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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1908
Page
4
An advertisement touts Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills for pain relief with no habit formation and minimal after effects. Testimonial blurbs from Mrs G H Webb and others claim rapid relief for headaches flu symptoms and pneumonia related pain, encouraging purchases with a money back offer through Miles Medical Co.
Dr William Hx sna mason argues humans possess two brains but use one for thinking, with language and knowledge stored in localized brain regions. Education shapes brain matter, creating specific speech and skill centers, often on the left side for most people, while left-handed individuals show different hemispheric patterns.
Letter from Mrs. Lenora Siedenhamer of Kernersville North Carolina describes stomach trouble indigestion and nervous unease after which she used Peruna and Manalin following doctor advice. She reports improvement and urges others with similar symptoms to try Peruna. The note is part of many testimonials Dr Hartman receives.
Grace Darling Ray, 17, formerly of South Carolina, now with her mother in Norfolk, sues G William Ray for divorce on charges including abduction and betrayal. Ray responds with a cross bill accusing the wife’s mother of wrecking the home. The case traces to a Greenville County marriage after an alleged February 14 1906 abduction and a later marriage by a preacher. The wife says she was detained for four days and later returned home before moving to Norfolk. she also claims her husband cannot support her. Ray contends the marriage was consensual and unhappy only after the mother threatened the daughter with death if she did not return home.
In Richmond a storm of objections blocks a proposed monument to Wirz keeper of Andersonville Prison. Georgia Daughters of the Confederacy offered the gift if local veterans accept, but supporters warn it would cheapen existing monuments. Wirz refused to name Jefferson Davis when offered a pardon to implicate him.
A New York Sun letter questions why the U S government bans lotteries abroad yet runs lotteries for public land such as Hosebud farms. The writer suggests an auction or other fair allotment and questions whether state sanctioned chance is more moral than that of the Spanish monarchy or Paris authorities.
A Henderson Tribune correspondent links the phrase to Dante's Divine Comedy where Francesca and Paola confess painting the world red with their sins. The column mocks Charley Cahn saying he plans to knock our block off and conveys skepticism about him.
Owen I. Thomas of Bluemont Loudoun County announces his bid to succeed Hon. Fenton M. Love of Purcellville in the Virginia House of Delegates. Thomas is a Leesburg business leader and director of the People's National Bank of Leesburg. Dr B F Noland of Ashburn also candidates. Love will not run.
A movement for a sewerage system in Winchester has formed after council reports and estimates. The matter will be put to voters with a December vote likely. The committee reports a modern small pipe system could cost about 50 thousand dollars.
A London Institute for Lost and Starving Cats annual report describes a method to humanely destroy surplus cats and puppies. It advises placing a dish cover over the animals, applying four ounces of pure chloroform on wadding, pressing the cover for several minutes, then leaving undisturbed for an hour before burial.
A Michigan woman details a year of indigestion and fatigue after surgery. After two months on Grape-Nuts her stomach settles, nerves stabilize, and she is eager to work again. The testimony promotes Grape-Nuts and Postum Co. advertising.
The readable fragments describe a travel or event plan with missing names and dates. Insufficient details prevent full reconstruction of place, time, or entities, leaving only hints of a trip and schedule.
A single inch of rain represents a rainfall depth where water percolates and accumulates, with estimates indicating roughly 100 tons of water per acre falling within a given storm. The figure illustrates rainfall mass and its agricultural and hydrological implications.
Mrs. Joseph Fetta and her 14 year old daughter were fatally injured when struck by a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train in Clarksburg. The daughter died en route to a hospital. the mother survived an operation but is not expected to recover.
Mrs Mabel May Swartz of Swinley Clarke County died after several physicians failed to reverse lockjaw. She was ill only a few days. Survived by husband Walter Swartz and three children.
Dinwiddie Telephone Company stockholders approve extending lines from Dewitt Dinwiddie County to Lawrence Brunswick County. Wires to enter Mutual Telephone Company exchange at Lawrenceville. Construction to begin at once.
Roanoke special. The Anti-Saloon League plans a petition to Hastings Court for a December 31 election on alcohol販売. They must obtain 500 voter signatures to secure the order. Roanoke hosts over 50 saloons paying about $1,000 tax each.
City administration asks Sindy Legislature to authorize municipalities to enforce railroad electrification to abate smoke. The note cites vast swamp lands in the United States that could feed the nation if reclaimed, and mentions the soplia as an Americ an atte introduced in England in 1789.
Wheat prices and receipts listed for New York and Philadelphia markets with spot and futures levels. corn oats butter and cheese prices noted across several cities. Livestock values and cattle hogs sheep futures appear in Chicago and New York summaries with varying weekly receipts and price ranges.
A jumble of historic notes: trade figures for butter and trolley line value, a gov bulletin praising nuts, Sarah Morrison entering Indiana graduate school, a Georgia mute weight limit, and localities like Cumminton Mass and Berlin streets. It also references voting for Bryan, phonograph in a weighing machine, Hingland birth rate, Wethersfield apple tree planted 1638, a patent for a pfe pre server, nickel steel on a New Manhattan Bridge, and sulfur import reductions in Louisiana.
Mrs R C Richmond of Northwood Iowa reports years of kidney trouble backache and dizziness ended after using three boxes of Deans Kidney Pills with complete relief. She says her health is perfect now and notes the product is sold by dealers at 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
Prof E F Nichols of Columbia University physics rises at 1 30 each morning to work in Fayerweather Hall from 2 to 4 A M. He tunnels into the quiet hours to experiment on a new galvanometer, avoiding daytime electrical activity that disrupts delicate apparatus.
The British Medical Journal notes fears about bacteria in phone receivers and transmitters. It cites alarmists suggesting antiseptics for safety as tubercle bacilli are reportedly found alive in instruments, a finding that heightens public worry among the nervous.
The term soap appears in early Greek influenced texts and medieval sources. Pliny links soap to Gauls using tallow and ashes. Sismond notes a soapmaker with Charlemagne's retinue. Pompeii yielded a soap boiler's shop after Vesuvius eruption, confirming soapmaking's antiquity. Jeremiah 2 22 is cited to illustrate historical soap usage.
Hicks Capuchine claims to calm the brain and nerves for those tired worried or overworked. The liquid medicine is described as pleasant to take and available in Oc and Se sizes at drug stores.
An old advertising line notes that a man learns from his son after years and mentions Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething. The copy claims the product softens gums reduces inflammation allays pain and cures wind colic at 25 cents a bottle while humor about excuses on tap closes the note.
The Chicago Tribune notes heat rises one degree per 65 feet below the surface, reaching blood heat at about 4000 feet, making coal pits unworkable below that depth. It cites Britain’s coal commission ruling such depths are not workable and discusses crust thickness of 30 to 40 miles and uncertain heat pressure relation at extreme depths.
Frank J. Cheney senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. swears the Toledo firm will pay one hundred dollars for each uncured case of catarrh. He claims a catarrh cure works internally on blood and mucous surfaces. Notary public witnesses. Sold by druggists for 15 cents. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A brief, rough exchange depicts a wary pedestrian on the Brooklyn Bridge negotiating a payoff to avoid harm. The dialogue conveys danger, bargaining, and a tense street encounter from Life magazine style prose.
Mrs John G Klumpp recalls severe infant eczema that covered the face and limbs, resisted doctors and specialists until Cuticura Remedies provided relief. After trial the child improved and remained largely free of symptoms. Newark New Jersey notes dated October 17 and 22, 1907. The rest argues ballast affecting a marriage voyage with outcomes tied to ballast.
Fragmentary ad copy touts a malaria remedy with a tasteless iron formula presented as suitable for adults and children. The messy text asserts health benefits and urges purchase for 50c, but lacks verifiable details or credible claims.
Capucline is a liquid remedy claimed to relieve indigestion belching sour stomach and heartburn with immediate effect. Doctors prescribe it for various causes and it is sold at drug stores for 1 cent and 25 cents.
A brief, cryptic axiom appears in a fragmentary line attributing misfortune to ill judgment and signaling a blunt, aphoristic tone. The source provides no clear event, person, or place to anchor a fuller card.
The article notes tarring and feathering as a European practice linked to Richard Coeur-de-Lion era seamen. It cites an ordinance prescribing head whipping, hot pitch poured on the scalp, and pillow feathers tossed aloft to brand a thief, banishing him from ships and landfalls at the next voyage.
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