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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
4
The Kansas City Journal discusses ideas of romance and reciprocity amid a tale of a Devonshire woman owning an estate and aiding an inmate to claim property in America. It notes aging, money, and shifting affections as moral and social questions unfold.
Frills in fashion note Jumper frocks for young and middle aged wearers. Tight long sleeves appear on coats and gowns. Chamois gloves surge in popularity for travel and daily use. Scarlet and green sunshtades pair with white dresses. Fashionable women match gowns with parasols and brown tones dominate across fabrics. The modish short skirt hovers two to three inches above the ground. Russian designs and colorings enter the scene.
The New York Press reports a Milan born dancer whose stage appearance stirs convulsions in the press. She claims Greek dance is an epic art and urges dancers to move with thought, while calling on designers and sculptors to contribute ideal draperies and aesthetics.
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss psychology and gender leading to claims that women are two souls or more. The excerpt references a university president and unnamed figures, with mentions of abortion and evolving views, but the text remains incoherent and incomplete.
A fashion note highlights contrasts in dress with striped coats and plain skirts, feather trimmings on hats, and the allure of pink roses on leghorn straw hats. It mentions new scarfs and delicate fabrics, along with evolving gown draping where bodice and border vary between sides.
The Plymouth town council decides to abandon the annual festival. The move ends plans for a community event that drew local residents and visitors.
An Appletons analysis shows motor delivery trucks outperform horse wagons in speed and space. Automobiles run 50 miles daily while horse wagons average 15 to 20. Monthly savings reach about 120 dollars and annual around 1439 for a 2500 pound capacity vehicle.
The text recounts extreme wet and dry cycles in Southern Illinois from 1824 to 1832. It notes heavy rains destroying corn, wheat after harvest by weevils, 1830–31 deep snows two and a half to three feet, and severe early frosts in 1831 and 1832 crippling corn. It likens years to famine eras and references joseph-like figures.
A lighthearted note on couples dancing into matrimony and a medicinal plug for Capitchine advertised as curing indigestion and heartburn. The ad copy mentions a 10 cent price and availability at drug stores, reflecting era sales language.
H H Rogers recalls Twain in a smoking room tale from Bermuda voyage. Twain's emotional tears at a Buffalo house gift from his father-in-law, Mr Langdon, prompt a quip offering free tea and hospitality, illustrating Twain's enduring humor.
A French professor introduces a method to disinfect old books by placing them in a pressurized oven. Evaporation of a specific liquid breaks down aldehydes, allowing sanitation without harming covers, paper, or bindings.
A collection of aphoristic observations on manners and behavior. A woman’s coolness on hot days, a girl and her brother’s outings, how a man’s tongue can ruin a year’s work, ministers and hymns, men with favorites, and the moral point at which a man’s goodness invites rest.
Lena V Ife of Norristown Ga writes that her doctors urged an operation for her female troubles but after starting Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she improved after the first bottle and is now fully cured urging other women with similar ailments to try the remedy.
Mrs. Herman Smith of 901 Broad Street Athens Georgia credits Dean's Kidney Pill with reversing a kidney disease that led to dropsy and weakness. She describes severe back pain and swelling then notes the pills saved her life. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Batik Pulau Chinese villager reports dawn commotion as a tiger roams his pig pen. He shoots and kills the intruder. the eight and a half foot animal swam from the mainland to Pulau Jerepak before resting there. The tale links Penang wildlife with a curious cross‑strait rumor.
George Bush recalls Taft getting stuck in a normal tele phone booth at Hot Springs hotel. A quick call to Southern Bell sent carpenters who freed him. The company then built a larger booth as a sign of esteem for Taft.
Curious Amatecas of Amatlan de Los Reyes in Vera Cruz state maintain self government and national traits despite centuries of outside influence. They are described as a small group living 300 years among a powerful foreign society, preserving traditions and individuality.
A reader describes years of illness blamed on coffee and credits switching to Postum. After five months off coffee, headaches lessen and appetite and strength return. now weighs 148 pounds and says health improved. The testimonial cites Postum Co. Battle Creek Wellsville as the source.
A Tit-Bits note discusses extremely small parishes several with populations of only one or two people. It mentions Sor fedtence in Stockbridge housing two dwellings and an eleventh century church, Lullington near Eastbourne with a tiny church, Grove near Leighton Buzzard housing a modern farmhouse and a few cottages, and Rhyd in Flintshire showing three adults but five cottages and one shop with two pubs recently.
The Pan Anglican conference draws attention to American oratory with praise from a Canadian correspondent and a British MP. Sir Charles Wyndham counters that Americans talk much yet lack proportionally more skilled speakers than England. Also noted is an ad for Fighting Turtles Hicks capuchine tonic claims to calm nerves and a remark on women and judgments of virtue.
A passage describes a heroine reading a love letter as she curls her hair, depicting a moment of intimate etiquette and literary mood in a fiction scene.
A mother from Camberwell England recalls her son Owen suffering eczema from three months old to age fifteen, treated by regimental doctors and hospitals as incurable. Six months after buying Cuticura Remedies, he was reportedly cured and free from the ailment.
Short exchange from Somerville Journal contrasts Hicks and Wicks on spelling forms. Hicks resists standard spellings. Wicks argues time to learn them.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a trusted laxative. It claims gentle cleansing of internal organs without debility, notes natural action and physician approval, and urges buying only the California Fig Syrup Co. product through leading druggists.
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