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Newspaper
Lexington Gazette
Location
Lexington, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1901
Page
2
The Gazette records Baroclay Company being entered at the Post Office in Lexington Virginia, noting official mailing status and location.
A Richmond News opinion condemns sectionalism in Virginia’s suffrage debate. The piece urges all Virginians to unite behind principled leadership, recalling past conventions and warning against petty county interests. It calls for bold, inclusive state action to keep Virginia in the lead.
Delegate William A. Anderson of Rockridge proposed constitutional provisions making false registration false polls false counts and vote selling crimes high misdemeanors. Convicted offenders face 6 to 12 months jail and fines at least five hundred dollars with six year voting rights ban unless pardoned. Witness testimony rules apply and assembly may tighten laws.
Section general assembly shall enact laws to prevent and punish corrupt practices in elections and primaries. Laws will prohibit improper use of money by candidates or supporters, in addition to the objects of the preceding section.
A collection of clipped editorial remarks criticizing censorship over South Africa news, politics around Hanna and Cort, imperialism, and the Schley affair. It references Admiral Schley, Meade at Manila, Secretaries Hitchcock and Long, Admiral Cervera, and figures like Bryan and Cannon, with cabal rumors and rebuttals.
"I. J. Green of Lancaster New Hampshire suffered chronic indigestion and nervous debility for years. Since using Electric Bitters they helped me and my wife for years. She calls them splendid for female troubles and a grand tonic for weak, run down women. No other medicine can take their place." Sold with 500 guarantee by B H Gerrell.
Important notice requests speedy payment of all telephone dues for the last quarter by July 1 to cover unusually heavy expenses. It urges prompt remittance and cites the sender Lexixoron Mervat Tevernoxe Co. Also includes an unrelated advertisement for Ely's Liquid Cream Balm priced 75 cents with a spraying tube and claims nasal spray benefits.
An advertising page touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a universal healer for skin ailments and pains, Rocky Mountain Tea for rosy cheeks, Steen's Portucan Grave Wise as soothing for invalids, and Bromo Quinine claimed to prevent pneumonia and grip. The text mimics late 19th or early 20th century patent medicine promotional style with various prices and claims.
The notice requests prompt submission of applications with payment details. It instructs making checks or money orders payable to Rio Exchange Place and mentions Jood Pm in the context of the payment instructions.
A fake medical pitch claims alcoholism is a disease and offers the "Home Gold Cure" for one dollar. It touts rapid, private self cure at home, with directions and physician advice, shipped prepaid from Edwin B. Giles & Company in Philadelphia.
An old practitioner offers a claimed breakthrough for catarrh named “Sserrea the GuaRaxteen Catarrh Cone” sold for one dollar. The ad asserts immediate relief and permanent cure, plus hay fever and cold relief, with a guaranteed treatment sent prepaid from Edwin B. Giles & Company in Philadelphia.
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