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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1905
Page
4
A dated consumer health testimonial describes severe back pain dizziness and irregular urinary passages with distressing monthly periods. The claimant asserts relief after using a twelve week regimen of pills from Fester Millinen Co Buffalo NY, priced 50 cents per box, advertised as for sale by all dealers.
A Chicago youth, seeking work in New York, was arrested for stealing a roll of cloth from a clothing shop. He claimed poverty drove him to theft after losing his money and coat, and he described pawning gold teeth for cash to survive. He was paroled to return home to Chicago.
A Rhode Island lawyer notes a German client seeking a divorce. The man, confident of his case, jokes that if his estranged wife has not yet been harmed he will “hit her once now.” The tale highlights the tense mood around divorce and the lawyer’s cautionary stance.
An anecdote about Old Gorton of Manchester, a Walton enthusiast, on a railroad bridge with young men. A companion steals two fish from Gorton’s basket, and upon counting, Gorton discovers he has seven instead of five, puzzled by the missing two.
A Natick grandmother scolds four year old Hester for mischief and warns of divine judgment. Hester retorts that God cannot see her at home because there is no God in Natick, ending the moment with quiet defiance from the child.
A California woman and her husband, longtime coffee lovers, suffer nervousness and severe headaches. After cutting coffee and using Postum, they improve and are finally relieved, with nerves and headaches easing and head posture returning to normal.
A Marion county farmer Samuel Mitchell loses 80 chickens valued at $1 each after thieves enter his chicken house. Reports cover farm sales in Jefferson county, accidental and deliberate shootings, a marriage, rail and road plans, medical absences, and a hazardous elevator accident in Danville with injuries.
A New York studio tale leads to September nuptials as sculptor Jacques Papasian, resident at 3 East Seventeenth Street, plans to wed Irene Agnes MacAlpine from East Twenty sixth Street after she became his ideal model during the creation of The Struggle for Life. Nearby, a janitor connected to Russian minister Sergei Witte receives family rumor as truth. A dramatic dog attack on Corona’s Mrs. Peterson, aided by Dixie Havens and a quick trolley man, ends with medical aid after severe injuries. Other items include a man’s first train sighting near Jeffersonville, a Boer War suit for damages in Brighton Beach, a tunnel strike with police on Ninth Avenue, a Caskey duet note about burial, and a Coronan farmer injured by a cow.
It is estimated that £200,000 worth of diamonds are stolen yearly from South African mines. The British consul at Cadiz recommends steel works in that city to capitalists. Italy’s royal garages staff adopts a semi military system with directors in army captain uniform. The Agriculture Department has pushed gardening work and studied pupils in Washington schools amid a building boom.
R G Dun and Bradstreet note peace and prosperity boosting markets and confidence. Domestic industry lifts capacity in railway equipment textile mills footwear and construction while buyers seek distant deliveries. August failures liabilities down 4.35 million dollars. crop prospects improve though cotton exports fall. Wheat and corn exports rise compared with prior periods.
Grain and commodity prices move with declines and holds across flour wheat corn oats rye and butter eggs lard and sugar. Prices show steady to firm readings for several items with regional differences and varied futures activity in New York futures.
Chicago market reports show cattle receipts around 3 000 and hogs 16 000 with steady to lower conditions. Good to prime steers quoted at 5.50 to 6.30, poor to medium 4.00 to 5.45. Texas and Western fed steers range 3.25 to 5.00. Sheep receipts near 6 000 with lambs higher and weth ers at 4.25 to 5.50. native lambs 5.30 to 7.60.
Labor conflicts span Mecrane and Jesi with 1200 Waemen weavers striking in silk factories. Carrara marble lockout leaves workers idle. Philadelphia foundries produce machinery valued at 38,372,971 annually. Berlin carpenters win a twelve week strike with a small increase. London poised to add paper bagmakers to organized women workers. Chinese workers in Transvaal number 41,000 amid railroad employment shifts in the United States.
A doctor recalls patients who withhold truth about their ailments and hedge him with false stories. He notes the strain of medical work, the need to diagnose despite misleading confessions, and his own past as a physician who sometimes drinks and smokes.
A hardware merchant recalls Dr Kennedy on birds humor and claims a duck has the keenest sense of humor. He riffs on carving a duck, noting its unpredictable joints, escapes, and the comic danger of carving, with a wry note on human foibles.
A physician rushing to aid a patient on an island found a farmer who drove him to a house at a lively pace. The doctor offered half a dollar, which the driver declined. When asked for the driver’s name the doctor learned it was President Eliot of Harvard.
The Rev Peter MacQueen recalls a temperance tale about a Scotch parishioner who signed a pledge after a Murphy speech at West Somerville Congregational church. The man described MacQueen as “a grown meemster” and “foin man” with no meddling rebegion.
A. W. Taft of Independence Virginia writes dated Sept 15, 1904 that twelve years of hair loss and dandruff ended after using one box of Cuticura Ointment and one cake of Cuticura Soap. He states his scalp cleared, hair stopped falling, and is regrowing. He praises Cuticura Soap as a toilet soap.
An editorial praise of female health and beauty links lasting influence of healthful women to civilization. It promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for numerous female ailments and includes a testimonial from Mrs. Bessie Ainsley of Tacoma Washington plus a note to request free expert advice.
Alexis Piron, noted French poet and epigrammatist, is captured in a Paris street by a watchman and brought before the police lieutenant. When asked his business he answers I am a poet. The official scoffs and Piron retorts I have a brother who is a poet. I have a brother who is a fool.
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