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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1910
Page
8
After forty-five years as a trusted remedy for aches and pains this liniment announces doubling the bottle size to show appreciation. It promises benefits for both humans and animals and urges trial of the original formula.
A sales pitch offers home ownership by adopting a war plan lender. Pay $7.50 monthly plus 6 percent yearly interest on balances to finance a $1,000 home for 103 years, with option to pay at any time and stop further interest. Contact 3 W Ponder at 34 36 Chamber of Commerce Bidg Richmond Va.
Insurgent Republicans claim decisive wins in California primaries. Herm Johnson carries 51 of 52 counties except San Francisco where he placed second. James MacLachlan loses to W. B. Stevens. Smith wins Fifth District. McKinley loses to William Kent. Theodore Bell gains chatter of Democratic hopes amid Republican split.
In Manassas Virginia August 18 a chicken with ten toes helped expose Jeemes Robinson a dusky youth who sold chickens to Joe Kincheloe after Mrs E E Connor reported coop thefts Kincheloe raced to intercept the wagons Robinson's lawyer declined to argue the case and the mayor fined Robinson twenty five dollars and sentenced him to four months on the road
A baby girl born near Duquoin Illinois to Mr and Mrs Charles Wallace weighs one and one half pounds and measures under twelve inches. Doctors say she will live. The infant is tiny enough for a match to hide one finger and her head is about the size of a hen's egg.
New York sporting figures organize a mass meeting in support of boxing following police action that halted the Kaufman Lang bout. Mitchell convenes the review, with plans to be announced soon. Sharkey Club met last night and Longacre is set to meet tonight. Kaufman Lang is slated for September 15 in Philadelphia for six rounds.
Mr Littell McClung argues in August Progress Megazine that playgrounds movement has begun to transform children’s lives globally. He cites millions of children in hundreds of cities engaging diverse games, predicting rapid growth and wide social moral benefits for the coming generations.
The Manufactures Record reports a surge of southern building work across Oklahoma, Missouri, and other states. Architects, contractors, and firms note multi million dollar projects in churches, banks, factories, homes, roads, railways, and utilities with activity normalizing after a prewar revival.
The letters list numerous public works and private buildings with varied costs including steel and concrete structures, a $700 000 composition, $80 000 hotels, schoolhouses at $65 000, a $50 000 YMCA, water works, levee, tunnel and street projects, and thousands of dollars for housing and utilities.
The piece argues that U.S. river up builds waste public funds, citing the Red River project in 1908 costing 183 per ton of traffic and noting similar pork-barrel spending across rivers and harbors. It references Hubert Bruce Fuller’s World’s Work article for details.
The World's Work article recounts a congressman on key committees receiving odd notes from constituents. One man asks for government reports bound for “dummies” to dress shelves, while another seeks free-mailing of public documents, aiming to obtain tons of material for his rape seed pulp product.
The piece critiques Jeffries versus Johnson arguing Jeffries lacked coordination and the white race showed inferiority in Reno. It cites Muldoon and attributes the view to the Saturday Evening Post, urging caucasian intellect and timing over a repeat match in future venues.
The article argues playgrounds develop the model man or woman by pairing mind and body training. It links fair play to future business ethics and warns against gambling temptations without supervised activities. It highlights windmills cabins nature study and team sports as civic education tools.
At Coney Island on Sunday Miss Anna Boyland of Sheepshead Bay required police aid after two pieces of her bathing suit slipped away in the surf. A crowd jeered and Lt. Joseph Conboy directed a protective walk ashore as friends shielded her with skirts, ending the episode on the beach.
Mr Browning proclaims a great day as his daughter comes out tonight. Mrs Diggie expresses surprise noting her husband has been in for a month. The Tatler report reflects social chatter and domestic anecdotes.
In Flatbush a seven year feud over an eight foot alley ends with a towering ten foot fence. Widow Kathryn Fox and Patrick May the smith clash with Henry Miller and his wife over painting and light. Neighbors watch as disputes unfold and a possible sale looms for a resolution.
Harrisonburg July 18 reports Carl Argenbright three year old son of Letcher Argenbright of Sinai Rockingham county ill with infantile paralysis. The boy was suddenly stricken and has no use of his legs though otherwise in good condition.
In Sioux Falls, the two-year-old son of Louis Bosch died yesterday, marking the city’s first infantile paralysis victim. He was ill for under a week.
Ten new cases of infantile paralysis have been reported to the State Board of Health. Three cases were reported from Mason City by Dr. Wade Forest, the government surgeon assigned to Iowa to investigate the disease.
Editor Christian D. Larson reports from a two months West Coast tour in the Progress Magazine August issue. He highlights vast untapped land and superb productive power with farms capable of yielding large profits, noting scientific agriculture as key to turning millions of acres toward cultivation.
An excerpt explores how basic cultivation principles, though not taught as a strict cult, can be learned and applied by any person of fair intelligence with practical effort and guidance.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt daughter of former President Roosevelt travels through Montana with Major Henry Fairfield Osborn and party of guides to study the glac ial recesses of Glacier Park.
Grover Cleveland Richardson was held for the grand jury charged with shooting and killing Blandis Smith Grymes near Naulakla. He reportedly asked Miss Grymes to arrange a date with a mutual friend and, after her refusal, fired. Richardson surrendered at the home of W. S. Hearn claiming the shooting was accidental.
Weekly corrected market list for Richmond from Wallerstein Produce Co. detailing prices for live hens, ducks, butter varieties, eggs, meats, hides, flaxseed, beeswax, walnut kernels, crates, fruits and vegetables including apples lemons peas navy beans cabbage beets seeds dried fruits nuts and various specialty items with per unit prices and condition notes. Names of goods and prices appear in scattered OCR format with mixed spellings and typos.
Richmond VA wholesale quotations on the Richmond grain market show updates in prices and changes for grain components. Market sources indicate shifts in futures and cash bids affecting buyers and sellers in the region.
Rev. Dr. A Northrup of Kansas City preached at North Baptist Church using Dont die on third as a parable for life. He urged believers to finish the full race and keep body and soul trained for salvation, likening life to a baseball field with players and a vital moment at home.
The Norfolk report describes two surprise assaults on Fort Monroe by 156th Company regular coast artillery forces acting as the imagined foe. The first strike occurred at 11 P.M. and the second at 4 A.M. with defenders repelling both without fatalities.
A homemade airship pushcart driven by Alexandre Pelli flew over a crowd in Harlem dropping ice cream pretzels and other foods onto shoppers and dogs. The cart crashed landing injuring a 15 year old girl Violet Greenbaum, prompting police arrest of the owners with bail set for Pelli. The incident caused chaos as bystanders were hurt and the cart sustained damage.
Report from Hollow Forest describes par tiles and scout airships sent to locate an airship that caught fire and plunged to the outskirts. Workmen witnessed the blaze and the aircraft clinging to the burning car as it fell from the sky.
In New York City the Health and Police Departments cracked a cocaine ring when Vito A. Pittaro, a Morris Avenue druggist, alerted inspectors about a man posing as a physician. Harry Simon, 1362 Mott Avenue, confessed. arraigned on impersonation, held for trial.
Miss Pearl Bird 22 of 15 Covert Street Brooklyn felt a finger on her neck and had her hat jolted on a Ridgewood elevated ride. She punched the man, later identified as William Conley 25 of 92 Stuyvesant Avenue, who was charged with disorderly conduct and fined $10 by Chief Magistrate Kempner.
Help wanted ad seeking agents to write sick benefit insurance and earn at least 25.00 per week. Provide references to SUPT. MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. at 6th and Broad Streets, Richmond, Virginia.
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