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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1911
Page
3
The Sugar Bowl has enlarged its brick built shop nearly doubling its space. Music and souvenirs will be offered tonight to celebrate the upgrade as contractor Schock completed the work in under three weeks. The piece contrasts with a historical note on clothing evolution from Ivanhoe.
Ardent missionaries try to clothe natives to modesty and Christianity in a village in Africa. Natives parade in new outfits until church service begins when a chief shouts The sun The sun and the tribe unpacks and wears the clothes. The chief explains they cannot wear ornaments when rain may spoil them.
A bacteriologist argues killing rats and marmots could end plague, warning about uncontrolled animal lifecycles and civilization’s risk. The piece ties to a Cincinnati Enquirer quote and a late night banquet where Sir Frederick Bramwell’s applied science toast is commented on by Lowell.
A petition will be presented to the Borough Council on July 6 1911 to vacate a section of Beechwood Avenue shown on a map. The petition is signed by the owners abutting both sides and requests rights of the signers in the space and waivers of remunerative damages due to closing of part or all of the street.
Mrs. Cora Clamorgan Collins fights a divorce suit filed by her husband, who seeks to annul their twenty year marriage on grounds of her alleged negress status. Her father and mother deny any negro blood while she asserts she will contest the case to protect her six week old baby. The husband, underage, is represented by his father as next friend. Missouri law bans white marriage to anyone with one eighth negro blood.
Washington June 10 A heated exchange occurred between R V Lindabury counsel for United States Steel and representatives during the Stanley committee hearing. P Roberts Jr director and James Gayley former VP gave little satisfaction as the panel probed steel pricing and railroad board overlaps.
Oklahoma state officials protest W T Vernon a Kansas City Kansas negro named assistant supervisor for five civilized tribes schools. protest prepared by Senator Laudrum with many signatures. Mount Etna again active in Rome with rumblings and minor earthquakes reported over two days.
Fair warmer today with light to moderate southerly winds. Market items include live poultry and dressed meat prices, fresh receipts and boxes listed, and regional notes on Pennsylvania markets. Livestock prices show veal calves around seven dollars per hundred pounds and live butterfat figures noted.
The Cent-a-Words column on the paper's third page shows repeated patgaing mistakes in the text. Readers report typographical glitches and misprints that obscure the intended notices and captions.
Fidella Perrona, a wealthy Hammonton contractor, says his wife Catharine Perrona attempted to poison him to marry a younger Italian rival. He shot her after a struggle over a medicine and a bottle, and police report she had funded a secret affair.
George W. Sutton 24 used a tack hammer to strike broker William Taylor 50 in Taylor s Drexel office. Sutton is jailed without bail as Taylor lies dying at Pennsylvania hospital. Sutton claims self defense after Taylor threatened him over stock, and notes Sutton s artificial leg and recent hand surgery.
Mobile, June 10. J B Dean and two sons Samuel and Joseph Deaths McRory Martin Lather Steven Hanks David Hendricks and Thomas Brantley prominent Conecuh county planters are under arrest on federal indictments charging peonage and conspiracy. Forest fires sweep the Dragon mountains near Tombstone Arizona as rangers struggle to contain growing flames.
Leavenworth Kansas June 10 Mrs Carrie Nation a famed prohibition activist renowned for wielding a hatchet died at Evergreen sanitarium. She was admitted January 22 suffering from a nervous breakdown and had spent months in seclusion as health declined.
National League results show St Louis defeating Boston 2 1 in St Louis. Chicago beat Brooklyn 4 0 in Chicago. Pittsburg beat New York 6 2 in Pittsburg. Cincinnati defeated Philadelphia 4 1. Standings list New York 30 17, St Louis 24 22, Philadelphia 30 18, Cincinnati 22 26, Chicago 28 18, Brooklyn 18 30, Pittsburg 9 22, Boston 12 36. American League games see New York 9 Chicago 2, Philadelphia 5 Detroit 4, Boston 5 St Louis 4, Washington 5 Cleveland 2. Standings Detroit 36 14, New York 22 22, Philadelphia 28 17, Cleveland 20 29, Boston 12 21, Washington 11 31, Chicago 22 20, St Louis 16 32.
In La Branch Louisiana two men Boutlee and Story opened fire killing eight Black men in ten minutes. Boutlee and Story a conductor acted after a section gang feud and a shovel blow led to further violence. Story arrived as the killings ended and then aided by catching his train on time.
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