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Lexington Gazette

Location

Lexington, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 11, 1901

Page

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The Baltimore Freedom Run Headlines The City

The fragment highlights a Baltimore area event titled The Baltimore Freedom Run. The readable text emphasizes community involvement and a locally framed paper motto The Paper of The People For The People.

Electric Lighted Trains by Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul Ry

The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway announces electric lighted trains with compartment cars sleeping cars buffet library cars and smoking cars running between Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Minneapolis. Day trains feature buffet observation parlor cars between Chicago St Paul and Minneapolis. Solid trains operate to northern Wisconsin upper peninsula Michigan Iowa Minnesota Missouri South and North Dakota with fine dining and sleeping cars and electric reading lamps. Tickets available at agents or address The Janeway Traveling Passenger 428 Third St Philadelphia.

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Michigan Chicago Iowa Minnesota Dakota Berthe Illinois Wisconsin Upper Peninsula Missouri South Dakota North Dakota Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Pau Third St Philadelphia

A Fox's Revenge Fable of Hidden Goose Feud

A hunter observes six geese by a river as a fox stalks them. The fox dives, swims, and caches a goose in a mossy hole then covers it with leaves. After an hour the fox returns with a second fox, they unearth the site, but a fight erupts and both foxes are killed.

Lenght Holf

testimonial for Dr Pierce medicine from Ohio woman

A Wilkesville Ohio resident writes of severe illness including throat pain and nervous weakness. After taking three bottles of Dr Pierce medicine she reports marked improvement and credits it above all prior treatments. She offers Dr Pierce’s Medical Adviser free with 21 one cent stamps or a cloth bound volume for two stamps.

Mire Golder Wilkesville Vinton Co Ohio de Pierce

Pointed Paragraphs of Commonplace Wit and Advice

A Nebraska newspaper compiles a string of quirky maxims on money pride and self reliance. It jokes about patience and opportunity, gendered personifications, and social morals while mocking blunders in language. It notes a druggist guilt over smoothing syrup and contrasts dentists with pugilists.

Farm News and Views on Cabbage Leaves and Fodder

Agricultural tips cover preserving heads of cabbage by burying with roots up to resist frost, storing fallen leaves for bedding, cutting feed with a cutter, wheat resilience to Hessian fly, tile drainage reducing freeze thaw damage, pure breeds improving flocks, turning to turnips carrots and ensilage for winter feed, corn fodder versus hay, and maximizing pasture with proper harvest timing.

Does It Pay to Buy Cheap Cough Remedy

An advertisement extols Boschee's German Syrup as the sole effective treatment for severe throat and lung troubles. It claims the remedy heals, reduces inflammation, loosens phlegm, and aids sleep. Sample bottles are offered at Gorteli's drug store.

Boschee Gorteli

Blood Balm cures rheumatism in a day free trial offer

An advertisement promotes Botanic Blood Balm B B B as a universal cure draining poison from blood and bones. It claims relief from bone and joint pains swollen glands throat issues and bad breath with free medical advice and prepaid mail offer from Blood Balm Co Atlanta Ga. The copy asserts thousands of cures and improved skin color and blood quality.

Blood Balm Co Atlants THE Swift Specific CO Atlanta

Allen's Foot-Ease offers quick relief for sore feet

Allen's Foot-Ease powder cures painful smarting feet and ingrown nails and eases corns bunions. It makes tight shoes feel comfortable and treats sweating calluses hot tired feet. Sold by druggists and shoe stores with trial mail option. March 27 12t.

Allen Olmsted le Roy N. Y

Virginia State Insurance Company Losses Paid

Excerpt notes assets and losses paid involving N V Rasporin cons K Wiis Kos r Story Jn with limited context from a historical insurance record. Contains names and financial items without full details.

N. V. Rasporin Cons K. Wiis Kos R Story

Gold Discovery Date Confirmed at Coloma Sutter Mill

The Society of California Pioneers determines January 8 1848 as the exact date of California gold discovery by James W Marshall. The gold occurred in the tail race bed of the Sutter sawmill at Coloma near the American River.

Society of California Pioneers California James W. Marshall Sutter Coloma American River

Devctions Anti Diveric May Help Sleepers With Bed Wetting

An ad touts Devctions Anti Diveric as a cure for bedwetting in children and adults. It claims immediate relief from nocturnal incontinence and offers the product for $1, sold by B. H. Gorrell, druggist.

B. H. Gorrell

Pretty Eyebrows and Lashes Offered in Ad

The ad promotes beauty products claiming to thicken eyelashes and promote lung growth as a French secret. It notes a post-paid package price of 25 cents and lists Brownsville Tennessee as the location for the offer.

Dixit Maphine Vo Brownsville Tenn

All troubles have two handles proverb

A wise person does not grasp the hot or the long handle, unlike a fool who seizes the quick pain and a youngster who clutches the lasting burden. The saying contrasts rash actions with prudent restraint.

One Of Sandow's Tricks And Fashions Of Handkerchiefs

A London tobacconist tale shows Sandow bending a faulty shilling to prove it counterfeit. The piece shifts to fashion notes on lace trimmed handkerchiefs, mackerel recipes, and new fabric styles with long-stemmed floral designs across handkerchiefs and petticoats.

Sandow New York Herald

Tax dispute yields humorous large verdict in mock case

In a Chicago News quote, Mrs Wise jokes about her husband’s worth after a jury awards $2,060 for the loss of a finger. The exchange suggests the husband’s value would be about 500 times that amount.

Chicago News

Cure Contagious Blood Poison Promoted By Swift Specific Co

A dramatic claim promotes Swift Specific Co cure for contagious blood poison. The ad emphasizes prevention by addressing parental transmission and urges readers to request a free booklet from The Swift Specific Co of Atlanta Georgia.

Irrepressible Patient Sparks Doctor Joke On Deathbed

A genial doctor jokes about the patient on a serious bed, saying there is little wrong though a final joke would be his last chance. The patient replies that humor would be his last chance at telling a joke.

Circular Rainbow Spotted Over Finsterhorn Peak

A climber recalls a rare circular rainbow seen on Finsterhorn during ascent. The arc lasted about half an hour, with another rainbow circle visible above the Aar glacier four thousand feet below and a dramatic Grimsel face view from near the summit.

Finsterrehorn Aar Ainglay Grimsel

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