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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1913
Page
10
A narrator describes wandering in a thick fog along a broad beach losing bearings and meeting a girl who guides him. A second figure, Helen, appears as a prankster and the trio ultimately becomes close friends after the uncanny encounter.
The log cabin campaign of 1840 featured log cabins, live raccoons, and cider barrels as symbols. Supporters opened homes nationwide with room warmsings and public gatherings, turning politics into a spectacle of novelty.
A Suburban Life Magazine piece argues that too many furnishings and utensils burden women who must care for them. It cites cases of leaving homes for hotels or boarding houses and urges reducing clutter to ease daily labor and restore contentment.
A description of Australian widows near the Murray river kneading pipe clay into a thick skullcap. After shaving their heads they cover the scalp with clay, then grease to ease removal, creating a netted cap that weighs several pounds and fits tightly to the head.
The best weather vanes require nicety and precision to balance perfectly and turn with minimal wear. Vane weight is equal on both sides of the socket, with longer opposite ends offset by lighter projecting feathers to ensure easy turning and minimal friction.
An artist recalls two young women viewing a Miller painting in an art gallery. One gushes about beauty and nature then asks what the others are doing. Reading the title reveals Millet’s Gleaning Millet, prompting a humorous correction.
A neighbor recalls a week away to find Mrs. Crabshaw confronted with a husband who admits no missing her. The judge notes the constant chatter of the talking machine as part of the scene.
A reader asks if they have missed much and what pieces are played at the performance. The dialogue notes the Ninth Symphony as a highlight and expresses astonishment at the late arrival.
A fragment quotes Emerson on a daughter and an angelic disposition. It notes a parent allows her own why about everything and suggests all institutions are the lengthened shadow of one man.
A London field correspondent recalls a farmer facing a docile seeming bull that suddenly charged. After a failed club strike the farmer faked surrender by lying flat while three helpers crawled forward. They retreated on hands and knees as the bull trailed them, snorting and bellowing, until reaching the river bank and escaping.
A photograph taken two weeks ago at Buckingham Palace features the Prince of Wales. The image captures the royal figure in formal attire with a dignified pose.
The piece began in the kitchen as a table with a top and two shelves on four legs then served as a serving table for dishes. It later gained a closed section and extra shelf sometimes with a bowl, moved to halls, then merged with credence and dresser designs into a canopied unit with closet shelves, resembling a sideboard in the eighteenth century.
The story recounts how Rev John Brown, as a youth on Abernethy’s hills, walked 24 miles to St Andrews to buy a Greek Testament. A helpful professor overheard the bookseller’s doubt, tested the lad, and promised the book free if he could read it well. The test satisfied the professor and the herd boy departed with the prize.
The piece argues the servant question is timeless. It cites Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister where Therese explains a household crisis with a self reliant attitude as a humorous nod to ongoing shifts in domestic service and labor.
A Boston group sought bait from an old country fisherman who delivered a ten quart pail of angle worms after three hours. Asked for payment the man said the ground was hard and worming tough, and proposed a half share of the bait as payment, joking he might go fishing himself tomorrow.
Travel anecdote recalls Mme Sarah Bernhardt resisting a midnight luggage search at the Belgian frontier. She halted the train, sat on a portmanteau between the rails, and forced officials to reattach her carriage, leading to a reform in Belgian customs procedures.
A Boston couple, visiting a church, asked to wed during the afternoon sermon. The minister declined to marry them during the service but agreed to perform the ceremony after it ended. They waited in the rear as Hymn 415, Mistaken Souls That Dream of Heaven, was sung.
A French stenographer struggles with English while transcribing a recitation. An expert decodes the notes as part of a well known poem that begins Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.
A schoolmistress warns Johnny Jones that telling the truth will lead to both a bad place and expulsion from school. The exchange underscores strict discipline and consequences for honesty.
A short exchange in the Houston Post questions whether people work for the common good or chase only pleasant things, highlighting a critique of contemporary values.
In London Tit-Bits a debate cartoonishly questions how marriage changes a man. Benedict concedes the idea, but argues it “flattens” a man, while His View of It notes marriage broadens, prompting a wry exchange about self-deception.
Fair Haven Borough lost ground in its long battle with Tintern Manor Water Co to force new mains on Willow Street Kemp Avenue and Lockwood Place. The company will not lay mains without a guaranteed gross revenue of ten cents per foot for fifty years, meaning residents must sign multi year water contracts. The meeting also covered Ridge Road boundary work with Rumson, street repairs, sidewalk grades, and light changes with the Public Service Corporation.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Covert and Irene return to Lakewood in poor health. Miss Phebe Sherman visits Red Bank. Local women attend New Brunswick Council Daughters of Liberty meeting. A church benefit entertainment is planned for First M E Church Sunday School. Red Bank resident Mrs. Ralph Field visits. Hollywood Council No. 2 members attend Asbury Park Lodge nineteenth anniversary.
Miss Gladys Eastmond of Middletown suffered a painful foot injury when a horse stepped on it last week. Dr. Charles A. Palmer treated the injury. Township Clerk Henry Smith is convalescing. Captain Martin Decatur Willett of Jersey City visited his sister Mrs Daniel Hendrickson. Miss Mary H. Hendrickson will return Monday to study at the Philadelphia Mission Training School.
The ladies of Central Baptist Church announce a cake and bread sale on Thursday morning in the Gas Company's building on First Ave. Miss Marianna Leonard returns home from Glen Ridge to reside with her parents for the summer. Philip Dinkelberg takes a summer position at DeHart and Letson Photo Studio. Mr. and Mrs. J A Baldwin visited Mrs. George Baldwin at Red Bank.
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