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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
4
A fragment describes Dr Miles Anti Pain tablets claimed to end headaches and mental strain after years of pain. The ad notes the product costs 25 cents and is sold widely, promising relief from ongoing head trouble and after effects.
A Tennessee woman recalls years of indigestion nervousness and insomnia from coffee. She stopped for several days and faced headaches until she switched to Postum. After using Postum she lost weight and reports lasting health improvements crediting Postum over coffee. She now serves as a living ad for Postum.
Across the United States factories resume full operation after ten months of cutbacks. Mills run at full capacity and hire many workers while railroads plan multi million dollar upgrades. Money markets loosen as projects advance. National Prosperity Association disbands as prosperity appears to return, chairman E. C. Simmons says.
Reports from the International Brotherhood of Operative Potters indicate widespread reopenings across industries. Factories including Riverside Pottery Wheeling Dresden Pottery Klondike Pottery Sebring Pottery and Union Buffalo Cotton Mills show strong orders, full-time shifts, and rising employment.
In Charlottenburg a Kiel inventor displayed a gyro compass without a magnetic needle. The device self adjusts to the earth's axis when suspended properly, promising to prevent compass deflections from nearby metal on ironclad ships.
Paris reports dancing masters faced a clash with tight skirts hindering steps. They met and decreed shorter steps for waltzes polkas and all dances to restore use of the lower limbs and preserve the livelihood of instructors.
The World of Sport notes Yale lists thirty five candidates for the hockey team. W. K. Vanderbilt leads the first set of winning owners on the French turf with a total of $263,640. Arthur Curtiss James named to succeed Cornelius Vanderbilt as commodore of the New York Yacht Club amid tensions over racing at Hot Springs Arkansas.
Mrs Lucy Quebeck from Hope Valley reports long standing severe kidney trouble with back pain and irregular secretions. After trying doctors she found relief using Deans Kidney Pills, with symptoms gradually fading. Sold by all dealers 6 50 a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y
A seedless apple tree bearing a sweet apple resembling the sheep nose was found on C. B. Bells Esk Tidge farm. Samples were sent to the State Horticultural Society and next spring grafting will propagate buds from the tree. The tree bears fruit for three years with no seed, only a small core that experts think can be removed by propagation.
An American and a Scotsman discuss winter cold in Scotland and the United States. The American recalls a tale of a sheep frozen mid leap, claiming gravity failed, then reveals the joke about gravity being frozen too.
Advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, claiming constitutional treatment via internal use. It asserts cure even for stubborn cases and offers $100 reward for any case it cannot cure, urging readers to send for testimonials from Toledo, Ohio.
A fragment depicts a proposal conversation about a wedding date between George and Miranda. It references a forthcoming marriage and asks about the date chosen with the mother, conveyed in a dramatic exchange. Also included is an ad style line about Hicksapudine Cores for menstrual and nervous symptoms with immediate effects and 50c price at drug stores.
A humorous item from Harper's Weekly describes the plain widow Perkins luring the fastidious Mawkett Coward by driving him to view hundreds of her building lots, a playful vignette of love at first sight in a serialized humor tone.
A 1907 letter from Gurdain S. Dave of Concord New Hampshire describes a severe itching swelling on the legs that resisted several remedies until a small amount of Cuticura relieved the symptoms. The writer notes immediate relief, swelling subsiding and resumed footwear within two days.
Mrs A Gregory of Denver writes she was nearly invalid for six years due to female troubles and after an operation she worsened. A friend advised Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and it restored her to health, relieving backache and bearing down pains.
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