Glass History at High School 1914 Class Day
The Class History by Albert H. Breese reflects on Chattle High School’s Class of 1914 during their Class Day exercises June 12. It humorously chronicles academics, misadventures, and the student body, naming peers, teachers, clubs, and campus scenes in a lively period voice.
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Albert H. Breese
Chattle High School
Long Branch
Chattle
Burke
Milton
Carlyle
West
Borden
Hazel Cecelia
West End
Girls’ Glee Club
The
Athletic Association
Tower of Babel
Matontown
Blakeslee
Ruth Giles
Barry
Dick” Cornell
Bush’ Cavatieri
Robert Underhill
Skillman
Iike
Speechmaker Offers Prepared Notes for All Occasions
A London gentleman runs a quiet book lined office ready to supply speeches for any event. He claims to pioneer a new profession, providing after dinner or impromptu talks by request with tailored allusions, dates, and an awareness of audience needs. He emphasizes practice and a strong store of on dates for various ceremonies.
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West End
London
Captain Willis Joins Vanitie Crew For New York Trials
Captain Ed V Willis of East Side Park Red Bank, former skipper of the Winsome, has joined Captain Harry Haff aboard the cup class sloop Vanitie as assistant. Owner Alexander Cochran and designer Wi Garnier were aboard for the first trial, with sails considered secondary. A launch named Boozie joined Vanitie’s armada, while Defiance was hauled out awaiting a steering gear from Bath Maine for a Sunday trial.
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Ed. V. Willis
East Side Park
Red Bank
Maurice Heckscher
New Yacht Club
Acushia
New York
Harry Haff
Olive Brow Loop
Haf
Alexander Cochran
Wi’ Garnier
Vanitie
Bath
Albania 10 Drive Out New Ruler
Desperate fighting at Durazzo, Albania, described in dispatches from Rome on June 18. The remnant of Prince William's army, with 200 dead and 200 wounded, and all its cannon, pressed a last defense from trenches at the city edge as Musselman rebels tightened their assault. The fall of Durazzo and the fate of Prince William were deemed inevitable before night.
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Rome
Italy
Durazzo
Albania
Prince William
Suffragettes Burn Docks And Vessels
Glasgow June 18 fire believed started by suffragettes destroyed the Kingston docks and four vessels with an estimated loss of 400000. Harbor firefighters worked to save the dock amid smoke. Several waterfront homes burned as well.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Kingston
St. Michael's Ball on July 8 at Norwood Avenue Casino
The annual St Michael's Church fundraiser will be celebrated Wednesday evening July 8 at the Norwood avenue casino in Ocean Grove. In Trenton, Justice's Brother May Be Prosecutor reports Abner Kalisch of Newark, brother of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Kalisch, as a possible Essex county prosecutor candidate today.
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St. Michael's
St. Michael's Church
Ocean Grove
Norwood Avenue
Trenton
N. J
Abner Kalisch
Newark
Supreme Court
Samuel Kalisch
Essex County
Blind Watchmakers Who Vanished From Sight Show Rare Skill
A historical account notes blind watchmakers including Rippin of Holbeach Lincolnshire born blind who disassembled delicate watches with ease and even identified stolen tiny components by touch. It also mentions a Barnstaple clockmaker who raised a blind son who could detect faults others missed.
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Holbeach
Lincolnshire
England
Rippin
Barnstaple
Monstrosity Among Newspapers Exhibition Declares End
In Alx a Chapelle museum the sole extant copy of the Illuminated Quadruple Constellation from 1859 is displayed. The colossal publication measures eight and a half by six feet, with thirteen columns per page of forty eight inch length. The piece starkly contrasts with El Telegrama, the world’s smallest newspaper at four by four inches.
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Alxa-Chapelle
New York
el Telegrama
Graduates at Grammar School Receive Palmer Method Certificates
Miss Pearce's class lists twenty seven graduates with many names including Flor ence Attison Estelle Bailey Katherine Beck Esther Bennett Minnie Britton Lena Dametz Helen Ferguson Bertha Freedman Sarah Fisher Elizabeth Gordon Mabel Hopper Grace Joline Henrietta Kothe Lucinda Lane Alice Lively Ethel Meade Grace Pearsall Lillian Reisman Hilda Smythe Dorothy Sutphin Martha Thorne Alma West Frances Woolley Harlo Clark Frank DeBrade George George Cornell Kahle Herbert Kaufman Victor Kazman George Ruegier Joseph Mazza Philip L Meyer Harold Patterson Robert Redmond Thomas Reynolds Elias Stoliar Abraham Wersky Henry Walling Harryah Gren Benjamin Morris Plus graduates earning excellence certificates in Palmer method include Isidore Gitow Abraham Swersky Joseph Mazza Frieda Seibel Minnie Britton Alice Lively Viola Asay Charlotte Pupki Frances Wheat Hella Frank Geraldine Piggage Estelle Bailey James Altberg Nellie Palmer. Diplomas were presented by Harry P Bennett of the Board of Education, correcting an earlier note about EK R Slocum.
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Miss Pearce
Florence Attison
Estelle Bailey
Katherine Beck
Esther Bennett
Minnie Britton
Lena Dametz
Helen Ferguson
Bertha Freedman
Sarah Fisher
Elizabeth Gordon
Mabel Hopper
Grace Joline
Henrietta Kothe
Lucinda Lane
Alice Lively
Ethel Meade
Grace Pearsall
Lillian Reisman
Hilda Smythe
Dorothy Sutphin
Martha Thorne
Alma West
Frances Woolley
Harlo Clark
Frank DeBride
George George
Cornell Kahle
Herbert Kaufman
Umbrella Lost and Found System Spreads to Berlin Cabs
Berlin introduces identification card boxes in taxis and horse cabs to help recover forgotten possessions. London may adopt the plan after Scotland Yard notes 84,874 objects found last year, with 32,250 umbrellas among them. Dr Boehme warns of tango foot a new dance related ailment causing calf shin and ankle pains from vigorous movements.
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Berlin
London
Scotland Yard
Boehme
Worry and Selfishness in Personal Action
The text argues worry is not a social vice but a focus on the self. It describes worry as an arch form of selfishness that inhibits action and shifts to preventive, self-centered concerns about bank accounts health and loved ones. It suggests ceasing worry frees effort toward objectives.
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Witott Park Prost
Atlantic
Scott and His Secretary Story Amid Dictation Snarl
Sir Walter Scott and his secretary Willy Laidlaw often struggled to keep pace with rapid dictation. On a momentary pause Scott joked Crue, get up, while a retort recalled the writer must spin every word from his brain, illustrating the strain of live drafting.
Organize Work of Entertaining Eleg
Vidge is chairman and will canvass the city to ascertain hotel and boarding house capacities and rates for lodges across the State. The Ladies Auxiliary will host visitors and escorts, with information booths and depot presence. Committees plan a morning parade, decorations, receptions, and transportation, naming officers and meeting weekly.
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Vidge
Executive Committee
Keats Critics Recalled As Brutal Yet Irrelevant
A century later the savage attacks by Quarterly and Blackwood reviewers on John Keats seem cruel and insecure. They mocked his humble apothecary background while praising later readers who see his poetry as great. Byron noted English Bards and Scotch Reviewers who misjudged him.
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Keats
Quarterly
Blackwood
Warde
Byron
John Keats
Tully
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Edward F. Ford
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Max J. Stein
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Edward Schoenthaler
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