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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1912
Page
8
Real clothes for real boys offering suits made of wear able fabrics. Designed for boyish models not small sized men’s suits. Sailors and Russians for young boys plus Norfolks and double breasted styles for older boys. Long trouser suits and quality found where there’s a large market. Moderate prices guaranteed.
Frank R. Schneider of Houston visits Miss Mary Jackson on Rockwell avenue. Mrs. Stuart Nottage and daughter Gwendolyn stay with Miss Julia Briskey for a few days in Brooklyn. Williard L. Conran visits relatives at Long Branch and recalls earlier service as a grammar school janitor. Dr. Henry Hughes departs for a Maryland trip including Baltimore. Harry Nelson of the post office takes a week vacation.
Grand Potentate Yekrut of Salt Lake City will visit To Kalon Roost on Wednesday evening May 29 to perform sacred duties for new Buzzards from this city and Asbury Park. Potentate Drazzub of San Antonio is also expected to attend and confer installation ceremonies for a new roost named Burbage Roost in Asbury Park. A large attendance is expected.
Andrew Carson and George Bt Stratton of North Long Branch members of James B Morris Post cannot participate in Memorial Day exercises this year due to illness. Confined to bed they regret missing the observance and leaving their comrades to carry on without them.
Tomorrow night the Belford grammar school holds its closing exercises with an admission fee of 25 cents. Proceeds go to buy new books for the library, supporting local education.
In New Jersey on May 28 delegates split between Taft and Roosevelt as crowds gather across towns. Colgate claims Taft will win 20 of 28 delegates, while Roosevelt blasts the Taft wing at a Bayonne rally and Princeton campus crowd. Nearly 10,000 greet Taft in Long Branch amid calls to oppose a third term.
Matthew C. D. Borden, prominent cotton mill executive and president of the Fall River Iron Works, died at his Red Bank summer home after a long illness. A Mass-born industrialist, he was seventy and his family had been summoned from New York. His son Bertram H. Borden also worked with him, part of the ninth generation of Bordens in Fall River enterprises.
Missouri officials convened the state committee to back Speaker Champ Clark for the presidency. About 1,000 Democratic leaders from counties will travel to the Baltimore convention. Three special trains named Champ Clark Special No 1 No 2 and Hound Dog will leave St. Louis on Saturday June 22 with route portions.
The text names three undefeated figures: Alexander the Great (356 to 323 B C), Julius Caesar (100 to 44 B C), and Arthur, Duke of Wellington (1769 to 1852).
Reports from the hospital indicate Little Hope remains for the life of the noted aviator Wilbur Wright as doctors urge calm and families await further updates on his condition.
New York May 28 beef prices rise in wholesale market and retail costs will follow. Retailers charge 1 to 2 cents more for prime cuts while wholesalers fetch 12 to 15 cents a pound. Prime cuts are 24 to 38 cents higher than last year. common cuts 10 to 11 cents. Calves and lambs up similarly as production drops and west shipments shrink. The consumer bears the brunt of higher costs.
Fred Cox an insurance agent saw two men unconscious in the roadway between Metuchen and Perth Amboy. A demolished motorcycle and a bicycle lay beside them. Taken to City hospital they may die. Louis Clark nineteen of Metuchen, the motorcyclist, collided with N Madsen forty seven of Perth Amboy as he rode toward Metuchen. Clark has a fractured skull and Madsen has internal injuries and a broken right shoulder.
Miss Rose Wakes a high school student narrowly escaped death as flames swept through Henry Raskin's first floor apartments in Paterson. Rescuers carried her through thick smoke while neighbors battled the fire and nearly suffocated themselves in the smoke filled hallway. She was taken to a neighbor's home for safety.
Washington May 28 Chairman Smith of the Titanic investigation committee returned from New York and began preparing the committee report. He stated the charges that Captain Smith drank liquor on the night of the disaster were proven unfounded and will be in the senate report today.
In Newark on May 28 the laborers strike entered a new phase as workers voted to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. H. T. Keating announced the affiliation, leading to an end to picketing and workers returning to jobs where employers recognize the union and pay 25 cents an hour.
Camden May 28 nine year old Charles Korsan drowned in Newton creek near Woodlynne park while watching friends fish. He fell from a bridge as two youths attempted rescue. He carried flowers to lay at relatives graves when the tragedy occurred.
New York markets report steady butter with varied receipts and prices across creamery and state grades. Cheese shows irregular receipts with state and pack variations. Eggs steady to active with numerous classifications and regional origins. live poultry prices range for fowls broilers roosters and turkeys with hens and ducks listed. Hay and straw prices noted for timothy clover mixed and straw.
Market notes from Pittsburgh showing cattle supply seven carloads with prices across grades from common to prime and mixed hogs at steady to firm values. Cattle prices range from about 6.00 to 8.65 for various grades while hogs show primes around 8.06 to 8.10 and other weights concluding near 7.20 to 7.25 for roughs and 6.25 for wtags. Sheep and lambs listings indicate lambs and wethers with mixed quality at 3.50 to 8.75 and veal calves near 9.89 to 9.95.
A captured dialogue notes a physician asking a patient’s husband about his wife’s exercise. The husband replies she exercises by changing her dress at least six times daily, humorous in tone and set at a watering place.
The king cannot be arrested or sued in law, and royal servants cannot be touched in civil actions without prior permission from the board of green cloth. This privilege protects the sovereign from inconvenience and honors the throne, not personal gain. London Chronicle notes this limitation as part of royal prerogatives.
Round the Globe compiles diverse notes from 1912 headlines: Tokyo’s free markets in Montevideo, Manila’s ten new tennis courts with baths and reading rooms, rising Manila costs, Japanese coal estimates, and Russian fertilizer from Caspian fish, plus London fire brigade growth, Kobe plague prevention, and wage findings in Chicago and Washington.
Edward F. Ford of this city ships two toy poodles to Marshall Britton for the International Toy Poodle Club event in Philadelphia. In a special puppy class of 6 to 12 months, Barry Tl won the trophy. Mollie G earned a medal as best female poodle among 22 competitors.
The article proclaims Vite lady as the finest and smallest poodle in the country and states it will be exhibited only under glass henceforth.
Mrs. Warren K. Prancis of New York visits her parents Mr and Mrs George H Willett. Miss Lacey MacGowan completes finals and will graduate next month from Manual Training High School Brooklyn. Walling installs large butter and lard cooler with plate glass front on his shore. Miss Minnie Carman, daughter of Mr and Mrs William Carman, is seriously ill and recovery is doubtful.
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