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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1914
Page
6
Classified notes show jobs sought including domestic help and cooks with names Mary Lawson and Carl Gannon at fixed addresses. The page also features brief joke quotes and a cartoonish deduction gag about lending two dollars for ten. Reprint captures 1900s urban humor and social ads.
The passage recounts Sir William Gilbert at twenty seven and his father, a retired naval surgeon, authoring Shirley Hall Asylum. Edith A. Brown notes the son's early influence on his father's literary career, while Gilbert jokes his father's belief in his own limited talent spurred his work.
The New York Mail recalls how many presentation swords, bragged as Damascus or Toledo steel, snapped in war camps when officers bent blades to test elasticity. The blades often broke in the middle, leaving two halves welded together, a defect revealed by later repair.
The article describes the family bone or family goat used in Eskimo walrus hunts and summer expeditions to gather fish and berries. It portrays a crowded camp scene with provisions, hides, and racing boats moved by paddlers and dogs, detailing festive travel during a three month non winter season.
A clipping discusses clouds as a mystery, noting how textbooks claim knowledge yet scientists admit uncertainty about moisture origin, condensation agents, and cloud formation. The piece cites debates on dust or other particles and mentions historical anecdotes about diet and medieval botany.
An ad fragment promotes Jos Hirschfeld and Son at 149 Broadway Long Branch as the oldest established liquor store. Offers pure wines and liquors at reasonable prices with auto delivery available citywide. Includes a daily thought by Charles Kingsley and a note on Glenwood Cemetery.
A fragmentary note recalls a figure named Invonter II arriving by chance and an after lunch map found in a library setting. The text hints at a party near a golf links and a reflected moment in a library around this time.
Partial timetable shows New York and Long Branch departures with multiple daily and Sunday times. Reads as a clipped old transit schedule listing stops such as Battery and Bay measures, with late afternoon and evening options and a closing line noting TATDEN I misspelled.
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