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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1911
Page
8
Advertisements promise quick barber trade education with wages after month and guaranteed steady positions. Also offers farm and country home financing at low interest through Davidson in Richmond. Hair goods supplier Hughes lists Paris fashion items and custom hair creations in Richmond.
A statewide recruitment by American National Life Insurance Company seeks intelligent men for teaching positions in each county in Virginia with lucrative employment. Lynchburg address provided for applications.
Pure bred Percheron and Bel gian stallions, bread mares and fillies offered for sale at all times. All stock registered and declimated. Claimed to be the cheapest in the East or South. A. Alexander & Co., Harriston, Augusta Co., Virginia.
A collection of editorials contrasts Woodrow Wilson’s progressive concrete measures with reactionary Democratic factions. It cites initiative referendums recall and public utilities control as core aims, questions party loyalty, and notes Tacoma’s commission government and recall in action.
Governor Glasscock of West Virginia calls for an extraordinary session to pass an act establishing primary elections for party nominations to public office including United States Senator. The note contrasts with Virginia which already holds primaries for candidate selection.
Live agents desired for a radium spray project at a Richmond laboratory located on N Seventh Street. Contact details show the Monroe 1993 phone line for inquiries and recruitment.
Virginia headlines alarm over unregulated party primaries with calls for a strong primary election law. The Charlottesville Progress urges candidates to show concrete positions on constitutional reforms, taxation, liquor, schools, and judicialCrevlte, while noting dangers from unregulated party control. Also critiques Richmond automobilist safety and voter manipulation rumors, urging clean governance and accountability.
Veteran Nap pitcher Cy Young is seriously ill at the Colonial Hotel in Cleveland with bronchitis. He was taken ill ten days ago with a cold that worsened and spread to his lungs, leaving him confined to bed since last Thursday.
In Harrisonburg Virginia Piney Hollow in east Rockingham was quarantined for smallpox. Buster Shiflett, who had a pronounced case, reportedly broke quarantine and is at large, feared to be spreading germs around the county.
Hundreds panic as a bomb explodes in the doorway of Francisco Scopellitti's grocery at 43744 Fast Twelfth Street. The blast wrecks the storefront, injures three bakers, and sends residents from a five story building into the street. Scopellitti reports threats demanding money previously ignored.
In Lebanon Tennessee Frank Buchanan is jailed and charged with the murder of his brother Robert after a dispute during a horse trade. He allegedly shot him last night and was taken into custody today.
An advertisement promotes aseptic eye salves for infection prevention. It notes eye ointments and murine liquid products in new sizes and quantities, marketed as eye books and tubes for medical use.
A leaking gas tank ignited by a fogman caused a fire in the Florence to Richmond Pullman on Atlantic Coast Line train No. 86 at Rocky Mount about 1 30 this morning. Passenger J. Probstein of New York city died. Flagman J C Rust and Mail Clerk W F Treland were wounded and in hospital. Ten sleepers awakened and evacuated with three women and four girls unharmed. Probstein, a salesman for M Finkelstein & Son, resided at 201 West One Hundred and Eleventh Street New York.
Atlantic Coast Line train No. 86 derailed after coupling failure in the Gamble's Hill tunnel. Conductor Cannon narrowly escaped death as he leaped from a baggage car door. Engineer Faulkner and others survived. four Des Moines travelers flee a car fire near Rocky Mount and stay at the Jefferson Hotel.
A sleeper car fire near Rocky Mount killed one man and burned the coach, as the Rocky Mount fire department contained the blaze and passengers were moved to another Pullman. The incident disrupted travel two hours, with doctors attending the wounded and railway officials assisting survivors.
In Mexico City the government, sensing southern rebel threats, asks for 15000 volunteers while Morelos and Guerrero fall to rebel control. Only 4000 troops stand for defense of the capital. The War Department warns an attack could succeed. Rebels siege Iguala with 600 recruits ordered to reinforce.
Jose Vasconcelos, head of the revolutionary Junta in Washington, reports from General Madero’s camp in Chihuahua that Madero has agreed to a five day extension of the armistice with the Diaz Government. He says terms may be announced within three weeks.
Washington reports that Special Ambassador Zamacona received advices from Mexico City stating the Mexican Federal Government agreed to a five day extension of the armistice with the revolutionista.
In Bristol Virginia Ingle Jennings, a son-in-law of George Wolfe a wealthy Speers Ferry merchant in Scott County, killed himself with a pistol at his home Wednesday evening. He reportedly gave a reason for the act before dying. The burial occurred at Gate City yesterday.
In Augusta county near Staunton, Roy Sellers eighteen was blown to pieces while digging for holes to plant apple trees in J. E. Sheets orchard. Henry Shaver was hurt but not seriously, Tom Burford escaped unharmed. Survivors cannot explain how the accidental dynamite discharge occurred.
In Boston 84 Purchase Street building fire caused 75000 dollars damage with two alarms. Elevator boy Caesar Gustadh guided the Hardin Shoe Company top-floor employees to safety, preventing a panic among about 300 workers. no one was injured. In Charleston, a jury acquitted Marcellus Penn of killing his wife and Taylor Randolph, citing unwritten law.
Special dispatch notes a holy war proclaimed by native tribes against foreigners in Morocco. Tribesmen pour into the revolt as France fights to subdue them and preserve Sultan Mulai Hafid’s power. Reports variously claim Colonel Bremond killed or safe in Fez and Captain Boisset killed in battle with forces under Shereff Mulai Ali.
Two Sullins College girls and two King College students eloped after leaving campus with notes they would return home. Samuel Wood wed Eula Mae Gavin and Kent Kane wed Anna Harris in a Church Hill Tennessee ceremony as authorities pursued by auto. All four teens are under nineteen with families contacted after the overnight elopement from Alabama and Florida.
An official Chicago Record-Herald report shows the section foreman laboring over a form on the killing of a cow struck by No. 64. The final question asks disposition of the animal, to which he replied that the cow was kind and gentle.
Buenos Aires reports say floods after five days are subsiding. Government officials receive brief briefings as districts reopen. Over 100 bodies found so far with the death toll expected to rise beyond five hundred.
Bluefield West Virginia reports that Thomas Chafin, killer of Matteawan Chief of Police Music and Mayor Hoskins, was shot dead by a pursuing posse last night after being located by authorities.
The steamship Mauretania reached New York from Liverpool after a northwest gale on April 26 battered the vessel, forcing reduced speed and keeping passengers below decks during portions of the voyage.
A large lot of Mammoth Kentucky Jacks Jenners and mules available for sale. Buy direct and save the speculator's profit. Write today for details to Joe E. Wright in Junction City Kentucky or Branch Barn Rocky Mount North Carolina. Manager and salesman H. M. Avant.
Real estate brief notes prices in Richmond have bottomed out, with buyers urged to act as market conditions show potential for favorable deals and renewed interest from investors and homeowners alike.
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