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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1906
Page
1
Medders praises trolley cars as a great blessing in a municipal discussion, while Foam Kornkilb affirms their value, reflecting early support and local debate over urban transit.
An Electrical Review article notes new household electric motor uses. Dishwashers lighten cleaning, grinders and beaters run on small motors, and various appliances automate turning tasks. Hair dryers and vibrators are offered, with sweepers expected to reduce dust. Electricity promised to convert homes into luxury spaces and ease domestic labor.
Instructions describe washing blankets to keep them soft and light. The method includes borax mixed with soft soap, cold water suds, overnight soaking, and a thrice rinsing process with gentle agitation. The text reflects old fashioned domestic cleaning advice from a historical period.
In Common Pleas Court Judge Kinkade imposes the maximum five thousand dollar fine and one year in the workhouse on five men for conspiracy to restrain trade under the Valentine Anti-trust Law. Restitution to consumers may mitigate sentences. The men include Joseph A. Miller and managers of several ice companies. Officers await commitment papers as hearings on arrest of judgment proceed.
Mrs Elizabeth Brandrup aged 42 was found strangled in the Linden Hotel Baden San Mateo County she was discovered by her daughter Lizzie 15 who heard a voice from the storeroom Arrestees George C Jones and Harry F Copland a motive remains unknown.
The piece notes a rise in personal crisis reports during hot weather. It states men commonly choose hanging while women tend to drown themselves. A specialist links this to blood vessel relaxation and lowered blood pressure caused by heat, reducing willpower in the cerebral centers.
Edward C. Spencer a special commissioner of the Chilean government visits his sister Mrs. E Spencer Large in York Pa. He was detailed to the United States to promote American Chilean commerce and to work for a satisfactory mail service between the two countries.
Minnie Rhine a young woman from a good family in Parkersburg West Virginia drank carbolic acid and laudanum in a suicide attempt believed caused by an unhappy love. She had saved $100 for funeral expenses.
Cable dispatch from Cairo reports 350 Sudanese killed and many captured during a punitive expedition. The attack is linked to a native uprising, with no confirmed losses for the opposing force. Further details are unclear due to partial text.
Mrs Stenton denies at coroner inquest that she struck her daughter with a hammer. Other brief items cover a water-clearing at Hallstead Colliery, pardons, suicides, storms, wrecks, and legal actions from across states.
Reports include the Conservative Centrist group backing a cabinet from Octoberist and Reform parties to replace the Goremykin ministry. King Haakon greets a Norwegian American delegation in Trondhjem. Congressman Longworth and Mrs. Longworth feasted with Emperor William in Kiel amid grand harbor illuminations. Krupp workers in Essen face arrest for spying. Georgian women seek English aid to curb Cossack outrages. A suspected man is detained near La Granjer where King Alfonso and Queen Victoria honeymoon. English suffragists campaign nationwide taking prison over fines. The Russian Douma rejects arraigning the ministry over the Jewish massacre. a Constitutional Democrat amendment calls for a parliamentary ministry. The commission investigating the Bial massacre reports its findings.
San Francisco’s burned residents adapted to outdoor living with tents in parks and vacant lots. By the second week, 46,000 remained, with officials consolidating camps for provisioning and eventual return to homes or new barracks. The scene showed improvised settlements, sanitary camps, and cross‑racial cooperation among evacuees.
Receivers and shippers firm Co S Schermerhornton deals in grain hay mill feeds beed oats linseed meal senccin seed meal gluten feed and distributes poultry feeds. Key details indicate a diversified agricultural supply operation serving farmers and merchants.
Coroner reports Eugene M. Wright, a hose man on Engine No. 3, died minutes after falling two stories from a ladder on East Broad Street Richmond. Wire insulation wore away. Wright tried to separate the live wire with his rope and glove, gasped, and fell. The wire belonged to Western Union.
Paris reports that China signed a treaty with complete satisfaction to France over the February massacre of six French Jesuit missionaries in Nanchang Kiangsi province. China pays 200000 dollars to the missions and 400000 dollars to the missionaries' families, builds a memorial hospital, and punishes rioters. Posthumous honors for the Chinese magistrate are denied. French gunboats will be withdrawn.
Earth quake shocks were distinctly felt at the Goodhue County Poor Farm three miles from Red Wing but no damage occurred.
Dr. T. Goodspeed announces the University of Chicago has received a $260,000 gift from John D. Rockefeller. The donation strengthens endowment funding and supports university programs.
Everett Ga special report says J M Stewart, Seaboard Air Line section foreman at Bladen Ga, was shot and killed by his apprentice Knight. Knight fired seven more shots as Stewart fell. Stewart's body found before his home amid a rumored motive of jealousy and parental suspicion.
A curio of items from various regions notes Congress plans a ship for destroying derelicts and a Cape to Cairo railway reaching Broken Hill. Panama elections seek American aid while General Greely plans troop withdrawals from San Francisco. Germany tops world potato production and builds a Canton consulate. Immigrant counts rise in New York Boston and Baltimore. The Roosevelts’ navy policy cited in a Alabama district race. New York capitalists and sericulture losses in Japan are mentioned amid labor and trade notes from Canada Australia and New Zealand. An eight hour shift becomes law in New Zealand railways. Montreal carpenters face high demand. Elis Island contractor laborers top 1000. Boston car upholsterers union forms. Indian coolie labor favored in Transvaal. Paris postal strikes. and a U S injunction targets iron molders unions at Allis-Chalmers.
A fragmented report notes Ellen Terry’s jubilee in London with royal attendance and society figures. It mentions derailed lines about Dame Lucille Duff-Gordon and various social anecdotes from Europe and Britain.
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