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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1914
Page
4
Edward Carr buys a 150 year old desk at auction and discovers a hidden steel drawer. Inside lie age stained papers including a long unused will naming Emily Marston and a son’s plea to his father. A young bidder in pursuit of the desk may be tied to the will’s mystery.
A partial dialogue fragment shows a caller pressing a point and another speaker affirming the suspicion that the other person was also involved. The lines illustrate a tense back and forth with implied miscue and intent.
Edward G. Carr unravels a decades old estate mystery centering on Peter Carson. The rightful heir, Emily Marston’s daughter Emily Teck, is found after a desk secret drawer yields the missing will. Mary Cowdry had seized control but agrees to transfer the estate in exchange for an annuity for herself. Emily Teck becomes a millionaire and marries Carr, who facilitated the discovery.
A brief exchange reveals a quarrel between a man and wife that sparks neighborhood chatter. Mrs. Nextdoor quickly adds her own take, emphasizing the episode spreads through the community.
Alanson Skinner of the American Museum of Natural History has studied Cree Ojibway and Menominee rituals and prepares a new expedition. His field report details windigokan or cannibal dance, big dogs dance, prairie chicken, sacred pipe stem and peacemaking dances with clowns acting in pantomime torment.
During June 18 to 20 in the Chicago Coliseum the General Federation of Women's Clubs biennial convention will run alongside the congress of women's achievements. Separate days will be set for different departments of women's activities as business women are featured with lectures from noted female entrepreneurs.
Forestry experts show teak timber as strong as natural forest wood can be grown on plantations. Demonstrations indicate plantation teak meets strength standards, suggesting viable commercial cultivation.
A humorous take imagines figures like Noah Nero and Napoleon in modern settings from ocean liners to Pullman palace cars. It ends with a quip on civic rights as a Glasgow News note cites a scrubbing brush lady responding she does not vote.
A New York business house statis tician says daily errors occur in about one quarter of all transactions. He notes general managers of large concerns make at least one mistake per day, often hidden from subordinates and only seen by a manager's secretary or confidential aide.
The text discusses color theory noting white is the union of all light and black is the absorption of all. It explains how bodies reflect or absorb rays, naming red blue and green for partial reflection, while black results from absorbing all colors.
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