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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1911
Page
14
Puzzle page item listing several beheadment clues across towns regions and continents. Includes sections No 1372 Geographical Beheadings No 1373 Double Acrostic and No 1374 Charade with riddle lines and wordplay clues.
The verse speaks of a single force found in a wagon, a shoe, a tin can, and owned by all creatures. It describes varying effects from silent to noisy, from foolish to wise, and warns of danger yet grants speed and longevity to dishes. It asks us to heed its presence when using a knife.
Puzzle posting shows a ten letter riddle with clues about each position and a note that the words contain sreat-Ne. A second item hints at additions about space, rest, and movement, with garbled phrasing suggesting a decoding challenge.
Comprehensive review of ten lessons from Kings and prophets with golden texts. Emphasizes salvation through God, faith, humility, service, and the Holy Spirit. Highlights Naaman healing, Hezekiah’s Passover, Jonah, Isaiah calls, and universal peace through divine rulership.
Puzzle presents a fill in the blanks with three letter words where the second word is the first reversed. Example lines hint at missing word pairs like bar and rab and pan and nap. The reader must deduce coherent pairs to complete the phrases.
A compiled catalogue of numbered puzzles including riddles and charades with clues like A trunk and The moon, Cowpens and Bull Run as examples, Hidden Things on a Party Table listing candy cake bonbon cream, and a defective proverb about seven years.
Eight of nine cottages owned by Mrs. Nate Salsbury in Reservation Circle have been leased for the summer season and are now occupied. Rentals were made early in the season.
The Eintracht Singing Society of Red Bank postponed its annual picnic due to bad weather. The event moves to next Sunday with trolley rides to Eatontown and automobile transport to George A. Steele's grove on Tinton avenue. Athletic events include a fat man's race with souvenirs for winners.
Work has begun on a new house on Broad Street Eatontown for Joseph Odell. The residence stands on a lot Odell bought from Joseph W Johnston. Odell formerly operated a shoe store in this city.
Long Branch and various joints stations list routes from New York with numerous departure times to Newark New York Red Bank Matawan Perth Amboy Elizabeth Asbury Park Ocean Grove Belmar Spring Lake Manasquan and other points. Also listed are return times from each destination and notes on Sundays and Saturdays limited services.
Widower Mr. Griggs visits widow Wiggs in the evening. She shares a dreamlike vision of her late husband Wiggs and a suggestion that a certain man should have married her before his death. Griggs dismisses the vision as sleep or a misfire of memory and urges practical comfort.
A Birmingham Age-Herald column fragment tells how a parent tests a child’s knowledge by asking about a transcendentalist and instructing him to chain the dog. While the boy leaves, his astute father’s patient plan yields the needed definition from a dictionary.
A Yonkers Statesman quip has a lady customer complaining to a shoe dealer that the shoes squeak. The dealer asks what is wrong and the customer replies that squeaking is not acceptable and mocks choosing a phonograph over the shoes due to the noise.
A teacher explains subtraction requires same denomination with examples like six horses from nine dogs. A child asks if four quarts can be taken from three cows, prompting a Westerner’s humorous response about units and quantities.
A witty aphorism from the Atlanta Journal notes that consequences pursue misdeeds, whether through personal guilt or a spouse’s reproach, emphasizing moral accountability.
Fragmentary dialogue shows Willie and Puck noting a sight across the street as people try to raise something. The garbled text suggests a humorous or perplexing moment with absentminded remarks and partial phrases.
Dialogue snippet features Alice and Kate joking about Mr. Smart and his literary taste in a Boston Transcript style exchange. Alice comments on a novel sent by Mr. Smart and Kate notes his opinion of Alice's taste rather than judging taste itself.
A lawyer tells a hopeful client he may be innocent but faces circumstantial evidence. The client remains cautious, while another party suggests a possible path to clearing the case. A tense exchange centers on doubt, belief, and potential exoneration.
Large crowds attend Ocean Park Casino shows as Spellman’s Bears and May Ward headline a bill featuring twenty acts. The audience praises the animals and performers, with cubs to host a post show reception and highlights including Harry Briet and Florence Hadley in The Marriage Fee.
The Rumson Fire Company will hold its sixth annual ball on Monday night July 10 at Red Men's Hall Church street Oceanic. Prof W W Wyman's orchestra will perform. Committee chairmen are Louis Neuhausen William H Hintelmann James Murphy George Hale Edward A Pomphrey and Dennis Martin.
H H Classen of Red Bank, a cat soup manufacturer at Farmingdale, bought a 100 by 260 foot Broad street plot in Shrewsbury for his own home. Frank O’Brien of Shrewsbury purchased a lot from the Riordan estate adjoining Edward Sagerton’s property, about two acres total.
Frank C. Storck of Hudson avenue Red Bank runs music stores in Broadway Red Bank and Freehold and serves as president of the Eastern Talking Machine Dealers Association. The quarterly meeting was held in New York on Wednesday.
Miss A E Wright of New York takes possession of Bowdoin E Hazard's house on Sycamore avenue for the summer season. Hazard resides at the Hazard homestead between the village and Little Silver. Miss Wright has been a summer resident of Shrewsbury for several years.
Onward Council No 98 Jr O U A M I of Red Bank will elect officers at American Mechanics Hall Broad Street next Monday night. Navesink Lodge No 39 I O O F will hold its semi annual officer election in Monmouth Street hall next Monday night. Nyack Athletic Club West Red Bank conducts its semi annual officer election at the clubhouse Bridge Avenue next Tuesday night.
J W Seaman is listed as a civil engineer and surveyor and commissioner of deeds. His office is in the Record Building at 192 Broadway Long Branch New Jersey with P O box 75.
Henry S. Terhune reports improvements around the north south bound stations near M Street Red Bank in New Jersey. Gravel is laid and oil sprinkled to control dust. Patrols praise the work though they favor building a new station over beautifying the grounds.
Mrs Dwight L Parsons of Shrewsbury wife of the pastor of Shrewsbury and Eatontown Presbyterian churches is on an extended trip as a guest of her mother in Massachusetts.
Adoption papers were granted Ed ward White of Spring Lake for custody of one year old Marguerite Gillman daughter of Mrs. Catherine Gillman in Freehold court by Judge Foster yesterday.
A lengthy street index details fire alarm box locations in Long Branch and Elberon areas including Franklin and Second Avenues, Ocean Avenue, Broadway, Bath Avenue, Prospect Street, and others. Entries name cross streets, avenues, and landmarks such as stations, mills, and stores, with several garbled or incomplete items toward the end.
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