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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1908
Page
4
A compilation of aphorisms and maxims from various languages and eras. Quotes touch on virtue, wealth, friendship, fate, laziness, and ambition attributed to Plato Puck Cleveland Plain Dealer Portuguese Irish German and Socrates. The item presents a mosaic of moral reflections.
Clarence H. Mackay reports to the U S Secretary of State that British trawlers have repeatedly damaged Commercial Cable Company cables off the Irish coast. Over £20000 spent on repairs this year. interruptions hinder public transmission and proof of deliberate damage is hard to obtain.
The text traces enduring serfdom before the Conquest and into later periods, noting lords could control and transfer land and labor without freeing bound vassals. It states substantial servitude persisted under masters’ consent, with reform only gradually taking shape by Charles’s reign and as late as 1776 men were transported and bound in Scotland.
A string of comic snippets from Pearson's Weekly features a benevolent old gentleman seeking to share wisdom with a rural telegrapher. The farmer replies he and his mates are testing a new wire while denying farm work, in a light satire of advice and informers.
A humorous fragment features a sentimental young lady asking what an old oak would say if it spoke. The professor quips that it would claim to be an elm, with a playful twist attributed to Fijegende Blatter.
A Chicago clerk recalls how good health supports earning power and housing stability. After illness from poor diet, she used Grape-Nuts as a major part of two meals daily and recovered, praising its effects on brain function digestion and energy.
Washington reports cracked chinaware in lunch rooms harbors millions of bacteria across dozens of species. Government tests led by Dr. George W. Stiles found bacilli including bacillus coli per square inch, urging elimination of cracked dishes to reduce contamination.
A chronology of sensational killings from July to June across New Jersey and New York. Each entry cites a date, victim, location, and suspected motive or outcome, including domestic disputes, jealousy, revenge, and quarrels. Names include Andrew Bergen Cropsey, Mrs Eberhard, Rev Prickett, Hazel Drew, Dr N H Wilson, and others.
A London Daily Mail dispatch reports two gold consignments valued at $200,000 each moving through Entebbe from King Leopold's private Congo State. Foreigners are barred there, with speculation that a vast province beyond a hundred miles is extraordinarily rich in gold.
Senator Platt, age seventy five, voices belief he may reach ninety. Baron Schlippenbach, Russian consul at Chicago, returns to New York to assume Imperial Consul General duties there. Professor Frederic Louis Otto Roebrig, philologist and educator, dies in Pasadena after long illness. Eas killed horse He has a can be run.
In Paris, terrier dogs are recruited as night guards for the Luxembourg Museum. Appointed by M Dujardin Beaumetz, secretary of Fine Arts, the dogs will act as auxiliaries to human guards and raise an alarm when needed. Recruitment has begun.
The report notes Kalamazoo Michigan hosting thirty labor organizations and Aberdeen South Dakota musicians forming a union. Tacoma Washington sees stationary firemen forming a new union while Fall River Massachusetts marks fifty years of the Spinners' Union. Italy shows a drop in trade union membership from 240,689 in 1902 to 204,271 in 1907 with Germany remaining part of the broader trend.
R G Dun & Co reports factories enlarging active machinery and more wage work, boosting retail trade and crop progress supporting recovery. New steel contracts rise, collieries reopen after drought. Outside buyers remain active in cotton goods but frontier markets cautious. Bradstreet notes mixed signals with modest expansion in the West and Southwest yet overall conservatism in order volumes. Best outlook comes from the Central West, Northwest, Southwest and improving cotton prospects in the South.
Wheat, Corn and Oats receipts listed for New York Philadelphia and Baltimore show firm to higher spot values in wheat and oats. No. 2 red and No. 2 white grades dominate while f. o. b. afloat and inland markets quote slight gains. Poultry and dairy products show mixed demand with steady to firm butter and cheese prices.
New York receipts show cattle calves veal and sheep with varied prices and steady to weak demand. Chicago numbers estimate 5 500 cattle 15 000 hogs and 12 000 sheep with steady to higher markets and ranges for steers cows heifers and calves. The article ends noting whales as the largest mammals, with an elephant’s weight and a whale’s possible flesh supply.
The article extols Argentina as an immigration destination noting 60,000,000 residents, 245,000,000 acres suitable for stock breeding, vast forests and mineral wealth, highlighting abundant opportunities for settlers and investors.
Lake City Minnesota resident Hiram Center describes severe kidney trouble with back pain dizzy spells and nervousness. He credits Deans Kidney Pills for restoring perfect health and claims ongoing well being. Sold by dealers at 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Antonia Iago faced trial for mutilating a corpse and disturbing the dead in Salona near Spala to prevent the ghost of Mathe Duda. The lower court freed her as an act of piety, but the appeal court sentenced her to three days in prison for mistreatment of a corpse.
The New York Sun notes a shoemaker who claims to infer a customer's home from shoe wear. He correctly reads wear patterns yet admits occasional error as in a case where a city resident wore shoes worn only at the toe, misleading the expert about country life.
A Boston Herald anecdote recalls Governor of Massachusetts driving his staff to an open field for a baseball game. Players were easily identified by roles with officials including the governor as pitcher and the lieutenant governor as catcher. A passerby declared himself Napoleon Bonaparte upon seeing the scene.
A Kansas City Journal snippet notes a mother urging restraint and vigilance in romance. She warns that a man attracted by too smooth situations may lose interest, advising the daughter to beware complacency in love and engagement.
Hicks introduces Capuchine liquid as a physician prescribed remedy for monthly pains backache nervousness and headache. Sold at drug stores in 10 25 and 50 cent sizes with immediate effects and strong results claimed.
In a parlor a girl a lamp and a man were present. The scene notes a two and a chair as compaq leading to the lamp’s extinguishing. The line ends with Princeton Tiger.
Ladies can wear shoes again after using Allen's Foot Ease powder which relieves swollen feet and discomfort from tight or new footwear. It eases sweating itching corns bunions and ingrown nails. Sold by druggists and shoestores 250 trial by mail available at Allen S Olmsted LeRoy New York.
A Philadelphia Press excerpt notes children playing a game they call war on Sunday, prompted by a mother’s rebuke about religious implications and Sunday conduct. The elder child defends it as a religious war.
A traveling salesman questioned Louis Kleeberger at the Hotel Baltimore as he wrote on a paper upside down. He revealed guests’ room numbers are easier to log when the page is viewed from the opposite direction, a system he adopted to streamline recording.
A society woman discovers her husband’s attentions to a rival by secret letters found among his papers. She pastes four letters to the back of a fan and brings it to a dinner where guests view it. The rival blushes and withdraws, impressed by the contrivance.
An advertisement touts Capudine for headaches from cold heat stomach or mental strain with immediate effects and no acetylated drugs. It lists prices and warns of British authority noting immigrants moving $50 million worth of property to Canada yearly. It also claims Dr Kline's Nerve Restorer cures nervous diseases and cites railway wage data in England.
In Zululand caves investigators uncover a cache described as 50 rifles 2,000 rounds of ammunition and a dispatch box of Dinizula. The cache was concealed in the caves as authorities work on malaria control efforts and regional security.
Mrs. Lillie Wildher of Chattanooga reports Cuticura cured her severe rash on the face and a neck sore for her baby. She cites two cakes of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment as effective with lingering hand and wrist itching healing after two years. Also credits a uncle’s baby and another infant.
A customer asks if his name is written in Chinese on a check while the laundryman explains the inscription means a taunting nickname. The exchange ends with the customer thanking the laundryman.
The General Demand favors a simple pleasant liquid laxative with known value. The California Fig Syrup Co. touts its Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a gentle, effective remedy manufactured ethically and preferred by the Well-Informed. Sold by leading druggists at fifty cents per bottle.
An old advertisement argues many surgeries for women are unnecessary and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure. It cites letters from Mrs Barbara Base and Mrs Arthur R House praising cures and urges sick women to write for advice to Lydia E Pinkham, Lynn Massachusetts.
Under President Diaz the Mexican railroad network expanded to 19 000 miles and government revenues increased dramatically from 15 million to 116 million dollars.
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