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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1906
Page
4
A fragmented, archaic note laments prolonged suffering and sacrifices endured by many girls. The text hints at harms, trials, and social pressures that shape female adolescence, reflecting sorrowful historical attitudes and hardships.
Miss Emma Cole of Tullahoma Tennessee lauds Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relieving years of menstrual pain dizziness and nervous distress. She urges other girls to seek guidance from Mrs Pinkham Lyon Massachusetts and praises the remedy for guiding girls from adolescence to womanhood.
A compact note on cat superstitions cited across history. It mentions Bonaparte sensing doom at Waterloo due to a cat, Roman reverence, Egyptian worship of a cat deity, and the deadly fate for a cat in ancient myths. The passage blends anecdotes of fear, omen, and reverence toward felines.
A playful dialogue references a Connecticut milkman weary of civilization planning to sail to the south sea to raise coconuts. The exchange ends with a wager that coconut milk will contain water, as a humorous contrast to expectations.
Consul J J Brittain reports Joseph Restucci a mechanical engineer of the Royal Italian marine has invented a new diving machine that proved successful in deep sea experimental tests.
One hundred dollars reward for a catarrh cure that cannot be cured by Cure. RB Cumwer & Co Toledo advertise Hall's Family Pills for constipation. They claim F J has 16 years of reliable business, and their firm will carry out all obligations. Druggists sell Hall's Cure. Cambridge officials discuss study and travel privilege for public school teachers one year in seven.
One of the oldest safest remedies, Brandreth's Pills are a purely vegetable blood purifier and laxative. A consistent dose works for any length of use. One or two pills nightly aid constipation indigestion dyspepsia and impurities in the blood. Sold in every drug store, plain or sugar coated.
Dr Stephen H Roblin pastor of the Columbus Avenue Universalist Church in Boston visits an elderly parishioner before summer vacation. She says Satan never takes a vacation, and he replies he never imitates Satan. The exchange appears in the Boston Herald.
A Missouri woman from Columbia credits Dean's Kidney Pills with curing two years of dropsy heart pain restricted movement and frequent urination after two boxes. She reports no recurrence and urges others to try the remedy. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A dramatic anecdote about a new tragedy ending with the dying heroine asking for three beers. A critic notes superstition in rehearsals, the stage manager reveals the last sentence is often replaced to avoid bad luck before opening night.
A Philadelphia Press line quotes a man asking which dish costs more as a waiter explains the price of the table d hote. The exchange centers on whether veal or chicken is pricier for the proprietor.
An article discusses how marriage and motherhood alter women’s appearance and mood, attributing changes to ignorance and neglect of pelvic health. It promotes a remedy claiming to restore vigor using herbal roots with no alcohol, aimed at mothers and women exhausted by bearing children.
G D Dun & Co weekly Review of Trade notes warmer weather stimulating trade and improved mercantile collections, with traveling salesmen boosting orders to major distributing points. Movements retarded by transport limits. Wearing apparel and holiday goods attract demand. staple goods steady. Labor disputes settle amicably. wages rise in transport and manufacturing. Unprecedented pig iron output amid large imports and rising prices signals peak steel activity. Leading markets gain strength, wheat recovery aided by Northwest receipts and car shortages. November commercial failures total 2,376,428 with 883,601 in manufacturing.
The report shows firmer wheat and corn with steady spot and futures levels. Receipts and exports rise for wheat, corn, oats, and butter, cheese, and eggs prices stay largely unchanged with minor regional variations. Local and New York markets report firm bids for No 2 red wheat and No 2 yellow corn amid steady butter and eggs prices.
New York notes strong demand for prime and choice dressed beef while common beef loosens. Veal prices range 5.00 to 9.00 per hundredweight, dressed calves steady. Sheep and lambs show steady to firm values with lambs around 7.00 to 7.27. Chicago reports mixed cattle, hogs, and sheep markets with hogs rising to 6.40 for prime and lambs up to 7.69.
Holland’s 960 miles of canals are noted alongside a startling figure of 122 arsons per day in New York City. Each year over 22,000 umbrellas vanish to police headquarters in London, reflecting urban concerns and quirky facts of public life.
Abbie, a beloved Maltese cat belonging to Henry Dreyer, co owner of Idle Rest Hotel in Bensonhurst, died recently. Dreyer hosted friends who viewed a white coffin with four candles and the inscription At Rest, then held a wake with food and drinks as he pledged to bury Abbie as a human would be.
Health Commissioner Darlington reports 191 deaths by self harm in NYC in the three months before July 1. Details include 20 by carbolic acid, 55 by gunshot, 17 by gas, 20 by hanging, and single cases by Paris green, chloroform, and leaping before a train. Seventeen men and three women hanged themselves. 67 were killed by electric cars, largely in Brooklyn. Total accidental and negligence deaths for the period: 965.
Demetrius Dimitroulias, a Greek man who fatally injured a brother and severed an arm of another Alevizas in Greece two years prior, arrived on the Steamship St Laurent at Ellis Island. Alevizas waited with U S officers. Dimitroulias was arrested after Alevizas confronted him on the gangplank. Dimitroulias said Costa Alevizas had wronged a family member, prompting the attack.
James Moran aged 11 plunged from a roof at 455 West Forty-eighth Street. Julius Seligman a butcher from 505 West Fifty-second Street happened to pass by and caught Moran on his shoulders. Moran’s weight bore down but Seligman’s grip held as Moran’s feet struck the ground, sparing the boy from serious injury.
Charles Rhind aged 97, of 3563 West Fifty-seventh Street, insured since 1845 with Mutual Life, shows a 61 year policy at 61 percent of life. He holds an ordinary life policy for 2500, with 1502.50 paid in over the years and a recent withdrawal of 4215.86 on Wednesday.
The Keeley motor swindle of the eighties was recalled in the Real Estate Exchange salesroom on Vesey Street where 30 shares sold around par as investors were duped by tales of perpetual motion and gravity. The stock was sold with thousands of dollars' worth of gilt edged railroad bonds and stocks by the executor of Isaac T. Frost's estate.
Francis H. Gates of Chittenance Madison County spent 31700 to secure re election. The office pays 1500 a year. A millionaire Republican Gates formed the Square Deal party after losing renomination and secured endorsements from the Democratic and Prohibition parties. Assemblyman Tom D. Lewis of Oswego spent 1276 in the contest.
The pew at Grace Church Broadway and Tenth Street sold for 3675 dollars by Adrian H Mueller and associates. Auctioned by order of New York Life Insurance and Trust Company as executor of Frances Jones estate. It is located on the north side middle aisle about one third from the front. annual rent 84 dollars.
The text notes that a fully grown elephant weighs about 7000 pounds, while a notably small elephant named Lill, a Sumatran calf, stood only a yard tall and weighed 172 pounds, illustrating the range of elephant sizes across eras.
In the provinces of Austria Hungary many languages are spoken and interpreters are employed in the parliaments to interpret the proceedings of delegates. This ensures that the deliberations are intelligible to all members.
In the Lake Chad region, six ne gro troopers under a corporal repelled an assault on a small fort, armed with carbines only, defending against about seven Touaregs and forcing them to retreat.
Physicians increasingly regard olive oil as therapeutically valuable and prescribe it for many ailments. An expert touts pure olive oil as a universal remedy for digestion, liver and kidney issues, weakness, and burns. It is also praised as a cosmetic, hair tonic, skin food, and anti-wrinkle agent with claims of skin softening and facial massage benefits.
Mrs Gunner notes the children have been well since Cairo trip. Mr Gunner replies they are wise to the fact that he brought back a collection of hard Egyptian sandals.
Article notes coffee importers push Postum Food Coffee as a substitute. It cites a book chapter calling coffee a medicine and warns habitual stimulant use irritates tissues, urging a 10 day switch to Postum to relieve nervous trouble, dyspepsia, bowel issues, eye strain, and other symptoms.
A Houston Post quip reflects on newlyweds and domestic duties with a playful exchange about “honeymoon” meaning and whether the wife has begun cooking, framed as a brief joke. The item captures a late 19th to early 20th century newspaper voice.
Mrs Maggie B Hill of Stevens Mason County West Virginia testifies that her husband and five children suffered eczema for two years. They tried home remedies and doctors with no relief before using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills purchased for one dollar. Two children left with brown scars but recovered, marking a strong endorsement for Cuticura. A stray line references teething syrup and a proverb about square deals.
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