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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1913
Page
2
Vincent Astor heir spends two hours at the Criminal Courts in New York City watching Judge Warren Foster preside as the court proceedings unfold.
Washington reports the White House barred joint military board talks on possible war with Japan. Experts warn Japan would seize the Philippines, Hawaii, Alaska, and parts of the Northwest after any conflict, urging caution amid California legislature tensions. House remains idle as rules debates and room assignments dominate. Senator Penrose humor and tariff debate loom, while House methods prove ineffective.
Four thousand workers clashed with police and deputy sheriffs escorting dye factory workers near Prospect Park. Forty-five were jailed two women among them, charged with unlawful assemblage. Sentences for prior convicts and others varied, with some fines and suspended terms in Passaic County.
The piece recalls a safer Fourth of July tradition emphasizing parades music and flags rather than dangerous fireworks. It offers lawn games like paper hunt peanut hunt heart banner conundrams and a family tale extolling patriotism through generations while stressing restraint with explosives.
A Chicago Tribune analysis argues Anglo Indian paupers are aristocrats who refuse to work, aiming to imitate English wealth. It cites caste, racial tensions, and sanitation as factors driving poverty, with English charity bearing the burden while wealthier Hindus avoid responsibility.
In Paris during the 1700s sundials were wildly popular with the Palais Royale sun dial as a city-wide noon icon. Crowds gathered daily as watches were set to 12 o’clock. The Duke of Orléans kept the dial and added a sun-triggered powder magazine and later a noon cannon. Buffon and others showcased inventive dials including a globe burned by sunlight to strike a gong.
A collection of brief quotes and anecdotes on discoveries and human curiosity. The excerpts reference electricity wireless telegraphy flying machines microbes anaesthetics heliocentrism and the sun’s orbit. They include a man’s joke about enjoying a graphophone and a tale of Swabbs deceived by a widow about money and banking notions.
A farmer praises his hired man as one of the century's greatest inventors calling him Petrified motion amid a city tourder exchange.
A solitary 40 year old bachelor Rogers is urged into marriage by a friend who hopes to rescue him from himself. The couple, initially ill at ease, wed after a period of rough patches. The narrator plays matchmaker then becomes a casualty of the couple’s struggles, ultimately guiding them toward reconciliation and friendship aided by a baby.
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