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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
4
A column of wry maxims on marriage gender roles and human folly. It notes time cannot be reversed and focuses on social irony about husbands wives friends enemies learning and money with sharp taunts and humor. The piece cites the New York Ae.
Frank B Kellogg recounts a trial incident involving a young doctor called as witness where the opposing counsel made sarcastic remarks about concussion of the brain. Kellogg notes the exchange and the doctor’s witty quip about banging heads to illustrate concussion.
A diminutive Metropolitan and Chevy Chase Club member married the daughter of a federal official. Friends say the husband looks shorter after settling down, and the wife quips that married life suits him.
A Tenn. woman recounts relief from stomach trouble and nervous strain after quitting coffee and switching to Postum. She describes initial weakness and hunger on coffee, followed by improved digestion and steadier nerves once she began consuming hot Postum instead of coffee.
The report highlights a threefold camel burden versus horse load, a dentist in a new Italian man of war, a thousand horsepower gas engine driving a generator at Runcorn, and Dr H Campbell Thomson using cinematography on nervous disease patients. It also covers a pneumatic carrier test in Chicago, superheated steam locomotives for European railways, Italian steam locomotives built in Germany with Schmidt superheaters, mine coal dust safety via moisture or minerals, and the Chemnitz household power loom advancing home textile manufacture with Jacquard control, costing about 50 dollars and requiring minimal power.
The Gentlewoman calls the Royal Yacht Squadron the most exclusive club, saying money cannot unlock its elections. A ballot favors yacht owners over fortune, with a few self funded with wealth still barred by tradition. The club remains a rare sanctuary where riches do not grant entry.
A historical survey recalls cases where wording errors altered verdicts and indictments. Lord Denman earned fame by an acquittal over a lace manufactory description. 1827 judgments quashed murder inquiries due to phrasing. Omission of ewe invalidated a conviction. Lord Cardigan faced an acquittal over misnamed captain. A regal document faltered when AD replaced in the ear of our Lord.
Milwaukee Journal notes a humorous push for Chicago women to wear crow feathers as millinery noting abundant supplies. The piece pokes at fashion absurdity while predicting no scarcity of plumage and mocks rural tobacco crop efforts in Poland.
Bradstreet's notes expansion in trade and industry as shipments by rail rise and prices climb. Retailer stocks are broken while holiday demand and spring orders gain. weather delays may temper outdoor activity as improvement continues.
Wheat receipts 121000 bush, exports 184446 bush in New York with No 2 red bids at 1.13% fob afloat and No 1 Northern Duluth at 1.15% fob afloat. Corn receipts 3225 bush with No 2 new 70% elevator and 71% fob afloat. Oats receipts 40500 bush with mixed bids. Philadelphia wheat steady, corn firm with November at 68. Butter firm in New York and Philadelphia cheese steady. Chicago cattle and hogs mix with steady to higher quotes, hogs up 10-20c, cattle steady to strong. Sheep and lamb receipts show steady to firm prices. hogs weak in New York.
The excerpt cites Denmark as leading in deaths by self harm, notes France has nearly two million childless families, and lists U S states as major water producers and job creators. It mentions Montana sapphires valued at 229800, Australian police entering homes for gambling, and the Czar Nicholas’s heir insured for two and a half million.
Sylvanus Verrill of Milford Maine reports a severe kidney injury and paralysis threat five years earlier. After using Dean's Kidney Pills he recovered. within three months he walked with crutches, then discarded them as kidney function improved, and he says he was completely cured. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY 50 cents a box.
Henry Martin cites world records in Los Angeles tunneling as the Owens River aqueduct nears completion. He notes Elizabeth Lake bore reaching 160 feet in ten days, a record, with costs at 34.19 per foot versus engineers’ low estimate of 75. One mile of tunnel finished. Gunnison tunnel advancing 320 feet per month.
An ad advises isolating hogs showing symptoms of hog cholera and fumigating pens. It praises Sloan's Liniment mixed with milk as a remedy, citing two Indiana farmers' positive reports and offering a free Sloan book from Dr Earle Sloan in Boston. It closes with a quip about bad eggs.
An old advertisement touts Hicks Capuchine as a remedy for monthly pains nervousness and headaches with claims of immediate relief and best results. The ad notes a price of 10 cents at drug stores and contains social commentary about temptations and male behavior.
At a New York luncheon Mrs Pierre Lorillard Ronalds praised the city’s growth from a youthful metropolis to a world capital. She contrasted New York with Paris London and Rome noting weariness and vice and recalling an anecdote about Lord Exe’s 70-year-old bid for youth and a quip about a two year old egg.
Fragmented text snippets discuss malaria efforts and a vague plan to improve health systems. The passage mentions a formula and a tasteless form, with scattered lines about grown people and children and a comment on calm dispute resolution.
Claims Hicks Capuchine relieves headaches from cold heat stomach or mental strain with immediate effects. Advertises no Acetamilid and availability at drug stores. Also promotes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething gums and wind colic at 25c a bottle. Ends with social quip about excuses and a joke on a married man.
A Hopkinton resident describes an eighteen month health ordeal starting with a hemorrhoidal attack and bleeding. After failed remedies and a drastic eczema spread a month of Cuticura products brought recovery. He reports ongoing maintenance once daily then weekly. April 26, 07.
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