10 Feb 1910
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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1910
Page
1
Readable lines show ferry or port times from North River and East River wharfs with listed destinations and early morning departures. Entries include Norfolk lines and Old Point service with 6:30 to 11:00 a.m. time slots.
A portrait of Chief Justice John Marshall and his home life, detailing his marriage in youth to Mary Willis Ambler, the Richmond era home, and family ties. The piece notes the Marshall lineage, landholdings, and the couple’s lasting happiness amid courtly and domestic life, with references to their circle in Richmond.
The piece recalls the death of a chief justice in Philadelphia in 1835 and the sorrowful Richmond funeral. It notes the scarlet mourning chain with a locket carried by his granddaughters, the Misses Harvie, and the posthumous town memory. It ends urging responsibility toward the Marshal House as a generational trust.
Washington special reports a split in Congress over oleomargarine with Senator Penrose proposing higher taxes and Representative Scott pushing to end the tax. Both Republicans, they reflect stark regional views on butter, milk, and oleomargarine as pork-barrel protection versus dairy price support.
Physicians fight for the life of Florence Schenck Wilson of Norfolk Virginia who took chloroform after her husband Charles H. Wilson spurned her. The event ties to a Vanderbilt Ruiz sensational split and Adelaide Ruiz's death by suicide. Wilson sent a final message while dying.
Norfolk, Va. Special. Rossith Copeland, sixty two, sues her husband T. Q. Copeland, seventy, for divorce claiming his snoring caused a breakdown in the marriage.
Washington reports the ship subsidy bill’s fate in the House remains uncertain. Supporters claim votes but sentiment is mixed with opposition from shipbuilders and midwest and inland members while eastern reps favor it, the lake, gulf and pacific blocs split.
Norfolk business figure and Civil War veteran John H. Core, noted for wealth and eccentricities, died at his home after a brief illness. He was one of Mosby’s men and long a leading Norfolk merchant and real estate holder.
The Chesapeake steamship line advertises the elegant passenger steamers Columbia Augusta and Atlanta serving Baltimore to Old Point Comfort Norfolk and West Point Richmond routes. Through tickets baggage checks and state rooms available from city ticket offices in Baltimore with agents listed at 119 and 127 East Baltimore Street and other locations.
Aviator Ralph Saulnier filed an answer to the lawsuit by Wilbur and Orville Wright alleging infringement. He contends the Wrights were not the first to patent the heavier-than-air machine and questions the validity of the Wright patents.
Special voters in Elon Magisterial District held a Friday night meeting in Madison Heights to oppose a General Assembly bill allowing the county to establish toll gates on the Lynchburg to Amherst turnpike. The measure would effectively create a toll bridge over the James River to the city.
Senator Lassiter of Petersburg proposes a law modeled on New York's Thaw case to confine the criminally insane after acquittal. The bill would place white offenders at Marion Southwestern State Hospital and colored offenders at Petersburg Central State Hospital with special quarters.
A New Jersey woman’s bread rise causes a lamp to fall onto a dog, which catches fire and starts a kitchen cat on fire. The absurd note suggests the yeast’s dangerous potential for many unlikely uses from workers’ pay envelopes to aviator tanks and even moral uplift.
Beauty described as a symmetrical figure firm skin clear complexion glossy hair white teeth soft red lips long eyelashes bright eyes wrinkle-free smooth expression. Perserverance and care can gain or preserve these, then a pimple lotion mix rosewater camphor sulfur gum myrrh and apply.
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