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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1907
Page
4
A reader from North Carolina shares relief after stomach trouble and fatigue using Dr Hart Bevin and Peruna. The letter claims strong improvement and urges others with similar symptoms to try Peruna based on her positive result. The note suggests many similar letters exist in the physician's files.
Summary of 106 pages by John A. Henneberry covering five years in Jerome’s DA office. Records show 23 111 complaints from magistrates courts and 4 850 from the complaint bureau. From 1901 to 1906 there were 19 murder in the first degree appeals with 13 affirmations and 2 reversals.
Anisia Louise de Massy titled baroness was sentenced by Justice Blanchard to seven years and five months imprisonment for the murder of Gus tav Simon, a shirtwaist manufacturer. Circumstantial evidence showed she visited Simon's office to demand money, was refused, and within minutes three pistol shots occurred. She walked six flights of stairs, was arrested, and admitted to witnesses at St Vincent's Hospital that she shot him.
Staten Island ministers vow to end Sunday baseball and sacred concerts to keep the Sabbath strict. They threaten closing major plants like Milliken steel works and Proctor & Gamble Soap Works if their campaign succeeds.
Edward Benson a 17 year old machinist apprentice of 1575 Avenue A was killed at 614 East Eighty Third Street while timing automobile bolts on a lathe. A falling bolt brushed by a rapidly revolving shaft. a screw caught his shirt at the neck and drove through a vertebra at the base of the brain.
Little Tim Sullivan offers $20,000 cash that Mayor McClelland has nothing to fear from the recount bill and a recount will not show a variance of 500 votes from official returns. He maintains the election was straight and Hearst supporters misstate the result.
Dr Thomas H Darlington president of the New York Board of Health and brother of the Harrisburg bishop fainted at an Episcopal Laity Club banquet in Sunbury Pennsylvania. He received stimulants, revived, and was said to be exhausted but fully recovered.
A Bloomfield eel caught alive in a stream carried a silver spoon of Colonial pattern in its belly. The spoon bore no initials G W. Inside the eel also were old copper cents and a lead bullet likely used as a fishline sinker for a musket of T6.
An Odd report notes a cat of Abyssinian lineage receives three ceremonial washes at birth marriage and death while avoiding soap otherwise. The piece adds beer production figures for Germany UK and US in 1905 and cites theater activity in New York City with about 15 new plays monthly. It also mentions alcohol revenues sharing over a quarter of treasury receipts and a pioneer vicar salary of $2,600.
F G Dun and Co Weekly Review says spring merchandise distribution rose but remains slow with stock to be carried. Confidence holds despite wheat price spikes and crop rumors, while warm weather and rains aid grain and cotton. Manufacturing keeps steady with wage gains and better mercantile collections. textiles show firmness in cotton goods due to higher raw material costs and improved demand.
Baltimore markets show Wheat at 88 90c per bushel for Southern sample and Western unsettled May at 98%c spot 99% July 100%. Corn eases spot May 59% 60% July 61% with mixed No 2 prices around 47 49c. Rye No 2 Western export 78 79c domestic 70 71. Eggs steady with Maryland Pennsylvania and nearby firsts 15%4c per dozen. Western firsts 16c. Butter firm western creamery 24% 25c. Cheese steady. New York quotes No 2 red wheat 1.03% elevator 1.04 afloat. corn 63c elevator. oats 49 51c. Philadelphia prices show butter 24% 25c. eggs 16% 16% with large receipts. Live poultry prices listed for spring chickens 30c, fowls 15c, turkeys 14c.
Chicago cattle steady with steers $4.50 to $6.60, heifers $3.15 to $5.50, cows $3.40 to $5.26, bulls $3.50 to $4.75, calves $3.00 to $5.75, stockers $3.00 to $5.25. Hogs weak to 5c lower. choice heavy shipping $6.40 to $6.45, light butchers $6.45 to $6.55, mixed $6.40 to $6.45. New York dressed beef steady. sheep and lambs steady with lambs slight dip. Clipped sheep $5.50 to $5.76, clipped lambs $7.90 to $8.20. Pittsburgh cattle steady. prime $5.70 to $5.85, select $5.90 to $6.00. sheep slow, prime wethers $6.15 to $6.25, culls $2.50 to $4.00, lambs $5.00 to $7.85, veal $7.00 to $7.25. Hogs active. prime heavy $6.60, mediums $6.75, heavy Yorkers $6.75 to $6.77, light Yorkers and pigs $6.85 to $6.90, roughs $5.00 to $5.75.
The items cover telegraphy by wire predating Morse, a 66 percent sheep loss for Germany from 1878 to 1904, Argentine competition impact, the 1699 Society of Assurance for Widows and Orphans in London, breakdowns on ocean liner trips, a Chattanooga case with Lifia Parker arrest over a suspended brother, and an aviation note about a plane for Jamestown.
A detailed 19th century overview explains the fly Musca domestica origin, egg to larva to pupa to adult in under ten days, habitat around manure, seasonal behavior, hibernation, and how heat humidity and parasites affect development, highlighting its role in disease transmission and the need for pest control.
Rear Admiral Mead at Portsmouth Navy Yard dinner tells a tale about food inspection. A sailor jokes a tin cup is tasted by an inspecting officer who remarks the soup is not bad, provoking a complaint that it is tea. The Washington Star notes the irony in the exchange.
A reporter asks Senator Tillman about an opponent's speech. Tillman answers with a quip comparing it to a fine bottle of champagne, prompting the reporter to murmur a reaction.
The readable lines describe uncertainty about rules on smoking and reference names and places loosely. The text appears damaged, with garbled phrases and missing context, limiting a precise summary or identification of event or source.
Prof S J Holmes from Washington government research labs argues that much physiology knowledge stems from frog study. Frogs have long served as a foundational model in biology, inspiring Huxley and numerous works. Recent findings note frogs host parasites and even become hypnotic subjects in experiments.
Dean's Kidney Pills advertised as the cure for backache by improving kidney health. John C. Coleman of Swainsboro Ga testifies kidney and back pain improved quickly with lasting relief. Sold by dealers for 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
In a Philadelphia Press line, Chol ly confronts Miss Pepprey claiming she said Gussie Laphead and he were great chums. She corrects the slip, saying she meant chumps, not chums, clarifying the misunderstanding.
Fragmentary moral musings mix with advertising blurbs for nervous disease cures and patent remedies. The notes reference Dr H R Kline’s nerve restorer and a Brooklyn Health Purifying tea product, alongside social zingers about manners and cab rides. The jumble preserves stray quotes and ad-like lines from a late 19th or early 20th century page.
A Piermont mother recalls her son’s severe eczema from four months old until age three years four months. After trying many medicines, she used all three Cuticura Remedies, and within six months the boy was well. This is her 1905 account. Paying pew rent leaves the same kind of a taste in your mouth as taxes.
Borax is presented as a multipurpose cleaner for dairy use, claimed to remove dirt and grease, deodorize musty surfaces, and kill germs. It advises diluting one tablespoon borax per quart water for churning, cream washing, and dairy equipment, endorsing the "20 Mule Team Borax" brand and offering to help with sourcing details.
Figures published by Popular Mechanics show divers recovered over $1 260 000 from the steamship Malabar, $450 000 from Alphonso XII, $250 000 from Hamilton Mitchell, and $200 000 from Carnatic. The list is long and illustrates the vast value of treasure swallowed by the sea and the lure for costly machinery and high risks in salvaging “watered” stock.
The wearing of livery by mate servants is a survival of times when great lords kept bands of retainers bound to fight and serve their masters, and on special occasions their livery made them a miniature army.
A newspaper ad urges that a lazy liver signals poor nutrition and outlines a treatment using Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It claims to restore stomach function, cleanse the system, and relieve liver burden, advising dietary changes and regular use of the tonic. The ad emphasizes the medicine is non secret, alcohol free, and its ingredients are listed on the bottle.
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