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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1905
Page
4
Ella testifies that after months of weakness and a physician prescribed tonic, Peruna revived her health. She reports improved appetite, energy, sleep, and overall recovery within a few months, thanking the medicine for her renewed well being.
Odette Tyler, famed actress and noted playwright, expresses gratitude for Down's Kidney Pills. In a grateful note from Buffalo, she credits the remedy with benefit to her health and appreciates the product and its promoter FosterMilbourne.
The Lynchburg market shows light loose tobacco sales with 32 400 pounds last week though belts around the city report improved crop conditions not yet first class. Fire destroys J F Holtzman Co store in Edinburg with 320 000 loss. A missing man in Isle of Wight County and a venomous snake bite in Newport News are among other incidents.
R G Dun analysis notes improving commercial tendencies supported by crop security and easier distribution, despite textile and footwear raw material price inflation. Confidence grows as futures demand rises and mid summer dullness shortens with steel plant resumptions. weekly U S failures total 21q versus 220 last year, Canada 27 versus 18. Bradstreet reports shorter glass factory summer shutdowns and robust building activity while July grain exports climb with wheat and corn shipments compared to prior periods.
Baltimore market notes show flour receipts 4 847 barrels exports 5 265 barrels. Wheat unsettled spot and futures with July August September quotes. corn dull with various futures. oats steady. rye dull uptown. Butter eggs cheese sugar steady. New York reports exports and sales for wheat and corn, receipts and exports for oats, flour, cheese. poultry hay and cottonseed oil notes. vegetables and potatoes priced. peppers listed.
Market summaries from Chicago and New York report cattle and hog prices across grades, with steady to mixed movement. Chicago quotes steer and heifer ranges, cows and calves, hogs varying by class, and sheep and lambs noted. New York notes a flat beef market with lower fat cows and steady bulls amid light receipts, plus state hogs at 6.49.
Notes from the period mention Ord Kelvin turning 81, London Rome telegraph attempts, and an upcoming Mardi Gras automobile show in New Orleans. The U S government orders seven life saving motor boats, a Santa Barbara sunfish over 1000 pounds and 12 feet long, Gordon Bennett Cup winner expected to visit, and a penny in the slot music box using wireless telegraphy. Banaharina flour from plantain shows healthful appeal in Vemesnets.
A collection of home recipes including Cheese Scramble with eggs and cheese on toast, Sweet Potato Scones with mashed potatoes and flour dough baked ten minutes, and Plum Pudding Glace an ice cream styled like a plum pudding with chocolate cream, fruit and whipped cream sauce.
A simple salad idea uses green peppers cut in rings with lettuce and French dressing alongside a chicken dish. Parboil peppers five minutes, mix cubed chicken with boiled rice, fill peppers, add stock, bake half an hour.
The Woman's Home Companion presents a banana pie filling using ripe bananas mashed and strained, then mixed with egg sugar crackers salt cinnamon molasses cream and milk. Bake in a pastry lined pan until firm, as for squash pie.
Household hints cover boiling rusty items in bags, safely handling gas globes, stove polish with turpentine for lasting shine, rinsing milk pans to prevent sticking, washing tins with hot soda and whitening, and clever cleaning methods for lace, apples, beefsteak, potato peels for fuel, jam preservation with a coin, borax cleaning for porcelain, and oven deodorizing with washing soda and whitening for a clean, sweet bake.
Seven hundred newspapers, representing diverse views, sit in judgment on AP dispatches. A representative from each paper votes in management elections and editors scrutinize every line. Any serious departure from impartial reporting would trigger public outrage and overwhelm any administration.
A quotation from Lydenberg in South Africa condemns those eager to hide in the face of government efforts to serve the country, stating the need to resist nullifying the government’s honest endeavors.
A dated survey traces the rise of high prices for old master engravings led by a 1200 guinea state from Catherine Lady Bampfylde at Christies. It notes dramatic gains since 1866 and highlights secondary items from snake exhibitions to patent nostrums and Mme Patti’s immense earnings in a single era.
A testimonial from H. B. Franklin of Allegheny Pennsylvania describes fifteen years of scalp and body sores relieved after three days of Cuticura Soap and Ointment, with a complete cure in one week. He asserts the products cleared his head and body completely.
An old text claims a immature banana worsens flavor and causes dyspepsia. It promotes Botanic Blood Balm as a cure for various skin woes and systemic issues, promising healthy blood, relief from sores and eczema, with pricing and free sample offer from Greed Balm Co. Atlanta Ga.
McClure's notes Scott's life shows he loved horses and dogs and spent more months away from Edinburgh than in it. His duties as sheriff kept him traveling across Scotland, absorbing local history and the people. His trips into Liddesdale and other journeys shaped his writing with rough, honest observations.
London traffic figures show Westminster bridge records 22,118 pedestrians and 7,061 omnibus passengers in twelve hours, Bleckfriers bridge sees 31,885 pedestrians and 5,399 omnibus riders, while Blackfriars bridge carries 38,000,000 passengers annually and 566 cars daily. Electric trams total 53,000,000 passengers last year across Westminster routes.
A clergyman in Iowa recounts his wife’s violent vomiting tied to coffee consumption in spring 1806 and July of the same year. They ceased coffee and switched to Postum Food Coffee, reporting full recovery and nine years without recurrence, crediting Postum for their health.
Thousands of American women report being made well and strong by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad touts its uterine tonic powers, claims cures by physicians and nurses, urges women with menstrual or reproductive issues to seek relief, and invites letters and free advice from Mia Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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