03 Jun 1909
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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1909
Page
1
In a playful exchange from the Chicago Daily News a teacher asks Harold the meaning of meter and what it measures. Harold replies with a punny answer noting electricity water and poetry.
A gilded youth questions why he should learn to twirl a cane with his left hand as well as his right, prompting a terse reply about necessity and skill. The exchange hints at vanity and social performance in a refined setting.
A Yonkers Statesman note cites Bacon remarking on vast unseen global territory and Egbert responding about unexplored areas containing potentially lucrative gold and silver mines. The exchange frames exploration as a driver of mining opportunities and prospects.
A customer asks about gambling activity and a tobacconist replies that the town is shut down tight, noting scarce access to such games as the elgara. The brief exchange hints at a town enforcing strict limits while trade remains subdued.
A wide range of items notes a ships fleet plan on the Mississippi River for a Wright brothers event in Dayton, political vetoes, legal verdicts, factory fires, and labor unrest. Notable names include J M Cox, William Lorimer, Anna Cleveland Hastings, J P Morgan, and Florence Ziegfeld amid talks of international business consolidations and strikes.
Summary of mixed outcomes across international news. Paris Superior Court grants partial victory to Count Boni de Castellane in custody appeal. Other items include Roy convicted of falsifying bank returns in Montreal and steamship Almeriana damaged after iceberg collision. International congress of chemistry underway in London and Hamburg-America’s new steamer Cincinnati sails on maiden voyage.
The Virginia Corporation Commission sustained the demurrer of Norfolk and Western and Louisville and Nashville railroads and dismissed Norton Wise County's board of trade petition seeking interline use of Norton Union stations by Interstate Railway. The commission held it cannot compel one railroad to share facilities or rolling stock, though it may require transfer facilities in other contexts.
In Norfolk a burglary of Farmers' Manufacturing Company offices ended with thieves loading a heavy iron safe onto a wagon. The note on Manager East's desk read simply thank you as detectives investigate the break in on Calvert Street and the missing safe, which contained 330 dollars. The crime is among Norfolk's coldest cases and was quickly reported to police.
Petersburg voters chose open saloons over prohibition by 578 votes in a 1800 turnout. The Anti-Saloon League failed to sway business and residents despite hosting prominent speakers and mobilizing women and children. A dispute on the vote led Wesley G Andrews to strike Rev Sydney Peters, the league secretary.
Strike agitation led to the Ware Kramer cigarette factory at Lamberts Point shutting down after management refused to sign a wage scale. Union president A McAndrew said a wage cut was threatened in some departments. Factory president J F Ware announced the plant would reopen with most workers returning and an equalization of wages among employees.
A Roanoke joint council committee backed an $800000 bond issue for city streets sewers fire department market police and municipal departments. Bonds run 30 years at 4 percent with $300000 for streets and $350000 for a new police station jail and municipal building.
Robert H. Angell steps down after years as Roanoke Chamber of Commerce leader. Possible successors include J Taylor Gleaver C Edwin Michael and Edward L Stone. Reported lack of unity and Angell felt insufficient backing from coworkers amid speculation of frictionless tenure.
A cloudburst between Blacksburg and Christiansburg washed away two miles of the Virginia Arthracite Railroad tracks swept away bridges flooded Merrimac coal mines destroyed crops and damaged buildings The downpour was the worst in Montgomery County history extending three miles by two Blacksburg with Virginia Polytechnic Institute was deluged but suffered no serious damage
An extra freight train on the Danville and Western Railway fell through a trestle near Wallers, 48 miles west of here. Injured are Engineer T. W. Owen of Danville, Fireman J. W. Merriman of Spencer, Conductor R. H. Sundley of Danville, and Flagman Richard Adams of Danville. The train, en route to Stuart, was moving at a moderate speed when a washout undermined the pillars and the trestle gave way.
Mrs. Nulton wife of Lieutenant Commander Louis McCoy Nulton United States Navy had a narrow escape when her fashionable hat caught fire from a gas jet at home in Winchester She rolled on the floor to smother the flames as her father Edward J Evans rescued her Her daughter Virginia cried out in fright Mrs Nulton hair singed and hands blistered The husband served as executive officer on the battleship Ohio on a world cruise
Maxwell Lewis Levy a Petersburg High School graduate now at the University of Virginia won the debater's medal in the Washington Literary Society. He supported high license as desirable over prohibition with a vigorous speech against seasoned opponents. He will represent the society in the June 15 debate for the board of Visitors medal.
The Merchants and Farmers' Savings and Trust Company is organized in Leesburg with capital stock of 50000 to conduct banking, loan and trust business. Linden Hotel property bought. a modern bank building will be erected. Officers: Robert N. Harper president. W. Jenkins vice president. John R. Clemens secretary and treasurer. J. H. R. Alexander general counsel. Jenkins is with Jenkins & Co. flouring mills. Clemens is a local insurance agent.
In Hampton Roads off Sewalls Point the ashes of a former Confederate soldier who died in Seattle were lowered in a tiny silver casket. Sent from Seattle to Richmond then Old Point Comfort, the burial was conducted by W. H. Fitzgerald of Richmond, who fought beside the deceased in the United Artillery at Sewalls Point. The veteran’s identity remains unrevealed.
Thomas Loy a prominent Loudoun County resident near Leesburg died by his own actions at his home aged 70. After a long absence he was missed and family members searched the premises finding his hat and coat near an abandoned well. Footprints led to a search and his body was recovered from the 80 foot depth. He is survived by several children.
W. W. Ryan of near McGaheysville in this county was run over by a traction engine and died an hour later. The accident occurred near Harrisonburg, prompting an investigation by local authorities.
The Warrenton area reports the residence of James Carter, about five miles from Warrenton, was entirely burned, with the blaze beginning on the roof. The article also covers Marseilles as a major vegetable oil center, noting its 1817 oil mill start and 45 active mills processing roughly 465,000 tons annually, and mentions China adopting a new standard foot measurement of 12,698 inches.
Captain Williams in charge of the lugger Nebraska was cast ashore on Green Hill Island near Port Darwin after the vessel wrecked. He survived 23 days aboard a dinghy and rafted through the Northern Territory, subsisting on turtle eggs iguanas and swamp turtles, crossing rivers and jungle to reach the mouth of the Adelaide River and finally Port Darwin after a cyclonic squall.
A Broadway bar’s cold vaults trap a bartender, door lock jams, he nearly freezes. He signals by turning off beer pumps, patrons notice, managers investigate, and rescue arrives as staff halt the beer flow. The incident underscores the danger of the frigid rooms beneath busy storefronts.
An advertisement touts Dr Miles Nervine as a remedy to restore sleep and rebuild the nervous system. It claims the product has no opiates, helps rest the brain and muscles, and quotes Mrs May Scott from Indiana praising its effects after a long siege of sleepless agony.
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