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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1913
Page
8
The poem by Arthur James laments June’s vivid beauty and seasonal joys while the speaker, beset by a cold, cannot fully enjoy them. Images of roses, bees, June evenings, and wedding bells contrast with the wasting illness, underscoring longing for health as the month’s bloom unfolds.
William M Abbott of Hoboken writing for members of Company B Seventy second New York asks General Sickles to attend the fiftieth anniversary Gettysburg celebration on July 1 2 and 3. The corps commander replies in a letter expressing eagerness to join and sends his regards to the old boys noting his ninety third year and difficulty of travel.
Rear Admiral Robert E Peary, famed North Pole discoverer, was awarded the gold medal by the Swiss Geographical Society in Geneva. Witnesses included Mrs Peary Miss Peary and American Consul Francis B Keene. The citation honors him as the greatest explorer of the earth and sea.
Scientists at the National Museum in Washington report a new alcohol resistant paint that keeps fish and reptiles in their natural hues. The method treats specimens while alive, allowing bright fish to be mounted in clear alcohol and remain lifelike indefinitely. Early trials with fish show success and snakes and lizards will follow.
A mammoth harvester is tested on Australian wheat fields. A Sydney illustrated press account from Consul General Bray notes it strips sixty acres daily. The engine uses three fourths of a gallon of kerosene per acre, costing about 16 cents per acre or 2 cents per bag.
An Ohio congressman sparks a suffrage furor by urging women to shed fashion slavery before seeking political equality at the polls. He argues dress choices influence opinions and civic engagement, framing fashion as a barrier to empowerment.
A Beefeater and the chief yeoman porter oversee the Tower of London nightly key lock up ritual. Guards challenge with Who goes there and Keys with King George's Keys. The porter blesses King George as the keys are saluted and returned until tomorrow. Pearson's Weekly.
London correspondent reports Professor Bateson's Royal Institution lecture on heredity of sex. He cites a color blind woman being the daughter of a color blind man, with sons and daughters mostly normal, but daughters’ sons show color blindness in half. Anomalous case where two girls look identical yet one is color blind. No explanation found.
A London clockmaker says mantelpiece clocks drift when not perfectly horizontal. People adjust hands to compensate for tilting, causing the mechanism to misfire and stop ticking. Watches and traveling clocks avoid this, so they are preferred over ornamental mantelpieces.
A Kansas City Journal piece recalls young George Washington as a born statesman. In a playful dialogue about chopping a cherry tree, the future president denies motives like deforestation or moving pictures, revealing insight and wit.
A five year old boy Willie is sent from the dinner table for misbehavior. He retorts that his fate stems from being born into a preacher's family, highlighting a из tight home joke from the Chicago News.
A witty exchange unfolds at 11: p m as a daughter teases a young man about proper goodnights from the top of the stairs. The father defends the scene, while the hall echoes with witty banter.
Mrs Grimly asks if there is a way to break talking in sleep. Mr Grimly hopes talking more when awake will help. Puck and Rns kin discuss that thought comes from labor and labor makes thought healthier and happier.
A Chicago piano manufacturer stands accused of bribing jurors by giving each juror two five cent cigars. A cripple from Philadelphia wheeled sixty miles to Atlantic City in an invalid chair. New York plans a agro regiment as Governor Sulzer signs its formation bill for the state national guard. Twenty two of Williamson West Virginia’s thirty five May baby boys were named Woodrow. Three boys in Kansas City found stolen jewelry in a park lake and kept watches bracelets and rings with their feet. Thirteen Sussex New Jersey high school graduates insist on the date June 13 despite the thirteen jinx. Orlando Dammit of Elmsford North Carolina seeks a name change claiming it causes worry.
Captain William H. Van Schaick, commander of the ill fated steamer General Slocum, and his wife Grace Spratt separated in Amsterdam, New York. He sold the Perth town farm for 4500 dollars, paying Mrs. Van Schaick half of the proceeds. Mrs. Van Schaick, a former Lebanon Hospital nurse, cared for him after the disaster and later married Lim just before his prison sentence. She remains in Amsterdam and would not reveal plans.
Forbes Lindsay, Panama expert, asserts that about half of Panama is virgin forest, countering fears of a woodless era. The northern divide to the canal zone and the eastern areas form one vast forest, with development limited by rainfall and sparse population. latent timber wealth could yield greatly when capital, labor, and transport align.
Mrs. Harry Huston of the Los Angeles Parent Teacher Federation urges a divorce license bureau with a two dollar fee. She argues divorces should be as easy to obtain as marriages and that the wish for a divorce alone justifies granting it without legal disputes.
The tale follows James Lick, once scorned by a miller for love of his daughter, who built a grand mahogany flour mill near San Jose in 1854. He later donated half the mill’s sale proceeds to the Paine Memorial Society of Borton for a memorial hall and a lecture course in 1873, after photographing the mill to prove his ascent from poverty.
A collage of anecdotes describes dangerous village dogs in Arabia and the trick of sitting to deter attacks. It also sketches light humor on colors in psychology, a stables manager named Dawson, and a train caller misreading American expressions at a Union station.
An English ship with English crew and an American passenger list had two stewards quarrel loudly while seated. They hurled invective at each other and one mockingly told the other he ate "just like a passenger," a biting finish to the row on board.
A Londos Telegraph excerpt quotes a man recounting waking to a stranger in his room and noting his money was stolen. He considers reaching for his revolver but refrains from shooting, fearing he would become a widower. The fragment hints at a violent incident and the thief’s sudden disappearance.
A Harper's Weekly quip features Mrs Hoerake replying to a visitor about intensive gardening. She jokes she spent the entire winter growing one geranium in a soap box, illustrating frugal patience and humor.
Isaac Stein of the Rockwell Hotel proposes a Monmouth County tuberculosis hospital on 400 acres or more with a farm, lake, and high elevation to reduce mosquitoes. He urges cottagers and wealthy coast residents to fund a model, centuries lasting sanitarium that benefits patients and county, away from noise and main roads.
Winter dormancy of bulbs and twigs is delayed by gardeners. Weber from Germany uses a needle to open buds two to three weeks early, while water injections speed up budding. alcohol-water injections gain about ten days in oak twig development.
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