
California
Willie
H. M. Tandy
Illie
Gue
Baseball Magazine
American Press
Chicago-St. Louis
Albany
United States
States
W. A. Applegate
Southern Railway
Wyman
United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
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Burroughs ON
Long Branch Record
D. Lerner
Broadway
David Lerner
Howard White
Edwards Ave
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Cedar Ave
West End
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Bath and
Second Aves
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Rockwell Ave
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Third Avenue
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