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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1913
Page
6
Notes on inter-class commitments at Chattle, prize funding debates, and campus events. Also reports on Rumson School honor roll, Passaic dress prize, local baseball, and student polls. Includes campus activities at Princeton Hastie team and Rumson No. 2 listings.
National and American League games summarized with scores, umpires, and batteries. Standings list Pittsburgh through Philadelphia, St Louis, Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago, New York, Detroit, Cleveland, and others. International and New York State leagues included with team positions and records. Also notes on the schooner Hiram crew and coasting runs from Boston to New York.
A sailor explains the correct method to rescue a drowning person using a life preserver. The victim should grasp the side near them and press with full weight to flip the ring over the head, then be pulled to safety.
Mary Ann Cooper aged ninety nine, a childhood friend of Charles Dickens and said to be the model for Little Dorrit, died recently in London. Her acquaintance with Dickens in youth linked her to the famed novelist’s circle. She lived much of her life in England and left behind a legacy tied to literary history.
French historian Alberic Cabuet blames government neglect for the crumbling Napoleon tomb and Longwood House on St Helena. He cites open doors, empty rooms, and eroding foundations, with annual upkeep at $1,800 and a caretaker's salary as the budget burden.
On a hot midsummer day the towering Washington Monument shows a slight bend. A 174 foot copper wire suspends a plummet in water to reveal the shift along the southern side of the shaft.
Justice Seabury in the New York Supreme Court issues a writ of habeas corpus directing the State Asylum for the Insane superintendent to present Harry K Thaw in court on May 14 to testify against John Nicholson Aubot the lawyer indicted for offering a twenty thousand dollar bribe to Dr Russell former head of Matteawan.
The confidence committee voted to report adversely the governor's nominations of John B. Riley for state superintendent of prisons and John Mitchell for state comptroller. The nominations will be rejected by the state senate, forcing the governor to name two new candidates.
A guide on arranging a patient room with careful, minimal items and safe layout. It stresses bed placement, furniture limits, clothing changes, and a linked note on Harper’s Household Handbook advice about selecting capable men and Harper’s Weekly perspectives on leadership potential.
The crocus once valued for saffron used in cooking and medicine. Centuries ago distillations claimed to strengthen lungs and heart and prevent plague. The saffron trade centered in Saffron Walden, though today only sparrows seek the crocus for its spice.
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