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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1909
Page
4
A new steam vessel costing 500000 pounds is built in England for service between Prince Edward Island and the mainland. It is guaranteed to be capable of handling drift ice fields up to fifteen feet thick, ensuring reliable passage in severe winter conditions.
An OCR snippet promotes Capudine as a liquid pleasant remedy for colds heat nervous troubles and related ailments. It claims immediate relief and urges purchase at drug stores with a signing instruction.
Freeman Tilden discusses the manuscript process while noting a publisher’s contract and advance, a $30,000 country house, a stenographer, and ongoing advertising. He wonders what topic to tackle next as newspaper reviews surface in type. The excerpt reveals professional assurance and creative contemplation.
For centuries razors stayed the same until a genius created the safety razor. The inventor charged 3 to 5 dollars, with buyers glad to pay. Now another inventor offers a still better safety razor for only twenty five cents. Send postage stamps to Book Publishing House, 124 Leonard Street, New York, to receive the razor postpaid.
The Hartford Courant comments on the Amsterdam De Courant’s foreign news and content mix. It highlights Reuter Telegrammen coverage, Dutch auto club, football, cricket, gymnastics, Financieele Mededeelingen, Marktberichten, poetry, and illustrations. The writer wishes longevity and prosperity for De Courant under Princess Juliana’s lineage.
The United States adds 7 billion cubic feet of forest growth annually while consuming 23 billion cubic feet of wood each year. The gap highlights ongoing demand pressures on forest resources and potential sustainability questions for future supply.
A method converts Venetian soap and gum Jac alcohol into briquettes placed in airtight metal boxes to function as spirit lamps. A new air-measuring instrument, funnel shaped with a small anemometer in its nozzle, gauges air admitted through cracks in buildings.
A local reader from Dothan Alabama reports dramatic kidney health improvements after using Dean's Kidney Pills. The testimonial describes prior back pain urinary disorders and rheumatic pain, then states weight gain from 108 to 160 pounds and improved mobility after a year of treatment. The ad notes a price of 60 cents per box.
Across reports Berlin states semiofficially that Prince Von Buelow will not resign and the Reichstag will not be dissolved. Other items note British warships to California for San Francisco celebrations and various global political and social events.
A St Louis druggist stops patrons from hogging the free telephone by a discreet wire switch operated from behind the prescription counter, safeguarding access for others.
Photographers report the known stars increased from 457 847 to 0 000 000, a dramatic rise in catalogued celestial bodies. The update reshapes stellar inventories and informs future astronomical mapping and research priorities.
In Powhatan County near Sublett, Emily Rodd and John Leary are accused of poisoning the breakfast coffee of farmer Robert Sayles and his family amid a claimed grudge. Sayles and relatives fell ill but likely will recover. The two suspects, both Black, faced preliminary hearings as a grand jury action was anticipated. In Petersburg, Junius A. Williamson is reported as a bigamist, with a Texas wife claiming his first marriage began when she was 15. He is jailed on charges of poisoning his wife.
Information reaches to Lancaster County of Richard Tenant son of G B Tenant of Pittsburg Pa drowned while fishing from a small boat on Carters Creek near Irvington. A Baltimore steamer passed causing his boat to rock he fell overboard and was recovered about a half hour later. He was buried at the Irvington Methodist Episcopal Church.
Louise, year old daughter of Herman Cunningham of a local bottling establishment, was found smothered between two pillows with a mosquito net across them. The mother left the child asleep, later finding the elevated pillow toppled and air cut off. The baby was still alive when doctors arrived but respiration had ceased.
The Southern Railway Company prepares plans for a $50,000 passenger station in Lynchburg West End. Through trains will run from the new line on completion, with contractors being mobilized to finish early in 1910.
The State hospitals general board awarded a contract to A. M. Vale of Staunton to build a 4200 foot spur track to the Amherst County site for the epileptic colony. Estimated cost is 17000 dollars.
Joseph A Stigler a well known business man and longtime secretary of the Elks lodge died at age 47 after a long illness He is survived by his wife one brother Benjamin of Brooklyn and one sister Miss Fanny Stigler of Richmond
Howard H. Bragg, convicted by the Rockbridge Circuit Court on May 19 for the murder of Thomas E. Crawbond near Vesuvius on March 19, was moved to Richmond by penitentiary guard 8 L. Smith to be electrocuted on July 9. Bragg maintains his innocence.
Fire destroyed the tech residence of Robert Pritchett in Spottsylvania County damaging building and furniture. The loss totals $1,000 though the home was insured for $25,000. Furniture could not be saved.
The Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad will start soon on a modern passenger station in Fredericksburg in the Colonnade style with a large freight depot doubling current capacity. A new freight yard will be laid out, costing about $125,000, with land already owned for the buildings.
Ne dan, a Black man, was convicted of second degree murder for fatally stabbing Fred Dunn, a sailor from the crew of the schooner George M. Walcott, here weeks ago. He received 18 years in the penitentiary and, already on parole after half of a five year term for cutting a woman, faces a total of 25 years with five extra years for a second sentence.
The board of visitors elected Virginia Military Institute officers including Dr. Reid White as surgeon Col. W. T. Poague as treasurer and military storekeeper Capt. J. W. Gilmore as commissary and quartermaster Miss Nellie Gibbs as librarian Miss H. M. Nan as hospital nurse and F. L. You as tailor Superintendent Nichols authorized to hire a landscape gardener and study a campus telephone exchange Building improvements were ordered library stacks added and cadet uniforms updated with a new shako blue cap and regulation shoes.
William Wallace aged 21 shot Miss Daisy Hidlcomb at Chestnut and Duke Streets Portsmouth then fired on himself. Hidlcomb was wounded in the right shoulder and Wallace's self-inflicted bullet is in a dangerous location. Wallace, a rejected suitor, had previously killed John Johnson six years earlier and was released on a plea of accidental shooting.
The Government has accepted title and paid 6000 for four lots fronting 132 feet on East Fourth Street and 122 feet on Wood Avenue, owned by James W. Fox of New York and Dr Roland B. Whittidge of Baltimore, across from the Federal court building site authorized for a $100,000 project.
At King William Courthouse A. B. Hill, longtime jailer and hotel operator, kissed his wife goodbye and said he would kill himself. He shot himself twice in the head with a pistol minutes later. Despondent over past injuries and recent heat, he leaves a large family of sons and daughters.
On petition by D. Q. Eggleston, Judge R. Carter Scott issues an injunction to stop suits against the Bank of Charlotte at Charlotte Courthouse, aimed at preventing actions that could embarrass the bank. Officials say the bank’s affairs are in excellent condition, while trouble is blamed on carelessness in accounts and poor business methods.
Richmond street car conductor George E. Lewis was stabbed in the breast by an unidentified Black man who jumped from the car and fled. Lewis remains in serious condition after being attacked when asked to stand on the rear platform and the assailant pulled a knife without warning. The assailant fled the scene.
Petersburg stock firm A Rosenstock and Co. partner Louis A. Rosen, and prominent merchant William Budd, were painfully injured in a runaway. They were taken to Petersburg Hospital, wounds dressed, then sent home.
Richmond report states Capt. Fred Bowers, Pullman conductor for Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, died suddenly of heart failure as his train stopped at Bremo. His wife was prostrated upon learning of his death.
A new lamp design encloses the standard globe within a second outer globe filled with air to prevent dust or gas ignition should the inner globe break. The device aims to reduce hazards in mines by isolating sparks and containing pressure.
Tests by Japanese of the movement of projectiles after penetrating objects show deflections about equal to the angle of the point. These deflections occur in the opposite direction from that given by the rifling of the gun.
The report states that London consumes about 180 thousand tons of fish annually. It notes the scale of demand across the city, with implications for supply chains and markets.
R G Dun Weekly Review notes encouraging signs in principal industrial and mercantile centers with easier money fueling higher prices. Improved activity credited to better weather and crop reports, though tariff delays and proposed corporate net earnings tax do not derail the upturn. Bradstreet’s confirms expansion in industrial operations and improved distribution from hot weather, with some irregular retail performance due to heat and timing of summer goods sales.
A detailed market update lists spot and future prices for wheat, corn, oats, and oats quality, with New York and Baltimore price readings. It notes no option market transactions, and provides daily quotes for eggs, butter, cheese, live poultry, and regional variations in state markets. The report includes specific figures for spot values, futures closes, and freight terms for various wheat grades and corn options.
The report covers Chicago markets with steers cows heifers bulls calves stockers and feeders and hog and sheep prices. Kansas City and Pittsburg listings show mixed cattle ranges with top and bulk figures. notes on packers and butchers. brief items mention Japan household spending and a German scientist on artificial light. England Baptist Sunday Schools pupil-teacher ratio. China foreigner population and Japanese presence.
A fragmented clipping notes plans for wireless communication linking the Canary Islands with Europe Africa and America. It also mentions a cautious, reluctant suitor and a businesslike woman amid a household change and a new role for Wire Oil as a family medical stand-in in case of mishap.
Hick's CAvADINE claims quick relief from aching fevers and cold symptoms. The ad cites Hyguld-effects and immediate action, marketed in bic and atalrug stores. It presents a traditional patent remedy tone with named product variants targeted to general relief.
Americans are building additions to Hermosillo Mexico on the plan of United States suburbs reflecting cross border urban growth.
Distorted text notes a new water reservoir in London described as the largest in the world. The piece also mentions a patent medicine and the Post Office Department using large quantities of penholders and pencils annually.
A mother recounts months of unsuccessful doctors and costly ointments for her six month old daughter’s severe facial eczema. After using Cuticura Remedies, the baby's skin cleared by morning and the eruption vanished. dated Sheldon Iowa July 13 1908.
Ten graduates of Harvard Medical School intend to establish an institution in China to teach medicine along modern lines with thorough equipment and up to date methods.
A Philadelphia inventor has patented an electric fan designed to move around a room on a double track system. The device aims to distribute air more evenly by traversing a circular path rather to stationary operation, signaling an innovative approach to personal climate control.
The California Fig Syrup Co touts its exceptional equipment and chemists for producing Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. It warns against imitations and urges buyers to verify the full company name on the package to ensure genuine product quality and benefits.
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