17 Sep 1908
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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1908
Page
1
A nostalgic verses recount longing for youth and past loves. The speaker recalls roses, crimson lips, and sweet memories as years pass and dreams fade, ending with a plea to return home to a lost beloved. Milwaukee Sentinel attribution.
A compact item notes several wharves named Philphot William Hick Digg on a coastal waterway. The short entry lists the locations as distinct wharves with no further details or events recorded.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions Ethel and Johnny in a domestic play scene with garbled lines, referencing Baltimore and a light fixture. The readable bits imply a dialogue about playing house and roles.
A group of Linville boys plans a cave dig near a river and borrows spades from a miller's boy. They trap Jimmy Malone with abusive behavior, but he frees several trapped boys from a cave collapse and earns their respect. The miller rewards Jimmy with time off, a dollar, and a new title Captain Jimmy the Brave.
Advertising is described as the mightiest factor in commerce and a positive creative force. It is an evolution of modern competition that fuels factory building, skyscrapers, and railroads, expanding human wants and intensifying desires in the market.
The United States holds an enormous cash reserve of 500 million dollars under the Aldrich Vreeland provisions. Deputy Treasurer Bantz notes the Treasury can supply the nation’s 6824 banking institutions if needed, with conditions improved nationwide and banks flush with currency and easy money in New York and the West.
Colonel William F. Vilas wills a 30 million dollar endowment to the Wisconsin University, to be held in trust for Mrs. Vilas during her life, then transferred with staged income allocations to reach a 26 million dollar principal, creating a permanent revenue for knowledge advancement.
Engineer Robert Heywood Fernald forecasts a gas engine driven war vessel with no smoke and a submerged deck for guns. He argues the gas system saves coal, reduces space, and enables longer range, predicting U S adoption and broader use in liners and other ships as coal efficiency drives government fuel research.
A dispatch from El Kasar reports German Consul Dr Vassel in Tangier on his way to Pez convoked nan orables, claiming Mulai Hafid who defeated his brother Abd al Ajll could count on German support as Germany would back the Sultanate conflict.
A Los Angeles boy named Mulholland contracted bubonic plague after finding and handling a sick squirrel in a park. The creature bit him on the hand and the patient is now convalescing under medical care. The illness was confirmed by the attending physician.
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