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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1911
Page
5
A clothier advertises youths' suits in sizes 32 to 35 with three models and various patterns. It highlights volume discounts and notes scarce demand for youths' suits, offering products priced from $16 to $30 from Rocers Pret & Company at four Manhattan locations.
New York May 24 Fire Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo succeeds James J. Cropsey as head of the police department. Cropsey resigns voluntarily, noting the mayor’s endorsement of Civil Service Commissioner Creelman’s criticism of patrolman appointments.
President Taft dedicates New York City’s new public library building, marking a milestone in civic infrastructure with a formal ceremony attended by city officials and dignitaries.
President Taft and dignitaries dedicated a new public library at Fifth Avenue and Forty second Street. The $9 million project transformed the Croton reservoir into a modern research center with 1 million books and free access to the public. Taft led the ceremony arriving from Washington, welcomed by Henry W. Taft and library directors.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer visited the Brooklyn navy yard with Admiral Luetz Captain Van Deuser and Civil Engineer Harris to inspect the yard and the new dry dock. The battleship Delaware bound for the coronation inspection was also examined.
Miss Lenoria Lawrence a four year Morristown Mount Kemble avenue teacher says she will fight a board of education charge of inefficiency She has hired Elmer King as counsel and will deny the accusation at a township hall meeting tomorrow night If needed she will take the case to the supreme court to compel retracting the charges Board members and Supervising Principal Roy L Shaffer declined to discuss the matter
West New York New Jersey May 24 three former councilmen indicted for conspiracy to defraud the municipality in building a new Liberty Hose Company firehouse entered pleas of non yult before Judge Garey. They were released on bail and to be sentenced tomorrow amid scrutiny of a $6 000 overcharge discovered after the bill for the quarters was paid.
Woodbury New Jersey May 24 The continued drought is ravaging the strawberry crop in the area as well as hay and nearly all crops needing rain. It has been several weeks since rain. Some of Woodbury's dairy growers have picked several quarts and will begin earnestly the latter part of the week.
Missouri Pacific directors concluded a sale of 20 million dollars in three year collateral notes to Speyer & Co. Proceeds will allow repayment of floating debt and 15 million dollars for improvements. The board approved purchasing 40 000 tons of steel rails and twelve locomotives.
The La France, a river steamer from Lake La Barge bound for Dawson, struck a submerged rock off Thirty Mile River and sank twelve miles above Hootaling. All passengers were saved and most cargo recovered. second steamer lost this season.
White Plains New York May 24 Corporal Lawrence Spohr of the coast artillery at Fort Slocum testifies in his trial for killing his sweetheart Rosa O Toole and wounding Arthur C Woodin that for a few minutes after the shooting his senses failed he was insane and did not know he had shot the girl He says he was sane when entering and leaving the house and admits to being a morphine user consuming thirty two grains on the day of the shooting
Geneva New York May 24 Elizabeth Smith Miller daughter of abolitionist Gerrit Smith dies at home aged eighty nine She was a pioneer in the woman suffrage movement and worked with Susan B Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Anna Howard Shaw She introduced the bloomer costume later worn by Mrs Bloomer which gave it its name
Henry J. Duveen head of Duveen Bros and Benjamin Duveen nephew plead guilty before Judge Martin in the circuit court to conspiracy to defraud the government by undervaluing imports. United States Attorney Wise called them a low type of smugglers and swindlers.
Four nude pearl hunters were found hanging from a tree in Letcher county Kentucky, sparking belief by local authorities that thieves lynched them after a week of pearl finds. One victim was identified as J W King who recently found a pearl valued at $1000. The others remain unnamed.
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