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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1913
Page
4
A garbled note describes a teacher offering a prize for the best story from a Vittles girl class. Children near maturity hoped to win while adults lament the chaotic, comic tale of love and writing paths, with phrases about professional writers and a contest mood.
A Chicago Tribune article extols tea as a beneficial beverage enhancing physical health and morality. It argues tea improves nerves digestion and appetite, steadies the mind, aids sobriety, and strengthens character against temptations.
Four people found dead in the ruins of Leo Wharton home on New Brooklyn road New Jersey. Coroner says a fight may have followed a crime of passion with a gunshot wound to Jolo Kenthill and a burned house complicating determination of others’ deaths. Fire appears to have been used to conceal the crime.
Cartoon dialogue shows Bill questioning Jim about carrying a cane and Jim replying he keeps it for water on the knee. Bill then suggests wearing pumps in a humorous exchange from Lippincott’s.
A German naturalist notes the woodpecker and hummingbird tongues used for prey capture and speech imitation while Parrots mimic human speech. Scribner’s discusses the Bosporus gardens shaped by steep hills, with terraced layouts offering limited water views.
A chaotic snapshot of crowds on the Atlantic City boardwalk shows over 150000 visitors at the resort yesterday. The scene was lively with no prohibition on alcohol as the day proceeded.
In Lyndonville Vermont on March 24 a Montreal to Boston passenger train halted at a weak flood ruined bridge. The locomotive and crew plunged into the icy stream as the bridge gave way but the engineer and fireman swam ashore uninjured. Passengers learned a back bridge had collapsed moments earlier.
Pacific Coast lumbermen plan to import 20,000 American workers from Mississippi valley states to keep mills and camps running if general strikes by the IWW under Joseph Ettor William Haywood and allies succeed on May 1. Employers begin weeding out foreign workers suspected of anarchistic tendencies.
Canadian Governor General Duke of Connaught Duchess and Princess Patricia depart Halifax for England aboard the Empress of Britain. Military officers bid farewell at the pier as gifts from Ottawa and Ottawa officials are presented to the royal party.
A collage notes Dickens twenty seven at Devonshire Terrace marking moves and ten works written there. It recalls George du Maurier and a Marylebone corner terrace once billed as London’s smallest. A quip from James Lane Allen about celibacy follows a Tudor style exchange. A Strand anecdote about a boot repair ends with a joke about charges.
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