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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1914
Page
1
Justice Lamar reports progress toward a peace protocol and a successor to Huerta as mediation gains momentum. The discussions focus on narrowing gaps and moving toward an official accord with President Wilson kept informed.
The Washington report states the Mexican mediation is very encouraging with Carranza likely to participate. Officials say progress on the peace protocol is real and a new stable government for Mexico is anticipated under indirect U.S. and mediator guidance as Huerta successors are discussed.
Howard West son of Mr and Mrs Milton West of Church Street sails today on a Clyde Line ship to Jacksonville after a four day furlough. He has been chief wireless operator on his ships during multiple trips to South America Cuba Mexico England and Norfolk. He witnessed early Mexico US tensions after Vera Cruz sinking and helped move refugees to Galveston and New Orleans.
The Practitioners' Society of Eastern Monmouth held its twelfth annual dinner at the Deal Inn with a business meeting beforehand. Wilbur Gardner and Arthur James entertained, W. K. Campbell presided, and a paper by Dr H Seymour Houghton titled Mystery in the Home was read.
The Moorish Gardens, a new amusements venue beside the Broadway Theatre, opened last night with about 1,500 seats and strong audience turnout. Two motor driven projectors with high quality lenses showed clear pictures while Thomas Phelan supervised music. The stylish frontage uses light brick and a two passageway entrance. refreshments can be served in-seat.
Rev J Howard Melish rector of Holy Trinity Parish Brooklyn urges 1914 graduates to register and protest against wrong, delivering a baccalaureate sermon from Acts 26 19 at St James Church The event featured a large audience with trappings of the Feast of St Barnabas and a sunset evensong.
Frank A. Vanderiip, a banker, argues that the current economic difficulties are mainly psychological in nature rather than fundamentally financial. He suggests confidence and perception drive many problems and calls for steadier expectations.
Rioting resumed in several Italian cities amid the general strike with troops firing on demonstrations in Naples killing one and wounding ten. Troops fully occupy Ravenna and many towns report clashes and disrupted rail lines as strikers claim responsibility to continue the action.
Mrs Leon Cubberley and Miss Elizabeth Greene lead the Monmouth County Branch Finance Committee in Red Bank. Local chairmen from Long Branch Ashbury Park Red Bank Shrewsbury Keyport and Middletown discuss boosting membership and income for the coming year and urge timely dues payment before the July 1 anniversary.
Ancient seat of English kings damaged by a bomb in Westminster Abbey. Explosion placed beneath the coronation chair caused slight damage to the chair itself but shattered the famous stone, authorities suspect suffragette involvement.
Edward Miles is hospitalized with a bullet wound near the left knee after a shooting in the Red Bank Pit. Matthy Bill Wilson, the alleged shooter, is jailed in Freehold awaiting injuries outcome while Mary Christmas, witness, is held as material witness. Officer William Decker disarmed Wilson minutes after the volley, aided by Chief Wymbs.
The Monmouth Beach Public School Class of 1914 held its commencement at the Monmouth Beach Swimming Pool building with five graduates. Diplomas were presented by ex Mayor William H. Heitzman, followed by a lively program including a comical dish pan band, concerts, dialogues, and a student dance after the ceremony.
In Broad Street an afternoon collision near Red Bank Trust Company involved Mrs Olive T Gilsey passing a sprinkling cart and Frank Chambers driving an Overland. A second pedestrian Miss Sarah Hart was badly cut after stepping into Monmouth Street. she remains bedridden.
Willis was seen leading the triangular ten mile course with the wind from the south seventeen miles off shore as yachts sailed over.
The Resolute won a triangular thirty mile race off Sea Bright ahead of Vanitie by four minutes on time allowance amid seventeen mph south wind. The Vanitie trailed, with report noting similar course to yesterday and visibility of the yachts off Long Branch.
Judge Harry C. Badeau of Red Bank, a Princeton Class of 1484 member, left today to attend the class reunion and will return next Wednesday.
Heat waves in western Penna claim seven lives as temperatures rise to the low to mid nineties. Pittsburg records 91 degrees with higher humidity elsewhere, and forecasters warn of continued heat as the area endures another scorching day.
Miss Elsie Gulick of this city, two years in Kentucky mountaineers missionary work, is in Long Branch for a brief stay. She will speak at the first Reformed Church tonight at eight under the Ladies Missionary Society. A reading by Miss Pearl Breece and musical numbers will accompany an offering for domestic missions.
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