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Newspaper
Lexington Gazette
Location
Lexington, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1908
Page
4
Readers urged to try Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root kidney liver and bladder remedy claimed to cure lame back and other kidney troubles. Free sample bottle and informative book promised with mail request to Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY.
Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction in Lexington Virginia the Rockbridge Alum Springs and Jordan Alum Springs properties including hotels cottages and personal property on about 1500 acres. The sale begins 11 AM with installment terms and a deed of trust securing deferred payments. The properties lie about five miles from Milboro and eight miles from Goshen on the C&O railroad line.
W. T. Shields commissioner in chancery fixes December 10 1908 as the time to execute decree of reference in the case J A Houmxs et al v Magl Strele s heirs et al. Notices to interested parties to appear at his Lexington Virginia office.
In a family tale, Frank Framely's shift to vegetarianism clashes with Christmas plans. He forbids real meat, citing health and ethics, while Mrs Framely struggles to prepare a mock turkey. The dinner ends with a confrontation and a postponement of the vegetarian theme as they head to a restaurant for a traditional meal.
A holiday scene unfolds with a mock turkey, mince pies, and somber Christmas in the Framely household. Aunt and mother clash over plans while traditions and superstitions mix with jokes about popularity and nuts.
The passage reflects on finding light and hope within evil and suffering. It suggests that hardship reveals instruments of wisdom and the sublime purposes behind faith and love through contemplation and resilience.
A devotional outline listing lessons from David and Solomon with golden texts. It links events like the ark in Jerusalem and Absalom’s rebellion to messianic fulfillment, then shifts to forgiveness, the Lord as shepherd, temple dedication, temperance, wisdom, and the Christmas birth of Jesus as king.
Dr Woods Hutchinson in The American Magazine says the danger of being buried alive is exceedingly slight and cites consultations with undertakers who call such reports myths. He notes no authentic case in recent decades and calls many accounts pure fakes.
In England a Yorkshire inn hostess famed for grand Christmas pies is recalled in a quirky verse from 1833. The poem notes pies of vast circumference and a county paper recording their size, praising the hostess skilled in cakes and ovens who lies remembered beside a church.
In a rural vignette Ab Corn tossel jokes about placing himself on a Christmas tree while Sary teases that he would stay there until ripe. The tale mentions Christmas Children and a Catholic custom of dressing Puppets as Christmas children hidden on Christmas Eve with rewards for finding them.
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