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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1911
Page
8
CRAP WANTED DISPOSE OF old material for top market quote. We buy brass copper lead zinc rags bones and more. Write for prices L ROSE & CO 416 424 Brook Ave Richmond Va. WANTED YOUTH introductory rate until Sept 1 scholarship for Commercial or Shorthand course Maynes Business College Richmond Va.
Brinsers & Sons of South Richmond Virginia advertise large tracts of ash timber for sale. Address and particulars provided upon request.
Help wanted notices for male applicants. National Auto Schools Corporation seeks men to train as chauffeurs with wages and varied branches in Virginia. Richmond Barber College advertises barber training with wages during learning and quick course completion. Richmond Automobile School promises driving and repair training with job prospects and guaranteed proficiency. Addresses in Richmond Virginia.
Notices advertise a 6 percent money loan for real estate with monthly payments of 7.50 and 5 percent annual interest on balances. The term is 10 to 12 years with the option to pay in full anytime to stop further interest. For details contact The Standard Home Company at 316-317 Law Bldg Norfolk Va.
Local classified notes advertise scrap tire and metal recycling by L Rose & Co at 416424 Brook Ave and real estate offers by Davidson at 54 Chamber of Commerce Bldg. Also promoted are hair restyling services by Richmond Hair Emporium at 221 Broad St with offerings on wigs and combing purchases.
Hair goods and typewriters rented for one month five dollars with rent applied to purchase. Savings of twenty five to fifty percent offered on any make of typewriter. Write today for particulars. American Writing Machine Co. at 605 East Main Street, Richmond Virginia.
Washington and Chicago investigations deepen into a smuggling ring that allegedly defrauded the government and drew in Mrs Helen Dwelle Jenkins. The Hotel Lorraine jewel raid linked to Mrs Jenkins involves a mysterious woman and a 300000 dollar loss.
James Adolph Cody, two years and three months old in Mount Airy, Georgia, weighs 122 pounds and grows daily. Despite dieting efforts, his measurements are extreme yet he remains healthy and very strong with a voracious appetite and meals resembling those of an adult.
Miss Ella Kissam of Halesite Illinois chooses Captain Charles E Sammis of Huntington over Rinaldo Sammis. A license was issued by Stanton B E Sammis Huntington Town Clerk. The rejected suitor Rinaldo Sammis reportedly retreated to Freehold New Jersey. Miss Kissam is thirty five.
Multiple items advertised including 56 acres of good land with 150 acres cleared and six tenant houses in Meherrin Farm Branchville Virginia priced at 5000 dollars with half cash and one to two years balance. Also offerings of costumes wigs masks and mustaches from Richmond Hair Importium and an automobile exchange listing 221 Broad Street and 221-223 West Broad Street in Richmond plus feather beds from Turner and Cornwell in Charlotte North Carolina.
The Kis sams and the Sammises vie for Mise Elia's hand amid bets and drama. The two suitors, Rinaldo Kissam the “farmer millionaire” and Oscar Kissam’s son, visited Morehead City, while the captain’s circle plans a serenade as rumors swirl about a final choice.
Creditors of Virginia Safe Deposit and Trust Corp will receive 20 percent of deposits by September 15 under a Bailey decree. Receivers hold $125000 with $534000 proven claims. after 20 percent on proven claims about $19000 remains. Real estate valued around $100000 may yield another 20 percent on sale, totaling about 40 percent.
Brussels reports a string of crashes during the fifth leg from the city to Roubaix in sixty miles. Tabateau abandons after two falls near Eizereyen, Barra reaches Iderre before disaster, Vidart lands near Louvain, Yamalen reaches Berchen after repairs, Weimann withdraws from the contest with no chance at the $94,000 prize.
Special Patrolman Walter S McQuarry aged forty was shot dead and Charles A Follette wounded in Sepeeans Rhode Island as a robber fired three times then fled toward Norwood. Police and citizens formed a posse tracking the fugitive with Chief Andrews and Sheriff Lynch leading the search. Follette lies in critical condition at Rhode Island Hospital.
Two deaths reported in Clifton Forge Virginia and Mt Sterling Kentucky. Irene Hobbs an inmate of a questionable house died from coal oil lamp burns after desperately fleeing a room fire. A negro man was struck by a Chesapeake and Ohio train while walking beside the track. Dr William Van Antwerp who built the Chattahoochee bridge for Sherman’s march to the sea has died at seventy in Mt Sterling Kentucky.
Instructional notice from B. Williams & Co offering Davis' and Pure Linseed Oil to mix at home for two gallons of paint. Highlights self made paint rationale and sale of materials to produce pure linseed oil paint.
Washington D C special. Edward Hines testifies before the Investigating Committee detailing his lumber and bank interests and his connections with Senator Lorimer. He says Penrose sought a favorable Illinois seat and describes discussions with Bouelle Madden and Lorimer about possible adjournment and voting alignments.
Richmond Virginia reports a three story house on Decatur Street near Sixth condemned as haunted. Local tales link the residence to Dr. Philip Williamson a murdered inventor whose disappearance and mysterious death sparked decades of rumors now revived by fresh investigations prompted by a neighbor report to police.
Four years into marriage Grace Taubman sues Edwin Taubman a Lexington banker for divorce alleging a night at his office ended with her performing high kicks for a guest. The dispute centers on a domestic rift blamed on a high school teacher Florence Arnold and features heated courtroom exchanges.
A man dressed as a clerk slaps a memorandum book on the Corn Exchange Bank counter at 120th Street and Lenox Avenue and demands 5000 in clean bills. Police surround the bank as depositors flee. the suspect Joseph Fry, 57, is carted to Bellevue for evaluation.
Flossie Perkins was jailed on murder charges after a lamp explosion in an Inver house incident left a young white woman dead. Witnesses at the inquest gave conflicting accounts and may face perjury charges. If proven, it would mark the first murder trial since the city’s incorporation.
Mrs. Perry Kile awoke to her eight year old son’s screams and found a three foot copperhead stretched over his chest. She knocked it to the floor with a broom and killed it after a struggle. The snake bit the boy several times in the hand and doctors fear poor recovery.
The body of an unidentified woman who had been strangled to death was found today beside the Reading Railway Atlantic City branch tracks at Williamstown Junction a mile from Bosting in New Jersey.
Four jewelry manufacturing firms burned in Plainville Massachusetts causing about 106000 in damage to the Plainville Land Company building. Three workers were injured in the blaze.
Bloodhounds track an unknown assailant who attacked Jets Murr Bradour near Cumberland. The girl was bound and gagged in a cellar for hours before discovery. A pursuing posse threatens lynching if the assailant is caught.
In Middleboro Kentucky a bee tree dispute at Stephens Branch led to a fatal shooting. Press Raines killed Sam Bryant after Bryant fired twice at Raines's father Charles Raines. the younger Raines then shot Bryant dead.
Three hundred thousand people sought relief by sleeping on Coney Island beaches overnight as extreme heat drove them from homes. A cool wave offered relief early today. Five deaths were reported from yesterday’s humidity and hospitals logged twenty five prostration cases as temperatures lingered around ninety.
Fred Vosen heard a splash onshore at Lee reservoir and saw a large carp rising to grab wild strawberries hanging four to ten inches above the water. He baited and hooked the fish after watching it repeat the act about six times and had to shoot it to land the thirty-two pound carp.
At the Porter Avenue pumping station in Buffalo, the roof and side walls collapsed during a morning shift. Six men died and about twenty five were injured as debris buried roughly forty workers one story below. The Twenty first United States Regiment and penitentiary prisoners helped clear debris at the site.
Joseph Smith, 74, leader of the Mormon Church, says polygamy is no longer practiced by Mormons and excommunicates members who take plural wives. He asserts he supports but does not live with his five pre manifesto wives and blames ongoing rumors on false charges.
A blaze erupted at the Chiefton mine of the Clark Coal Company four miles from Clarksburg yesterday afternoon and continued raging today. Firefighters faced an apparently doomed blaze threatening the mine and surrounding area.
A major West Virginia mine suffered a substantial incendiary blaze with thousands in damage. Miner George Weyman alerted the mine boss as the east shaft access failed. Rescue teams from Fairmont arrived with oxygen gear. sixty workers were evacuated through an alternate opening and all are believed safe.
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