Middletown Democrats pick officers and endorse candidates
The newly elected Democratic Executive Committee of Middletown township elected officers for the year including Chairman Amzi M. Posten and secretary Daniel T. Hendrickson. They endorsed two members for county offices, Mayor Harry N. Johnson for General Assembly and William H. Bennett for the Board of Freeholders.
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Middletown , Township
Amzi M. Posten
Middletown
Cornelius D. Sullivan
Navesink
Walter B. Connor
Belford
William H. Bennett
Leonardo
Charles D. Thorne
Port Monmouth
John R. Donovan
Lincroft
Joseph W. Thompson
Daniel T. Hendrickson
Melvin A. Rice
William C. Roop
Edward A. Merdian
Henry Nienstedt
Edgar A. Slate
William Kane
William Boeckel, Jr
Milbury Stearns
Rufus B. Eastmond
George W. Brown
Daniel Bennett
Daniel W. Irwin
George B. Jenkinson
Samuel A. MacNear
Harry Ludlow
Thomas Leather
Stephen MacMahon
Linecroft
George C. Thompson
J. Holmes Conover
Leonard Horsfall
Edward Brash
Highlands
Atlantic Highlands
George B. Tucker
Grandin V. Johnson
William E
Andrew
Henry Nierstedt
Harry N. Johnson
General Assembly
Board of Freeholders
Eatontown Social News Highlights Local Visits
Mrs Thomas Fr Dickinson and daughter visited relatives in Brooklyn and New York. Mr and Mrs Luther Boyce spent Monday in New York. Raymond Aumack and Stewart Dangler joined Red Bank Cavalry troop Friday night. The Eatontown Chemical Engine company prepares for the hose laying contest at Asbury Park in September. Mrs Emma Hansen and daughter returned from Newark relatives visit. Floyd Rush has recovered from grip. Edna Miller visits sister in Brooklyn.
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Thomas Fr. Dickinson
Brooklyn
New York
Luther Boyce
Raymond Aumack
Stewart Dangler
Red Bank Cavalry
Austin Wolcott
Partree
Sarah BH. Aumack
Eatontown Chemical Engine Company
Asbury Park
Emma Hansen
Newark
Floyd Rush
Albert Smock
Smock
Daniel Covert
Monmouth Road
Edna Miller
The Old Trade Dollar And The Gold Silver Ratio 1870
Three mining engineers discussed the value of an old trade dollar and the 1870 gold to silver ratio. Calculations show the ratio was 15.9884 to 1, not 16 to 1, with coinage values noted for gold and silver and a Mexican dollar comparison. The trade dollar aimed to parity with the Mexican dollar in the orient.
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Engineering and Mining Journal
Mint Bureau
United States Treasury
C.escceseeee Et Aestideesaas
United States
Oldest Paris Newspaper Chronicle of Napoleonic Era
The Journal des Debats, earliest Paris journal, began in 1789 as a political chronicle. Napoleon forced its rename to Journal de l Empire in 1805 to enforce censorship before restoring its original title after his Elba exile. The paper, still printed near St. Germain de l Auxerrois, remains a dignified source for reflection.
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Journal Des Debats
Paris
Gandoin
Journal de Empire
Napoleon
Fieree
Elba
St. Germain de l'Auxerrois
St. Bartholomew's Eve
London Times
The Reconciliation at the Child's Bedside
The doctor tended the child as remedies fought illness through the night. At dawn the child slept peacefully while gratitude warm and quiet followed. The accuser and the man shared a relieved kiss, dissolving the icy barrier between them.
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Atlanta Constitution
Hoyse Prize Winner Two Awards a Half Century Apart
The late Paul Hoyse held two major literary prizes over more than fifty years. He won the Nobel Prize, and his play The Sa Dines won a prize in 1857. He was a member of the Round Table of King Max of Bavaria, a ruler who valued scientists and literary men.
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Hoyse
Paul Hoyse
Round Table
Max
Bavaria
Pall Mall Gazette
She Was Exact. A Little Girl on Her Mother's Sickness
A Chicago Tribune line recalls a sympathetic teacher asking about a late girl’s mother. The child replies with blunt humor that her mother is not ill at bed, but “sick a sofa” implying she prefers resting on the sofa. The exchange captures a wry, domestic moment.
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Chicago Tribune
Dog Love Quotation Sparks War Comment
A Toledo Blade quotation notes a man saying you cannot dishearten the right kind of dog and to cut off seven eighths of him to force a remaining eighth to be loyal. The remark frames a satirical view on love and devotion in wartime discourse.
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Toledo Blade
Sleep Remedies and Frugal Advice in Topeka Journal
The Topeka Journal humorously cautions about sleep and bills with a domestic quip. A wife urges medical help for sleeplessness while a sardonic husband balks at costs. A thrift tip encourages giving more than receiving to fill one's purse.
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Topeka Journal
Second sight sparks heiress romance in old note
A clipped line ponders love at first sight versus later recognition. The speaker recalls the man not realizing the woman was an heiress on their first meeting, implying a later, clarified attraction sparked by newfound knowledge of her status. The exchange hints at social intrigue and surprise in courtship.
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Pean
Dr. Pean
Sobbing pink monkey menaces Colombian tribesmen
A New York Mail report recounts the sobbing pink monkey of Colombia's Choco region. Naturalist H. G. Spurrell notes the rare animal allegedly signals impending illness, driving tribal victims to suicide after three days of mourning.
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Choco
Colombia
H. G. Spurrell
London School of Tropical Medicine
Spurrell
South America
New York Mail
Mind and Health Influence of Mental Attitudes
A New York Press piece notes cases where belief and fear affect physical health. A woman believed she swallowed a frog and improved after doctors failed, suggesting mind over body. The report argues mental agitation worsens disease and that neglect hurts children, urging study of mind body links.
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New York Press
A Lonesome Donkey In The White Mountains
A lawyer Mr. Oakes sends his wife and daughter for a vacation to a farmhouse in the White Mountains. The girl asks for a donkey to ride and is charmed yet distressed by its odd calls. She writes asking her father to hurry, saying the donkey is very lonesome.
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Oakes
White Mountains
National Monthly
In the Candy Store Life Dialogue Still Reflects Hope
A single, compact reminiscence quotes a boy asking what he would have bought if he had not spent his penny. The line captures a moment of modest desire and imagination in a moral tale spirit.
Study Great Men Plutarch Quote
A compact quotation urges learning from celebrated antiquity to avoid perpetual childhood. It cites Plutarch, highlighting the value of knowing great lives for personal growth.
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Plutarch
Old London Cookshops and Hanover Queen Death Tale
Readings from mediaeval London cookshops describe a riverside market offering meat fish venison and fowl for immediate service with indoor and outdoor trade. A Hanoverian queen died in Hanover around 1842 after a clairvoyant warning and a king kept her bedroom prepared nightly with bed turned down pillows laid ready and slippers nearby.
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London
Pitarstephen
Witzstephen
Africa
London Standard
Hanover
Eirnest Augustus of Hanover
Duke of Cumberland
George III
Ifanever
London Tatler
Ancient Gallantry and the Honor of Ladies
The article traces chivalric ideals of female adoration shaping laws and conduct. It cites James II of Aragon protecting ladies in company from harm unless murder is alleged, and Louis III of Bourbon creating the Golden Shield to shield women from slander, asserting women are the source of most honor after God.
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James II
Aragon
Louis III
Duke of Bourbon
Order of the Golden Shield
Deaths Tied to Symphonic Influence Allegedly
The article claims music can provoke fatal fever and cites Nietzsche and Tschaikowsky. It notes Tschaikowsky’s Sixth Symphony as a “suicide symphony” blamed for self harm by listeners and composers, with several deaths linked to the work.
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Friedrich Nietzache
Warner
Tschaikowsky
Tsclnikowsky
Tse
Red Bank Chautauqua Open in Big Tent Weeklong Program
Red Bank Chautauqua opens Saturday in a field behind the High School with lectures and concerts. Highlights include Mrs Bertha Smith Titus as platform superintendent, Howard J. Close as chairman, and a schedule featuring the Dunbar Singing Bank, Romano Orchestra, Tuskegee Institute Singers, Dr S Parkes Cadman, Childrens Day events, and lectures by Dr William T Ellis and Senator Robert M La Follette.
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Red Bank
Mach
Bertha Smith Titus
Howard J. Close
Mary Wooster Sultan
Ella H. Pintard
M. Patterson
Helen I. Gibson
Estelle Jennings
Dunbar Singing Bank
Panama Canal
Chautauqqua Committee
Romano Orchestra
Lorenzo Pontrellie
Grace D. Goodwin
Scott Nearing
Tuskegee Institute Singers
Parkes Cadman
Cinederella
Father Nash Visits City After Rector Roll At Slocum Place
Father Briggs Nash of St John’s Divine Cathedral New York and former rector of St James’ Church came by yesterday to direct packing and shipment of belongings stored at the rectory in Slocum Place. He met many old parishioners who gave him a cordial greeting.
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Father &. Briggs Nash
St. John's Divine Cathedral
New York
St. James’ Church
Slocum Place
Father Nash
Wise Office Boy Chief Clerk Exchange Quips
A terse office exchange centers on a chief clerk telling a hypervigilant boy that if he is needed he will be with the manager. The latest acquisition is quizzed with a sharp retort about where he would be if not wanted.
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Brokaw Brothers & Boys
Astor Place
Fourth Avenue
Subway
Broadway
NEW Committee
A. Dangler
Mes
DRU
Eatontown News
Racers Peer Company
Warren St
Mind and Health
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Baltimore American
Christian Science
Chauncey J. Hawkins
North Woods
Senerchle
Millicent Melrose
William T. Ellis
R. M. Wanamaker
Ohio Supreme Court
Adriatic Concert Band
Pasquale Verrante
Robert M. Lalollette
Aedag
Kridel
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