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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1913
Page
12
The text praises American workers as the best crop and reflects on travel notes about Americans living on farms and in towns. It also offers a shoe repair tip: return creaking boots to the shoemaker and insert French chalk between the soles to stop the squeak.
A wealthy man described as a steel manufacturer’s relative died following a self-inflicted threat involving a razor. His family and medical staff faced complications and a difficult operation during treatment, with hospital authorities noting the events after the incident at a residence on Oxford Street.
About 3,000 machinists in Buffalo walked out for higher wages and shorter hours. The strike disrupted 75 shops with police guarding sites and no injuries reported.
A Cripple Creek legislator, once a Spire member, is arrested for allegedly murdering his wife Miss Josephine and stepdaughter in an explosion at his home on Sprit 28. The man was injured and hospitalised. authorities initially considered the blast an accident as a man tried to thaw dynamite in the stove. The suspect later blamed an enemy for the tragedy.
Fragmentary trial notes show William M Wood connected with a conspiracy to plant dynamite. The text references a named executive and a company, with vague details about charges and courtroom proceedings in January.
Market notes show butter steady with receipts and creamery products as well as eggs and hay mixed with wheat and cattle prices easing. Beef cattle demand softer with prices 15 to 20 cents lower for top grades while sheep and hog markets vary and hogs stay around 7.60 to 8.75 per hundredweight amid overall market softness.
A compact saying frames a thief’s pattern as one who robs Peter to pay Paul, intending a larger loan later. The remark highlights cyclical crime dynamics and moral caution in financial schemes.
Governor Johnson signs an Asiatic exclusion bill in California to bar Japanese and Chinese from ownership and leasehold, prompting a U S response from Secretary Bryan. A meeting in San Francisco and protests by the Asiatic Exclusion League precede the law’s expected Aug 17 or 90 day effective date.
Lewis A. Butler, fifty years old and a first cousin to former President Taft, died in St. Joseph's hospital Syracuse after he upset a lamp while reaching for medicine in his apartment. The illness had left him weak and he fell against a table before the lamp toppled.
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