25 Aug 1910
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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1910
Page
1
Richmond planners push a new auto plant promising high capital, local employment, and reduced freight costs. Promoters from major banks seek to convert Richmond Iron Works into a production site for the Virginian car with 100 initial units and a view to scale by year end.
In Washington special notes the Metcalf comet, found by Rev J H Metcalf and reported to Harvard, was seen at the Naval Observatory as a dull luminous mass in the southwestern sky. In Luray Virginia Frederick Caul dreaming of sliding to third base fell fifteen feet from his father's window causing serious injuries after a prior near fall from the second story while imitating a dive into Hawkskill Creek.
Special orders within days for ten locomotives for the St. Louis Terminal Railway Company by the Richmond branch of the American Locomotive Company. An order for ten wheel passenger locomotives for the Korean Railway also received with delivery this year. Material is being gathered and the first consignment arrived within 24 hours. Superintendent Marshall says workers will be restored as soon as supply returns and production accelerates.
Barry Middendorf, a Pittsburgher, blew a smoke cloud in the face of justice at Jefferson Market Court. Magistrate Corrigan ordered a reprimand as Middendorf and two New York friends left the building, lighting fresh stogies and mimicking their rival city.
reports say eighteen new cholera cases in Trani with total daily deaths exceeding one hundred six. King Victor Emmanuel consults with Premier Luzzatti and Minister Secchi as authorities struggle to contain spread and manage medical supplies while panic and incomplete quarantines raise fears across Barletta Cerignola Trani San Ferdinando Andria Trinitapoli and surrounding towns. Dr Ruetti forwards urgent telegram from field headquarters to the Premier.
Samuel Rabinowitsch a 26 year old tailor at 148 Guernsey Street Brooklyn nearly suffocated by Lena the cat who slept on his chest after boarding there Lena vanished and a doctor revived him noting a weak heart and breathing obstruction.
New York report says Theodore Roosevelt will speak for himself and his views without consulting politicians. He declined to join New York campaign moves after losing temporary chairman bid, noting Tuesday’s events as a possible signal to engage in New York politics.
Acting President T M Carrington reports that Chesapeake and Ohio chief George W Stevens sent a three word denial: Report is untrue. The denial eases Richmond fears amid Cincinnati station plans and a proposed 20 million dollar Union Station.
West Point Virginia reports J J Kain aged fifty three long connected with the Chesapeake Line from Baltimore to West Point is missing after last seen at 2 25 am Wednesday on the Atlanta bow rail heading up Chesapeake Bay. He did not log the trip back to Baltimore and search found his cabin with his cap and coat but no sign of him. Authorities withhold final conclusions as inquiry continues.
Chesapeake Steamship Company advertises passenger steamers Columbia Augusta and Atlanta from Baltimore to Old Point Comfort Norfolk with connections to rail lines for South. Through tickets available from city offices. lines include West Point and Richmond service with calls at Gloucester Point Clement's Clay Bank and Allmond's.
A widely known and popular man in financial distress has disappeared. He was not reported missing in Baltimore until the boat reached West Point at 8 26 this morning and was possibly with the Chesapeake Company, the line that employed him.
Governor Mann and T C Sandy traveled 58 miles by buggy and addressed farmers in Montross Tapphannock Miller's Essex near King and Queen counties praising Virginia agriculture. Demonstration work may expand to Westmoreland and Essex counties if local boards fund half the salaries with the other half covered by the United Agricultural Board.
Mrs Leah, 64, and Harris Levin, 28, both longtime Williamsburg residents, eloped toward a Brooklyn marriage license. Neighbors spying on them caused a public wedding march as a brass band cheered the couple en route to the wedding at the Waacie Street Synagogue with plans for a ceremony tomorrow night.
Special agent arrest in Danville reveals a glass distillery with chemical compounds and a manual for imitation whiskey. Letters indicate a thriving illicit business run by Will Brooks, a Black man, when detained Thursday.
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