Fraternal Orders Meet At Local Lodges
Mountain City and Rockbridge lodges hold regular meetings at Odd Fellows and related halls. Lexington K P and Natural Bridge Royal Arborum convene monthly with named officers listed. Junior Order American Mechanics meets Sundays and Fridays at Odd Fellows halls with officers named. Daughters of Rebekah meet Mondays at Odd Fellows hall with Miss Anna Beeston noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mountain City
Ancient York
Odd Fellows’ Hall
L. C
J. P. Birmingham
B. Radford
Liberty Lodge
Daughters of Rebekah
Odd Fellows’ Mall
Anna —. Beeston
N. GG
E. N. Boogher
Seev
Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Ad Claim
An old advertisement touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a cure for kidney liver and bladder problems. It promises relief from urinary issues and nocturnal awakening while urging readers to request a free sample bottle and a booklet by mail from Kilmer Co of Binghamton New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swamp-Root
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N.Y
GEMS IN VERSE The Roamer's Inning at Moving Time
The poem laments movers burdened households with clutter resenting upheaval. It contrasts comforts of home with the restless urge to roam, ending with a sigh for roaming freedom and the burdens of packing and travel.
A Literary Man Pingwill and His Curious Snobbery
A sharp sketch of Pingwill a pretentious literary snob who brags about classics reviews and university exam success while priding himself on knowing authors and dreading the wrong kind of praise. Heydinger orchestrates a plan to curb his poses as the narrator recalls their literary circle and Pingwill’s foiled vanity.
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Pingwill
Heydinger
Beneat
Iis
Dickens
Jerome
Mark Twain
Kipling
Kenneth Graham
Teydinger
Wendle Hooper
Bellows
Lant
The Tail Piece and Hogarth’s End of All Things
A brief note on Hogarth’s last work The Tail Piece created as he foreseen “the end of all things.” The painting features symbols of ruin including a broken bottle, ruined crown, broken gallows, a waning moon, and a cracked globe with the legend ex nihilo omnes. Hogarth died a month after finishing the piece.
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Hogarth
Penius
Ain Inn
Phobus
Pather
Kim” Mogarth
Driving a Bargain at a Maine Coastal Church
A summer visitor at a Maine coast Universalist church trades a hymn book for a pair of black gloves. The exchange occurs after a polite offer of the hymn book and a light bargaining twist that satisfies both parties during the summer stay.
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Boston
Maine
Universalist
Portsmouth
Judge and Lord Alverstone On Fees And Fate
A brief anecdote contrasts a local judge's sharp remark about a deacon with a sharp retort from Lord Alverstone. Alverstone defends a $5,000 charge for a few pages of advice as part of a lifetime of training and experience, framing it as half a day from the heart of his life.
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Lord Alverstone
Alaska Boundary Commission
Temple
Pingwill Blunders Over Alvarados in Literary Banter
In a facetious drawing room exchange, Pingwill tumbles through references to Lant Browning and Alvarados, misreading a passage and embarrassing himself. Heydinger and Moydinger watch as Pingwill grasp for memory, then retreat with a reddened face and lingering doubt about his omniscience.
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Hooper
Graham
Pingwill
Mooner
Leigh Funt
Leigh Munt
Heydinger
Moydinger
Alvarados
Theydinger
Rabelais
Gil Blas
Hudibras
British Museum
Wendle Hooper
Browning
Age Limits for Marriage Vary by Country as Seen in Laws
The piece notes Denmark allows a twelve year old girl and fourteen year old boy to marry, while many places set eighteen for men and sixteen for women. Germany restricts male marriage to after twenty one unless declared of age after eighteen, and France notably regulates rights and earnings between spouses with obligations to support the wife’s relatives if needed.
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Denmark
Germany
France
Ice in London Shock for Aberdeen Man
An Aberdeen man overheard in a London railway refreshment room asks for ice with Scots humor. He samples a spoonful and notes frostbite as the waiter explains it is ice. The Aberdonian expresses astonishment that Londoners eat ice while boasting that they slide and skate on it in Aberdeen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Aberdonian
Aberdeen
Typhoid Fever Warnings From 1872 Gazette Essay
Professor McCulloch urges farmers to expose and remove filth on farms as a root cause of typhoid. He cites London boarding school outbreaks and Paris lodging deaths due to cess-pool and privy issues, and references the Prince of Wales and others, urging thorough sanitation to abate the disease.
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R. S. McCulloch
Washington College
Oversoer
London
Paris
McCulloch
Hall
Journal of Wealth
Prince of Wales
United States
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Vreenlee
Letcher
Arrorsay At Law
Lexington, VA
Pyacl M Penick
Arrounry At Law
Laurieton, Virginia
Frank Moone
J. Prestos Moor
Kookeridge County
Core & Moore, Arronnrers At Law
Lexixnton
Wartman
Main Street
Lexington
Hutton Engineering Co., Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineers
Robert E. Hutton
Pesington, Va
Uel B. Walker, Jr
C. E. Woodward
Jeweler
Witt &Co
N. B
M. J. Hess
Presbyterian Church
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Arizona
California
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Idaho
Mexico
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Nebraska
Nevada
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Oregon
South Dakota
Texas
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
British Columbia
Botetourt Farm
Rosemont
Fincastle
James G. Dixon
Lui
Desinens
Mien
Weinbergs
Just
Owen Hardware Co
W. F. Pierson
the Valley Tie and Lumber Co
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank
Staunton
Progressive Cash Store
C. A. Lacy & Son
Toto
All
Yassuh
Yassih
Sul
Des
Virginia
Whiteloo
Country Produce
Corner Main and
Washington Streets
Europe
R.s.mecculloch
Baltimore
House
Cleveland
Hugh Gordon Miller
United States Department of Agriculture
Byera
Washington County
University of Virginia
Woodstock
William Jennings Bryan
Ambassador Choate
Tibet
Holy Land
England
Caroline Roth
Philadelphia
Winchester
Ellen Bailey
Norfolk and Western
Greenville
Georgis Daughters of the Confederacy
South
Bell
War Department
VD. Groner
Merchants’ and Miners’ ‘Transportation Company
Norfolk
Dival
Saratleigh Hospital
General Beauregard
Confederate War Department
Fort Sumpter
Virginia Polyweehnie Institute
Blacksburg
TOU
Episcopal Church
He Methodist
Presbyterian
Baptist
Division of the Philippines
Davis
Division of the
Philippines
B. H. Gorrell
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