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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1910
Page
8
A reader-provided fragment cites a New York Times Women s League for Right Living placard urging proper seating etiquette and cleaner behavior on transit. The text also includes a mix of comic verse and children’s quiz dialogue from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, with references to Practical Poesy and simple arithmetic for Willie.
A fragmented passage shows a diarist mentioning Pepys and a girl discussing palmistry with humorous asides. The text includes stray lines about recipes, beards, buttons, and feathers, with odd phrasing and nonsensical exchanges.
The speaker calls a friend a fair weather companion who habitually borrows items. The pattern shows resentment as the friend not only asks for money but also borrows several umbrellas, highlighting strain in their relationship.
Patrons anticipate the Virginia Racing and Horse Show Association event featuring eight to ten daily classes with top roadsters jumpers and hunters. Notables include Charles Whitlock W 3 Forbes and James Andrews stables. The program blends extensive horse show action with fast racing including entries like King Adworid and Madison Square Garden champions. Local names W C Saunders J T Temple and W M Parrish Jr. are pictured with a broad Virginia and southern entries. The Virginia State Fair pacing and trotting purses of 500 to 1000 are noted with leading horses such as Red Prodigal and Earlwood highlighted among juvenile and open classes.
Rescue workers using oxygen helmets pushed into the Fales Coal and Coke mine No 3 at Valos Alabama as 40 bodies were recovered by 9 A.M. The blast inflicted extensive, non identifying damage and authorities fear the death toll may reach well above 160 with recoveries potentially lasting months.
A fragment notes a character calling someone pretty shrewd and recounts a jest about a jot of idle. After a dozen colleagues confer degrees, the phrase blue factory appears, cited in Kansas City.
A collage of quoted witticisms and verses including light humorous vignettes, poems, and brief quips. It features social banter, depictions of gender roles, and playful roguish lines attributed to various era magazines and papers, reflecting early 20th century wit and sentiment.
In Virginia reports Republican State Senator J M Parsons of Grayson may retire from politics and focus on business, a claim doubted by Democrats who suspect ambitions for more office. A Democratic convention at Rocky Mount, Franklin County, on June 16 will nominate a candidate for Congress, with Judge Saunders likely to face no opposition.
Market report lists poultry prices for live chickens and live hens, spring chickens, and various meat products. Includes crates, washed and unwashed meats, hams, shoulders, lard, and hides. Also notes fruits and vegetables with prices for apples, lemons, peas, beans, and grains, plus seed goods and dried fruits. Specific prices shown for many items including Chickens, Turkeys, Crates, and assorted produce.
A facetious traveling salesman asks a Central Branch conductor how often his read kills a mant. The conductor answers simply Just once in a sour tone.
A press humorist quips that he uses many old witticisms yet limits his automobile jokes to 1910 models, implying a nostalgic restraint in his humor. The exchange hints at timing and technique in comedic writing.
A compact fragment from a periodical page collects verse by William Struthers with a joke about lullabies. It juxtaposes a moral couplet about guarding love with a quip on a composer and a publisher. The piece ends with a brief humor note in a subsequent column.
A playful exchange from the New York Evening Telegram features a quick quarrel about declarations of love and nerve. The lines contrast sudden affection with bold audacity in a light, dramatic tone.
The piece contrasts cheap orchids at a dime with high priced ones, noting orchids at a dollar create demand while cut-rate terrapin remains out of reach. It wryly argues merit lies in price and markets react to cost.
A nostalgic exchange recalls songs from the early days of a father figure and a story of a woman wearing a gold hoop engagement ring. The narrator notes a regrettable moment yet acknowledges the beauty of the engagement display.
William M. Fogarty recounts a good old Irish woman whose son plans a voyage around the world. She fears dangers ahead yet finds peace until he departs. A neighbor consoles her, but she laments that though he can go around the world he may not be able to return home.
A collage of 19th century reflections on women's roles cites The Chicago Post and Harper's Magazine. It contrasts praise of beauty with debates on capability, quoting De Quincey and Alden, and notes social limits echoed by a Detroit Free Press editorial. It also riffs on independence and fashion with a dash of humor about perfume.
Baltimore racing notes report Master John a top two year old killed in a third race accident at Pimlico. The colt reared, fell backward, was pronounced dead from a broken back behind the dorsal vertebrae. Palms escaped injury. Palms had rode the favorite before the fatal fall. The race crowd pondered superstition tied to the dam Boo doo and the owner David Dunlop.
A reader in New York cites a bookseller saying Bible prices rose fifteen percent due to a tariff increase from twenty five to forty percent. The note asks what a joker means and where tariff hikes end, attributing the claim to President Taft’s revision.
A bride’s father gives an unusual wedding gift, an order on the butcher for twenty four pounds of sirloin steak, followed by a string of quick exchanges about domestic life and manners. The items highlight humorous social quips and a touch of newsroom wit from the period.
A Cleveland Leader joke questions English postfenestuaftien and admits knowing less about the American dilto. The quip hinges on wordplay and rural linguistic humor. The line reflects period humor and local newspaper voice.
A provocative piece in the Philadelphia Record explores coping with blindness and night loss by adopting a practical path such as securing employment as a chauffeur. The discussion imagines resilience and adaptation through work.
Richmond Va markets show bid ranges for corn oats and grains with No 2 red and white options and bag lot specifications. Prices listed include No 2 white corn No 3 white oats and varied bag lot figures across grades and providers.
In a Chicago Tribune snippet, Maria reveals cyps were placed in the attic behind an old trunk with a package of chewing gum. John is told to bring both items down, signaling a domestic moment captured in brief.
In a brief Boston Tran script scene a speaker praises his cousin’s natural complexion as the most beautiful in the world. Jealous reply questions how such beauty could be known without seeing it, highlighting a witty contrast.
A humorous Success Magazine snippet features a German maid recounting advice to Susie Jones about starting high school. The maid says Latin is fading, so she advised choosing German to study.
London reports say King Edward died of cancer despite official denials. Public belief centers on a royal family taint, with a chronic throat ailment blamed for postponing his coronation and triggering pneumonia that led to death.
The Chicago Evening Post notes that last year’s best sellers fade from memory while enduring artists outshine them. Richard Harding Davis and Robert W. Chambers are cited as prosperous yet quickly forgotten, with only William Allen White praised as a genuine revelation of life and art in American fiction.
Elizabeth Elliott, a schoolgirl featured in St Nicholas, enjoys a mix of classical drama, symphonies, and lively shows. She studies Latin and algebra, keeps up physical culture, plays basketball, dances, and attends museums, concerts, and the Hippodrome with a comrade, while loving Kipling and Dickens.
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