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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1907
Page
4
A young man asks Miss Walsingham for her house number. She notes the house on one side is 21 and the house on the other side is 26, prompting a cautious exchange about exact address.
An old advertisement touts Dr. Pierce’s oily medicines claiming full ingredient lists on bottle wrappers and oath-attested formulas. It promotes Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for indigestion and stomach liver bowel issues and markets Sage’s Sage for cleansing mucous passages.
Corporal Frank Hayden of the army recruiting station, after a year in China, calls the country good for military service. He notes food is cheap, citing 175 eggs for 50 cents, a fat chicken for ten cents, and a good sheep for 60 cents, while praising Chinese cooks and the ease of employing one. The main caveat is limited social interaction beyond natives.
Suffolk Va publisher J D Daughtrey says two to three years of kidney trouble yielded about 20 pounds of gravel and sand in urine. After using Dean's Kidney Pills for three years he has not passed a stone. He kept 14 gravel stones as a example and calls the pills a fine kidney tonic. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Ohio State notes the kitchen maid’s vandalism of a house’s china set. Excuses like it broke itself are common as the keeper mourns the loss of heirloom dishes and treasured pieces from years of use.
A fragmentary Scots dialect line suggests a bold boast about a great gift for the country and a warning that one cannot sit atop national symbols. The text is incomplete and reads like a public chat or boast with regional phrasing.
The A a Packers Association, able to call Argo Red Salmon, ships most under the American flag with 655 steamers and 16 sailing vessels plus many charters. At Santa Cruz California in the St George Hotel a tank holds 50 trout so tame they take meat from a feeder and rub against the hand that feeds them.
The passage warns against ointments for catarrh containing mercury and claims they damage mucous surfaces. It notes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo as mercury free and endorses internal use with testimonials. It also mentions generous gifts by Rockefeller and Carnegie to education and libraries, and references diverse ads and notes about salmon hatcheries and laxatives.
Comic snippet from the Boston Transcript features a banter between D Orsay and travelers asking for a joke about a Rome guide who shows two skulls of St Paul, one as a boy and one as a man, eliciting noisy reaction.
A short chorus of the title repeats across the page segment. The reader notes a recurring name Argo in a sequence that resembles a chant or repetition rather than a full narrative.
Miss Fannie Shapiro, 16, described as healthy and pretty, experiences uncontrollable laughter and tears whenever she rides an electric trolley. Doctors cannot explain the phenomenon, known as trolleyitis, and she has required hospital treatment twice. She now plans to walk to work while physicians seek relief.
A Midwestern woman details years of nervousness and illness from coffee life. After following her grocer's advice to switch to Postum, she improves within a month, regains color, sleep, appetite, and energy, and remains medicine free for six months. She credits the booklet The Road to Wellville and notes a friend also improves by boiling Postum properly.
New York reports Easter retail trade beat expectations with favorable weather boosting overall business across staple lines. Wholesale and jobbing firms see gains in dry goods and millinery, with improved collections. Iron and steel industries remain active despite railway retrenchment, as iron prices hold and deliveries push to July. Imports revive with one Chinese shipment eyed, while structural steel gains as open weather spurs building, fueled by Central West and Pacific Coast demand despite a possible May 1 strike.
Freight and commodity markets report mixed activity with flour receipts at 7 746 barrels and 3 203 barrels export. wheat prices hold steady with No 2 red futures around 77 79 percent and various months. corn steady with No 2 white around 52 54 percent and large receipts. oats firm to steady. rye firm. butter and eggs firm with several creamery and ladle varieties. Philadelphia and New York wheat corn oats markets show steady to quiet tones with No 2 red at 81 83 and white and yellow corn around mid 60s. live poultry steady in Philadelphia. potatoes vary by region. overall markets display price stability across grains and dairy.
Livestock markets show Reeves Steers slow with a fall of 10 cents, bulls steady and cows down 10 cents. Cattle at New York bring steers 4.35 to 5.75, bulls 3.10 to 4.35, cows 1.60 to 3.75. calves active at 6 to 10 dollars. Chicago reports better cattle with common to prime steers 4.00 to 7.00, hogs firmer with values ranging from 5 to 19 cents higher, overall prices 6.20 to 6.30 for heavy cuts and packing hogs.
A collection of short items notes Egyptian blast furnace use circa 2000 B C and a man in Witten who regained his hearing after a large explosion. It mentions London population near seven million, German soldiers carrying a Bible and chocolate, Sacco ending abstinence after 46 days, and a prospect of motor roads in Africa with broad support.
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