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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1907
Page
4
The U S Dispensatory notes Peruna ingredients such as goldenseal cedron cubebs and copaiba as tonics stimulants and treatments for chronic catarrh mucous membrane disorders and stomach bowels ailments. It urges readers to request a free testimonials book and cites user experiences as strongest proof.
A Victorian periodical item praises Dr Pierce’s Prescription as a safe, known composition tonic for nervous fatigue and for expectant mothers. It claims the product aids childbirth, is not secret, and lists ingredients openly. It notes the formula is alcoholic and chemic pure with gentle action.
A Seventeenth Street barber recalls an absent minded patron who sat near the door, failed to hear the calls for next, accepted a shave instead of a haircut, paid, and left muttering that he wanted a hair cut as he walked out in a scowl. The anecdote ends with the punchline about misunderstanding.
Harry K Shields uses a breathing exercise at First Christian Church Eleventh and Locust Streets to inspire women to remove hats for a better song service. He asks them to raise their right arm take a full breath place hand on hat and remove hat pins before singing the first verse.
Emerson Hough recalls Edmonton as a place of scheming cheats targeting Klondike hopefuls. He describes Englishmen bringing hay traction engines and crazy contraptions to haul explorers toward the Yukon. The piece mocks misled migrants who believed Alaska lay near Winnipeg and warns of outrageous ploys on frontier dreams.
The Philadelphia Ledger reports a sunspot described as freckles measuring 2,500,000 square miles. The sun speaks to the observing scientist, lamenting exposure and seeking a complexion remedy for its solar blemish.
David W. Martin of Bolivar Missouri recalls wartime kidney injury after a horse accident and describes relief from kidney pills. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills for long lasting improvement and states he was free of trouble after treatment. Sold by all dealers at 65 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The Boston Herald notes fashion trends of diamond shoe buckles among fashionable young men, recalling Revolutionary War era customs. It cites Thomas Russell of Charlestown, who died in 1796, as a leading Boston merchant and early American Russia trade participant, described in an old print as wearing light cloth coat, small clothes, diamond buckles, silk stockings, powdered hair and cocked hat.
A Texas schoolmaster receives a parent letter requesting easier night sums for their son. The parent recounts a misprinted problem about gallons and pints, noting the boy cried and laughed, and the family had to buy a nine gallon keg to illustrate the task. The tale portrays stress over schooling and arithmetic.
G Dun and Co weekly review notes favorable weather aiding trade and transport with some adverse reports. Interior merchants active in robbing circles, improving mercantile collections though extensions persist after storms. Mills operate with adequate fuel and labor. farm staples steady. Textile markets show increased outside buyers in robbing centers and New England footwear orders support spring and summer delivery.
Grain and commodity updates show mixed volumes with No. 2 red wheat around 79% to 82% futures in Baltimore and New York bids firm for No. 2 red at 55% fob. Corn receipts rise to 104 200 with spot firm and oats buyers steady. butter cheese and egg markets report firmness, while Chicago and New York livestock prices edge changes in cattle hogs sheep and lambs.
A historical note surveys profitable Morocco firearms smuggling and lists curious odds among Vienna drivers with 400 knights 506 barons and 5 counts. It cites US tomato pack totals for 1906 and Simplon tunnel passenger averages. The Stora Kopparberget mine in Sweden is traced as one of the oldest with 800 years of continuous work. Filipino laborers head to Hawaii for sugar plantation work in the early 20th century.
A Fall River businessman paid 5952 for a shave and grooming at a barber shop near Thirty-fourth Street and Broadway in New York. The visit led to a raid on a wireless wire-tapping establishment at 123 Fast Twenty sixth Street by Capt. Mc Dermott and detectives. Five prisoners were seized, and Maurice Franks was identified by Woodman and charged with larceny.
Signor Caruso and Conried settle terms for the tenor’s Met contract. Beginning next October he earns 2300 per performance with no fewer than 50 shows, a season total within a two year deal rising to 2500 the same per-show rate.
A blaze in a dynamite shanty at Long Island City endangered 400 pounds of explosives. Hundreds of ferry riders paused along Thirty-fourth Street to watch, then were evacuated by police. Two engine companies limited damage, but the shanty suffered heavy scorching. The foreman warned a massive explosion could have leveled Hunter's Point.
Fire at the six story tenement house at 148 Stanton Street sent over 200 residents including many children from their beds. Two tenants and witnesses say firemen or fire patrol stole jewelry from rooms in the upper, unburned section. Police to conduct a searching investigation amid recent similar reports on the East Side.
Alexander McDonald a laborer was thrown from the Sixth Avenue L structure at Twenty seventh Street landing head first on the sidewalk amid a crowd of shoppers. He suffered a compound skull fracture and is expected to die. A southbound train passed as a projecting piece caught his clothing, tossing him over the guard rail.
Sutro Bros. & Co. bankers report the loss of 1950 stock valued at about 175000 dollars after a messenger allegedly dropped the non negotiable certificates in the financial district Seine. The incident involved delivery to multiple offices and the stock being non negotiable.
John Daly of 526 West Seventeenth Street harangued a crowd in front of a New York address, claiming Arnold Thaw on trial for murder is innocent. Daly said the world is ending and New York is rotten. Roundsman Quinn and Patrolman McKettrick escorted him to Bellevue Hospital for mental evaluation.
Fourteen year old Amelia Kirwan was awarded 5000 damages after suffering scalp loss when hair was caught in belting at work for the American Lithographic Company in June 1906. She has remained at Bellevue Hospital, carried into court on a stretcher.
The Rev Joel H Metcalf of Taunton Massachusetts has announced the discovery of a new comet named Metcalfs comet while continuing his ministerial duties. The find is being closely observed by astronomers worldwide, highlighting persistent celestial research amid daily obligations.
A vintage medical advertisement claims St Vitus Dance nervous disorders can be permanently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. It offers a trial bottle and free treatise from Dr. H. R. Kline at 931 Arch St Philadelphia PA and asserts nature's perfection in creation of woman.
A Hardy Delaware justice of the peace recounts a four week Course with Cuticura Ointment Soap and Pills ending severe itching and skin relief after years of misery. He began in July 1905 and by May 15 1996 reports full face smoothness and restful nights.
Stimulate the blood and purify the system with Brandreth's Pills. One to two taken each night aids the natural outlets, improving bowels kidneys and skin. Each pill contains one grain of extract of sarsaparilla with other vegetables. Used for a century and sold in drugstores in plain or sugar-coated form.
Washington dispatches report Senator William A. Clark of Montana riding the Connecticut Avenue Owl car amid sleet and crowds. The billionaire, famed for wealth and influence, boarded the trolley after leaving a downtown hotel and faced easy scrutiny from fellow passengers during the ride.
A Minnеapolis Journal quip describes a codfish fishing line as a costly catch. The line is said to be eight miles long with 4 680 hooks and capable of landing 2 400 cod, prompting disbelief and a playful claim the gear is worth $2 000.
A 70 year old Maine man reports twenty years of dyspepsia and liver trouble cured by nine months of Grape-Nuts with breakfast. He says stomach pain abates, liver condition improves, appetite returns, sleep improves, and he gains strength, attributing his recovery to this daily meal.
An aged newspaper ad extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a universal remedy for female ills. It cites testimonials from Mrs W S Ford and Miss Grace E Miller, promises free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts, and urges women to seek cures through her guidance and product.
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