Virginia News Roundup With Local Ventures and National Glimpses
The compilation notes postal workers guaranteed a vacation month, Taft's popular standing in the South, and Virginia rifle team success at Camp Perry led by Staunton members Opie Roberts and Douglas. Newport News buys Virginia Hotel complex, Yorktown landmark Nelson house changes hands, and talk of smaller paper money designs circulates. Also mentioned are Panama Canal cost projections, federal expense comparisons under Cleveland and Roosevelt, J Pierpont Morgan’s Egypt moment, German noble Schneyburger at Virginia Brewing, and a Roanoke brewery hire linked to family disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans Picayune
Taft
Roosevelt
Virginia
Camp Perry
Ohio
Staunton
Opie
Sergt. Roberts
Sergt. Douglas
A. T. Moore
Newport News
Order of Cincinnati
Nelson
Yorktown
Thomas Nelson
Lord Cornwallis
MacVeagh
Fort Omaha
Connecticut
State Laboratory
Panama Canal
Harper's Weekly
Cleveland
Army
Navy
J. Pierpont Morgan
Napoleon
Egypt
East
Franz Schneyburger
Virginia Brewing Company
Schneyburger
Roanoke
Breslau
Germany
Henry
Louis Scholz
Theount
Edvanossh
Renita
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement in Lexington VA
Lexington residents report relief from kidney pain and backache after using Doan's Kidney Pills. Mia Jennie M. Smith cites improved loins soreness dizziness and headaches after treatment from Gorrell's drug store. FoxsterMilburn Co. Buffalo NY firm is sole US agent. price 50 cents. Remember the name Doan's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Lexington
Mia
Jennie M. Smith
Main Bt
Doan
Gorrell
Prive 50 Centx
Foxster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doana
Food of the Ancients and Culinary Marvels
The article recalls ancient beliefs about foods like beans cabbage onions and garlic affecting health and courage. It notes Hippocratic worries about beans, Alexander the Great feeding onions for martial ardor, and Galen on bacon before sport, plus a humorous English anecdote about hunt servants and a fox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hippocrates
Erasistratus
Apicius
Alexander the Great
Galen
Greece
Rome
Antony
Cleopatra
Lex. Council No 179 Junior Order meets Friday nights
Lex Council No 179 of the Junior Order United American Mechanics holds meetings every Friday night at Odd Fellows Hall as shown in local organization notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Arcanum
Lst
Lex. Council
United American Mechanics
Odd Fellows Hall
Capital Stock Surplus Fund and Related Financial Details
Financial item notes capital stock surplus fund undivided profits and circulation account deposits and individuals due to bank amounting to 36 451 18. The fragment lists balance sheet components without context or dates.
Blood Balm and Herbal Cures Advertised Alongside Miscellany
An assortment of medical ads promotes Botanic Blood Balm for blood and skin diseases, Foley’s remedies for kidney and digestion, Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea, and Pardock Blood Bitters. The page also contains letters and notices on dueling topics including Andrew Carnegie’s library gift, a charity home bequest, and miscellaneous anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laim Co
Avauva
Roses And Myrtle In A Love Poem
A verse by Lewis Worthington Smith contemplates enduring love against fading beauty and looming death. The speaker contrasts eternal emotion with the eventual silence of a beloved voice, noting joy from past pains surpasses present, while laughter and love eventually grow dark.
Evolution of the Ship Word From Hollowed Logs
The essay traces how the word ship derives from the Aryan habit of hollowing logs to improve buoyancy. It follows the rootskap through languages from Sanskrit and Greek to English, showing minimal phonetic change over centuries as the term for a hollowed vessel evolved across cultures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lusitania
New York Herald
Hobos exchange quips on hydrophobia and fear of water
A learned hobo explains hydrophobia to a companion by noting the disease makes water sick. The exchange pivots on a pun about Nixon and a claim of lifelong illness. The New York Times quotation frames the humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon
New York Times
A Polits Interpreter Portrays Royal First Impressions
A playful anecdote recalls Princess Charlotte arriving in London for her marriage to George III. The crowd reacts with a cry translated by the Duchess of Ancaster who explains its meaning. The piece then pivots to musings on value and imagination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz
London
George III
Ancaster
Anniversary of last English peer executed for murder marked
May 5 recalls the 1760 Westminster Hall murder trial of Laurence Shirley fourth earl of Ferrers who shot his steward. He traveled from the Tower to Tyburn in a landau and was hanged with a silk cord after the new drop replaced the cart ladder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurence Shirley
Earl of Ferrers
Westminster Hall
Tower
Tyburn
London
Democratic Victory Predicted In Virginia Gubernatorial Race
State Democratic Committee chair Hon J Taylor Ellyson says Virginia will elect the Democratic ticket next fall. He boasts of victory margins, notes past reforms in education roads and health, and warns against Republican activity as the party solidifies support. Booker T Washington discusses gains of the American negro since emancipation with data on banks homes farms and literacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Taylor Ellyson
State Democratic Committee
Virginia
Judge Mann
Tory
Booker T. Washington
National Negro Business League
Louisville
League
New England
Grasshoppers The Western Australia Household Joke
A Boston Herald note comments on Western Australia where domestic servants are scarce and wives do much work themselves. Husbands left to manage while wives seive their own duties are nicknamed grasshoppers, paralleling the term grass widow used for deserted wives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Australia
Antipodes
Boston Herald
Korean Marriage Customs Describe Painted Faces for Wives
In Korea a bride appears at the wedding with ghastly white makeup and scarlet lips to blind her, while women endure hard work yet are generally well treated. They keep pretty names until they bear a son, after which they are called the mother of that son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Korea
So-an' Go
Lynchburg Shows Good-Humored Resilience On National Highway Decision
Lynchburg residents accept being cut from the national highway for now and vow to work for next year. Led by the chamber of commerce, they push to improve surrounding roads to boost future route prospects. The attitude mirrors sportsmanlike good humor and determination to succeed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynchburg
Journal
New York Herald
Natural Bridge
Greensboro
Roanoke
Grensboro
Winston-Salem
Chamber of Commerce
Atlanta Journal
Fragmented note misprints medical terms and dates
Odd OCR style note mentions itching bleeding protruding piles and eye issues. It references a six to fourteen day period and a vague owed tail to care in a distant future. No clear event or person identified in readable text.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Eusy
Harry Thaw
League of Virginia Municipalities
D. Letcher
Lexington, VA
Lee M. Penice
Lay
Lauisaton, Virginia
Frank Moor
Notary Public
J. Preston Moore
Courtoon & Moore
Arrossrys
in _—_ Puank
T. Glasgow
Huon A. Whet, Gres & White
Arrorxets-At-Law
Y. P. Houston
Oct
Louis K. Walz
North Main Street
Lexington,va
H. N. Quisenberry
Jabnke
Lexington Hotel
R. R.witt & CO. General Fire Insurance
Old -Lin Companies
J. W. McClung
First National Bank
U. S
U.S
J Preston Moore
Frank Moore
Moore & Moore Fire Insurance
Ompanies
Aeton Fire Insurance Co
Hartford
Conn
Hartford Fire Insurance Co
Wi. J. Hess
J. Hess
Presbyterian Church
Main Street
Leslie L. Weaver
Oxford
Iearry
H.L. Kennedy
Buena Vista
21St Street
Magnolia Avenue
Vulcan
J. Gassman & Son Hardware Company
Waterloo
Jones
Smith
James E. Heck
Opp
Baptist Church
L.G. Jahnke & Company
DR. Fahrney
Ceeey
Des. D
Eahrney
Son
Acmarown
Munich
Notien
Foley
L. Bowen
Wayne
W. Va
H. Gorrell
I. H. Gorrell
Charles E. Bullberg
Chicago
Ing Bank
Thut
Art Museum of
Guttenburg
Hollieter
Rocky Mountain
B. H. Gorreil
Andrew Carnegie
Tarles
County Kerry
Ireland
Carnegiie
Hollister
John Hays Hammond
Rocky Mountain Pont
B. H. Gorrell
Mary E. Jones
Knonville, Ill
Georgia
H. W Wiley
George H. Krause
Walnut Ave
Altoona
John D
Dr. Thomas
America
Atlantic City
Allence
Lewis Worthington Smith
Ellyson Isaacs
Washington
Women In
Oliver Cromwell
Wales
Havon
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