Court of Appeals reins in rail case and public interest limits
In a June 1914 Long Branch column the Court of Appeals reverses a lower court verdict in Carrie Tilton v. Pennsylvania Railroad over a fatal Asbury Park grade crossing. The ruling upholds public welfare over property rights and endorses commissions’ oversight of business practices affecting public interest.
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Court of Appeals
Carrie Tilton
Pennsylvania Railroad
Asbury Park
Supreme Court
Circuit Court
Appeals Court
New Trust Problem Suggests Regulated Competition
President Van Hise of Wisconsin proposes a practical solution to trusts at the National Association of Credit Men meeting. He urges preserving competition, allowing concentration for efficiency, and preventing monopoly with regulation akin to railroad oversight, plus interstate and state trade commissions to guard public interest.
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van Hise
University of Wisconsin
National Association of Credit Men
United States
New York
St. Louis
Pennsylvania
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pure Food Commission
United States Steel Corporation
Standard Oil Company
Interstate Trade Commission
State Trade Commissions
Public Utilities Commissions
Public officials clash over recording explanations of votes
Commissioner Arrowsmith objects to delaying explanations of budget votes while arguing that open discussion and recording of votes fulfill the purpose of a transparent commission government. The piece also cites a detective linking drug use to violence, noting rising narcotics crimes across cities from New York to Newark.
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Arrowsmith
Massachusetts Mashers bill passes third reading
The Massachusetts Senate approved by 18 to none a bill to punish street confrontations with women or girls with up to six months in prison. Critics question street focus and warn the measure invites blackmail and may prove unenforceable.
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Massachusetts Senate
New York Telegram
Bandit to Peacemaker editorial on Villa praised
The World extols Villa in an extravagant editorial while cautioning against premature praise. The Kansas City Star notes skepticism about a quick reversion to type and questions potential coffee cancer warnings and future prohibitions.
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Villa
Editorial Snippets Reflecting Editorials and Quips
A sequence of quotes from multiple papers covers independence and political ideas, suffrage, U S politics, trust influence in Mexico, dress at police stations, and a Fordham University address. Wry observations highlight attitudes toward wealth, labor, and shortcuts in the early 20th century press.
Gunga Din Poem Excerpt And Soldier Pride
The piece reflects soldiers and mudlark bravado with lines about storming fear and serving under Her Majesty. It centers on the regimental bhisti Gunga Din and the rough charges of life in the field as the narrator recalls barrack life, the heat, and the demand for water duty amid mocks and trials.
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Aldershot
India
Gunga Din
Gunga Din Poem Recalls Duty Amid Battle
A compact excerpt of Rudyard Kipling’s Gunga Din recounts a Burmese water bearer saving a wounded British soldier during action. The verse portrays courage, loyalty, and grim humor under fire, concluding with the speaker acknowledging Gunga Din’s virtue beyond hardship.
Praise for English Schools and Ruskin on Child-Training
The quote extols English schools shaping well behaved, obedient youth grounded in Christian morals. It contrasts teaching children to honor parents and reverence authority with warning that neglect may produce Frankensteins and demons.
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Whitelaw Reid
Ruskin
First Hours of Sleep the Best and New Mail Schedule
Article asserts deep first sleep hours confer recovery and cites Napoleon and Frederick the Great. It also lists a detailed, confusing old mail schedule for New York, Philadelphia, Trenton, Asbury Park, and local routes with arrival and departure times, plus post office hours and Sunday lobby note.
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Napoleon
Frederick the Great
Virchow
New York City
Philadelphia
Penna
Trenton
N. J
Asbury Park
Adenoids and Health Dangers Cited in Early 20th Century
The article links adenoids to crowding and pollution, listing effects such as jaw and tooth deformation, blocked airways, mouth breathing, deafness from eustachian tube blockage, and possible cognitive dulling. It urges early treatment and notes the removal operation is simple when done by a specialist.
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Hippocrates
How the Times Change
The Atchison Globe notes a magazine complaint about no little girls left and observes that middle-aged women have become scarcer than in the past.
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Atchison Globe
Assaults on Kenesaw Mountain take heavy toll
Fifty years ago today on June 27 three columns of General Sherman infantry stormed Johnston's entrenched line on Kenesaw mountain. Each assault failed with heavy losses—about 800 killed or wounded per column and 2,500 total. Confederate losses reached around 500 as Secretary Tracy ordered a radical navy reorganization.
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Sherman
Johnston
Kenesaw Mountain
Secretary of Navy
Benjamin F. Tracy
Navy Department
Profits Rise For Safety Razor Firm In 1914 First Quarter
A large safety razor company reports higher sales and better profits in the first quarter of 1914, a period not noted for booming business. Experienced owners say newspaper advertising yields better results at lower cost than any other medium, and dealers eagerly promote the product due to the clear demand created by ads.
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Daily Record
Benj. Boisseau Bobbitt
Eadlier
Long Branch
F. M. Taylor Publishing, CO
Broadway
Chas
L. Edwards, Sec
NEW Jersey Telephone
Dungan
Newark
The
Bank of Personal Service
Citizens National Bank
Long Branch, N. J
Perity
Kansas City Star
Detroit Free Press
White House
New York Sun
Mexico
Omaha
Martin H. Glynn
Department of Law and Medicine
Fordham University
Glynn
N. J. Catholic Monitor
Sydney ‘Smith
Gunga
Rudyard Kipling
Fordsbury Park
William
Slocum
P. M
First National Bank
New Jersey Mortgage & Trust Company
New Jersey
B'way
Norwood & Bath Ave
Fong
Hyer & Flock
Undertakers
A. M. Townley & CO
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