Lodge Meeting Schedule Across Local Halls
Rockbridge Lodge 58 meets Thursday at Odd Fellows Hall Lexington Lodge 66 meets Tuesday at Odd Fellows Hall Laberty Lodge 2 Daughters of Rebekah meet Monday at Odd Fellows Mall Mountain City Lodge 67 meets 1st and 3rd Monday at Masonic Hall Natural Bridge Council 1920 Royal Arcana meet 1st and 4th Wednesday at Odd Fellows Hall Lex Council 179 Junior Order United American Mechanics meet Friday at Odd Fellows Hall
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Rockbridge Lodge
Odd Felows
Lexington Lodge
K. of P
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Laberty Lodge
Daughters O Rebekah
Odd Fellows’ Mall
Mountain City Lodge
Ancient York Masons
Masonic Hall
Natural Bridge Council
Royal Arcanum
Industrial Training Gap in New York Public Schools
Andrew S. Draper, New York State Commissioner of Education, argues that for national strength and culture industrial training must align with general education. He blasts the current system as deformed and too narrow at the base, denying wage earners opportunity and risking industrial efficiency.
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Andrew 5. Draper
New York State
Doan's Kidney Pills Praised by Lexington Reader
For months Lexington readers praise Doan's Kidney Pills with verified benefit. Mrs Jennie M Smith of Main St Lexington VA testifies the pills eased back pain headaches and dizziness after a severe fall. Sold by all dealers 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember Doan's.
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Lexington
Dean
Jennie M. Smith
Main St
Gorrell's
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Hemender
Kingfishers’ phosphorescent breasts lure fish, legend says
A nature student recalls night rowes where faint shore lights appear like fairy lamps. The guide claims kingfishers exude a glowing phosphorescence on their breasts to attract fish, enabling the birds to trap their square meals.
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Chicago
Inter Ocean
Evolution of sausage through history and culture
The piece traces sausage origins from 897 and ancient Greek claims to later developments. It notes early mixtures differed from modern sausage, compares to boudin and blood pudding, and mentions ancient varieties wrapped in goat stomachs. It cites hashed pork sausages in the tenth century and 1500 Frankfort Strassburg versions with cinnamon and saffron.
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Homer
Germany
Frankfort
Strassburg
Philadelphia Record
Free Cures for Blood and Skin Diseases Ad
Vintage advertisement listing cures for eczema and blood impurities. Promotes Botanic Blood Balm B B B from Atlanta with claims of healing various skin issues and blood impurities. Also markets Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea and Warns of digestive and cattle care products.
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Tate Botanic
Trea Oy
Blood Balm Co
Atlanta
Corporate consolidations end in empty treasury for holders
Two concerns join under a holding firm and a new company forms to hold both, creating three operating units and two holders. The cycle repeats until both sets reach equality and when financial trouble hits a receiver is appointed for each unit, leaving security holders with nothing.
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Wall Street
Living carpet parade at wedding draws London gossip
A London Tit-Bits writer recalls a wedding where cadets formed a living carpet from the doorway to the carriage. The bride, initially surprised, walks the line on their bodies in a display praised as luxurious yet compares to the Hervey islands practice of a similar living pathway for brides.
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London
Tit-Bita
Hervey Islands
Pacific
Speak on pills and gospel at Sunday service
A southern pastor playfully handles a noisy church member’s heckle about pills. He pivots to explain the sermon topic will be the gospel, contrasting many kinds of pills with the spiritual pill of faith. The anecdote appears in the Ladies' Home Journal.
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Breddern
Breddern and Sistern
Ladies’ Home Journal
Smithfield the oldest cattle market in the world
Smithfield stands as perhaps the world oldest cattle market with attestations dating back to 1150. It began as a cattle fair outside city walls serving as recreation in lean times, and by two centuries later the corporation took official control over beasts and butchers amid memories of Bartholomew Fair and its revelers.
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Smithfield
Fitz-Stephen
London
Rockefeller Style Negotiation Turns Ore Vessels Into Profits
The account recalls John D. Rockefeller using direct, practical pressure to break ore transport barriers. He met with a rival expert, offered a $3,000,000 ship order, and convinced him to build the boats, securing a profitable bargain and a personal connection.
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John D. Rockefeller
Lake Superior
Mr. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
F. N. Doubleday
Oyster Cultivation Across Ages and Oceans
The article traces oyster farming from Roman and European methods to American practice beginning in 1851. East River oystermen observed young oysters clinging to shells, shelling beds before spawning, and likened oyster farming to submarine agriculture requiring constant vigilance against weeds waste and pests.
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America
East Rivers
York
National Magazine
Deadly Queensland nutmegas tree traps birds
A traveler describes the Pisonia brunoniana tree in Queensland that exudes a viscous seed substance like birdlime. Birds striking its panicles become entangled, their wings fixed and feathers matted with seeds as they are immobilized by plant debris.
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Queensland
Australia
Tee-Total pledge coined at Preston temperance meeting
In September 1833 Dicky Turner praised the tee-total pledge at a Temperance Hotel meeting in Preston. Joseph Livesey shouted that the name should be used, and the term spread through Lancashire and beyond as the designation for temperance society members.
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Dicky Turner
L'Reston
Derby
Joseph Livesey
Lancashire
London Mail
Largest Cuban orange crop and other Virginia notes
The year will see Cuba harvest a record 500000 boxes of oranges. Virginia charity funds plan 20000 dollars for Richmond industrial school. poorhouse costs total 1258554.77 for the year. Football casualties rise with 13 dead and 129 seriously hurt. Roanoke eyes local option on saloons amid 714 signatures. The Bryan estate in Henrico valued at 750000 with life interests. Paper from cotton stalks and a 500000 dollar Avianca Georgia mill company formed. Prohibition candidate Swallow criticizes religious belief consideration in voting. Apple pomace seizure in Rappahannock area leads to arrest. Catholics allowed Friday meat on Christmas due to papal dispensation. Virginia cranberries carload sent to New England at 88 per barrel. Oliver Payne donates 50000 to University of Virginia endowment. Automobile tax proposal looms to fund roads with 10 tax per vehicle.
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Joseph Bryan
Richmond
Henries Circuit Court
Bryan
Wother
Bureau of Manufacturers
Avianca
Silac C. Swallow
Prohibition
Rappahannock County
Internal Revenue
Newman
Harrison Jen- Lina
Waynesboro
New England
Blue Ridge Mountains
Blue Ridge
University of Virginia
Uol
Oliver H.payne
New York
Alderman
Virginia
Tees
Itching Bleeding Piles Relief With PAZO OINTMENT
An advertisement announces PAZO OINTMENT as a remedy for itching bleeding protruding piles. It promises fast relief and refunds money if not satisfied, urging users to try the topical treatment.
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Doan
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