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Newspaper
Lexington Gazette
Location
Lexington, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1909
Page
4
Advertisement argues kidney and bladder disease affect both women and men, urges Swamp-Root as remedy, claims quick relief and warns readers to request a sample bottle and pamphlet from Dr. Kilmer & Co. in Binghamton New York.
The lesson, drawn from Corinthians, urges believers to seek the highest gift but choose the way of love. It contrasts boastful gifts with Christlike charity, defines love’s qualities, and calls for surrender to God’s will, awaiting the fuller revelation at resurrection.
In Faulkton and Faulk county South Dakota steam plow outfits move across the prairie pulling multiple plows powered by traction engines. The piece explains rapid land breaking, costs, and potential profits from flax as a first year crop with steam plows completing acres quickly while offering high yields and revenues.
Dr Woods Hutchinson argues in Success Magazine that children should not be deprived of sugar or sunlight. Proper supervision and regular balanced meals curb craving, as artificial sugar deprivation drives overeating. those with ample sugar in meals remain less prone to gorging on sweets.
A recipe from National Food Magazine outlines a yeast bread method with butter milk sugar and eggs. In London Ellen Terry and Mr Balfour dined with Henry W Lucy where Terry, silent then burst out I think that’s a duck of a man as Balfour left for Westminster.
An escaped inmate explains that prison felt safer than freedom after slipping past a trolley, car, and ambulance in a tense Philadelphia Led scene. The quote reveals his uneasy adjustment to life outside.
Miss May Harriman, daughter of Edward H. Harriman, donates an Erie river ferry to a Brooklyn committee and the Red Cross to aid tuberculosis sufferers. The craft serves 300 people with meals, milk, eggs, and an outdoor school, while the Red Cross presents $4000. MARCIA WILLIS CAMPBELL.
The article traces saffron from Crocus sativus origins across Italy to Kurissian regions, noting its ancient mentions in the Bible and Greek literature. It describes saffron’s import to England, cultivation in Essex, and landmarks like Saffron Walden and Safron Hill, then shifts to sixteenth century banquet practices and the careful carving rules for different diners. It adds short anecdotes on a conjurer’s card trick with a rabbit and a joke about a boy named Walter and a parenting riddle, concluding with a quip on all marriages being love marriages and various loves referenced in ad rhetoric.
A grumbling pessimist laments endless bad luck while a companion counters that having no luck at all is worse than constant misfortune. The dialogue highlights contrasting views on luck and fate.
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