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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1907
Page
4
A brief note promotes Man a Lin as an excellent remedy for constipation. It suggests a dose or two for slight fevers influenza colds and related ailments. The wording repeats the claim twice and references usage during illnesses.
Reported successful experiments have been conducted in a Yorkshire mine with two kinds of artificial breathing apparatus to enable rescuers to work in irrespirable air after an explosion. A portion of the mine had been provided with conditions existing after an explosion. Four men were equipped with the contrivances and remained in the place several hours engaged in such work as would be necessary after an explosion. It is believed that these devices would enable a corps of trained men to enter a mine filled with foul air, to restore the ventilation and to save many lives.
A fragmented Chicago News snippet hints at a dispute over a Sunday dinner bill of fare. The shredded chicken proposal triggers questions from a pessimist about whether the change was caused by a single speaker or a broader decision within a rural community.
Clara reveals she will end her engagement to Tom after discovering him with another woman last night. Maude reacts with skepticism, noting the sudden realization and the absence of violent remorse.
Washington notes a classroom swap as a boy, Johnny, heads toward fifth grade next year. The exchange hints at future tasks, with hints of fractions and beadwork. The brief dialogue captures the small school moment.
A short humorous poem from The Home Magazine notes a playful couplet about a Bonnie under a car. The speaker asks for help to the garage and laments loneliness while remaining lighthearted.
Philadelphia reports indicate a rising coal shortage across all grades. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company refused a 200000 ton anthracite contract for Austro Hungarian interests, with similar refusals for a 200000 ton Italian government order amid labor scarcity and rising demand from foreign navies and U S industry. Western railways fear winter supply strains as miners leave for farming or less dangerous work. Foreign workers shift jobs as shortages worsen.
New York specialty dateline reports a wreck near Seabright at 1 AM injuring eight people. Carl Hanna and a grandson of Senator Mark Hanna drove a headlightless auto carrying seven, failing to see a slow wagon. Hanna and several passengers suffered serious injuries including broken ribs and being thrown from the vehicle.
Mrs Rachel D Barry 46 widow of Amos C Barry died in Long Branch New Jersey from hydrophobia seven weeks after being bitten by a cat at her Eatontown boulevard home. She died after eight hours of dying spasms and was strapped to her bed. She was daughter of the late John Cullom of Oxford Pennsylvania and leaves five children two daughters and three sons.
Panama by Cable reports lack of funds slowing canal construction. About four thousand workers have been laid off on the new line of the Panama Railroad, with municipal engineering ordered to cut 1,000 more. Clerical reductions are expected, while August excavation figures are forecast to rise sharply over July.
J M Darrow of Preserve Ice Rhinelander Wisconsin reports finding a mill waste product that yields a preservation compound for ice. When produced at 47 cents per 1000 gallons it could let households buy an ice cake, coat it, and avoid ice man deliveries all summer.
Post Office Inspector Kimball said two mail pouches were stolen from a Chicago Burlington and Quincy train and contained matter sent to points east of Chicago. He noted a total value of about $250,000 in the theft.
A boiler explosion aboard the coal barge Pater son, negotiating between New York and Boston, at Langs Docks Hoboken, killed six men. News items include rail wrecks, political remarks, and multiple fatalities across the nation.
The report notes multiple international events including Quelch’s expulsion praise by the Socialistic Congress, fears of mutiny in Russian navy and army, and Russian fort and ship inspections amid cholera. It covers Roumanian amnesty, a Paris death linked to French contracts, and clashes in Morocco, Hungary, and Shanghai.
R G Dun and Co reports well attended jobbing markets with interior buyers and country merchants free to operate despite financial strain. Western and Southern cities show building activity above last year as harvests progress. Retail stocks deplete due to sales while fall plans boost confidence. Canada seeks renewals while major plants stay busy into 1908. Pig iron demand rises for small lots. quick delivery urgent. Prices show normal seasonal quiet in iron and steel.
Baltimore and New York markets show wheat demand firm with No 2 red trading around 91c to 93%c, while corn eases. oats and butter prices hold steady to firm. Eggs remain in steady demand with moderate receipts. Philadelphia notes unchanged wheat and firm corn with butter and eggs firming slightly.
The report lists live cattle, hogs, and sheep prices in Chicago and Kansas City. Chicago prices show varied ranges for steers cows heifers bulls calves and stockers plus hogs and sheep with steady to lower tendencies. Kansas City data indicate market steady to weak across cattle hogs with ranges for native and western cattle, stockers, bulls, calves, and packers.
September 5 is fixed for the dedication of the McKinley Monument at Buffalo New York. The item notes the ceremonial date and location in a compact data snippet. It also references broad world facts such as Germany needing one million horses for war and large colonial possessions of France and Britain.
Instruction from the Washington Star explains cleaning leather items using turpentine on a soft cloth to remove stains. The method notes the leather may stiffen and requires brisk rubbing with crude oil to restore pliability, followed by wiping with a clean cloth to remove surface grease and prevent soiling clothes.
A 19th century tip suggests beeswax pieces tucked in white woolens and silks prevent yellowing when stored folded. It notes folding clothes and placing whole newspapers between folds can remove creases, merging paper and cloth in one motion for better care.
Instructions from the New York Journal advise brushing off dust, washing with a soda solution, rinsing, drying, applying linseed oil for about an hour, then rubbing with cloth and burnishing with chamois leather and a plate brush. The process should be done twice yearly to keep ornaments looking new.
A New York Journal tip explains renewing dull old cloth by dissolving glue in water, washing and drying the fabric, then applying a flannel dipped in glue solution at night. The process forms a glassy finish and doubles the cloths lifespan on a dry morning.
The article explains washing new silk skirts using luke warm water and dissolved white soap, then squeezing out gently and rinsing in tepid water. Add a few drops of skirt color to the rinse to maintain brightness, a method noted since washing dulls silk, and iron while damp with muslin protection.
A collection of old fashioned recipes includes Waffles with sour milk and two eggs, Cracker Pudding with coconut and lemon, New Jam from strawberries and pineapple, Chicken Gumbo with okras, and a Sponge Cake method with creamed yolks and stiff whites. The instructions mix ingredients and steps in brief, practical terms.
The first Chinese coolies admitted into Canada since the Dominion raised the head tax to 500 dollars arrived last week at Victoria. It is said that with labor scarce and wages high in Canada the coolie can recover his 500 dollars as easily as 50 dollars once was.
A newspaper note reports that the granddaughter of Rom Ney had a picture sold for eighty thousand ninety dollars. The sale price is recorded as eighty thousand ninety dollars with a single item description.
John A. Hall, a Sabetha Kansas railroad worker, fainted and was placed in the morgue as a presumed corpse. The coroner ordered a postmortem, but when the surgeon touched the body Hall sat up and spoke, saying he had heard everything while unconscious and could think clearly though unable to speak.
A famed American millionaire reportedly spent £20,000 on a coffin, a likely post mortem record. Other coffins have surpassed £1,000, with a mahogany coffin costing £4,000 for a husband’s burial. A woman even funded an electric light in her tomb and coffin at £109 annually. Li Hung Chang’s coffin is said to have cost £13,000 and featured extensive gold figures and gems.
A tired woman in a window box narrates how the morning glory vine grows rapidly in enervating weather. She recalls watching it climb up a string, be blown down by the wind, and yet extend across the vine roughly four finches in length while she rested on her couch.
A living writer recalls a lifelong feud sparked by misusing the article the instead of a in reporting a wedding. She recounts how stating the ceremony took place at the aunt’s home and that there were pres net only the few friends of the family provoked lasting anger from the bride.
A Tennessee reader from Plant touts green gooseberries as the best remedy for sore throats. He says his children never use medicines, the wife makes juice from green berries, stores it in bottles, and it keeps indefinitely. The piece cites local belief and contrasts it with modern medicine.
A 73 year old resident of Hardy Delaware describes four years of severe eczema and itching that affected hands feet and face and even eyesight. After using Cuticura Quintment Soap and Pills for four weeks the skin cleared and itching vanished, according to W Field Cowen Justice of the Peace and Notary Public May 15 1906. The excerpt also notes a stray line about family forgiveness for swearing amid mending.
A Missouri defense attorney George West argued against convicting on circumstantial evidence. He told a parable about a boy who stole custard, smeared a cat, and then shot it to illustrate how circumstantial proofs can mislead. West won the case, as cited from the New York Times.
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