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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1906
Page
4
A century old column highlights remedies for women including Peruna and Hartman products with letters of praise and medical claims. Advertisements promote Dr Kline’s Great Nerve, King Syrup for Children, and Huckleberry Cordial alongside a note on heat reducing glass innovations by Szigmondy.
Garbled lines from a Atlantic City event include quotes about a quiet man and a lobster red figure. The text also mentions a house dining scene and a clergyman bid. The overall fragmentary material presents unclear context and attribution.
The article portrays a busy woman as efficient and well balanced, contrasting her with those who have time to waste. It praises her poise, hospitality, and ear for youth while noting her tolerance for human frailty and understanding of temperament.
A Springfield Republican note reports that Empress Eugenie told an American friend she wore outfits costing $200 only three times. One occasion was her wedding, another the baptism of the Prince Imperial, and the third unspecified.
The passage notes women who prize economy are drawn to cheap odds and ends, lace, and passementerie on the remnant counter. It warns that unless a maker can turn scraps into useful trifles, such temptations will create a surplus fit for the scrap bag.
The piece contrasts gender roles and cultural traits between Germany and the United States. It notes more unmarried women in Germany, higher female work rates abroad, yet stronger masculine culture in Germany and greater civic achievements, architecture, and arts, while the U S shows a feminist influence, moral standards, and leadership in certain cultural areas.
The article discusses grooming hair at the seaside with daily brushing and a salt water treatment using eggs and borax. It then shifts to Minna Thomas Antrim’s view of the home life of an American Lady, describing her roles as wife mother hostess and her influence on family and social life.
A renowned beauty doctor prescribes cultivating a pink complexion through shape, facial fit, and targeted diet. She warns against excessive pink on large facial areas and recommends spinach and vegetables, soft hands, and a cherry pink mouth to enhance beauty.
Textile notes describe waterproof foulards, flower hats, moss rose trims, and tailored cutaway coats. Lingerie revival includes smocking and decorative braids, with white bolero ensembles, polo pockets, silk handkerchief accents, and practical hair accessories.
A discussion outlines saddle horse excellence by five criteria including sure-footedness and a good mouth, plus calm temperament and gait. It notes careful rein work to avoid pulling and warns the mouth’s influence on a horse’s disposition. The text then covers skim milk that becomes slightly sour, whey separation, bag draining, curd mixing with salt and cream.
Garden Magazine notes ants protect and herd aphids, secreting a sweet honeydew that lures ants to carry aphids from foliage to roots. The behavior aids aphid movement to strawberry, melon, and corn-root plants, with eggs overwintering in ant nests and springtime dispersal to roots.
Use triangles of four inch boards as footings with fence panels three to three and a half feet high. Bottom boards seven inches wide, top boards six inches longer than middle boards, which are four inches apart. Panels ten to twelve feet long. notch bottom and top boards to receive panels. Anchor triangles with stakes and long poles wired along the bottom to prevent movement by hogs.
The article warns against cooling milk before separation to protect butter fat and urges immediate separation after milking. It praises Jersey cattle for milking quality over color, notes Jersey colors vary, and discusses forage choices for late summer feeding, emphasizing digestible protein and dairy-focused breeding. It also mentions cream as a byproduct and uses of skim milk for pigs and poultry.
Instructions for patrons on proper milk handling from cow to creamery. Emphasizes cleanliness, quick processing, aeration and cooling, avoiding warm cans, and avoiding mixing warm with cooled milk. Recommends clean rooms, dry air, fresh cold water baths, and proper transport.
A collection of rural guidance on livestock care and farm management. Topics include gentle handling of cows to improve butter fat yield, poultry housing to prevent draughts, selecting healthy horses, feeding strategies for calves, drainage work after harvest, and the economics of poultry farming versus on farm production. It also notes fattening fowls with light and emphasizes careful observation of animal conformation.
The Weekly Review notes encouraging trade, industry, and transport reports but weak security markets. Farm output looks robust with wheat and oats ahead of expectations, cotton picking underway, and hay projected short. Industrial growth appears in sawmills and iron and steel, while cotton goods improve and hides stay near peak pricing.
Baltimore and New York commodity desks report mixed grain prices with large receipts and exports. wheat futures, corn, oats, rye, and sugar hold steady to firmer. Livestock notes show hog prices down slightly while cattle and sheep hold near steady, with vaults for dairy and eggs.
Fragmentary text notes trials of electric locomotives with a stated speed of 4334 miles per hour and potential reduction of passage time to a few minutes. The garbled source mentions an island and sorrow, but specifics are unreadable.
Mrs Mary Wagner of Bridgeport Connecticut describes six weeks of weakness backaches and painful kidney symptoms. She credits Deans Kidney Pills with improvement after the first box and a full five boxes to cure. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Fashionable women in England lead the smoking habit with the first class carriage on a London to Liverpool train displaying "Ladies' smoking." A man invited his woman friends to the carriage for smoking, signaling regular smoking cars for women may become common there.
Mrs. Ma Dickerson of Louisa County Virginia recounts eleven months of non walking due to a severe ankle sore. After trying doctors and remedies, she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment with warm baths, leading to full walking capability in six weeks and outdoor activity resumed. Publication date April 23 1905.
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