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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1910
Page
3
An advertisement in this issue promotes Macnair’s Chicken Powder as a blessing to poultry raisers claiming it kills hawks that threaten chicks or turkeys, highlighting its protective effect for flocks.
Colonel Roosevelt arrived in Cambridge to receive an honorary degree. He was greeted by students and townspeople, met Pembroke College officials, toured Emanuel College’s Harvard memorial window, and processed to the Senate House with vice chancellors, officers, and college regalia marking the ceremony.
In Washington Brandeis declared Ballinger unfit for his public duties and criticized the conduct surrounding the Alaska coal land case, the Cunningham claimants, and Glavis’s dismissal. He argued the Interior Department must be under safer guidance and framed the issue as a fight for democracy against overpowering influence. Glavis as a faithful public servant is defended as the people’s ally.
Virginia Court of Appeals grants a writ of error in Cohen and Winston receivers v Walford to review whether the city may enforce delinquent taxes by liens on personal property. The case centers on Idlewood Park and a 1908 distress warrant against Richmond Amusement Company, with pending questions on the supremacy of tax liens over rent liens and the scope of city property tax security.
In New York Court, Magistrate Kernochan quips about witch burnings as Mrs. Carmela Rubino faces charges of practicing medicine without a license. The New York County Medical Society brought the case, highlighting alleged unlicensed medical work.
Newport News special reports the battleship South Carolina arrived in Hampton Roads from the Southern drill grounds after breaking all firing records. The forward turret scored sixteen hits in sixteen shots in 4 minutes and 51 seconds with a twelve inch rifle at standard charge.
John Marshall High School auditorium overflowed with friends of Memorial Hospital Training School for Nurses graduates. Dr Daniel Coleman presented diplomas while Colonel J Alston Cabell urged nurses to keep spirits young and lead with grace. Honors went to Miss Sadie Blankenship for dietetics and Miss Elizabeth Sledge for bandaging. The class total reached forty six with sixty one alumnae practicing in the war effort.
Michael Walsh of 405 Lexington Avenue faced assault charges after Kennedy struck Walsh with an umbrella in a berserk incident. Walsh, Kennedy, and Stanton were taken to East Thirty fifth Street Station by Officer Oppenheimer. Dr Dow patched Walsh before a brief detention. Stanton discarded many diamonds in front of Lieutenant Mahoney amid real estate confusion. Walsh claimed he owed nothing to the newsboy.
A London dispatch reports the admiralty's annual world fleet return, excluding ships over twenty years old, showing Britain with 656 effective battleships including Dreadnoughts, and leading in cruisers with 38 armored and 18 first class. Germany, the United States, and France follow with smaller counts across different categories. Britain, Germany, and France show building rates for various ship types, while Japan trails with limited builds and the United States maintains several armored and unprotected classes.
In New York a brawl over a five cent debt led to two men, Thomas Kennedy and George H Stanton, being taken to West Thirty-fifth Street Station after a confrontation near Forty-second Street and Park Avenue. The incident occurred at seven p.m. last night outside the Grand Union Hotel where a newsboy claimed a nickel was unpaid and tensions rose.
A county court hearing exposed a long running feud among a large family including husband wife father father-in-law and son-in-law. Walter Warrener was fined twenty five dollars and costs for assaulting W H Lee with his fists amid disputes over a debt and a daughter’s desertion. Witnesses described bruised faces and threats with witnesses many neighbors present. Lee said he planned to seek divorce and perhaps remarriage.
Beacondale Farms offers registered Holstein bull calves at farmers prices for the next thirty days. Write for prices mentioning Jones and Loomis of Newport News Virginia.
A brief exchange echoes the Philadelphia Record humor column with Muggins arguing for the pairing of wine, women, and song while resisting a group consensus. The quip notes wine improves with age and hints at contrasting viewpoints in a light newsy tone.
Market report lists poultry prices for live hens and spring chickens across multiple ranges. Items include butter, cheese and store packed goods, hides, lard, flaxseed, tallow, beeswax, walnuts, chicken and turkey coops, egg crates, and oats with varying price points. Major entities: country meats, DUGES, SIGRID, and local market terms.
Richmond Virginia Special Lawrence Hatke a printer aged sixteen arraigned in Police Court charged as a suspicious character with felony. Attorney Pollock obtained a continuance to June 1. Hatke accused of daytime breaking into Memer Frayos and Kost Frayd residences and stealing $10 and two razors from Frayos and $25 and two razors from Frayo. Arrest by Acting Detective Louis Kellam after a chase.
Stamford, Conn. Special. Hannah Davenport, sixteen, of Glenbrook, married John F. Morris, twenty two, a Stamford street car conductor, without parental consent. Her father, Dr. William F. Davenport, seeks to annul the marriage. The couple wed May 12, news revealed a week later, and the bride was sent to relatives in New York. The religious difference and misstatement of the bride’s age fueled parental anger. The bride’s location is unknown.
Senator Owen of Oklahoma asked leave to print in the Congressional Record a pile of public health letters from governors medical societies and others. Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire objected saying the Record has often been loaded with petitions and memorials and should be more selective. He notes the dispute but says Owen’s documents may merit space despite the criticism of the reactionary Republican element.
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