09 May 1907
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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1907
Page
1
A string of brisk maxims critiques earned rewards and human foibles. It mocks doctors fees, price selling integrity, and tolls on success while lampooning egotists, deceit, and marital witticisms with a sharp, ironic tone.
Fragmentary chatter from a motorist downplays injuries after a collision. The exchange notes survival and continued life, reflecting casual dismissiveness of harm in a tense moment.
William Ellis Corey head of the United States Steel Corp presented his mother bonds worth 250000. The marriage to former actress Mabelle Gilman is set as the couple announces their plans for May 13.
The British steamer Westgate arrived at Plymouth carrying survivors of the tank steamer Silverslip, destroyed by benzine explosion. Four crew killed and four burned. the engineer among the dead.
Hongkong bulletin reports a Sunpowder magazine blast in Canton causing at least 21 deaths and hundreds injured. Fifteen buildings were razed, more than 100 damaged, a 200 foot section of the city wall fell, and many shops and homes were demolished. The incident struck the Shamien suburb where foreigners dwell. The magazine officer was among the dead, a pipe found in his hand suggesting a possible cause. City walls and pagoda descriptions follow with catastrophic financial losses.
In Charleston West Virginia a Whipple Mines explosion trapped 11 workers. 3 died and 4 severely burned with 4 others entombed and likely dead. The mine owned by Dixon interests employed 94. 53 escaped through a second shaft while 11 were accounted for as dead wounded or missing.
Train No. 716 on the Baltimore and Ohio northbound flyer derailed at Pleasant View 40 miles below Parkersburg at 3 30 with speed about 50 mph. About 20 injured, three or four may die. relief train reached scene by 8 PM and several moved to St Joseph's Hospital. Cause cited as a bad rail. three coaches rolled into an embankment. no crew injuries.
Charles J. Steedman of New York and Philadelphia, son of the late Rear Admiral Steedman, shot himself at the Hotel de Orient in Paris. He and his wife, daughter of a former Rhode Island governor, had arrived April 30 from Italy after touring in a Rhode Island license plate equipped automobile.
F W Wertheimer owner of the Fairfax Hotel in Norfolk Virginia was found dead in his room at the Hotel York 36th Street and Seventh Avenue New York with a bullet wound to the right side of his head. The revolver used lay in his right hand.
Madrid reports Infanta Maria Teresa may have contracted measles from her husband Infante Ferdinand who was recently struck by the illness. Both are isolated from the royal family as Spain watches for the spread within the court. Maria Teresa is King Alfonso XIIIs sister and the sole royal sister in the family.
In Galveston special news, 13 year old Mary Sanderman was freed from Gustavo Sanderson after he chained her ankle to a wagon and drove for nearly six miles. Neighbors heard the tale and cut the rope to free her.
After a Southern Produce Exchange conference, forecasts show April’s extreme cold slowed early truck shipments to the North, East and West. Frosts caused heavy damage in the southern trucking region, while clouds and winds kept strawberries, fruit, and other crops in better shape.
A quirky medley of hypothetical fortunes and quantities explores if money saved by American women and the 24 737 farmers and laborers divided 1 cent would yield votes and values far beyond Vermont. The piece weaves absurd stats about camels, stogies, nurses, and ice, tying them to imagined quantities and distances across places like Mayville and the Gold Coast.
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