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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1910
Page
8
Virginia based firm offers to sell or exchange items by commission. Ready buyers exist for yaba sand and arms with water front. Address is 1110 East Main Street Richmond.
RES A J PYLE offers cleaning and dyeing services at 315 N 5th St Richmond VA. Provides nondescript craft copy noting they clean anything washable and dye any fabric.
A Richmond Virginia office advertises for young energetic sober men to represent a national claims and collection firm. It promises confidential business, liberal commissions on the South, and deposits taken with patents and copyrights handled by a registered patent attorney. Home office at 20 WH Main Street.
Wreck of the General Chanzy after the Friday disaster swells the dead to 156 of 157 aboard. Two more ships the Mathilde and the Martial perish with likely all hands as storms lash the Mediterranean near Majorca and Minorca. Three American vaudevillians from San Francisco were among the booked passengers.
In Richmond a woman identified as Stew Mattie Dyer struck Officer P. L. Chatterson in Justice Crutchfield's private office. She was fined $6 plus costs, totaling $7.45, for dis orderly conduct and assault. The incident sparked turmoil as bystanders restrained her, and reports say other youths' arrests followed.
A fragmented adorial piece promotes Cardus a tonic claimed to aid female health and relief from dizziness and malaise. It urges readers to write to the Chattanooga Medicine Co for instructions and a four page home treatment booklet.
Jonathan T. Jewett prominent Manchester figure dies Friday night in Alderon West Virginia after being stricken while walking. He was John T. Hesser Coal Company sales agent and longtime Manchester resident. Funeral set for Sunday at 3 30 PM from Central Methodist Church.
Riverton businessman W E B Carson is expected to be named to succeed Colonel J E Willard as Virginia Corporation Commissioner. The move follows Willard's resignation and Governor Mann's stated aim to appoint a qualified, fearless official with business and rate-making experience. Willard's term ends February 1, 1912.
In a harsh winter scene a bright new worker arrives at a small office, inspires change with simple personal touches, and quietly leads a shift toward cleaner space and better morale. Her patience, modest desk items, and resolve alter the atmosphere without disruption, uplifting coworkers and instigating respect.
Richmond Virginia obituary notes James C Junky Smith longtime City Sergeant and prominent junk dealer died Saturday at 5 am in Dorchester Massachusetts after health decline following reelection defeat. He leaves two daughters Harriet and Minnie Courtney and Mrs Frank Wells. He was seventy three. The piece recalls his charity and sport racing ventures. Montezuma farm home was destroyed by fire October 1st, and burial expected in the North.
A patient received ten times the ordinary dose with injections every five hours and shorter intervals as fever rose. A week later the man can sit up in bed and doctors declare he will, without doubt, recover.
Chicago police report two men arrested in the Wiltshire murder case of Charles E Wiltshire a wealthy glove manufacturer slain in his office. A third suspect was betrayed by the wife and daughter of one prisoner with implicated involvement by the woman and her daughter.
Albany special report says the names of men who took bribes from Kiram G Moe during April 1901 will be revealed when the Senate resumes its inquiry next Tuesday into the charges involving State Senator Jotham F P Alids.
R L Calkins head of the claim department of the New York Central Railroad testified before the House Committee that every railroad system maintains an army of claim agents and settles most damage claims outside court. He cited settlements totaling over 1 000 000 dollars a year and noted that major and many minor railroads belong to the Freight Claims Association to share settlement methods.
The Cunarder Umbria carried ostrich feathers valued at 175000 dollars and a large bullion shipment. The voyage from Liverpool to New York occurred Saturday and is said to set a record for plume shipments.
Grace Mar feist reports on Paris trends where the lim silhouette fades and the one piece combination corset cover and knickerbockers rise in demand. The garment eliminates excess fabric, creating a single waistline thickness and practical attire for daily wear.
Henry F Dikney tells of a fur coat incident at a club where a taxi driver mocks Jasper the retriever and a friend recalls a bitter moment. The scene centers on class snobbery and a tense exchange over appearance and dignity.
Boston doctors report a case of lepto meningitis successfully treated with a serum vaccine developed by Dr. Timothy Leary of Tufts Medical School. The patient, in acute pneumonia extending to the spinal cord, was dying with a 105 fever when Mor ris and Lamb administered the first dose from Th. Leary, marking a potential breakthrough.
An excerpt describes a chaotic moment with exclamations and misread text about people on a second story leaving behind an autoplia or Playving artifact, quoted by Fliegende Blatter.
A. W. Lynch faced a perjury trial in Roanoke Friday over testimony to the electoral board about voting in the December local option election in Kimball Ward. He allegedly voted though not listed on tax, registration, or poll records. a witness claimed to see him at the polls. The trial was postponed to obtain more witnesses.
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