Reward Offered For Missing Miller Suspect
After a long pursuit marked by travel and sleepless nights the sheriff and a small posse quit chasing Miss Miller's assailant on Tuesday. Clues led from Fair Grounds to Cardinal Woods to the Dragon in Gloucester with no success as reports of a sighting near Deep Point proved elusive. Public opinion leans toward the suspect being familiar with the area. A total reward of 350 is offered from Mrs. Miller Mathews Supervisors Governor and Mr Clifton Smuither of Norfolk for the capture.
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Miss Miller
Fair Grounds
Cardinal Woods
Gloucester
Deep Point
Miller
Mathews
Clifton Smuither
Norfolk
Notice on oyster share rent penalties for late payment
Notice to all oyster share renters that rents not paid by December first will incur a penalty as provided by the last general assembly. Inspectors J. H. Gayle, J. T. Christian, J. W. Minter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Assembly
J. H. Gayle
J. T. Christian
J. W. Minter
Sprain Recovery Promised by Liniment Use
A sprained ankle will sideline four men for three to four weeks, but applying Chamberlain's Liniment immediately after injury and following bottle directions can cure in two to four days. Not all dealers stock it.
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Chamberlain
Notice of Bids for Westville School District wood
Bids to furnish wood to Westville School District schools are invited from now until Oct. 1. Bidders should state price per card wood type and target school. Bids to be submitted to W. M. Minter, Clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westville
Wow to Start an Engine A Humorous How To
A list of odd, unsafe tried methods to start engines, mixing absurd steps with humorous commentary. It suggests blowing smoke, tapping parts, and odd rituals as possible solutions, noting the folly of such practices despite occasional success.
For Sale One Skipjack in Good Condition
For sale a skipjack 35 feet long and 11 4 feet wide sails one year old and in good condition inquire John Pugh Winter Harbor Virginia.
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John Pugh
Winter Harbor
Bucks Indian Runner Ducks for sale at $1 a pair
Full grown Indian Runner ducks offered at one dollar per pair. Apply at the seller’s Crab Neck home opposite Fitchetts, or write Cr Hunley Fitchetts, Virginia.
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Crab Neck
Fitchetts
Hunley
Stakes Ware Stakes for Sale Along Shore
R B Howlett Iberts Way Af G 28 3t offers stakes for sale, averaging from 45 to 5 feet on shore.
Weekly church services schedule at Westville and Macedonia
Public notice lists regular preaching times at Westville Baptist Church on the first and third Sundays both morning and night and on the fourth Sunday morning. Macedonia church holds services on the second Sunday morning and night and the fourth Sunday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westville Baptist Church
Macedonia
Millinery opening and local notices in Mathews area
Local column notes a Wyatt Wolffe millinery opening October 5 6 7 with a display of Pattern Hats. Mentions Miss Elvira Maxwell in Norfolk Miss Minnie Anderton of Saluda with Dr and Mrs A G Vaden families visiting relatives in the county and several local residents including I H Williams Jr convalescing from typhoid. Hotel Mathews hosts visitors for the Mathews Fair. Oysters reported good and market improving. Fourth Quarterly Conference Sept 30 to Oct 1 with sermons by Rev N G Boggs and Rev L J Phaup. Doctor V E Davis loses a horse. Sands Sands recovering after appendicitis at Norfolk Protestant Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyatt Wolffe
Complaint By Geo Gowen In Mathews Wa
A dialect poem laments the end of summer and coming winter. It mentions bees, a possum, a coon, sweet potatoes turning brown, bustling summer folks returning to town, limbertwig and winesap trees, singing cith apparatus, and the cotton field yawning. The speaker admits a taste for work but notes changing seasons and hard times ahead.
Cough Remedy Widely Sold by Dealers
The snippet cites that TL's world of con Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is widely used and recommended by Mrs M J Basford of Meccadelean Md, with dealers listing it for sale.
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Con Chamberlain
M. J. Basford
Meccadelean Md
Notary Public and J. P. Available Across County
Notary Public and J. P. offer services across the county or elsewhere to attend to any business in their line. They emphasize willingness to travel to fulfill notarial duties and related tasks for clients.
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Notary Public
J. P
Pound poles for Piankatank River landing at Green Point
Advertisement for SSLE Pound offering 40 to 55 foot poles with best landing on the Piankatank River at Green Point. Price is one cent per lineal foot delivered to water. Contact A. Marchant via Green's Retz, Va.
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Piankatank River
Green Point
A. Marchant
Green's
Retz
Dr King’s New Life Pills Fight Constipation and Ills
A compact ad style notice promoting Dr Kings New Life Pills as a preventive and cure for constipation and related ailments. It claims to stimulate stomach liver and bowels to prevent appendicitis, with listed symptoms including headache biliousness chills. Available at druggists for 25 cents.
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Dr. King
New Life
Estate claims notice for Elija Gwynns Island VA
All persons indebted to the estate of late Elija Gwynns Island VA will arrange for settlement and any one having claims against the estate will present them properly authenticated for payment.
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Elija Bknchannon
Bowel remedy for children promoted in old notice
An advertisement urges using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for children's bowel complaints. It claims a certain cure, notes it can be mixed with water and sweetened for a pleasant taste, and states no physician could prescribe a better remedy. Available from all dealers.
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Chamberlain
Ake
Sal
Madam Santo Consults Portsmouth Clairavant Card Reader
The Celebrated Clairavant offers advice on past present and future from 2615 County St Portsmouth Virginia. Located on County Street and Scottsville Road near Toll Gate door, contact by phone 1058 for guidance.
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County St. Portsmouth Va
Scottsville
Mobjack Defeats Globe in Close Baseball Tilt
The Mobjack and Globe Ball Tossers played on the Mobjack diamond Saturday. Globe lost as Blake pitched well and Treakle performed behind the bat while J Marshall delivered powerful drives. Cor
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Blake
Treakle
J. Marshall
Cor
Dr King’s New Discovery Cures Croup and Coughs
The diary of Manchester resident Lewis Chamblin notes four children prone to croup and credits Dr King’s New Discovery with easing attacks. Advertisers claim asthma hay fever la grippe and whooping cough yield to the remedy. Trial bottle offered free with purchases of 50 cents and 21 dollars.
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Lewis Chamblin
Manchester
Wew School Opens At Fredericksburg Ven Virginia
The State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Fredericksburg Virginia opened its doors on Tuesday under auspicious circumstances. Prof E H Russell who has long served as Examiner for this district leads a large capable staff. The school, Virginia's newest, is ideally located and promises significant benefits to the state in the future.
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State Normal and Industrial School For Women
Fredericksburg
Virginia
E. H. Russel
Mathews Co
Frederickshoro
Asthma Catarrh Cure Promises Rapid Relief From Sennine
Medical scientists announce startling results of Sennine a remedy claimed to cure asthma catarrh hay fever and bronchitis. The Woodworth Company offers a free experimental package by mail to New York City readers claiming the product cures thousands regardless of duration or climate conditions and invites those who failed with other treatments to request a trial.
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Sennine
New York
Generoua
Woodworth Company Dept
Broadway
New York City
Vienna University
Miller Puffins Seeks recount in Mathews County treasurer race
N E Miller Pudgins of Virginia announces he remains a Democrat candidate for County Treasurer after unsuccessfully seeking a ballot recount from the Mathews County Democratic Committee. He claims the committee denied the recount and urges voters to support him in November against J J Burke as the party nominee.
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J. J. Burke
Burke
L. C. Garnett
Democratic County Committee
Mathews
Mathews County
Mr. Burke
Self Control and Self Government in Personal Progress
Acco mac News cites a broad defense of self mastery. The piece argues that government is the base of progress and individuals who govern themselves advance fastest. Unrestrained appetites ruin reason and two natures clash, urging discipline to use passions for noble ends.
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Athens
Accomac News
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Co.operative
Co-operative Civic League
Chesapeake
Leave Hicks Wharf
Williams Philpotts Diges
Litherdale
Old Dominion
Old Bay
Old Point
East River
P. A. Starck, Pers
Sfaror
United States
Treal
Tony
Gissa Batn
Tiayseur
Cwaon Ory
Starck
Harcains
Wee Ood
Arlor Orcans
Py A
Wabashey
Chicago
Ill
W. M. Minter
the Journal
Pew
Mathews H
Elvira Maxwell
Minnie Anderton of
Saluda
A. G. Vaden
Jessie Hudgins
Diggs
I. H. Williams Jr
Tabb
Miss Fisher
West Point
R. R. Hoskins
Mr. Ellis Richardson
Richmond
Mrs
Dan? Richardson
Hez Hudgins
New Point
Ford Automobile
W. G. Miles
Currie Hudeins
FE Baker & Co
Baltimore
Chas. E. Wagener
Baltimore, Md
J. Herbert Williams
Mathews C. H
C. B. Jones
Major Stubbs
Col. Saunders
Messrs W D. Evans
C. E. Cary
Marshall Peterson
J. S. Smith
St. Mathew
Thos. R. Reeves
Blackstone
Salem
N. G. Boggs
L. J. Phaup
Bethel
Central
Mr. Phaup
Sands Sands
Messrs
Gowen
Nottingham
Geo. Gowen
Fatry Summah
C. H. Va
Madam Santo
Base
Wew School
N. E. Miller
Marchan
Walk-Over Shoe Co
Boston
Rice & Hutchins
Oston
Thompson Crocker
F. J. Thompson & Co
Havenhill
Mass
Mathews, Wa
Bressed
Portsmouth Retail Lumber Corporation Cor
High and Chestnut Sts
Bell
Portsmouth
Bowser
J. W. Hudgins
Gen
E. V. Zircke
Canton Ave
Farmer Girl Cook Store
State Normal and Industrial Scf
F. W. Byiser
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