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Title
Date
Time • Size
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Terrible Shipwreck and Loss of Life
Wreck of the Ship New Era of Bremen Near Long Branch
New York Times
12 Nov 1854  
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Letters from Cool Places
A Day At Long Branch — How to Make It Pleasant — Fishing
New York Times
22 Jul 1856  
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Letter from Long Branch
The Hotels - Amusements - Sack-Races - Hops - Quaker Girls...
New York Times
12 Sep 1857  
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Long Branch
What Is To Be Found There — How to Get There
New York Times
01 Aug 1860
 
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Supposed Murder at Long Branch
Excitement at the Hotels — Victim Unknown
New York Times
08 Aug 1860  
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Long Branch Murder
The Affair Proved a Hoax
New York Times
09 Aug 1860  
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The Watering Places
Long Branch: The Last Hop — Fitz Frisky in Heaven…
New York Times
01 Sep 1865  

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New Jersey Colored Men
Colored Mass-Meeting at Long Branch Speeches and General Fete
New York Times

24 Aug 1872
06:44 • 6.2 MB
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A Busy Day at the White House
The Arrangements for Removing the President… the entire
Government was about to move in body to Long Branch
New York Times

06 Sep 1881
 
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High Tides at Long Branch
The Bluff Seriously Damaged — Waves Dashing Over the Iron Pier

New York Times

29 Sep 1882
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Serious Delays at Long Branch
Hotel-Keepers Losing Money Through Want of Wires

New York Times

28 Jul 1883
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Editorial
As will be seen by our news columns, the preparations going on at Long Branch…

New York Times

02 Jun 1884
 
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An Idyl of the Autumn
On the Long Branch Beach in September
New York Times
06 Sep1885
 
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Along the Jersey Coast
Cottages Greatly Damaged by the Storm and High Seas
New York Times
23 Mar 1889
 
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Events at Long Branch
An Unusually Busy Season — Many Brilliant Toilets
New York Times
21 Jul 1889
 
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Damage By High Tides
Very Heavy Seas Along the New-Jersey Coast
The Long Branch Pier Safe But the Fierce Waves Eat Awat a Part of the Bluff

New York Times

14 Oct 1891
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To Save New-Jersey Beaches
It Will Require Clever Engineering and Money
New York Times
18 Jun 1893
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Building Boom in Jersey
Estimated a Million Dollars Will Be Spent
New York Times
24 Oct 1897
 
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Gossip of Long Branch
Several New
New York Times
24 May 1903
 
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Along the Jersey Shore — Boardwalk for Long Branch
Many Improvements Promised or Already on the Way
New York Times
10 Jul 1904
04:03 • 3.8 MB
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Busy at Long Branch
Several New Cottages Building — Many to be Improved
New York Times
26 Mar 1905
 
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Jefferson Fete at Long Brabch
Long Branches Summer colony honored the memory of Joseph Jefferson to-night
New York Times
04 Aug 1907
 
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Society at Long Branch
Fred Gerken, Jr., and Dewitt Speyer to Bust Bronchos at Amateur Circus
New York Times
15 Aug 1907
 
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Building Boom on the Jersey Coast
Scores of New Dwellings Being Erected this Spring at Long Branch
New York Times
24 Apr 1910
 
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Judges Disqualify Four-In-Hand Team
Declare One of the Watson Horses Lame in the Long Branch Horse Show
New York Times
28 Jul 1910
 
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Guggenheim Loses Tax Suit
Long Branch Allowed to Collect $40,000 Personal Property Assessment
New York Times
18 Jun 1918
 
 
       
Other Newspaper Texts and Audio Recordings of Historical News
       
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Local Honors to Emerson (Ralph Waldo)
Preparations for a Simple Funeral at the Concord Unitarian Church
New York Times
29 Apr 1882
07:42 • 7.1 MB
       

All recordings made by Alan Drake, teacher of English at Lakewood High School, Lakewood, NJ.
Mr. Drake also works evenings and on Saturdays at the Long Branch Free Public Library, Long Branch, NJ.

Except where specifically noted. All news articles and recordings are in the public domain.