Fraternal Orders Meet at Odd Fellows Halls
Fraternal lodge listings show Hockbridge No 58 Odd Fellows Hall Thursday meetings Lexington No 66 Knights of Pythias Tuesday at the hall Liberty Daughters of Rebekah No 2 Monday meetings Mountain City No 67 Ancient York Masons first and third Monday Waynoighte No 1920 Royal Arcanum first and third Wednesday at Odd Fellows Natural Bridge No 1920 etc Lex Council No 179 Junior Order United American Mechanics meets Friday night at Odd Fellows Hall
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Hockbridge Lodge
Odd Felows’ Hall
Lexington Lodge
Royal Arcanum
Odd Fellows
United American Mechanics
Odd Fellows A
Doans Kidney Pills Proclaimed Cures by Lexington User
A Lexington citizen credits Doan's Kidney Pills with curing his kidney trouble after years of back pain rheumatic symptoms and a graveled condition. The testimonial notes relief from semantic rheumatism and a dull back ache following use of the product sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Dean
Lexington
Cnd
Davids. Layne
Jackson Ave
Gorrell
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doan
Cures Blood and Skin Diseases Eczema and Remedies
An old advertisement page lists B B B Blood Balm for blood and skin diseases including eczema and sores with claims of curing poison, ulcers, and rheumatism. Other items promote Poultry care, Hollister’s Tea cleansers, Doan’s Ointment for piles, Doan’s Regulators, and various tonics and remedies from Gorrell and related vendors.
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Blond Guim Co
Aviavis
Gems In Verse and Oddities From Abroad
A collage of verses extolling God’s healing power and nature’s kindness contrasts with scattered anecdotes from auction scenes in Sweden and a prison visit. The piece closes with a London visit tale and a description of Chinese funeral banners carried for pomp and memory.
Tragic Fifty-Cent Dream Ducks Under Chicago Bridge
A vintage Chicago anecdote recalls two starving journeymen printers after the 1893 Columbian Exposition losing a fifty cent piece through a Rush Street Bridge grate. Their grim humor turns to loss as the coin sinks into the river below. The piece also notes a quip by Cecil Rhodes praising cold mutton as a motive for wealth.
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United States
Father Knickerbocker
Red Gulch
Chicago
Rush Street
St. Louis Republic
Green
Cecil Rhodes
Mr. Rhodes
Four Deaths Mark Madrid Funeral Tragedy
An old lady dies suddenly and during the funeral a sequence of deaths follows. The coachman collapses and dies, a mourner dies of shock, and a child in her arms suffers a fatal skull fracture as the hearse arrives at the graveyard.
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Madrid
Hanging a Horse in a Marquis Court of Justice
A sensational tale recounts the private execution of a horse by Marquis de Briqueville after a carriage accident. The marquis convenes a mock court with servants as jury to condemn the horse, orders a scaffold, and the animal is hanged with the coachman and valet aiding in the ritual display.
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Marquis de Briqueville
Biographie Des Excentriques
la Republique du Peuple
Almuanach Democratique
Paris
Monster Deer Liver Poison Arrows Record
Indians use a fresh deer liver tied to a long pole to lure rattlesnakes. The snake bites the liver until its venom is exhausted, then the pole is carried home and the liver dried. The dried liver is ground into powder and stored in a buck skin bag to coat and poison arrows.
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Denver
Length of Rule and Two Thumbs Over
A dockyard laborer, unused to a two foot rule, returns it after time wasted. The foreman asks for the size and the man humorously quotes a vague measure: the rule length plus two thumbs, plus brick, plus the breadth of his hand and arm, from here to there, bar a finger.
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London Mail
Streetcar Fare Dispute Ends With Dime Payment
A crowded streetcar scene ends with a small man paying another fare after a conductor warns he will eject him. The conductor hurls him toward the platform edge, then thanks the man and accepts a dime as the fare.
Virginia News Briefs from Richmond and Beyond
A Richmond editor notes that a large tax payment comes from the Norfolk and Western Railway and others. Virginia politicians and officials are tied to various posts and plans. A local option election is set for January 11, 1910 in Leesburg. A preacher cites church growth in Richmond as a regional peak.
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Leesburg
E. S. Turner
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Virginia
Chesapeake and Ohio
The
Southern Railway
Sinhing Lawyers Seek Refund Over Faulty Remedy
A court action alleges Sinhing Blind Bleeding Portrading Piles Druggist failed to cure a condition within days and seeks return of money paid. The case names the druggist and cites a defective remedy as the basis for the refund demand.
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Greenlee D. Letcher
Atrorner At Law
Lexington, VA
Padt
M. Penice
Atrorney
Law
Lanreton, Virgina
Frank Modu
Notery Publie
J. Preston Moore
Court Core & Moore
Atrorneys At Law
Lexixnton
Paank T. Glasgow
Paes & White
Hoon
Arroisers-At- Law
P. Houston
Louis K. Walz
Malin Street
Ours
A.m
H. M. Quisenberry
North Main Street
Jahnke
Lexington Hotel
Office
R. R.witt & CO. General
Fire Insurance
Old Line Companies
Santa Claus’ Toyland
J. W. McClung
J. Preetos Moore
Frank Moore
Ompanies
Aetoa Fire Insurance Co
Hartford
Warner, Polo & Co
Leslie L, Weaver
Foleyshoney
Weinbergs
China
Japan
Santa Claus
James E. Heck
Opp
Baptist Church
Fairbanks & Morse
Birdsell Farm
E. A. Moore & CO
L. G. Jahnke & Company
Ascember Farm Journal
Joyce
Claremont
N. H
Poley
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
B. H. Gorrell
Jake Hollister
America
Bardock Blood Bitters
Tega
Orkellyanga
Sweden
Boston
Hie Luggage
Aberdonian
London
King’s Cross
Feyther
Scotland
Aweel
Eastern Funereal Pomp
Ethel
Belef
Eader
Toroudyves
Iby Souther
Oer
First
Virginia Regiment
Nicaragua
Taft
Chesapeake Bay
Capes
Congress
Ilinois
Richmond
W. W. Sale
Norfolk
W. McDonald Lee
Lancaster County
Ish Commission
Acca Temple
Mystic Shriners of
Lynchburg
Danville
Roanoke
Farmville
Charlottesville
D. Lawrence Groner
Eastern
L. L. Lewis
R. E. Byrd
Winchester
Virginia House of Delegates
Richmond Virginian
Anti-Saloon League
South
J. T. Watts
Louisville
Lee
Jackson
Grant
Sherman
Houston
Caw
James O'Leary
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