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Newspaper

Mathews Journal

Location

Mathews, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jun 29, 1911

Page

8

Wanted ads seek junk disposal and cheap education deals

WANTED disposal of old material buy scrap rubber brass copper deeds zinc rags bones and more contact L Rose & Co 41404 Brook Ave Richmond Va also seeking large tracts of ash timber Brinser Bone South Richmond Va and announcing special introductory rate until September for a $39 unlimited life scholarship in Commercial or shorthand at Bayes Business College Richmond Va

L. Rose & CO Brook Ave Richmond Brinser * Bone South Richmond, Va Bayes Business College

Become a Chauffeur and Barber Trade Training Ad

Classified ad-style notice offering chauffeur training earning 26 per week with placements across branches in Richmond and Roanoke. Also advertises barber trade courses with wages 12 to 20 weekly and a mobile automotive training school promising positions 75 to 100 per month, with day or night sessions and guaranteed proficiency.

West Breed Street Richmond Werfolk 12Th Street Breedbbers Roanoke Church Reedh Chmond Barber College Virginia Richmond Promobile School West Broad Street

Real Estate Loan Offer With 5 Percent Interest

A 5 percent loan option is offered to buy build or improve real estate or lift mortgages. Monthly payment of $7.50 plus yearly 5 percent interest on balances. Loan fully repayable at any time stopping further interest. Also notices scrap tire and auto parts buyers L Rose & Co offering high cash prices in Richmond.

Standard Home Company Law Bldg Barfolk, Ye Denidson Chamber of Commerce Richmond

Hair Emporium Advertises Wigs and Hair Goods in Richmond

An old clipped ad offers hair arrangement services and products from Richmond Virginia. It markets hair switches pompadours and wigs made from combings and advertises mail order service from 221 Broad Street.

Paris fashion wigs and hair switches in Richmond

Advertisements for hair and wigs in Richmond Va offer ready made and custom hair pieces. Hughes at 205 East Fortha Street and Richmond Hair Emporium at 221 Broad Street promote full switches puffs and puffs made from customer hair with mail orders. Bargains and prompt service emphasized.

Abd Paris Hughes Eortha St Richmond Richmond Hair Emporium Broad St

Typewriter sale offer at low price in Richmond

An advertisement markets 500 Smith Premier typewriters at $25 each, regular $95, with one year guarantee. Also promotes factory rebuilt machines and supplies from Drive American Writing Machine Co, East Main Street, Richmond, and Remington rentals at three months for $5. Frayser’s Nerve and Bone Liniment advertised for pain relief.

Bar Risbuilt Dkveorican Writing Machine Company East Main Street Richmond Remington Remington Typewriter Company Main St Frayser J. W. Frayser &Coo

Beachfront cottage offers modern conveniences in Buckroh Beach

Sayre Cottage sits on the beach front with all modern conveniences. Send for circular. References Bayre Botkroe Geech Va.

Buckroh Beach Sayre Chas Bayre Botkroe Geech

Woman held in murder case at Dayton search continues

In Alfred Maine, Maude Snow Olney Marshall and Dayton farmer John Bu vell are jailed on murder charges in connection with the Weymouth killing. Police probe a grave at Snow farm as searchers with spades seek Weymouth buried evidence while Snow hints at a bound box in the Saco River.

Alfred Snow Farm Dayton Charles J. Weymouth Saco Maude Snow Olney Marshall Pittston John Buvell Fred B. Snow York Cumberland Weymouth Snow Saco River

Graft in Army Supply Dept Traced to Three Decades

Mexico City special reports a graft scandal in the army supply service totaling 10.9 million dollars. Government purchasing agents have resigned. General Cosio reportedly controlled the funds. General Mondra son is ordered to Europe to conduct a thorough inquiry. The graft span covered about thirty years with vast portions of ammunition and supplies found to be useless cast iron artillery and rapid-fire guns.

Mexico City Army Supply Department Cosio Manuel Mondrason Europe

Baptist World Alliance Ends Sessions in Philadelphia

The final Baptist World Alliance business sessions were held at Grace Baptist Church in Philadelphia. Delegates from Northern and Southern Baptists were dispersed into sectional meetings. Morning proceedings featured W. T. Whitley as chairman and a theme on The Church and Education with speakers H. T. Nusselman, F. Goldsmith, and E. M. Poteat addressing subtopics across Sunday schools, family, and educational institutions.

Philadelphia Baptist World Alliance Grace Baptist Church Broad Berks Streets W. T. Whitley H. T. Nusselman Pennsylvania F. Goldsmith England E. M. Poteat South Carolina

Japanese Colonies Reported in Central America

Special cables from New Orleans say colonization of Japanese is underway in Panama and other Central American states with the Japanese government allegedly backing the movement.

New Orleans Panama Central American

Potatoes shipped at four fifty a barrel in Virginia

In Richmond and across the Norfolk region and Eastern Shore farmers are sending out several thousand barrels daily at about $4.50 per barrel. The boom comes after a poor last year as growers rake in profits, signaling a strong market for the current crop.

Richmond Norfolk

For Sale Advert: Costumes Wigs Masks and More

For sale or hire items include costumes wigs whiskers masks mustaches and more from Richmond Hair Emporium at 221 Broad St Richmond VA and Richmond Bag Co Inc offering second hand bags and barrel covers. Write with your needs.

Richmond Hair Emporium Broad St Richmond Richmond Bag Co, Inc Richmond, Va

Ford Runabouts and Touring Cars for sale in Richmond

We offer 1908 1909 and 1910 Ford Runabouts and Touring Cars traded for 1911 models priced from 250 to 500 dollars each. Cars are overhauled in good running order and guaranteed as represented. Can travel in Virginia and North Carolina under power with instruction provided. Driver available if needed. Catalogue and full information mailed on request. Call for a demonstration. Ford Auto Co. 1627 1629 West Broad St Richmond Va.

Virginia North Carolina Ford Auto CO West Broad St Richmond

Automobile Exchange Ad and Feather Bed Offer

Automobiles bought sold and exchanged. Every car fully guaranteed for one year. Automobile Exchange 221 223 West Broad Street Richmond Virginia. Feather beds mail $10 for new 26 pound feather bed and six pound pair pillows freight prepaid Turner and Cornwell feather dealers Charlotte North Carolina. Five varieties recleaned sound peas testing 9 percent germinating well packed reasonable price sample if desired J B Coulter Connelly Springs North Carolina.

Automobile Exchange West Broad Street Richmond Turner and Cornwell Charlotta N. C J. B. Coulter Connelly Springs

Percheron and Belgians for Sale by C A Alexander Co

Brood mares and fillies offered for sale at all times with registered stock. Acclimated stock claimed and priced as the cheapest in the East or South. Contact C A Alexander Company Harriston Augusta County.

C. A Alexander , Co Harriston Augusta, Co

Potatoes Flood Norfolk Market as Barges Fill With Bounty

Commissioner Koliner reports a sight of bat toe potatoes arriving by boat to Norfolk. Steamers load to the waterline as barrels are packed, with estimates of 10,000 barrels per trip. Last year truckers shipped about 2,000,000 barrels and this year prices push toward flooding the market, starting around five dollars a barrel before easing.

Koliner Department of Agriculture Norfolk

Forty Niner Dies at Old Age in Washington

Major James J. Gordon pioneer forty-niner Indian fighter miner and railroad builder died at his residence 1600 Sixteenth Street Northwest after a period of illness and senile decay He was born in Scotland and became known across the nation Survived by daughter Alice Gertrude Gordon funeral at St Thomas Church

Washington, D. C James J. Gordon Sixteenth Street Northwest Gordon Washington Major Gordon Alice Gertrude Gordon New York City Cincinnati Chesapeake and Ohio Richmond Norfolk West Virginia St. Thomas’ Church

Glancing Bullet from Rabid Dog Injures Woman in Newark

In Newark New Jersey a bullet grazed Mrs Costolina Pastino injuring her scalp as a rabid dog was killed nearby Doctors say hydrophobia transmission risk exists though the wound is minor Officials traced the dog to Branch Brook Park where it was seen frothing at the mouth before being shot by Patrolman Walter Clarkson The dog carried through the skull a bullet that then lodged in a door frame and Mrs Pastino remains under observation for potential rabies infection

Newark N. J Costolina Pastino Eighth Avenue Clarkson Joseph Belino Frank Mancusianeare Mrs. Daruine Reme

Senate Delays Vote on Canadian Reciprocity Bill

Washington June 23 The Senate Finance Committee divisions and threats to amend the reciprocity bill with wool sugar cotton and steel measures blocked a vote on the Canadian reciprocity measure. Penrose called a Finance Committee meeting resulting in adverse reports on the Wood bill and the farmers free list bill, signaling a tough tariff revision phase ahead.

Washington, D. C Senate Committee On Finance Senate Penrose Finance Committee Taft Canada

Real estate man badly hurt in Lynchburg runaway

Samuel FF Poindexter prominent Lynchburg real estate man was thrown from his carriage during a runaway night. He sustained a fractured skull three broken ribs and a fractured left shoulder. At Hygela Hospital today he has regained consciousness and his condition is favorable.

Lynchburg Samuel FF. Poindexter Hygela

Murder Near Stuart Tied to Triple Attack on Inscore Kin

In Stuart Virginia a week ago a brutal killing has been clarified. Sam Greenwood, involved in the assault, is jailed at Mt. Airy North Carolina while Ernest and Marshall Lynch flee justice. The attack followed a baptizing gathering and ended when John Inscore was shot through the heart as he led a wagon pursuit. The coroner’s inquest cites a pistol wound from one of the lynch party or Greenwood.

Stuart Here Sam Greenwood Mt. Airy N. C Ernest Marshall Lynch Lynch Greenwood Inscore John Inscore Lynches

Richmond Inspector Fined for Attempted Kiss on Woman

In Richmond Virginia a telephone inspector R C Miller on West Broad Street paid a $50 fine and went to a $100 bond for twelve months after being charged with insulting a young woman on Robinson Street. Detective-Sergeant Jack Wiltshire said Miller’s actions endangered the girl and Miller denied the charge as Justice Crutchfield sentenced him after hearing the evidence. Miller was arrested following actions by the girl’s brothers and relatives who sought him after the incident.

Richmond R. C. Miller West Broad Street Jack Wiltshire Miller Justice Crutchfield Crutchfield Wiltshire Citzen West End Trate Ung

Can't Cook Man Shouldn’t Wed Says Judge Goodnow

Chicago special. Municipal Judge Goodnow, a reported good chef, urges that a man who cannot cook should not marry. He cites a case where a wife rose at 3 30 A M to prepare breakfast and says the engaged man must handle morning meals. He praises domestic skill and mocks mamma boys.

Chicago Goodnow Judge Goodnow

Giant merger ruled legal by circuit courts

Edward H Harriman's merger of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads was declared not a restraint of trade by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in St Louis and St Paul. The court noted that post 1901 rates remained equal on both lines and service remained unimpaired with no shipper complaints.

St, Paul, Minn Edward H. Harriman Union Pacific Southern Pacific United States Circuit Court of Appeals St. Louis St. Paul Minn

Railroad Monopolies Alleged in Harriman Case

The government argues no conspiracy to monopolize trade existed among railroads but cites trade maneuvers by unions of lines controlled by Harriman. It details stock ties to Santa Fe Great Northern San Pedro and alleged traffic allocations and anti competitive practices. Special investigations in Chicago gathered testimony on freight routes and competition, with Roosevelt’s clash over the case noted.

Union Pacific Company Santa Fe Road Denver and Rio Grande Huntington Northern Pacific Company Southern Pacific Bnl Harriman United States United States Circuit Court District of Utah Hiram E. Booth Chicago Ralph MecKengzle Department of Justice Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Santa Fe Great Northern San Pedro Clark Oregon Harrman Oriental Steamship Line San Diego Harbor Orient San Francisco Pacific Coast Kohlsant G. Williams Union Pacific

Cigarette Paper Made From Flax and Hemp Trimmings

Scientific American describes cigarette paper as light and non toxic, made from flax and hemp trimmings rather than rice. The pulp is washed, bleached, and refined to pure paper fiber, produced with new materials and artesian water, with French makers dominating global supply.

Austria Italy Scientific American

Clark May Run for President in 1912 Nomination

Champ Clark writes to editors in his district that he is a receptive candidate for the Democratic nomination in 1912. He states he is not a candidate and may never be, but regards the mere mention as an honor and adds he shall not run after the nomination.

Montgomery Ula Champ Clark

Liquor Dealers Win Decision In Express Weight Case

The Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association won a ruling from the Interstate Commerce Commission ordering express companies to stop using arbitrary liquor package weights. Previously shipments were weighed by size rather than actual weight, according to the dealers.

Interstate Commerce Comission

A Wise Man. Neighbor and Clubman Visit

A neighbor and Clubman speak in a tense exchange. The neighbor’s bell rings late as the clubman pleads to prove he was at Frau Schmidt’s home at 10 o’clock to be allowed back into the club. The fragment captures social friction and a request for credibility.

Frau Schmidt

Brave Priest Dinnen Fights Attackers At Battery Park

In New York the Rev Father Joseph D Dinnen of St Peters Church acted as policeman and surgeon when he encountered a six foot negro fleeing with a razor in Battery Park. He wrestled the man away, aided by bystanders and police, and administered first aid and last rites to Alexaner Dirroewicz who was wounded. Two other longshoremen, John Dombrusi and a third unnamed man, suffered injuries in the confrontation as they pursued the suspect Tucker.

New York Joseph D. Dinnen St. Peter’s Church Barclay Street Battery Park Alexander Dirroewicz Father Dinnen John Dombrusi John Tucker

Maniac Wields Knife in Brooklyn Attacks

A maniacal assailant slashed three victims in Brooklyn early today, injuring night watchman George Kubish, Greene Street resident Michael Pilly, and Anthony Cammarati. All three describe the suspect as a 22 year old man resembling a mad killer, prompting a citywide search.

New York Brooklyn Eeaes George Kubish Kubish Michael Pilly Greene Street Pilly Williamsburg Hospital Anthony Cammarati

Wreck reporting rule for railroads by July first

Washington Special reports that after July 1 all common carriers must telegraph to the Interstate Commerce Commission every wreck or disaster immediately. The order aims to aid investigations into wreck causes, especially railway incidents, and to improve safety.

Interstate Commerce Commission Washington, D. C Commission

Seamen Return To Work After Wage Concession

Southampton dispatch reports Royal Mail Steamers Union and Castle crews have returned to work as the company concedes the sailors wage demands. The long Royal Mail marine strike is now practically over.

Southampton England Royal Mail Union and Castle

French Cabinet Resigns Over Army Row in Paris

The French Cabinet organized by Premier Monis resigned today amid a row with the army in Paris. Details about the dispute and the cabinet’s plans for successor government were not provided.

Army Paris Special Monis

Virginia Hotel Adverts Richmond Virginia Plan Meal Rates

The advertisement promotes The Guerrant at Main and Third Streets Richmond Virginia offering high class accommodations with quality cuisine and service at moderate prices. Cars at door to depot and all points of interest. Terms include meals two dollars per day. J W Bell Proprietor.

Richmond J. W. Bell

Auction of War Minister Gourin’s Command Vote in Chamber

The Chamber of Deputies rejected a motion endorsing Minister of War Gourin’s supremacy claim, with 27 votes against the Cabinet. The article then shifts to a critique titled Why Our Literature Is Growling Worse, arguing standards are lower, demand for essays and fiction is inflated, and publishing has become too commercialized.

Chamber of Deputies Gourin

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