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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1913
Page
5
In Sea Bright a first grade dramatization of Red Riding Hood delighted a large audience. The Hoodoo Thirteen, ten girls and three boys, starred in the free performance while Frank Bragssell, a Sea Bright broker, noted for daily swims, marked his thirteenth season. The piece was praised as polished and well rehearsed.
A major entertainment fund raiser will unfold at the Lyric Theatre in Red Bank tomorrow night for the Monmouth Club remodeling. Fifteen vaudeville acts feature guests like Belle Gold and Uriah Richards with cars held by local trolley lines until show completion. Reserved seats are on sale at the Lyric box office and out of town reservations are secured by phone.
A guide suggests complimenting a plain ignorant woman by saying she is as beautiful as she is accomplished. The tactic aims to flatter while avoiding falsehood, leaving the speaker with a guiltless conscience.
The article notes the final week of Chattle Chips due to school closure on Friday. It lists teachers attire for the Baccalaureate Sermon at the Presbyterian Church with several named staff and jokes about Agnes. Miss Poor returns, exams complete, and preparations for Grammar School Commencement with Dr. William G. Schauffleur to speak on Ideals at the ceremony.
A Zion's Herald reflection honors Titanic victims as selfless heroes who saved others at the cost of their lives. The piece contrasts grief with pride, noting moments when the divine in man shines amid discouragement in the world.
A tired editor demands a concise version as a barber resumes cutting hair after a moment of storytelling. The exchange echoes a courtroom or judge like pause as the request is made for brevity.
Brookline Massachusetts reputedly the richest town per capita bans moving pictures. Children of wordy parents must seek other amusement and know nothing of movie delights.
Minute style notes report three brothers in Philadelphia winning gold medals for avoiding Sunday school for twenty years. Counterfeit bills surface in Lenox Massachusetts. Syracuse minister Victor Verrante jailed for counterfeiting freed by Wilson. Scotland shipyard strike averted pending ballot. E Dana Durand to head AG economics at Minnesota college. Louis Grandjean seeks aid to reach Paris for a ten thousand dollar wage. Funeral of one legged artificial limb factory manager in Chicago attended by ten men with eight legs among pallbearers.
Navy officials search for veterans of sail powered ships to help rig the Niagara for the Perry battle centennial. The Niagara raised from Lake Erie in 1913 will be repaired under Lt. W. L. Morrison to preserve its hull details, gun ports, and timbers for the anniversary.
Mrs. Ida Nathanson of New York gave birth to a boy at Lebanon hospital weighing six pounds. The infant was born with collapsed lungs and no blood circulation. Doctors used a palmoter pulmotor at low pressure to restore breathing. Within ten minutes the child breathed and stabilized. this may be the first reported use of palmpetor for this purpose.
A postcard received by Herbert Brenner notes a postoffice aboard the German airship Sachsen. Brenner, whose father runs a large hotel at Boarlen Baden, is learning the business from a desk at the Ritzwiten hotel in New York. The card, sent by his brother Alfred aboard the Sachsen, is postmarked aboard Zeppelin Luftschiff Sachsen 30 Mar 1918 and Baden Baden.
The New York Evening Mail muses that baseball has helped fix the nation's sense of when spring arrives, alongside a note on astronomy and seasonal time.
A lively Oceanport M E Church Children’s Day featured a strong program, refined music, baptisms for nine months old and four years old, and thanks to organizers. Mrs Lulu Paar hosted a lantern lit party with gifts as Master J McFlugh played violin and Dorothy Wells and others attended. A birthday celebration for Mrs Roswill drew many relatives. health notes mark her as mother and grandmother to many. Upcoming events include a Ladies Aid strawberry festival, Dr Marshall’s talk, and plans for a new club formation. Captain Douglas Riddle and party enjoyed a yacht trip to Highlands.
An entertainment Friday night at the Lyric Theatre East Front Street funds the Monmouth Club. Vaudeville stars Otis Harlan Charles J Ross Georgia Cameron Joseph Cameron and others perform with Joseph Burrows and Miss Brylawski assisting. Local residents attend graduations and visits as town news rolls on.
Quotation from Lord Byron notes a lady once dangerously ill but now recoveringly well in a wry aside about public concern and reputation. The remark reflects Byron’s wit about illness and social perception in literary circles.
The article catalogues mine folk beliefs such as closing a mine after a fatality either on the day or after the funeral, luck with lantern hands, the old practice of parting leaving torn clothing, and the importance of safeguarding the mine regulations card issued to every new worker.
Red Bank Council No 984 Royal Arcanum will join First Methodist Church Red Bank Sunday night to commemorate the national lodge’s 36th anniversary. Most lodges nationwide will participate. Pastor Rev H Monroe Van Sant will preach on Bearing one another s burdens.
The will of Samuel Lanier of Oakhurst, dated February 17, 143, probate granted. He leaves one dollar to sister Belle Applegate and brother Joseph Bradley and residuary estate to Mary Amanda Applegate, named executrix. Witnesses Frank W. Eisle and Mattie V. Bacon.
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