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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1911
Page
7
A curated set of puzzles and riddles from Youths Companion style items. Items include names Imra Otto Jasper and a general, a Word Square riddle, a riddle about the sea and sky, a hidden mythology piece with gods and lovers, and a celestial youth motif.
A quotation puzzle set titled Transpositions asks to transpose elements to form a Europe country and related items, followed by a Letter Enigma clue puzzle whose solution is described as a season loved by all. The text presents wordplay likely from a 19th or early 20th century puzzle page.
Puzzle uses initials and finals to spell two European countries on the verge of war. Across clues include leather strap, clamor, a deserter, a hawk, a heroic poem, and old times.
A fragmented geograhic Europe item weaves decapitation imagery with poetic praise and puzzle notes. Mentions mountain tops visions and several numbered clues plus homonyms and curtailings, ending with riddling lines about puzzledom and a St Audrey reference.
A Sunday School commentary on Isaiah's vineyard parable contrasts Israel with fruitful faith. It recalls divine judgment for unfruitful lives, cites Christ as true vine, and urges believers to bear spiritual fruit through the Spirit.
In Mrs. T. Ps. OConnor’s reminiscence I Myself she recalls meeting Henry James at a London dinner. James agrees London grants independence of opinion if one contributes beauty wit or agreeableness while in Texas a man’s character is judged by his fellowship. He calls London the Texas of Europe.
An editor recalls Twain joking about anonymously writing Joan of Arc. At a dinner he asks a senator if he reads the serial. The senator replies he reads every installment. Twain then reveals he himself wrote Joan of Arc.
Transit timetable lists stations in New York and Jersey from Central to Hudson Terminal with Long Branch routes to Newark New York and other destinations. It includes departure times from New York and return times, notes on Sundays and Saturdays, and agents listed for the New York and Long Branch Rail Road.
Mrs Bowser spots Samuel Bowser swigging from a jug and fears a cyclone and earthquake. He frets, teases, and sobs over gravestones and cats until the jug disappears and the joke is revealed as plain water at breakfast.
A cornet player explains his discharge from the Marine Band after a performance mishap. He recalls telling how the band played sweet and low until he saw a big note and played it loudly, calling it horsefly sense and noting the difference between fine and coarse sense.
On May 9 the Reading Club gathered at Mrs H S White's in Red Bank where Mrs Ellsworth Gaynor Putnam of the D A R spoke about her Oberammergau service visit noting photographs lack authenticity due to token restrictions. The event featured her ornamental attire including a Royal Oak emblem and a golden ladder with blue ribbon bearing offices held. Rev D L Parsons attended Union Seminary graduation and reunion in New York. Other items report Miss Bergsie Cooper staying with Mrs James Brown at Short Hills. Harry Robbins visiting Doylestown Pennsylvania. Miss Ida Wiedrholdt visiting Freehold. Mothers Day observances at the Presbyterian Church. Ashbel W Borden visiting the Preston house. Miss Eva Green hosting pupils with lawn, ice cream and cake. Miss Swezey visiting Rev P F Swezey and wife. Rev William N Bailey of Asbury Park in the village.
James Hathaway and his sister Mrs. Thomas Johnson of Eatofftown report improved health after a California excursion. They visited Redlands Los Angeles and were pleased with both places. On the way home they stayed in Washington DC Hathaway says Los Angeles is the coming city of California and urges young men to move west with the country.
Kenneth Bowser, whose family runs a oyster and chop house on lower Broad Street, Keyport, has received from his parents a four passenger Ford touring car. The young man will graduate from Keyport High School next month, the first colored youth to do so in several years.
A detailed list provides the locations of fire alarm boxes at multiple intersections and landmarks including Cor. Franklin and Second Avenues Cor. South Bath and Second Avenues 6 Cor. Second and Brighton 8 Cedar Avenue Crossing N.L. B. BR. 12 Lyddy Cottages Ocean Avenue Elberon 18 Cor. Park and Elberon Avenues 14 Elberon Hotel Ocean Avenue Elberon 15 Elberon Station N.Y. & L. B. R. BR. 16 Cor. Park and Norwood Avenues 17 Norwood Avenue opposite Campbell Avenue 18 Cor. Westwood and Brighton Avenues 19 Guire's Feed Store Brighton Avenue 21 Bath Ave opposite Prospect Street 23 Cor. Morris Avenue and Prospect 24 Long Branch Station N. L. & L. B. B. B. 25 Cor. Third and Westwood Avenues 26 Cor. Fifth Avenue and Slocum Place 31 Cor. Ocean Avenue and Broadway 32 Cor. Broadway and Second Avenue a Broadway opposite Third Avenue 35 Broadway The Edwards Lumber and Coal Cor's Mill 36 Broadway near Morrell Street 38 Broadway Cor. Norwood Avenue 41 Cor. Grand and Buttonwood Avenues 42 Branchport Ave at Cloughly Nicholl & Co.'s Lumber Mill 43 Cor. Washington and Lafayette Streets 45 Branchport Avenue near Bennett's Grocery 46 Cor. Joline and Edwards Avenues 47 Cor. Sixth Avenue and Haliburton Street 51 Cor. Central Avenue and Liberty Street 52 Cor. Patten and Port-au-Peck Avenues Pleasure Bay 53 Cor. Patten Avenue and Riddle Street
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