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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1910
Page
8
A home made fan shaped needle case with silk coverings and needle flaps is described. The piece includes a humorous anecdote about a late night encounter and a retired barytone recounting a carbolic acid escape. Fashion notes cover a Paris hat with silk roses, green patterned socks, and a note on dried fruit soaking. Also quoted maxims and a brief magazine forecast.
A passage from The Gates of the Hudson by William Osborn Stoddard reflects on vast geological barriers, describing God shaping hills into a granite barrier that channels the Hudson River for ages. It contemplates how each man believes the inexplicable events others endure are justified.
A devotional exhortation asking Jesus Christ to grant obedience, fearlessness before death, and participation in eternal life. It seeks divine transformation from sin to righteous action, urging quiet faith, hopeful trust, and the spread of the kingdom through love and service.
Alexandre R. Vinet argues that true reconciliation of earthly and heavenly concerns comes from loving God above all. He warns that divided hearts fear God but do not love him and urges a single motto: everything for God provided God is mine, then all else follows.
Richmond VA Special. Cashier William McKim Marriott reports postoffice receipts for the year at 86 530.81 above 1908 figures, totaling 631 59.46? and 86 530.81. December 1909 receipts reach 61 557.06, up 12 118.41 from December 1908, a 22 percent rise. Rural delivery pay sums reached 810 200 for the year, up from 801 000 in 1908.
Hamilton county grand jury returns indictment against W Kelsey Schoepf head of the Cincinnati Traction Company for failing to keep street car temperatures to 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Violation carries a fine from 106 to 500 dollars.
At 8 40 Friday morning a California special on the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Hocking Island line wrecked three miles north of Trenton Missouri. By 11 a m five bodies were in Trenton and the death toll was uncertain with estimates reaching twenty. Fire destroyed cars and efforts to extinguish flames were futile. Injured include William Flynn and Engineer W St Millingon. Fire and rescue crews rushed to the scene as trains burned in the embankment a disaster with high casualties.
George Todd shouted farewell and jumped through a corridor window, landing four stories below on brick pavement unhurt. He returned to the hospital, identified himself, and said he could not recall his Bergen Street address before being restrained in an alcoholic ward.
In Chicago a municipal judge ruled that the exact words of a marriage proposal are too sacred for court records. The suit, brought by Mrs Bridget Beers against John Beers’s mother, concerned a trothal ring and bracelet amid a blocked engagement.
A Chicago News quip notes Pyker plans legal action after his wife’s alleged incendiary remarks. He claims she insists on his rising early to start a fire, prompting the joke about an indictment.
Three men were arrested in New York by Secret Service Chief William J. Flynn for producing counterfeit coins with steel dies and a hydraulic press. The plant operated at 145 Chester Street Brooklyn in the home of Abraham Bergman with accomplices Samuel Schmidt and Oscar Gluckman. Gluckman, an experienced diemaker, had been at large four years and worked in an engraving plant on Walker Street. Flynn called the arrests highly important for counterfeiting suppression.
Nine year old Hrepege Barsamian from Worcester recounts to Justice Olmsted in New York's Children's Court how she traveled to 4 West Fifty fourth Street to ask John D Rockefeller for Christmas money. The butler escorted her to a police station. Tarshijian, Armenian paper agent, organizes her return to Worcester. She will be sent home with her family and resume school.
Captain M. Kerth of the War Department informs Adjutant General Anderson that the Virginia Volunteers, as organized, comply with all provisions of the Dick bill. The Acting Secretary of War notes Virginia militia units conform to the structure prescribed for regular army units.
Richmond special reports Speaker Byrd is receiving many letters on a tentative primary bill. Critics and supporters weigh in as Byrd reviews options. He insists a compulsory primary is needed and opposes the majority vote plan for multi candidate races.
A Detroit man waiting for a street car endured ten buses pass before a conductor finally stopped. After a dispute he punched the conductor and faced assault charges. The judge, sharing streetcar patience, released him, noting shared urban experience and the effect of long waits on judgment.
Richmond health bulletin centers on two juvelile diseases whooping cough and measles with emphasis on severe outcomes and death risks. It urges physician supervision for measles cases, isolation of exposed children, and preventive steps to reduce deaths, noting higher mortality in under five children from whooping cough.
A lemon crested cockatoo at Tom Uvgly’s Point near Sydney is famed as possibly the oldest bird in the region. The creature lived in a famous hostel and has aged beyond a century, having been owned for around eighty years by Captain George Ellis, a noted Sydney mariner who has since died.
In South Norwalk Connecticut a pet cat named Pajamas woke five year old Josie O'Hara as flames filled the house. Josie woke his parents who carried him and fled before stairs collapsed, saving the entire O'Hara family of five.
New York special report: Mrs Mary Snead aunt and mother in law of Ocey W. M. Snead the bathtub mystery victim collapsed at the Essex county jail in Newark after reuniting with her sister Virginia Wardlaw who is charged with slaying Ocey Snead. Both women indicted for complicity, Mary Snead and Caroline B Martin pleaded to be placed in the sister's cell, leading to a dramatic scene and Mary Snead fainting. Virginia Wardlaw has reportedly refused to eat since admission to the jail.
A Paris department store saleswoman uncovered a poison by mail plot. Arsenic chocolates were mailed to arson who did not eat, but a visiting tenor at the opera sampled several and died hours later. Autopsy cites uremia from kidney inflammation. body to be exhumed. Police withhold names.
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