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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1906
Page
3
Community brief with departures to Frederickshoro and Pottsville trips and Sales ads for a saw mill, oxen, a Jersey cow, a saddle horse, a mare, and other farm stock. Local church notices, revival plans, and advertisements for Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar and DeWitt's Salve. Also mentions residents visiting, shipping details, and a public sale inquiry.
Fragmentary OCR text touts a product named Feisey's Kidsey Cure as curing all kidney problems and claims health benefits. The legibility is poor and details are unclear.
Welcome fair weather prompts fodder saving and hay cutting as visitors depart for home. Mrs Nannie Deal and family leave for Norfolk while Herbert Riddick and Ambrose head to Brooklyn. Miss Martha Minter travels to New York for her brother S F Minter’s wedding. The area reports no new illnesses beyond chronic cases.
Advertises Poleys Kidney Cure as able to cure any kidney or bladder trouble within medical reach. Claims no medicine can do more and notes availability at the Mathews Dru Store.
Portra AyYwocDd reports from St Pauls meetings assisted by Mr. Allen and sees comfort in old maxim. Virginia Sleet and Garrie visit Hudgins home. Sleet and Miller sail Norfolk aboard the yacht Mildred with outfitting for outings and two sailing parties hosted. Flags, visits, and travel notes among Mathews residents, with many names and a yacht voyage. Mrs Dices dies after long illness. Mrs Forrest returns from Northamton. Capt. Morgan’s return and oyster plans noted. Gloomy port weather improves as farmers harvest fodder and tomatoes.
Mr. Harry Billups returns to Norfolk after a week with Capt. J. C. Thomas. Luther Hunley goes home to Crisfield after two weeks with friends in Mathews. Mrs. Morris Munden visits Norfolk with the Mickleboroughs. Willie Aldrich visits his aunt Mrs. Johnny White. Bettie Mickleborough visits relatives in Norfolk Sunbeam.
Capt. W. T. Morgan, his wife, and two daughters from Norfolk spent Sunday in Mathews as guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan.
The text advertises tailored garments from Edward B Strauss & Co offering best made to measure clothes for overcast and winter suits. It promises accurate measurements, a wide fabric selection in the great catalog, guaranteed workmanship and fit, with money-back satisfaction and a claim the Elisco Tailors are makers of quality.
Fragmentary OCR hints at a drugstore sale notice from Mathews Drug Store marked by unclear terms and misread phrases about a product called Petey Honey and Tar and references to remedies for coughs and colds. The readable piece signals a retail item listing rather than a full article.
Twelve members of the Twenty fifth Infantry stationed at Fort Brown Texas have been moved to Fort Sam Houston where they will be held pending examination before eventual transfer to civil authorities. General McCaskey reports the action aims to curb public unrest.
At the National Bank of Commerce building in Portland rescue of a stout woman perched with one foot over a roof window sill ended with her extrication by Superintendent K P Brooke. She feared spending the night up there and offered profuse thanks. Virginia Pilot.
Macon September 4 The Georgia Democratic State Convention unanimously nominated Hoke Smith for Governor and endorsed William J Bevan for President in 1905. Other gubernatorial candidates were not presented. The platform calls for primaries by majority vote, criticizes the State Railroad Commission, and demands two cent fares, lower freight rates, streetcar control, disfranchisement of Black voters, and a larger State Senate.
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