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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1908
Page
1
An advertisement touts paints and related products for Norfolk and Tidewater Virginia. It promotes ENGLISH LEAD with high covering and whiteness, WHITE ZINC Vieille Montagne brand, and direct from linseed crushers oil. It promises durable creosote stain and shingle stain, plus a guarantee to repaint any building or roof if not satisfied.
Washington discusses new tariff plan proposing maximum and minimum duty rates to allow concessions. H E Miles of Racine criticizes the Dingley law as fostering trusts and harming consumers labor and independent manufacturers. Taft and Payne back the new form over fixed rates amid committee exchanges.
An advertisement extols Dr Miles Heart Cure and Nervine as tonics for weak hearts and related symptoms. It includes patient testimonial from Mrs F J Norton of Freeville New York praising its benefits and a closing poem by Henry Johnstone from St Nicholas. The piece also notes druggists stock the product and the Miles Medical Co. is cited.
A down-on-his-luck wanderer in Walla Walla hatches a fake Greek lecture using old slides from a vanished lecturer. The plan attracts audiences, and the improvisation nets him 430 dollars in gate receipts, while a green tourist applauds a Tibet talk he plans to give.
A brief fragment notes a child reciting Casabianca on a burning deck, with the line The boy stood on the burning deck and Sawbury fleeing, indicating a wartime or dramatic school recitation moment.
The New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad won a 30.9 million contract to electrify routes from Rochelle to Manhattan and tunnel to Astoria, with a major passenger station planned at Fourth and Lexington and Thirty-second Streets. The Federal Council of Churches opened in Philadelphia as Rev. Charles Stelzle urged immigrant welfare to curb socialism.
The first of the ships to join the Pacific Comsat program, a joint foreign and military effort, signals the start of a September deployment. Officials describe the operation as a milestone in communications research and allied cooperation.
Lynchburg special report: by a majority of 195 out of 1958 votes Lynchburg chose to do away with licensed liquor saloons, affecting 34 saloons 1 wholesale house and 3 beer agencies. Antisaloon League supporters celebrate while wets concede. The vote carried every ward and three of seven precincts. opposition precincts total 23 majority. Some voters were absent and 500 registrants were barred by judges under Ward law being challenged in court.
Los Angeles reports Rear Admiral Robly D. Evans, retired, rejects any gift from the people of Los Angeles or others, saying he does not want a house or any present from the public. The notice appears as a special dispatch from the city.
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