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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1912
Page
3
In a weekly tale a young secretary Mavis faces an unwanted advance from Keith Lowry. He pursues a future with her as she recalls a past love Henry Morton. She struggles between affection and duty, ultimately deciding to refuse and confront her looming social entanglements.
Mavis and Keith dine at Morrin's as Henry Morton reappears with two companions. Mavis reveals Morton is not her fiancé and struggles to confess, while Keith confronts the past and wrestles with jealousy during the candlelit supper.
President Taft plans a visit to the Panama Canal, leaving at midnight December 19 aboard the battleship Kangas from Key West. He will inspect the canal and return to Washington, missing Christmas festivities at the White House.
Mrs de Belleville seizes the dog on the Malba station platform as Fred eric de Belleville headed to town. A mislaid flag left the Croesus of Everyman to improvise a dramatic rescue waving the dog to halt the departing train.
A broken rail derailed a Seaboard Air Line train at 7:30 p.m. between Littleton and Moncure in North Carolina. Six cars overturned down a steep embankment spilling cargo and Christmas supplies. Traffic across the main line between Portsmouth and Norfolk remains halted as wrecking crews work to clear the track.
Nicole Sargis on the twenty second floor of a noonday lunch break jumped onto a hoist as it moved to the basement. The hoist struck a sand pile, sending him into the air about twenty feet before he landed. He fractured his ankle and was taken to Ward 3 at Bellevue Hospital, where he rested comfortably.
Three New Jersey mountaineers Jacob Dunn Warren Davenport and Seeley Davenport are slated for arraignment after sending threatening letters to President-elect Woodrow Wilson demanding 5000 to be mailed by November 24. Secret Service and deputies captured them following a weeks long hunt in the mountains. The suspects deny the allegations as officers traced the letters to a New York box and a house in Wharton New Jersey.
Charles H. Hyde former city chamberlain and ex law partner of Mayor Gaynor was sentenced by Justice Goff to two to three and a half years for bribery. He was released on $25,000 bail pending appeal after sentencing.
Special. Following Miss Ethel Adelaide Sprague declaring she would cry for the loss of no man she faced a marriage change. George Leonard Gale, the fiancé, spoke of the breakup and claimed Miss Sprague sent notice prompting the cancellation. He said she failed to capture him and lamented the planned church wedding and a second home ceremony.
In London a special report notes the strike situation in Northern England worsening with about one hundred thousand workers idle. One fifth are miners and coal prices are set to rise, inflicting hardships on the public and economy.
An old advertisement proclaims Doan's Kidney Pills relieve kidney colic and back pain. It cites Mr Hampshire of Norfolk Virginia and other endorsements, urging readers with kidney trouble to ask for Doan's by name at 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo New York.
Wytheville Virginia report states Sidna Allen received five years in the penitentiary after a long jury deliberation in the murder case of W M Foster. Jurors initially split nine to three for acquittal, with debate over aiding and abetting and conspiracy. The crowd remained keen as the judge read instructions and the jury continued to deliberate through an eight hour period.
Bears raided Union Pacific on the Stock Exchange this afternoon driving the price down over six points after the Harriman system annual report for the year ended June 30 showed revenues dropping by more than 3 million dollars and transportation costs rising by over 700 thousand. The year’s gross operating income stood at 85 million 977 thousand 608 and net operating income at 31 million 219 thousand 413, a drop of 4 million 492 thousand 713.
Dr Douglass Ward of Scranton died in Norristown County Jail after drinking bay rum and witch hazel. He had broken into a barber shop and was found unconscious there earlier today.
Marguerite J L Clark age sixteen a Lafayette High School student was killed when struck by an automobile driven by Francis J Judd Judd summoned an ambulance and surrendered to the police.
Senate inquiry reveals that the Madero revolutionaries and the Diaz government both fail to protect Americans in Mexican regions under different controls. Testimony cites a 40 export tax on cattle, Mexican funding from locals and mining operators, and arms flowing to rebels via neutralities laws, with estimates of 25,000 armed rebels.
George McCarter, a white man confined in Virginia’s penitentiary, will spend Christmas at home in Fredericksburg after Governor Mann granted a conditional pardon. Convicted of forgery and sentenced to two years, he has served half his term. The pardon followed a numerously signed petition and legislative reductions for petty offenses. If he violates the law again, he faces five additional years and renewed imprisonment.
Bridgeport Connecticut. An early evening collision near a home injures ten year old Helen J. Kimball who dies after being struck by J T Rockwell’s car. The crash also involves William Claremount driving a Weber car and a man in St. Vincent’s Hospital in critical condition.
A Chicago Tribune note criticizes forgetting Schrank as the keenest punishment and condemns such erasure as a moral failing. The remark frames memory as a form of judgment more severe than any penalty.
A fragmented column debates the thrifty ways of earlier grandmothers and the rising costs faced today. It contrasts eighteenth century recipes and living, noting high prices and the value of money, while citing a fifteenth century dressmaker’s bill of about 150 in modern dollars.
The passage details hair being dressed low with a possible pompadour brushed smooth and uneven side height. It notes parts drawn back over the ears, curls escaping, two strand plaits curling at the nape, chignon effects, and remnants of the old cocanut-draped style.
The article describes decorative waist belts finishing indoor frocks, the Robespierre inspired fashion for blouses and dresses, English raincoats for girls with a porous sweatband, buttoned skirt details, varied bodice designs, high tan boots with top straps, and velvet gowns with shrunk borders. It notes moleskin trimming, fur scarf motifs, drop skirts, satin costume color use, ivory celluloid buckles, two inch bead belts, and fashionable combos in tortoise shell tones and warm hues.
A simple Bavarian salad combines finely chopped onions with lettuce torn by hand and dressed with a mixture of oil vinegar egg yolk salt and mustard. The recipe instructs layering the greens in a bowl and letting guests serve themselves.
A simple stovetop spareribs dish with carrots onion and garlic simmered in salted water. Add six uniform potatoes and continue cooking until tender for a hearty, old fashioned meal.
The recipe instructs rubbing six spareribs with olive oil and seasonings, broiling slowly, finishing in melted butter with mustard, white wine vinegar, Worcestershire, salt, cayenne, and egg yolk. Then roll in crumbs, broil again briefly, and serve hot.
Soak the spareribs in cold water for half an hour if salted. Choose a white cabbage, trim, quarter, boil in seasoned hot water for 45 minutes. Add spareribs, cook a little longer. Boil six uniform potatoes until tender. Arrange cabbage on a hot dish with potatoes as a border. Place spareribs on top and serve.
Mrs. Lilla S. Buckley died last month leaving an estate valued at about $75,000. The will provides $30,000 to the National Woman Suffrage Association for the Kansas votes for women campaign.
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