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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1909
Page
4
Munyons offers free medical examinations via a postal request. Doctors will diagnose and advise if curable, with no obligation. Send for an examination blank to 53d and Jefferson Sts Philadelphia. Also notes a Mexican government contract with Krupps to build a bullets plant near Vera Cruz.
An old advertisement promotes patter like Meadache Hicks and a pudine relief for stomach or nerve pain. It urges immediate relief and mentions drug stores and a local physician density in New York City. It also touts Hamlin’s Wizard Oil as a quick fix for inflammatory pain.
A selection of aphorisms from the Chicago Tribune's Sentence Sermons debating divine friendship human kindness and inner discipline. The maxims urge kindness loyalty truth and self-control while criticizing vanity and hollow worship and urging practical virtue over mere display.
An observation from Harper's Bazar on Dutch hospitality noting grand table settings on first visits. After recognizing a family’s possession of silver and ivory utensils, guests switch to everyday ware, guarding heirloom silver for descendants and reflecting on ancestral care.
A Chicago News humor item notes a professor declaring fruit remains healthy with skin on. A punchline follows about subjecting him to a pineapple diet.
The Washington Star quotes an eminent alienist on ego, noting a theory that a man never suffers from exaggerated ego but enjoys it. Meanwhile the Oriental Steamship Company has two 9,250 ton vessels and one 13,500 ton ship under construction at Mitsubishi dockyards for Pacific service.
An anonymous reader describes waking nightmares and unrestful sleep linked to coffee. After trying Postum, sleep improved and nerves calmed, leading to a strong endorsement of switching from coffee to Postum by household members and friends.
Edith M. Thomas recalls a vast hoard of vanished lives and scattered riches across misty coasts and memory. The speaker lists exotic items from Phoenician mintage to Varangian gems, yet laments that none of her many sunken lives rises intact.
A column extols kidney cures for women plagued by pain and fatigue. Mrs EB Corbin of Dalton Ga credits Dean's Kidney Pills with relief after years of backache and numbness, claiming the remedy restored health. The ad finishes by urging readers to remember the Dean's brand and buy at local dealers.
A former sailor recalls a boyhood friend Rudolf, his and his mate’s shared path into a life at sea and crime. The narrative follows a troubled reunion with Ernest Johnson, a disguised former shipmate, and reveals a tale of drink, gambling, illness, and a ruined life tied to a fatal voyage and a desertion that devastated his plans to return home.
A McClure's Magazine summary notes C S Berry's Harvard study showing cats lack instinct to kill mice and mice lack inherent fear of cats. It argues kittens chase moving objects by habit, not instinct, and successful mouser cats arise from habit formation rather than innate instinct.
A humorous exchange from Harpers Weekly features a boy who buys papers from Jimmy Wilson for two cents and resells them to others, not to profit but to enjoy shouting out the sale. The joke underscores street commerce and child labor era street life with a playful punchline.
A sharp look at Atchison youths shows an average monthly earning near sixty dollars as courting obligations mount. The piece contrasts social demands with finances and hints at calls to exclusion for failing to reciprocate. It also notes New York streetcar fatalities in 1908 and a large injury figure.
Chicago markets show cattle strong with steers 5.60 to 7.55, cows 3.50 to 5.25, heifers 3.50 to 6.60, bulls 3.00 to 4.85, calves 3.00 to 8.00, and stockers 3.75 to 5.15. Hog prices rise to 7.75 with bulk 7.40 to 7.85. Sheep and lambs mixed with lambs rising up to 8.15 and yearlings around 5.00 to 5.40. Kansas City reports steady to down 40c, with diverse cattle and hog ranges. Pittsburg shows prime to heavy values, lambs about 4.20 to 7.45, veal calves 8.00 to 8.50.
The Washington Herald quotes a reflection on justice and truth urging daily self improvement. It then notes Senegal's four communes Dakar Rufisque Goree with 108000 people in 488 square miles. It mentions German naval lifeboat apparatus with rope ladder sides and that nearly all of Oregon's copper comes from one mine in Josephine County.
A Newark New Jersey woman recounts severe eczema covering her body and scalp, pain, and bleeding before applying Cuticura Ointment, Soap, and Resolvent. She reports rapid relief, healing of sores, hair regrowth, and full recovery, urging others to try Cuticura. Potter Drug & Chem Corp. endorses the remedies.
A new telephone mouthpiece made of glass can be cleaned by boiling. The design promises easy sanitation and durability for daily use.
The column lists Hick's Caropine as a feverish relief and cold cure, Dr Biggers Huckleberry Cordial for diarrhoea and teething, Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, plus remarks on postal business growth and England's milk consumption. It mentions prices 25c to 50c and beekeeping notes. The tone mimics early 20th century patent medicine and trade notices with general health and commerce snippets.
The anecdote recalls Sydney Rosenfeld writing The Optimist and facing refusals before success. When pressed by his auditor, the impresario claims the difference is trivial, and Rosenfeld quips that an optimist is an eye doctor while a pessimist is a foot doctor, in Harper's Weekly.
A Wilmington household rebukes Mollie the Irish maid for leaving a clock unwound before she departs tomorrow. The exchange reveals her impending departure as she refuses to do any more of the new year’s work. Buenos Ayres population on March 31 totaled 1,198,802, up 58,825 from the prior year.
Mrs Lapsling says Johnny is all right after a strange dog bite. He was taken to a doctor who treated the wound at once. The doctor reportedly advised against drinking, while Blobbs jokes that the doctor would say drinking is Guzzler’s best habit.
Vice Consul Dirk P. De Young reports a plan in Joinville, Santa Catharina to build an electric railway to Lake Sagaussa, an ocean harbor ten miles away, where vessels can enter successfully.
The passage notes that people with fresh air habits and discernment can sense harmful agents in the air without sensory warning. It cites an Indian experiencing an overwhelming oppression in a closed room, illustrating how unseen pollutants affect those exposed despite no visible signs.
For hundreds of years the same safety razor style and size persisted until a genius introduced an improved design. The new razor, offered at twenty-five cents, contrasts with earlier im plements priced at three to five dollars. Send twenty five cents to the Book Publishing House at 134 Leonard Street, New York, for a postpaid razor.
An Irishman in a depôt smoking ignores a woman's rebuke and replies with witty, defiant comebacks. The note then shifts to Consul Dill reporting cobalt ore shipments from the Cobalt district reaching about 14 500 tons in the first half of 1909, up 68 percent from 1908. It ends with a fact about voiceless animals like giraffes porcupines and armadillos.
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