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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1910
Page
3
A critical column argues that regulating charities risks entrenching floating endowments and a syndicate of trustees, led by foundations like Carnegie and Rockefeller, which could dictate which causes survive. It questions long term grants, charter lifespans, and congressional protections, urging caution over perpetual foundations.
The article notes dueling persists in Latin nations with Signor Chiesa an Italian legislator booked for five duels against five opponents after remarks about ladies in a Rome Chamber of Deputies speech. His first clash would be with Gen. Di Cossato, who favors pistols at twenty paces. The piece argues such duels reflect lingering credulity savagery and imitation from Elizabethan times.
Florence Myers describes rejuvenating chiffon ruchings and small articles by airing in clear gasoline and drying in sun. Gently treat delicate neckwear in a fruit jar with tight lid, soak, shake, rinse, and dry in sun. Cloths can be cleaned by applying gasoline to the soiled area.
Cream sugar and butter then beat in four eggs. Fold in flour and nutmeg, knead, rest, and roll into egg sized pieces. Cut three slits, shape, fry in hot lard until browned, drain on brown paper, and dust with powdered sugar.
The British government weighs arming friendly natives in Somaliland against the Mullah. The piece argues this departs from long held colonial practice. It questions future risks if tribes gain rifles while Britain or neighboring powers face later campaigns and conflicts.
The April Woman's Home Companion notes Denver life as largely pleasant with brick or stone houses on terraces and scarce cheap flats. Suburban truck farming is limited and incomes vary. a family of three to five may live well on 5000 a year while a bricklayer earns seven dollars daily, shaping a city with high living standards and pride in quality meat.
Theodore Roosevelt notes in African Game Trails that safari hunters and naturalists misbelieved in two distinct rhinoceros species, the so called black rhino variants. Selous showed the difference was imaginary yet hunters claimed temperament differences between the two supposed types, describing one as ferocious and the other mild.
A neatly dressed woman rushed into a Euclid Avenue grocery and selected hot beans to keep hands warm on the car. The clerk asked how many she desired to serve, and she explained she was not buying to eat but to use the beans as a makeshift mitten substitute after leaving home without muff or mittens.
A playful weather couplet from the Boston Transcript uses spoof signals to describe a sequence of domestic scenes as weather. It imagines a maiden with a powder puff and a baby, linking actions to meteorological terms like fair unsettled showers and storm impending.
The piece argues Canada must weigh naval costs including five cruisers costing 11 to 15 million and annual maintenance of about 3 million. It urges Canada to gain a voice in British war decisions, moving toward independent diplomacy while remaining a British partner. It cites Laurier on war implications and sees Canada as a stabilizing counterpoise within the empire.
Northwestern congressman cites moral drift in western land theft. He argues remote living hardens sense of property rights, equating land grabs with timber theft and comparing it to stealing watermelons. He notes government land as intangible and uncontrolled, fostering illicit sales and trespass.
The Herald reports in Parliament that Britain favors consulting Japan and Russia before China builds a railway through Manchuria. Ministers argue the project affects economics, strategy, and politics, requiring joint discussion with both allies.
The article argues Britain should stop pressuring China over a railway venture. It contends that Americans and Russians have shown willingness to back the project and that Japan should be allowed fair participation if she desires. The author links the railway to territorial development and expanded trade and commerce.
Francie Lynde recounts a Western Senator's clash with his bribe-taking machine boss. His son, a clean-minded figure, betrays his father to expose fraud, risking family strife, political ruin, and a possible prison sentence as Judge Hemingway eyes a decisive, courageously just action.
Representative Cox campaigns to cut congressional mileage from 20 to 5 cents per mile arguing current rate exceeds actual travel costs. He cites a 720 mile trip would cost less than 36 dollars under his plan and asks for hearings, calling the 20 cent rate a graft. Indianapolis News
A nearly bald man in a restaurant complains to a waiter about hair in his soup. The waiter, praising the hair as magnificent from monsieur head, deflects the moment with humor. The diner accepts the joke and jokes back that accidents happen.
Newspaper satire lampoons Mexico's centennial pageant promising betterment through dress. It mocks Porfirio Más and officials for forcing peons into refined outfits while pledging moral progress, portraying a spectacle of class enforcement during national celebrations.
A London Express critique argues English actors err by over gesturing while real life demands restraint. It notes only two fine open gestures seen in England and laments the rarity of such refined conduct on stage reflecting true English ideals.
A fragmented verse recounts drunken humor at a feast where monks and revelers mock a monk named Giacomo Dew. The narrator notes heavy drinking, mistaken manners, and a sharp rebuke of slurred behavior, ending with a moral about dignity and the pejorative term peega. The piece is attributed to T. A. Daly in the Catholic Standard and Timea.
Essay discusses ordinary versus extraordinary opera audiences serious listening expectations. Critics lament Wagner performances disrupted by audience antics including trampling and coats in the pit. The piece ponders why people attend and how democracy and culture relate to taste.
New York reports Victor Masella three and a half, found unconscious at the edge of the Richmond Turnpike in West Grighton after noon. He died that evening. Detectives arrested Motorman Taft and conductor Carr for felonious assault. they claimed no knowledge of the accident and were released on parole.
At the Al Sumbra Theater in New York a gasoline tank exploded during a stunt. Actress Victoria Hatfield, wife of Charles Hatfield, helped curb the panic after the blast. He and she suffered injuries. Dr. Jerome Wagner treated them.
A Cupid and Psyche statue once placed on Miss Alice Stetler's grave in Greenwood Cemetery is removed by trustees. The piece, copied from a Rome marble group, had been requested to mark her grave after a troubled marriage and divorce, but cemetery owners objected. It is now in the care of a Brooklyn florist awaiting sale.
A Philadelphia Record note reports the aunt of Marvey Tidtey, Mrs Mary Uline, died in Troy leaving an estate exceeding $100,000. Tidtey, employed in the city for a year, wrote to a Troy firm confirming the newspaper article.
A brief quip contrasts the optimist who prefers raspberries to strawberries during their seasons while the pessimist favors raspberries over strawberries in both cycles.
A Kansas City Times quip questions the notion of Solomon’s wisdom by noting that it was his many wives who influenced him. The comment flips the idea of wisdom from Solomon’s strength to the effect of his spouses.
In South Norwalk Connecticut on a Friday afternoon Deacon Gilbert served as an improvised baby pilot guiding Mrs Nancy Veach to her parents home in South Wilton. The stork aided by Hector the deacons horse delivered mother and child after a short drive and the deacon quipped about preferring his usual roles over doctor duties.
Grace Margaret Ould advises in Woman's Home Companion April issue to add separate coats to spring wardrobes. Coats are essential for convenience and style, with many dresses paired to long coats. Typical coats feature full sleeves, double-breasted fronts, and a distinctive low one side rever at the right, lined with silk matching the coat lining.
Grace Arkaret Gould in Woman's Home Companion highlights the temptation of many summer dresses. New linens appear in varied weaves including granite linen resembling a basket, silklike sheen, and corded effects. Shan tine linens offer a silk substitute in fashionable black and white dress styles.
Rupert Hughes tells in vibrant prose how a 25 000 dollar monument scheme in St George sparked city outrage, graft accusations, and a pair of burglars offered a staged statue for a thousand dollars. The plot unfolds as investigators expose the ruse in a witty serialized absorption.
New York special event recreates mid Victorian atmosphere with drawings by William Makepeace Thackeray, a Music School Settlement Quartette performance, and a Thackeray playlet Reading a Poem staged by an all star cast of book lovers. Tea and a Thackeray Dickens symposium followed as older bookmen recalled Thackeray's lectures.
Mary Cary offers aphorisms on tiresome talk. A diary is safe, life restraint, and love gives strength. She notes resisting feelings, appetite, and the ease of some seasons. Hope, patience, and quiet endurance shape living, while truth told bluntly can hurt.
The note requests an illustration of a transparent object through the lens of a teacher. It describes a scenario where clarity and openness in teaching are emphasized, using a simple see-through item to demonstrate transparency as a concept in learning.
Special dispatch reports Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will stop hiring women as stenographers clerks or telegraph operators. An accounting review finds women perform 30 percent less work than men and are less accurate. Present female employees keep their jobs but no new women will be hired.
The Spanish bullfighter Chico deems Madison Square Garden a grand arena for bullfights but public sentiment blocks such spectacle. He questions Anglo Latin sport ethics while bicycle races and prize fights attract crowds. The piece notes animal protection outranks human entertainment and hints at a deadly automobile cup race as a grim alternative.
The civil service merit system, adopted since 1883, shows progress with six states and about a hundred cities now using it. Major cities including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, and Cincinnati have merit coverage, while many others share in the reform movement and municipal charters increasingly base on civil service rules.
Gilbert Trehou a seventeen year old Passaic N J high school student died Friday after noon at Passaic General Hospital following a seven round bout with Frank Keiser near Garfield last Tuesday night He never regained consciousness after the knockout blow Keiser has not been seen in Garfield since Wednesday morning Prosecutor Wright Hackensack police and county detectives investigated with no trace of Keiser though rumors placed him on a train to Buffalo and possibly in Canada Twenty one men and boys were arrested in connection with the fight including the referee four seconds and two timekeepers all released on $500 bond as witnesses Officials may face charges and further action will depend on Prosecutor Wright Trehon’s parents blame Garfield officials for allowing the fight to occur.
Joe Shiflet of Yancey’s Mill, 36, unmarried, was killed Sunday when struck by a Norfolk and Western train one mile from Elkton in Rockingham County. Found by Henry Mawbray, his arms and legs mangled, shoe torn, left Harrisonburg intoxicated Saturday night.
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