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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1913
Page
2
A lurid 19th century monologue portrays wealth as a gilded cage. A suspended club member mocks riches while detailing the costly burdens and empty comforts of a millionaire's life. The piece blends dialect narration with social critique, ending in a quip about an acquittal joke.
Panic spreads as a drug store under a Florence apartment in Syracuse catches fire. Several guests and the elderly are rescued while valuables are saved amid total damage around 10000 dollars. An unrelated report tells of wolves attacking a peasant and his family on a sleigh, with the child spared.
A humorous fragment cites a Pekinese bite on a street child as a grave danger tainted by casual remarks about pets and manners. The comment threads reference social figures and witty lines from Baltimore American Life and Boston Post quips, ending with a weather forecast noting fair days ahead.
United States Weather Bureau observations list Albany 1H clear Atlantic City 58 ear Boston 62 clear Buffalo 4.55554 clear Chicago 58 clear St Louis 72 clear New Orleans 68 cloudy New York 2 clear Washington f4 clear
Minute Movies notes a woman game warden named for Mobile county Alabama. A Hammond Indiana wedding was postponed after a goat ate the marriage teens. New York health board bans soap in food. A Berlingham palace moving picture theater for the king. Wellesley College club of $5,000 yearly income pledges disbanded. Lafayette College Euston hazing ban resolutions adopted. China shows progress with first bigamy prosecution in Shanghai yielding eighty days.
Professor Edward T Reichert of the University of Pennsylvania reports a method to classify animals by the forms of cell life. He claims bears are related to sea lions and seals, not dogs, wolves, or foxes, and guinea fowl to ostrich, based on blood crystals.
French artist Paul Hellen after visiting America declares American women the most beautiful in the world. He plans an album featuring prettiest women in Paris New York London and Buenos Aires. He says Americans combine beauty with health and good dress across classes and industries.
A two foot high frog with eyes as big as teacups is seen beside Wills Creek east of Hyndman Pa. It mimics freight engine whistles, alarming Baltimore and Ohio railroad flagmen and narrowly averting wrecks. Observer J W Fleegle reports the creature and its noisy antics.
The Gustave Zede, the largest submarine, was launched at Cherbourg France. It is the first submarine to carry rapid fire guns and is crewed by four officers five mates and thirty five seamen. It uses two electric motors and two steam engines of 1500 horsepower each. Accommodation exists for a petrol motor but unused.
Army and navy clubs in New York City dismissed all their Japanese servants following the California alien land act. Rumors circulated that members feared spies if tensions with Japan escalated, though not confirmed.
Washington June 11. The article surveys looming Republican presidential candidates like Cummins La Follette Hadley Borah and Roosevelt’s allies, noting Borah’s slim chances and Hadley’s similar stance. It discusses anti lobby efforts, one cent postage dreams, a labor commission bill, tariff debates, and expectations of tariff revision under Woodrow Wilson era politics.
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