Fraternal Lodge Meeting Schedule Notes
Fraternal Orders list weekly meeting nights for Rockbridge Lodge 58 Odd Fellows Hall Lexington Lodge 66 K of P meets at Odd Fellows Liberty Lodge 2 Daughters of Rebekah meet Mondays at Odd Fellows Hall Mountain City Lodge 07 Ancient York Masons meet 1st and 3rd Monday at Masonic Hall Natural Bridge Council 1920 meets 1st and 3rd Friday at Odd Fellows Hall Lee Jackson Council 83 Junior Order American Mechanics meets every and 4th Friday at Odd Fellows Hall.
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Rockbridge Lodge
Odd Fellows
Lexington Lodge
K. of P
Mets
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Liberty Lodge
Rebekah
Mountain City Lodge
Ancient York Masons
Masonic Hall
Natural Bridge Council
Royal Arcanum
Odd Fellows Hall
Lee Jackson Connell
Junior Order American Mechanics
Blackstone Female Institute of Christian Training in Virginia
The Blackstone Female Institute in Blackstone VA touts thorough instruction under positive Christian influences at low cost. It highlights a modern brick campus of 25 acres with 29 faculty, 25-acre grounds, ample facilities, and a normal department. Enrollment growth, scholarships, and transfer of students to Randolph-Macon Woman's College are noted.
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Randolph-Macon Woman’s College
Blackstone
GEMS IN VERSE The Ole Dinner Bell
Poem by Edwin C. Davis in Indianapolie News celebrates a summer ritual of dinner bell music. Rural scenes glow with farm life sounds and the welcoming note as noon nears and harvest work winds down.
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Edwin C. Davis
Indianapolie News
The Barber Signals and Hidden Tips in Tip Culture
A quirky report describes barber shop signaling over tips where regulars cue a barber via phrases like seen him today and mighty badly. The system guides treatment and tipping expectations, revealing a private code among patrons and barbers rather than formal rules.
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Barbers’ Union
Broadway
Great White Light District
Jim
New York Press
Eating and Drinking Excess and Fasting Effects
An article from Youth's Companion explains how body needs match tissue use and how fasting or restricted diet affects health. It notes that withholding food shortens life, while water can extend it with rest, and explains risks of overeating, uric acids from meat, and benefits of water, exercise, and baths to prevent illness.
Notable Aerated Water Endorsement and Royal Gossip
A physician applauds a popular aerated water and declines a gift after receiving a generous response from the company. The page then shifts to a reminiscence about the Duke of Savoy in Monaco, detailing his secretive visits to Mime de Valentinois and a dramatic defense using twenty one guns to signal his outings.
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Savoy
Cyprus
Jerusalem
de Valentinois
Monaco
Mme. de Crequy
Financial Manager Touts Auction Rocking Chair Profit
Mrs. Peterby, a financial manager, boasts she bought a rocking chair at auction for 3 and paid 2, claiming a 1 profit. She says she bought it to save money, not for use, and quips that women have business sense.
The Mountain Fiddler and Appalachian Music Charm
Harper's Magazine surveys mountaineer music across Kentucky Tennessee and the Carolinas. It highlights the mountain fiddler and banjo play, their untrained but true voices, rapid jerky tempos, humor as a core American trait, and tunes that are reflective rather than martial.
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Kentucky
Tennessee
Carolinas
Harper's Magazine
Weary Raggles Takes A Bath At Last
Weary wanderer Raggles has for the first time in memory bathed, a startling moment as visions of childhood rise up blurred. He resolves to execute a plan to secrete the portable object, dispose of it for a dime, and obtain a drink with the proceeds.
Five Foot Man Watches Sea From Steamer Deck
A slender man just over five feet tall stands tall by the rail on a steamer gazing sternly at the sea. The captain asks him to step aside to trim the ship which has taken a noticeable list to port.
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London
A London magazine tale on frugal households
A London magazine anecdote about a husband who recalls each child's birthday by a gift date. He lists August 17, July 20, and May 6 tied to keepsakes and a millinery bill dispute. The piece humorously connects domestic ingenuity to rising prices. A hardware store visit ends with a quip about price drops and washing the baby in a coal scuttle.
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Binks
iIt
Emergency Egg Uses and a Granddaughter's Kiss Tale
An 19th century curio lists egg applications such as sealing letters and easing burns with egg white. It notes coral sulfur remedies and swallowed whites for throat issues, plus a mustard plaster tip. The piece shifts to Judge Parker recounting a telephone kiss joke with his granddaughter Dorothy, who says a kiss over the line is like a straw hat.
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Judge Parker
Albany
N. Y
Dorothy
Sharp man and widow divorce case noted in Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution reports a sharp man was sued by a widow and won $8100 judgment. He later married the widow, obtained a divorce for $40, and left with $60 from a $100 settlement.
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Widder
Atlanta Constitution
Odd Rail Materials Used Along Mexican Gulf Line
In west Mexico a railway line rests on ebony sleepers and ballast of silver ore beside the track. Bridges are built of white marble while the rails lie on mahogany sleepers. Engineers chose these apparent extravagances as a cheaper alternative to importing common materials.
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Mexico
Rooseveltianism in The New York World Open Letter
The New York World's open letter attacks Theodore Roosevelt focusing on his personality. It claims his temper and ambition drive policy, accuses him of warlike ambitions in the hemisphere, and critiques rising federal spending while noting the gold standard's broad support and the fading silver issue.
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The
New York World
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Europe
Central
South America
Armor in the Civil War debated and observed by a Virginian
The letter from J. Cabell Early of Bon Ton Bedford County recounts witnessing two armor styles at Manassas and Gettysburg. He describes a flexible steel strip vest and a two-piece thin steel armor worn by a fallen Federal soldier whose furlough and a pending marriage note were found beside him. He also cites a Northern judge’s praise for Confederate resilience and urges noninterference as the country seeks postwar solutions.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
J. Cabell Early
Bon Ton
Bedford County
Richmond
Manassas
Gettysburg
Early
Ewell
New York
Two-Tongued Baby Born In Michigan Headlines Oddities
A curious report notes a baby born in Michigan with two tongues, alongside items about cotton consumption in the United States, political maneuvers, and social tidbits. The piece weaves disparate notes from Roosevelt’s brief fair role to immigration aims and public health quips.
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Michigan
United States
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
St. Louie Fair
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Perce M
Penick
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Frask Moor
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Lexinorvos
Buena Vista Ind
Lexington
Buena Vista
A H. Hartman
Main Street
Louis K. Walz
Crown and Bridge
Postoffice
Os Cel
B. Walker, Jr
T.S. Briers
R.r.witt & Co
J. C. Varner
Varner, Pole & CO
Agner & Sheridan
M. J. Hess
Opposite Presbyterian Church
Blackstone Female Institute
James Cannon, Jr
A. M
Moses
Lexington Roller Mills
Avery
Sync Aly
Moses Bros
the River
Osborne Machinery
W.F. Pierson
St. Louis
Eee and Guaranty Conany
National Life Insurance Company of Vermont
Sam’l B, Walker, JR
C.A. Lacy & Son
the Mountain Fiddler
Kiseos
Mexican Railways
Rooseveltianism
Congress
McKinley
Spain
Cleveland
Bryan
Alton B. Parker
Halliot
Washingto
Jefferson
Madison
Jackson
Lee
George Foster Peabody
Democratic National Committee
Baltimore Sun
Virginia Republican Party
France
Paris
Japan
Payne Baye
Mississippi
Vardaman
William J. Bryan
Parker
Chicago Board of Health
New York Board
Malacca
Chicago
Winchester
A. A. Arnold
Fishersville
Augusta County
Indianapolis
Ind
Charles W. Fairbanks
Elihu Root
Fairbanks
Italy
New Orleans
Texas
Green
B. H. Gorrell
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