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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1910
Page
3
U S Navy visitor Henry White spent Sunday with his parents Mr and Mrs Joseph H White of Norwood avenue. He was joined by Mr Bogart of St Paul Minn making his first Long Branch visit and being charmed by the seaside resort.
Clifford Heller, a fugitive cashier at Mount Holly National Bank, is accused of looting the bank safe after hours and tampering with the lock. Police seek him as $16,000 in gold and notes vanish, with rumors tying alleged infidelity and late Philadelphia trips to his downfall.
New York June 44 Governor Hughes will not greet Colonel Theodore Roosevelt on his return due to lack of official invitation. Republican State Chairman Timothy L. Woodruff announced a reception committee with Benjamin B. Odell Jr. as chairman, amid strained ties between Roosevelt and ex Governor Odell since Roosevelt left for Africa.
Commuters in East Orange form a committee to organize a Tri state commuters league including New York New Jersey and Connecticut. Thomas Creede urges a national commuters league and asks East Orange to send representatives to Trenton to oppose rising rates ahead of a possible special legislative session.
Marion Ohio reports the death of H. L. Bon ner aged sixty nine from a disease linked to excessive eating. He reportedly tied a double steak the size of a roast and consumed twelve potatoes, two dishes ations, two loaves of bread, a pound of butter and three dozen hard boiled eggs during a contest.
Secretary of War Jacob M. Dickinson today handed diplomas to West Point graduates marking the completion of their military training and entry into service. The ceremony highlighted the continued expansion of officer ranks amid national defense preparations.
West Point New York June 15 Secretary of War Dickinson presented diplomas to the graduating class. Cadet Frederick 8 Strong Jr led the group and will join the corps of engineers after graduation.
Twenty sharpshooters from Company L and a posse of over 100 men surround a mountain area in Monroe County seeking Silas Phelps, the deputy sheriff killer. Detectives link Mrs. Stafford to aiding Phelps, who robbed Deputy Haskins’ body before fleeing to Canada. brother Herman Phelps joins the pursuit as a skilled woodsman.
Forty men escaped death as a five story brick building at West Broadway and Park Place partly collapsed. It refused to fall until two pay-as-you-enter street cars dragged it down, drawing crowds and traffic congestion through the downtown streets.
Supreme Court Justice Aspinall dismissed demurrers to indictments against the Coney Island Jockey Club Brooklyn Jockey Club Mike Beanton and thirty six others. They were charged with accepting bets at race tracks and jockey clubs and maintaining a gambling establishment under the Hart Agnew law, a setback for New York racing.
The United Master Butchers Association of New York State declares the beef price hike by the beef trust an outrage. Prices reach 24 to 44 cents per pound amid heavy wholesale payments. a year ago the level was 9 to 10 cents. A separate note reports the British steamer Dondonian wreck ashore near Cape Henry with iron ore cargo.
Belleville N J youth Fred L Owens the boyish sky pilot vows to repeat his spectacular flight over New York City domes spires and chimneys after a perilous landing in Brooklyn treetop He drew cheers and fears as his sauagelike dirigible toyed with skyscrapers then landed partly on a tree and a trolley wire before rescue by firemen.
At Ocean Grove Beach and Spray View avenues two men, proprietor Robert M. Watt and porter Sylvester Gillespie, nearly suffocated in a subcellar gas tank incident. Mrs Watt raised the alarm after finding them unconscious. Firemen revived them after an hour as a gasoline tank six feet deep and three barrel capacity fed gas illumination but the fluid proved inferior and was replaced.
A list of uncalled mail items at the Long Branch post office dated June including H Adword Bateman Hubdbara A Behal Merc Bernheim Alfred Bloxom D T Bowers Mrs J G Brown Stella Brown Mrs J Chislain Albert Cook Mrs George Combes Mrs William Curley Mr and Mrs John Epps Mrs Clara Fisher Miss Harriet Fleming Miss Maude Hall Miss Mary Hennessey Mrs Mary Julit Koplon Mrs Emma Layton Miss Minnie Lyons Mrs Estella Marshall Miss Carrie Quickley Henry Randal Mrs Amy Rogers Mrs Rosofsky Mr How land Russell Mrs Rose Serger Miss Lavinia Sickles Katharina Stolz J Taylor Miss Nuno Tobin David Tomlinson Jr Mrs David White Mrs Winburger A T Woolley P M
A published list names several ladies connected to the Long Branch Society for the Improvement of the Poor who attended Mrs Brent Good's home for a sewing bee. The article notes these ladies contributed clothing but did not participate in sewing. The society thanks all donors for their generosity.
Auto mobile owners fault the Norwood avenue bridge's surface. Crushed stone over cement lacks proper delay mix, making it hard for cars to pass. Wheels sink through the stone and hit cement, causing jams as stones pile up in front of wheels. Advertise In the Daily Record.
A force of eighty men is at work building the trolley extension between Atlantic and Flovence avenues and the New Jersey Southern Railroad tracks at North Long Branch. The right of way is being prepared to receive the ties. The extension is expected to be finished in ten days with cars running by late July.
An ad campaign idea arises from the notion that the ever-present servant problem renews itself in households, prompting reflection on solutions and modernization in domestic labor.
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