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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
4
An advertisement touts Dr Miles Nervine as a remedy for rheumatism claiming direct and nervous-system soothing effects. It cites cures after long suffering and offers free advice. includes a testimonial from J A Sanders of Rockaway New Jersey and urges readers to try the product.
The article discusses new talking automata from Paris, popular as showpieces used in advertising. It highlights lifelike movement created by concealed mechanisms, the intrigue of phonograph voice links, and positions automata as an advanced stage of mechanical toys. An offer notes a piano delivery includes 1000 unique souvenir postcards of New York.
Rev Wythe Leigh Kinsolving, rector of Epiphany Church in Barton Heights, quits after a fist fight at Rev E H Pitt’s home. The incident followed a claim of a nervous disorder, Pitt’s later regret noted. Kinsolving and wife planned to move south to join his brother’s diocese in Texas.
Federal court in Norfolk consolidated the Norfolk and Southern Railway receivership suits after a default on interest bonds. Judge Waddill reappointed receivers Thomas Fitzgerald H. M. Kerr and H. K. Walcott and referred a request to issue receivers certificates totaling 1 million dollars to Robert M. Hughes Jr. for evaluation.
H F Noe a former Norfolk and Western telegraph operator was arrested in Devon West Virginia on charges of forging a telegram to Bluefield and tapping a wire to another bank at Williamson West Virginia for a 350 dollar draft. He was jailed after being followed by the town chief of police.
Mrs. Shelton 54 wife of Charles H. Shelton agent for the Leroy Steamboat Company died suddenly in Norfolk after taking an overdose of headache tablets. The report notes the cause as accidental ingestion.
The article lists diverse data points from 1916 including peppermint harvest work, women studying medicine in France, world timber per inhabitant, Indo Chinese silk output of 2,400,000 pounds, New York health department salaries totaling 1,643,079, and the ANAS will meet in Mexico. It notes lignous cement use near Lyons, a half million tal company to make cotton stalk pulp, Sweden’s ore deposits, Glasgow housing numbers, Sir William Van Horne and James J. Hill as railroad figures from US and Canada, a reversible chair patent, vegetarian nut-tree food potential, and a Philadelphia dog wool price of forty dollars an ounce.
At Olney the Onancock based exchange re elected officers and raised pay for the general manager to 5000 dollars and the general inspector to 900 dollars. An assistant to the inspector was created with N M Bell named. The year saw 690000 barrels sweet potatoes 493000 bushels Irish potatoes 100 refrigerator cars of strawberries and 220000 packages peas onions cabbage. Gross receipts reached 2496635.28 dollars. a 10 percent dividend was paid and 27000 dollars added to surplus.
H F Brinton, long active in Page County copper mining, announces plans to tunnel Stony Man Peak near Luray next spring. He claims the project will prove the property one of the richest copper and gold deposits, as rich as Calumet and Hecla, historically yielding vast dividends.
The Anti Saloon League aims to broaden its reach to aid prohibition enforcement after saloons close. Election officials met six precincts from a local option vote and corrected certification omissions. The official license victory margin was 191, not 195 as previously reported.
Richmond special reports the Southern Railway and its Danville and Western line face a complaint at the State Corporation Commission. The charge alleges discrimination in Stuart Patrick County by allowing a few to use company warehouses and buildings while denying access to others. Proceedings seek removal of the structures or public access.
Samuel B. Tucker, alleged thief of Mrs. Ella Williams Buck's $10,000 jewel box from a Pullman car berth, waived examination and was remanded for Hastings Court trial on December 18. The proceeding was delayed to spare Mrs Buck from a crowded police court, as her daughter makes a debut in Richmond society that day and court will consider releasing the jewels to her for the occasion.
The First National Bank of Roanoke announced a new bank home rising soon in Roanoke. The 100 foot high seven story steel frame structure will cost $150 000. Contractor John Keevan Peebles of Norfolk Va secures the contract. First floor to house bank offices. four stores relocate.
The home of Mrs. Caroline Berrey widow of T W Berrey common wealth's attorney and daughter of Clerk of Court C A Bryan of Stafford County was destroyed by fire. Mrs Berrey and her two children escaped from a second story window in their night clothes.
R G Dun & Co reports holiday seeds and winter wear retail active while wholesale and jobbing show little new business. Old orders move, manufacturing not cut, inventories rising with no excess stock. Rain boosts idle machinery, building permits rise, pig iron production up, footwear price rises anticipated by New England makers.
Grain and produce quotes show wheat, corn, and oats with mixed receipts and steady to firm prices across New York and Baltimore markets. Spot and contract levels vary by grade with futures closing largely unchanged and eggs and dairy remaining steady in Philadelphia and Baltimore trade.
New York livestock receipts show beef and veal steady with healthy dressed prices while Chicago limits lean toward a weak cattle market. Hog and sheep demand remains firm in Chicago with strong to higher prices. immigrant earnings are cited at about 16 million dollars yearly for New York City arrivals.
A woman testifying at an Inquest in Lambeth London disclosed she bore 21 children with only six living. The Forest Commissioner of New York reported that 90 percent of state forest fires are sparked by locomotive sparks.
At Hartford City Indiana Henry Goddard found 250 in notes hidden in a shoe sent for repair. The owner Mrs James Parker distrusted banks and hid the money in the shoe, later forgetting its whereabouts.
In 1909 two International Caper Anto Congresses will be held one at Barcel and the other at Chautauqua New York No 9 congress will be held in connection with the prot tonal t.
In Yonkers a witness answers a judge about his business with a rambling exchange. He finally declares he is a rag picker, after being prompted to specify his occupation. The colloquy highlights a terse courtroom moment as the witness confirms his trade.
Century Magazine argues that leading agricultural colleges and experiment stations are creating a new body of ability and sentiment for country life. The piece foresees a radical shift in agriculture, reorganizing its business side and living ideals, with science-led farming boosting profitability and effectiveness.
A short item notes a youth requesting another box of pills saying they fit his air gun. The exchange features a line about the mother not confirming the pills purpose and a publication name Fliegende Blaetter appears as the source.
An old warning explains mercury in catarrh ointments harms smell and mucous systems. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as safe and mercury free, taken internally. Testimonials free, price 75 cents per bottle, sold by druggists.
A humorous exchange riffs on church discipline and burial fates as Mabel questions death and Uncle Jim retorts that Luther died by excommunication symbolically “by a bull.” The sketch relies on wordplay and historical reference for irony.
A historic remedy advocates mixing whiskey with Toris Compound and syrup of sarsaparilla Compound to be taken in tablespoonful doses before meals and at night. The text asserts a complete cure for severe rheumatism with home preparation.
A letter-carrier quips that most men receive their walking papers on discharge but he got his when appointed, delivering a wry line about career timing and humor from a Boston Herald excerpt.
An ad touts Laxative Bromo Quinine as the sole remedy to cure a cold in one day. The copy urges seeking the signature of EK W. Grove and notes wide usage worldwide.
A humorous exchange at the Crystal Palace where a stranger jokes about being under the glass roof and a despondent Bobby replies that he is not being kept moist enough.
An aged OCR fragment recalls severe inflammatory rheumatism with skin shedding and hair loss, followed by recovery after applications of Cuticura Resolvent and Cuticura Soap and Ointment. It includes patient testimonials from Mrs. Lavina J. Henderson and Mrs. Algy Cockburn and ends with an unrelated social note.
A letter reflects on divorce exposing lack of insurance coverage if the breakup recurs, while an advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup claiming teething relief and gum soothing benefits in a 25 cent bottle.
A Cleveland Leader report recalls a clash where a Washington ball player struck at an unnamed man three times before withdrawing, highlighting a tense street altercation without further details.
A humorous Tit-Bits snippet shows a girl named Ella claiming she will never go to Holland, citing a jokey geography remark from a governess that the country is "low, lying." The exchange highlights playful language about travel and national stereotypes.
George William Sellers, a Western cricketer, describes teaching cricket to men on his Indiana estate in Chicago. He notes cricket’s leisure compared to baseball and recalls a match with Concord. A labourer named John enjoys lunch, meat tea, drinks, and sandwiches between innings, quipping that fielding and running ruin the feast.
A hurt Irishman asks a Boston relief station official if he is at the relief station or a pumping station. The officer questions him about his name martial status and children. The man worries aloud until the staff member confirms the location.
The article outlines Croesus wealth linked to Pactolus River sands near Sardis and explains how Lydians enriched by river gold and local mines near Pergamus. It notes Lydians as early retailers and the first to coin gold and silver, per Herodotus.
A man confronts a heavy financial setback from a failed investment. He fears the amount he must tell his wife to preserve her faith in his business acumen, highlighting the personal toll of economic risk.
Report cites an enterprising traveler offering a box of cigars to a Scottish merchant to gain business. The merchant rejects the bribe, while the drummer offers a shilling, and the shopkeeper agrees to take two boxes amid the discussion.
A brief humorous exchange quotes a wife urging her husband to take action on temperance, joking that he should "go out and make a few of them with the pump handle" to fetch a pail of water immediately, highlighting Prohibition era irony.
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