07 Oct 1909
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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1909
Page
1
Hester Blair's return from the city unsettles her plans as she craves luxury and recognition. Ten years later a letter from Jasper Hunt upends her certainty, prompting a daring concert costume choice and a climactic triumph she finally credits to a promised return.
A summer minister at Hawkins Falls presides over a Sunday service where Ehud Leffingwell, hard of hearing, attends from the pew. After the sermon the minister announces a wedding between Edward Stoutenboro and Miss Mehitabel Dodsworth, which Ehud punctuates by complimenting her eyes and gait.
A Globe reporter notes a woman washing her hair and drying it into a walnut sized knot while on the street she flaunts long styles such as rolls puffs switches braids marcels and more. A fellow woman quips that many have only a small bunch on the dead square reflecting social vanity.
A New York Press item notes paupers in English workhouses receive golf outfits and access to grounds for playing golf, illustrating charitable recreation provisions amid social welfare efforts. It highlights the contrast between pauper relief and leisure opportunities within institutional settings.
A sequence of brief notices reports beatings and robberies in Philadelphia, a death in Boston, a Wisconsin industrialist’s obituary, a self inflicted death at Governors Island, a railway collision near Wilson New York, Taft promising to restore American merchant marine, tributes and deaths of prominent figures in Tennessee Connecticut California and Maine as well as a Malay fisherman and other industry leaders.
A Paris lover’s quarrel ends in a lion attack killing a young woman. In Spain a Moorish battle against the Spanish results in heavy losses for Gen Vicario and his forces. A firework explosion in Frankfurt’s aviation show kills an electrician. Persian exiled leader Mohammed Ali Mirza sails from Angola toward Russia. American and British officials review maritime routes and patent treaties in Europe. Moore family entertainers die in London while patent chief E B Moore travels Europe. Finland’s senate dissolution looms amid Russian conflict. Thousands of American homesteaders move to Canada. European powers attend a balloon race in Zurich as maritime law talks proceed in Brussels. Britain to control most Marconi coast stations. German potash syndicate to cut prices in US. North German Lloyd reports 1.25 million dollars earnings midyear. New lava flows threaten Colima volcano towns. Fighting near Mount Guruga continues as Moorish stronghold is contested. Senator Kov le sky of Russian aristocracy dies by suicide in St Petersburg.
Unprecedented cold in the valleys near Mexico City destroys corn crops. Estimated loss reaches 20 million dollars. Local authorities and farmers brace for economic impact from the heavy freeze.
Mrs Louish Lewellyn of Powell South Dakota praises Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills for headache relief after sharing with family. She notes the pills helped her husband Frank Snyder as well as herself and says she keeps them in the house and gives them to others. The Miles Medical Co offers to refund the first package price if there is no benefit.
A courtroom exchange mocks political views as a man jokes about a foreign-born individual who excels in baseball. The judge's response hints at immigration and national identity through a lighthearted, period-voiced quip.
Elegant steamers Columbia and Augusta operate for Old Point Comfort and Norfolk Virginia. Ships depart daily except Sunday at 5 PM from Chesapeake Line terminal and depart Old Point Comfort at 6 AM and Norfolk at 7 AM, connecting with rail lines to the south.
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