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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1911
Page
7
In New Jersey several counties report a delayed spring and rainfall shortage. Hay prospects drop to 67 percent of average across ten counties, while wheat stands at 90.8 percent, rye 87 percent, and oats 77.5 percent. Local crops face late planting and weaker stands due to cold weather and dry spells.
Oklahoma Senator Gore endorses Governor Woodrow Wilson for the Democratic nomination. The letter signals support from progressive Democrats in the south and west, with Gore noted as a leading progressive in the senate.
At Mohonk Lake fifty one commercial groups urged President Taft and Senator Cullom to back treaties of unlimited arbitration with Britain, France and others. Oscar Straus praised neutral policy and urged banning war loans and munitions sales by neutrals. James B. Scott leads the Carnegie peace fund distribution.
The ailing traction magnate Thomas Fortune Ryan underwent an operation in New York and his condition remained grave despite reports of improvement. Plans were made to move him from the city to England for cooler climate and restoration.
Fire at Dreamland on Coney Island began at 2 AM and spread through the park threatening nearby amusements. Fifty animals from Bostock's show were shot to prevent escapes. six babies suffocated in an incubator concession. origin unknown. fire crews called for additional aid as Dreamland, recently remodeled, burned.
In Pittsburg Cincinnati won 4 to 1 with Smith and Clark, Adams, Ferr and Gibson as batteries. Boston defeated Brooklyn 7 to 2 with Curtis and Graham, Barger and Erwin on the battery line. New York beat Philadelphia 5 to 3 as Raymond, Mathewson, Myers and Wilson worked the game against Burns, Alexander and Dooin.
Mrs. Mary Platt Parmele seventy plus, widow of Theodore Parmele and history writer, was struck on Sixth Avenue at Forty-ninth Street by a slow moving motorcycle rider William Hermann. She fell and died on the sidewalk despite medical attention. Doctors attributed her death to heart failure triggered by fright.
New York society circles buzz with a report that W Vincent Astor son of John Jacob Astor is paying attention to Miss Katherine Hammersley the prominent young society belle. An engagement announcement is expected soon and would keep a U S heiress from marrying a titled foreigner abroad.
Dr Isaiah Everhart philanthropist and naturalist dies at his Scranton home aged seventy one. He endowed Lake Everhart and the Everhart Museum of Natural History in Nay Aug Park with a value over 250000 dollars and left a 100000 dollar endowment to the museum.
The naval collier Leonidas has passed Cape Henry en route to Havana to retrieve the Maine mainmast. She may also recover any bodies of the Maine’s sailors.
Mrs Edward H Harriman plans to establish a great university funded by her vast fortune. The project aims to rival Harvard and Yale in curriculum and endowment with top equipment and faculty across literary scientific and technical fields.
The Douma was asked about government orders expelling 300 Jewish artisans from Riga and Livonia capital. The interpellation cites concerns over the action as of May 27.
The board of public utility commissioners in Trenton reminds every public utility of last winter's law. It requires board approval for grants or privileges to utilities by municipalities and for stock or bond issues, sales, leases, mortgages, and transfers, with board agents empowered to inspect premises and armed with official identification.
A gunner's mate in a warship crew orders a schooner of beer. The bartender refuses, citing the Bible, prompting a puzzled exchange. The punchline rests on the bar tender's line about serving two masters and reading the Bible.
An avalanche on Palmer plateau in west central Asia overwhelmed the settlement of Qoroscher in St. Petersburg area reports.128 people are confirmed dead with rescue efforts continuing.
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