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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1906
Page
4
A transfer business owner at 2020 North B Street Elwood Indiana testifies kidney trouble and back pains after using Dean's Kidney Pills. He reports three boxes cured him and notes the price and dealer details for Bold by all dealers Poster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
A Milwaukee News piece describes the 1907 ideal girl as tall and slender with two heavy Dutch braids and a ribbon crown. It notes fashion shifts toward living models using massage for wellness, predicting simple yet artistic elegance rather than country charm.
Hicks notes he spends little time at home while Wicks observes his wife has become settled. He has joined a club and spends time there as an antidote to home life. The Philadelphia Ledger reports the exchange with a wry tone.
A health pitch compares the stomach to a churn, arguing sour digestion taints the body. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is touted to sweeten the stomach and cure skin, blood, and digestive troubles. The ad links foul taste, coated tongue, foul breath, and headaches to biliousness and implies the medicine offers relief.
A meditation on money as tainted power that harms character and society. It argues wealth corrupts virtue, Christianity favors service over material gain, and true civilization rests on helpful deeds rather than profits. The speaker cites Emerson and Christ to condemn greed.
The piece extols social service by the poor and middle class as the backbone of civilization. It contrasts unpaid neighborly care with wealth, noting workers, farmers, and parents sustain society through selfless acts, while moneyed leaders seldom reach such moral stature.
A London Spator column discusses silent judgments across genders. It notes eyebrows, vocabularies, and facial expressions shape bias. It argues clever women judge fools gravely while capable men distrust foolish women and that youth and beauty do not explain all.
A Philadelphia Bulletin item notes peculiar historic rents paid to the crown and church. Examples include Farnham Royal by glove and scepter on Coronation Day, Aylesbury with three eels and three green geese plus straw for the bedchamber, Addington with gilt spurs tongs a Snowball and a rose, and Cope land yielding the King's head when needed.
Doctor Whipple, long Bishop of Minnesota, prepared to hold religious services near an Indian village in a Western State. He asked his host chief if it was safe to leave his effects unguarded in the lodge before traveling to the meeting place.
R G Dan's Weekly Review notes delays, high money, and labor agitation in several sectors yet overall commercial progress persists. Jewelry demand rises as producers plan peak holiday sales while pig iron prices climb to show industry prosperity. Bradstreet's records weekly US business failures at 184 with rising agricultural exports and stronger grain movement than last year.
Market notes show steady prices across staples with Wheat firmer on spot contracts. Butter eggs cheese and sugar unchanged or steady while corn and oats move within narrow ranges and pork lard and cottonseed oil show mild activity.
New York beef and calves show dull demand with quoted dressed and live weights. Chicago cattle and hog markets report varied grades from fancy steers to packing hogs, while sheep and lambs list moderate to strong prices across classes.
Traveling in Spain is inexpensive with hotel charges around 1.35 dollars per day. A Montreal writer projects Canada’s wheat crop at 90 million bushels this season, up from 85 million last year. Ohio miner J B Martin pledges 500 thousand dollars annually to the prohibition cause. Lord Townshend, ruled an idiot by English courts, remains with a vote in the Lords. The Bengal government pays rewards for sharks caught in the Ganges, from 0.26 to 1.50 dollars depending on size.
New York woman known as Miss Bannermann cook faced Judge Steinert after admitting to four marriages. She said she married multiple husbands because they were nice to her and kept pestering her. Husbands testified, with Spitzenberger noting she could not cook.
Frederick O. Bowers demanded a $1400 loan at the Lawyer's Title Guarantee and Trust Co on Montague Street Brooklyn threatening harm. He was arrested on a vagrancy charge after police were alerted by Lewis H. Losee of the firm. Bowers, 45, stayed at the Grand Union Hotel Manhattan and had a $25,000 Watertown Connecticut estate. He had been adjudged insane six years earlier and released from a Westport sanitarium two weeks prior.
After the wedding reception for Miss Emily B Rawson and Le Roy Dyal, a slightly deaf relative found a tramp still at the Rawson residence. He helped himself to the dainties, especially the ice cream, used a finger bowl, lit a cigar, and remarked that he had enjoyed himself immensely.
Desperate by recent night-time hold ups in Flatbush, numerous women with night duties arm themselves with pistols and vitriol. They threaten attackers and vow self defense. Most victims are nurses from Kings County Hospital, Kingston Avenue Hospital, and the Long Island State Insane Asylum.
William F. Miller known as 520 Per Cent and linked to the Franklin syndicate swindle failed in his first venture after leaving Sing Sing. He appeared as proprietor and acting cashier of the Sjard restaurant at 160 Montague Street Brooklyn when it reopened this fall. Patrons recognized him, withdrew support, and the place closed.
Collector Stranahan with the Federal Appraisers levied a 50 percent duty on artificial shamrock for St Patrick s Day. T S Sasca imported 100000 paper flowers with wire stems and argued for 35 percent as toys. The Board of Appraisers ruled the shamrock is not a toy and subject to the higher rate.
Mrs Barbara Layer admitted in Second District Criminal Court that she kept unlicensed dogs. Her husband called the animals a nuisance with dogs in every room. A Newfound slept under the bed and chewed bones in shoes while others rested under the piano. The dogs caused a uproar whenever anyone came. Layer denied the nuisance and fought the charge. She paid a ten dollar fine.
About 50 West New Rochelle children fell ill with cramps and nausea after consuming colored candy known as jaw breakers and suckers. No deaths reported. Candy stores sold large quantities. sale of the items has been stopped.
The director of the United States Mint has purchased 100,000 ounces of silver at 70.61 cents an ounce, a move tied to holiday gift planning and mint market activity. The purchase signals potential shifts in precious metal demand as Christmas shopping begins.
The Philadelphia Record notes a trend of young women being recruited as golf caddies, praised for sturdiness and steadiness while boys lag in punctuality and focus. Good Housekeeping endorses girls as more respectful and companionable, marking a shift in social norms.
A Goo Record praises Allcock's Plasters for sixty years of popular use in relieving aches and pains from cold and overstrain. The ad notes Babies as links that bind mothers to heaven and also keep them at home when shopping, with plasters sold by druggists worldwide.
A 60 year old ex-soldier from Ross County Ohio reports over thirty five years of severe eczema and final cure after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. He cites multiple government examinations and large expenses with no relief before treatment. Also mentions Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething at 25¢ a bottle.
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