Doan's Kidney Pills Promise Relief for Kidney Trouble
A Lexington Virginia testimonial asserts Doan's Kidney Pills cured a woman’s kidney pain and nervous weakness. Mrs Emma Leech reports relief after one box bought at Gorrell's drug store, noting dizziness and fatigue eased and health improved. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents. FosterMilburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents.
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Emma Leech
Jefferson St
Lexington
Dean
Gorrell
Gorrell’s
Yeurs
Tsin
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doan
Dr. Shoop
Blood Balm and Restoratives Dominate Ad Pages
A collage of patent medicine claims occupies the page with cures for skin disease blood purity and nerve weakness. Ads tout Botwale Blood Balm B B B Dr Shoop’s Restorative and Dr Shoop Health Coffee promising quick strength, relief and free samples alongside notes on steam tonnage UK naval orders and Teething Syrup.
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Avani
Requiem for the Brave Young Soldier
A clipped verse tribute by George Lunt honor the fallen youth in battle. The poem laments the comrade’s sacrifice, praising courage and the country’s call, as guitars of mourning echo the soldier’s valor and sorrow.
Instinct or Reason in Birds and Beings
A writer muses on whether behaviors in crows blackbirds sparrows bees and other creatures arise from instinct or reasoning. He cites examples of guarding nests for crops coop behaviors bee hesitation cow induced grasshopper feeding and an angleworm using a stick to reach soil, suggesting some logical processes beyond pure instinct.
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Florida
Clinton
Science
Sam
E. P. Powell
Independent
Panama Servants and Odd Numbers Spell Local Woes
The piece notes a servant shortage in Panama with Jamaican maids seen as below standard. It cites a maid fixated on her hat and another cooking steak with deliveries, reflecting cultural clashes. It also discusses the oddity of grocery weights with many items sold in odd pounds while even amounts require custom weighing.
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Panama
Jamaica
Sensation of high speed in a record breaking motor car
A Kansas City Star account describes a race car ride with vivid danger and exhilaration. The driver recalls how speed tests push the body and nerves, with a near miss at a stone wall and a final line crossing. Timers verify the new record while jokes about marriage divide the older and younger crew.
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Tie
Kansas City Star
Queen Victoria's Parkhurst Prison Visit Amazes Convicts
The queen entered the Parkhurst female convict prison to meet the inmates in the women's ward. A hushed crowd of prisoners cried out for mercy, hoping she would pardon them. She paused in fear, then returned with regal resolve, passing through the silent crowd.
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Queen Victoria
Parkhurst
Ilson
News from the Telegraph Era Delayed and Dramatic
An elderly note recalls how war news traveled slowly before the telegraph. In Glasgow a mail coach carried victory announcements such as Niles or Waterloo, with laureled horses, red flags, scarlet guards, and horn blasts while crowds gathered and the news spread like wildfire through Nelson Street and Gallowgate.
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Glasgow
Nelson Street
Jebb’s Witty Dinner Reply About Women and Heartbreak
In his diary, Sir Richard Jebb recounts a Cambridge dinner moment when a young woman asked if women ever die of a broken heart. He replied that perhaps other organs may have something to do with it, delivering a sharp, unexpected reply.
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Richard Claverhouse Jebb
Cambridge
Richard
Jebb
Professor Jebb
Book ideals spread happiness and unite distant worlds
James Freeman reflects on how books influence the world by bringing happiness, awakening faith in newcomers, soothing pain, offering ideal lives to the cold homes, uniting distant ages and lands, creating beauty, and conveying heavenly truths.
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James Freeman
Armor plate versus big guns guard royal strong rooms
The article likens locksmiths battling burglars to armor plated vaults and high security. It details London strong rooms with concrete beds, water reservoirs, and four ton iron doors, noting a vault that once accepted a thief through sewers and now houses vast sums and treasures.
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Bank of England
Ihs T Treasury
London
Ino
London Telegraph
Lincoln anecdotes and a hallboy misunderstands a visitor
A collection of brief, varied vignettes from the era. Lincoln jokes about Native American place names and English habits provoke quiet retorts. A New York woman complains of a persistent admirer. a hallboy reveals the admirer lives on the third floor. A hunter notes tiger whiskers must be jarred, a practice causing irritation if crushed into curry. London notes warn of native superstitions.
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New York
Virginia Bar Association elects Capt. Woods president
Capt. Micajah Woods of Charlottesville was elected president of the Virginia Bar Association at Hot Springs that week. Other items note a physicians association in Atlanta, a mustache decree affecting Emperor William, a fatal leap from a Richmond hospital window, and various political and local incidents across Virginia.
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Micajah Woods
Charlottesville
Virginia Bar Association
Hot Springs
Atlanta
William
Hen Iah G. Connell
Memorial Hospital
Richmond
PAZO Ointment Promise At Six to Ten Days
An advertisement asserts a druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure piles in six to ten days. The copy emphasizes hemorrhoidal relief and urges trial use with a money back guarantee.
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Odd Fellows
Lexington Lodge
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Lex
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Old Fellows Hall
Reenlee D. Letcher
Lexington, VA
Dave M. Penick
Luaineton
Virginia
Frank Moone
J. Prestox Moone
Tate Clerk Co
Court Pjoone & Moore
Atronseys At Law
Lexinetos
Frank T, Glascow
Hucn
A. Waite
Alate & White
Arronseys-At- Law
Lexington Va
Houston
R. R.witt & CO. Fire Insurance
Old Line Companies
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Agner’s
Baltimore & Ohio R. R
Harrisonburg
Winchester
Charlestown
Harper's Ferry
Ohicago
Pittsburg
Washington
Baltimore
Owth
Hagerstown & Frederick
A. B. Beckwith
A. B. Beckwith & Co, Opp
Bank Rockbridge
R. S. Anderson
Foley Shioney
Lelia Hagood
Sylvia
Tenn
Cardus
Ladies Advisory Department
The
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Chattanooga, Tenn
Bickford & Huffman
Syracuse
Lexington, Virginia
L. G. Jatinee and Company
Cot
Hamilton-Brown
Rockbridge Lime & Stone Co
James E. Heck
OPP
Baptist Church
Ecrema
L Oyd
United Kingdom
Shoop
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Cordilleras
Valparaiso
Buenos Ayres
Arabia
Iran
United States Geological Survey
St. Paul
Sir Redvera Buller
Alwave
England
China
Kete
Ange
George Lunt
Evan
Lincoln
West
Nebraska
Longfellow
President Lincoln
Ind
Swanson
Lee Stracher
Madison County
James J. Price, Sr
Russell County
S. S. Rhodes
Charles Broomfield
Roanoke
Comer
Alabama
Nonusion
Baltimore Chamber of Commerce
A. Jett
Tibetha
Hous
Westmoreland
Leicaster
Northumberland
Jett
Henry Watterson
Bryan
Kern
Cleveland
Stevenson
Weat
Charleston
Louis Bennett
Adam B.littlepage
Uecor
Alexandria Gazette
Luke Wright
Einker
Military Academy
Roosevelt
Co, al. Weaver
Militia Division
War Department
Organized Militia
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Alleghany
Bath
Botetourt
Highland
Nelson
Rockinghow
Rockbridge
Shenandoah
Chatham
Lepjoy
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