Pioneer Odd Fellows Lodge Celebrates Sixty-Fifth Anniversary
Long Branch observes the sixty-fifth anniversary of Arioch Lodge No. 77 I O F founded March 13, 1848. Founding members included Captain Tucker C. Edwards and Captain Robert Potter, both long serving Odd Fellows. The event featured historic gavels from Fred J. Becker and notes on lodge locations, membership fluctuations, and the rite’s early presence in the city.
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Firetree Society
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Arioch Lodge
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Pioneer Lodge
Odd Fellows
Tucker C. Edwards
Branchport Avenue
Edwards
Old Lodge
Robert Potter
Atlantic Avenue
Captain Edwards
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Bea View Lodge
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Fred J. Becker
Asbury Park
Becker
Broadway
Pearl Patreet
Jackson Street
Long Branch
Odd Fellows’ Lodge
Illustrious Shoemakers and Their Noted Figures
A survey praises shoemakers as gifted minds with deep concentration while at work. It lists notable names such as Sir Cloudesley Shovel Gifford, Bloomfield, Carey, Admiral Myngs, George Fox, John Kitto, and Burgeon as figures associated with the craft, suggesting a broad influence of distinguished shoemakers.
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Cloudesley Shovel Gifford the Terrible
Bloomfield
Carey
Admiral Myngs
George Fox
The
Society of Friends
John Kitto
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Bturgeon
Electrician
Bite Acores
The Inspector's Advice and a Spavined Mule Incident
The late Inspector McCluskey known as Gentlemen George or Cheaty George was a friend and a feared foe. A one-time tycoon rushed into his office furious that a policeman called him a spavined old mule. The Inspector answered simply that he could do nothing and told him to consult a vet.
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Inspector McCluskey
George
New York
Gu Mmenna
Warlike Albanians and Blood Feuds Compared to Scotland
The article contrasts Albanian clan feuds with Scottish highland wars, noting their fierce country loyalty and quickness to violence. It describes the Liord feud as a prominent Albanian institution and explains blood fraternities among Mirdites where two vowed friends may kill for love, including a legendary case of two men killed over one woman.
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Albania
Beotland
Foster Fraser
Scotland
Chicago
Newa
Japan Wedding Shrine Sets Western Style Rite
The Hibiya daijingu in Tokyo popularizes western wedding rites with a shrine ceremony led by a head priest, a vow before ancestors, and sake distributed to relatives before a banquet at a hotel or restaurant with a Japanese menu.
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Hibiya
Leap for Life in Yellowstone Canyon Hero Survives Desperate Cable Leap
Gilbert, a cave explorer in Yellowstone park, faced a sheer canyon fall after a bear chased him to a swinging ore bucket. He grabbed a dangling line and, with help from nearby passersby, descended the bucket by rope. A rough bow and arrow let him pull a rescue line over the bucket and, inch by inch, he reached solid ground amid cheers.
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Gilbert
R. D Strong
Wide World
Yellowstone Park
Tan
Scholar Statesmen in England From Bacon to Morley
England's long link between scholarship and politics spans nearly three centuries. Notable leaders across parties combined deep learning with public service, reflected in figures like Temple Bolingbroke Pulteney Carteret Burke Fox Canning Derby Gladstone Wilberforce or Salisbury.
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England
Bacon
Morley
Francis Bacon
Lord Morley
Blackburn
Wldow
William Temple
Bolingbroke
Pulteney
Carteret
Burke
Fox
Canning
Derby
Glad Stine
Wiltonsfeld
Saliseury
Swift
Addison
Grote
Macaulay
Mill
Edinburgh Review
Sponge Culture Methods on Florida Coast and Keys
Reports on sponge farming across Biscayne Bay Sugar County and the Florida coast describe methods such as attaching seed fragments to cement blocks and lowering them to the seabed for two years, then reattaching new cuttings. A second method uses wires and copper core leads to keep sponges from loosening.
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Florida Coast
Biscayne Bay
Sugar Contkey
Anclote Keys
Key West
St. Nicholas
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