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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1908
Page
4
The Well-Informed demand a safe effective liquid laxative. California Fig Syrup Co. offers Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a known value laxative. Physicians can sanction for family use. Buy genuine from California Fig Syrup Co. price fifty cents per bottle.
A Newark church benefited fivefold from a woman's coerced involvement in a payroll padding scheme from twenty years ago. The unnamed tailor worker received one extra dollar weekly, half going to the ringleader. she left after two weeks. Her pastor urged returning the money to Kraft's widow, who refused, with Mrs. Kraft proposing the funds be donated to the church.
A vintage advertorial promotes Hicks Capuchine as a liquid remedy for women’s monthly pains backache nervousness and headache. Claims immediate relief with 10c 25c and 50c sizes available at drug stores.
The article explains hatpins as prized gift items worn in pairs on hats. It praises rhinestone crystal globes for weather resistance and color harmony, notes Dresden china pins as artful but careful, and warns fake jewel pins can detach and cause injury when stepped on.
A London Globe item reports a grim epitaph in Debresein Hungary detailing a sequence of killings within the Moritz family. Joseph Moritz senior is shot by his son, his wife by her daughter, and the daughter by her own hand after killing her mother. the son dies in prison. The family left £1500 for a memorial.
Quirky exchange cited from Les Annales Paris with a cabman claiming he must uphold the Society for the Protection of Animals causing a delay before a request for a tip. The anecdote highlights humorous conflict between animal protection and taxi service expectations.
Local reader describes years of languor headaches and digestion issues tied to coffee. After switching to Postum Food Coffee she notes dramatic improvement and cites friends also benefiting from quitting coffee.
Dr Romme presents a statistical theory asserting that the weaker parent determines a child’s sex. He argues his data reveal a natural law guiding sex ratio and cites supporting observations.
London reports Dr Romme's statistics claim a child resembles the weaker parent, with 105 to 106 girls per 100 boys in most countries. After great wars the pattern shifts as strongest men go to the front. Observations link parental age gaps to the sex ratio and cite cases involving Kaiser Wilhelm and the Czarina.
Danish inventor Hans Knudsen demonstrates long distance wireless photography and claims to have perfected a wireless typesetting system that can set 2000 words an hour from London to Paris. He envisions London news desks sending copy to printing presses via Marconi and plans to transmit criminal fingerprints to New York.
London clergy and doctors at the Psycho Therapeutic Society argued excessive talking wastes vital energy and causes nervous disorders. A vicar claimed great talkers act as energy draining vampires while silent people are less prone to illness. They suggested silent rooms in hospitals for rest.
Twenty women organize as the Art Craft Colony to settle on government irrigation lands in the West. Funds allow entry on 160 acres per member and the group includes dressmaking, millinery, metalworking professionals and those farming and raising poultry.
A Tokyo visitor lauds American girls as the best in the world. Mary McGhee Snell Hall, noted lecturer and evangelist, dies at Talafarrias Texas. Mrs Charles Lever learns in Paris that her New York brothers sued her for seventy six thousand dollars for breach of promise. A Vienna dispatch reports Count Gisycki, married to the Tribune publisher’s daughter, has sued for ah a.
Mme Emma Schnell, famed circus tamer, seeks to found a lion breeding farm near San Jose to supply circuses and menageries. County farmers protest, though she argues the valley’s climate is ideal and the lions would thrive. The Supervisors’ stance is pending.
Roseben debuted season with a fourth place finish. Harvard beat Annapolis in lacrosse 7 to 1. Automobilists back Briarcliff trophy race as an annual event. London’s coaching season opened by Sencon Martinez de Hoz witnessed by A G Vandebil t in an Italian Isotta car won the Briarc race.
Weather conditions hinder distributive trade with quiet nationwide business. Jobbing trades slow and orders scarce while manufacturers delay stockpiling. Textile curtailment persists and iron and steel show little change with price drop talk. Railcar idle totals rise and exports improve for cereals amid cautious outlook. US weekly business failures total 282 for week ending April 30.
Market notes show firmer spot wheat and corn with firm oats in New York futures, including No 2 red and No 1 Northern Duluth. Philadelphia and Baltimore reports list mixed to steady prices for wheat corn oats butter eggs and cheese with regional variations and assorted delivery terms.
New York reports beef and veal steady to firm with moderate demand and high calf prices. Sheep and lambs sell steady with unclipped and Jersey lambs noted. hogs up on Buffalo signals. Chicago cattle and hogs steady to higher with strong arrivals. calves and stockers show mixed bids while sheep ease slightly.
Report notes the postal savings bank of Japan holds over 45 million in deposits. It cites John Barnes as possessing the best working library among English MPs. Manchuria receives about 1000 daily cable messages from Japan, with a likely doubling of cables. Swiss crematories store urns for ashes in multiple facilities.
W L Nesbitt of Depot Street Marion Kentucky writes that after years of kidney trouble and near paralysis from swelling he was given no hope. Using Deans Kidney Pills for three months he recovered enough to return to work. Sold by all dealers at 60 cents a bar Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The Philadelphia Telegraph comments on courtship and marriage, noting women dodge a kiss, men resent managing money, and wives display little originality in romantic matters despite experience. The piece reflects a satirical view of gender roles in domestic life.
A kind old gentleman asks what the boy learned. The boy replies he learned to climb and has already climbed every tree by the roadside in search of birds eggs. The exchange appears as a brief nostalgic vignette from the Chicago News.
A courtroom exchange reveals a contentious defense tone and a biting witness remark about the defendant. The dialogue reflects sharp humor and cross examination style within a Chicago Tribune anecdote.
Advice on avoiding adulterated paint ingredients notes how to test white lead and linseed oil with a blowpipe and cites National Lead Company offerings. The piece also notes unexploited Siberian mammoth remains as a commercial resource and reports Canada’s foreign trade for 11 months ending February 29, 1908, at 589,755,974 with a rise over 1906-07.
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and cites testimonials from F Cheney Co Toledo and Kinman Marvin. It notes Hall's product reaches blood and mucous surfaces and promotes 75 cent bottles. Also mentions Consul Frank W. Mann of Nottingham reporting coal output up 4,000,000 tons in 1907, a quarter of the kingdom's gain.
The army of Terah, King of Ethi opia, encamps with 1,000,000 soldiers and 300 chariots of war, signaling a formidable military force in the region.
Mrs Jenkins tracks down her friend Mrs Brady amid rumors. Mrs Brady says she works hard to pay a 40 shillings fine for keeping the peace after pulling her husband’s whiskers, as ordered by a magistrate.
A novel means of measuring moon light uses a selenium cell whose resistance varies with light intensity. It finds full moon light at about 0.21 candlepower and about three times the half moon, with the gibbous disc brighter before than after full Moon. The method is not color perfect but indicates lunar eclipse timing within one minute.
A Backwoods suitor escorts Miss Bumpkin to a weekly prayer meeting and, after stifled conversation, risks asking if she enjoys stewed rabbit. Silence returns until they reach home when he asks if the gravy is nice, prompting bemused commentary on rural chatter.
A method to keep jars airtight after sealing involves coating the corked container with a mixture of beeswax and rosin. Melt two ounces of yellow beeswax and four ounces of rosin in a double boiler, stir until blended, and apply while liquid to the outside of the corked jar.
A quoted exchange shows the author agreeing to a production while demanding caution. The manager proposes signing a paper authorizing dialogue rewrite and character changes, including a name change, to avoid misunderstandings. Le Rira is referenced as the speaker.
A Garfield Digestive Tablets advertisement from the Tea Co of Brooklyn urges readers to consider the burden of paying on an easy payment plan and questions the practicality of such offers.
A historical ad recounts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for women's illnesses. It cites Mrs. Bertha Muff of Louisiana Missouri who suffered for twelve years, sought medical help, wrote to Mrs Pinkham, used the compound and advice, and restored health and strength, claiming the product is worth mountains of gold to suffering women.
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