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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1913
Page
2
The engagement is announced of Migs Native Steele dazetter of Charles Steele of J J Morgan & Co and Devereux Milburn son of John G Milburn noted athlete and polo player. Milburn was one of the big five who defended the international polo trophy.
Two trusties Morris Difford and Wilion Forbes escaped Sing Sing prison yesterday. Acting Warden Connaughton led a search of buildings and grounds when their absence was discovered. Forbes, six foot one and 200 pounds, and Clifford Difford were serving sentences from Westchester and Richmond counties respectively. A separate report notes a bomb blast at 57 Elizabeth Street, the eighty fifth such blast in two years, with minor damage and no injuries.
Washington report surveys the Senate committee's probe into lobbying and newspaper influence. It notes calls to curb irrelevant testimony, cites Senator O Gorman against the Japanese arbitration treaty, and discusses definitions and detectability of lobbyists amid debates on unanimity and foreign entanglements.
The article traces the historic sanctuary system in England where felons could seek asylum in churches and palaces, avoiding arrest for up to forty days if they surrendered to a coroner. It notes no modern sanctuary for criminals, but civil protections persist for clergy and high church officials within churches and royal palaces.
The article explains how sky colors signal weather, noting blue for fair skies, yellow at sunset for winds, pale yellow for rain, greenish for wind and rain, rosy for fair weather, dark red for rain, red sky in morning for wind or rain, and gray skies indicating rain. It also mentions a sailors rhyme about rain cues and briefly covers the great white shark, a German moss rose legend, and a classroom joke about pine needles.
The dialogue features a fair visitor and convict 2328 remarking that stone walls cannot free prisoners while a warden's influence remains hypnotized. The exchange captures a tense, cryptic tone characteristic of the period in a New York Times and Chicago News voice.
Washington June 23 Oscar Underwood says Democratic senators expect no major House-Senate rift over tariff bill changes. Income tax exempted incomes cut from 4000 to 3000 dollars. Underwood bill largely intact. caucus to consider revisions. Industry notes include car rates, optics, stained glass, and cement classifications. California protests against repealing 1890 revenue tax on brandies for fortified wines.
John D. Rockefeller adopts the Scotech plan to mow the golf course in Tarrytown New York. A shipment of 460 Southdown sheep arrived by truck from Cantico Pills and will graze the estate, replacing motor mowers. The herd costs about 2400 dollars and will reduce grass cutting costs.
In Chicago on June 23 a jury found Mrs. Jessie R. Van Viissingen cognizant of and profiting from her husbands forgeries and denied her divorce. Defendant Peter Van Viissingen is jailed in Joliet for mortgage forgeries exceeding 500000 dollars.
Miss Grace Osborne daughter of the consular officer wed Hugh McAuley of Washington in Havre. Weather forecast calls for generally fair conditions today and tomorrow with light variable winds.
A Kansas Industrialist article discusses feline evolution from the upper tertiary formations to the pleistocene, noting machaerodontinae in Europe and America. It mentions Felis chris tolli, Felis catus, and early American Felis bilanus as part of the Piocene carnivora lineage.
The 101 mile standard gauge Copper River railroad across the Alaska valley is hailed as a world class engineering feat. Builder M J Heney and chief engineer E C Hawkins used river ice as bridge scaffolding, racing to finish before the ice burst. The bridge cost 1 400 000 dollars and linked glaciers Childs and Miles.
Lupi fled Cayenne by hiding in a seaworthy coffin after rigging a coffin shed. He crafted paddles and a cockpit, then set off at night toward Veney British Guiana. A steamer from the Antilles near Paramaribo rescued him, leaving him in irons in his cell.
The article notes licorice root mainly comes from Syria with large shipments from Aleppo Baghdad Antioch and Damascus totaling thousands of tons annually. The dried stalks are processed in factories for flavoring confectionery beer and tobacco products. A humorous anecdote about a horse and sugar sticks is also mentioned.
Conversation in Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes a scientist noting the earth’s axis wobble. George responds with a humorous mechanical fix involving muffler, lever, bearings, and wheel cap adjustments.
The fragment notes a free thinker pondering a man’s uncertain path as the world turns aside. David Starr Jordan’s quotation frames a moment of existential doubt amid a distant gaze toward an unknown future.
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