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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1911
Page
3
New Jersey reports a surge in Sunday-school activity with 2 370 schools and 411 644 enrolled members. Home departments cradle rolls and adult classes show strong growth under Louis H Koehler with 2 500 dollars donated and 164 diplomas awarded in 1910.
Representatives McCoy Townsend Scully and Tuttle, the new New Jersey Democrats, left hotel life after the extra session and rented a refined apartment in the Lonsdale's highland area. Their housekeeper is a former White House employee from the Roosevelt era.
The bribery trial of George B. Nye former Democratic state central committee member and influential Ohio legislator began before Judge Kinkead. Nye faces a $500 bribe charge to vote for the Kimble bill to unseat Judge A Z Blair who exposed the vote buying in Scioto and Adams counties. He also faces further bribery charges and is the first of about six indicted legislators to be tried.
Washington May 24 The House approved a joint resolution admitting Arizona and New Mexico as states by a 214 to 57 vote. The measure allows New Mexico to enter under its constitution and Arizona with a recalled judiciary issue to be resolved by a statewide vote.
Notices posted at ports warn seamen and firemen to be ready to strike upon signal. The exact date of the signal remains undisclosed. A separate item notes a threatened firemen strike on the Southern railway over wage demands and other issues. A Columbus professor of meteorology at Ohio State University, N W Lord, was found dead in his home, cause heart trouble.
Unsettled weather expected with showers today and a rising temperature. Thursday brings more unsettled conditions with moderate easterly winds shifting to southerly.
Market notes show Ristan R-Firmer receipts at 16 917 with steady cheese prices and 4 94 boxed shipments. Egg futures list high grade firmness while regulars are weak with 34 599 cases reported. regional yields include Pennsylvania and nearby brown varieties.
Dr John R Mohler reports 670 Pasteur treated rabies cases since 1900 with only two deaths and notes 29 of 120 untreated cases died. He cites two cases including a woman who died from rabies and a clerk who autosuggested his illness. He advocates universal dog muzzling to reduce or wipe out rabies nationwide.
Robert Gallagher a Boston attorney secures a $50,000 trust fund via bankruptcy court sale for $750. The fund remains immune until Braman’s death or no heir emerges. Creditors receive the purchase price while Gallagher stands to gain the inheritance if Braman dies with no heir. Braman, a Harvard alumnus and prominent Boston figure, has a troubled financial history and past divorces.
A Brander Matthews essay surveys planned but unpublished works by Moliere Sheridan Hugo and others. It notes L Homme de Cour La Quanquengrogne Affectation La Pentameron La Route de Thebes and other imagined projects that remained unwritten or unseen.
The article recalls how children roasted eggs over coals in old wood stoves or fireplaces. Eggs wrapped in damp paper were warmed five to fifteen minutes, with a pinhole at the large end to vent steam, and served with salt pepper and butter.
A gamekeeper on a master's estate discovers a pheasant hidden in a poacher's hat hat bulges as the thief claims ignorance the bird must have crawled up his trousers leg in a wry London Tit Bits vignette.
A collage of arch correspondence and quips, including a flirtatious plea to Miss Naabeni I and a witty exchange about marriage. The excerpt also quotes comic lines from Boston Transcript and Life, noting a rumor about Mr. Greatman’s death.
Colonel D. re Nims commander of the Nims battalion of light artillery in Boston has died at ninety two after a long life marked by Civil War service. He led troops during the four years of conflict and passed away after a notable career.
London May 24. Premier Asquith hosted the banquet at his official residence for colonial premiers and ministers. A reception at the foreign office drew about 2000 officials and social figures. Mrs Lewis Harcourt acted as hostess in Mrs Asquith's absence.
Asheville will pour 53 barrels of whisky onto the curb as a police court sentence in four blind tiger cases is carried out. Prohibitionists plan to celebrate the event in the city. General W. H. Brigham dead in Boston at 48 after paralysis ends a long career as Massachusetts adjutant general.
Woonsocket mill restarts operations after a brief shutdown to reduce production. The Globe Cotton Mill, part of the Mans company, closed for a day and a night and is back in business. About 400 workers are employed.
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