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Newspaper
Lexington Gazette
Location
Lexington, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1900
Page
4
Public notices printed by Barclay & Company in Lexington Virginia include legal advertisements with rates 100 per first insertion and 50c for each continuation, published as second class matter.
An agricultural note warns that removing 200 bushels of potatoes and 80 pounds of actual potash from soil will degrade next crop unless returned. The ad references books on fertilizer composition and use, claiming they are peat free, and promotes German Kali Works at 93 Nuss St New York.
A compendium of views from American university leaders on college education. Harvard’s Charles W. Hirot Princeton’s Francis L. Patton Cornell’s Jacob Gould Schurman Colby’s Nathaniel Butler Vassar’s James M. Taylor Yale’s Timothy Dwight Catholic University’s Thomas J. Conaty Northwestern’s Henry Wade Rodgers Nashville’s W H Payne University of Chicago’s William R. Harper contend that college should reveal powers, foster self discipline, broaden life, sharpen the mind, and prepare for future success.
I M Higgins editor of the Seneca News suffered from chronic piles for years until Backlen’s Arnica Salve. He reports two boxes wholly cured him and calls it the surest pile cure on earth and the best salve in the world. Cure guaranteed, only 25 cents, sold by all druggists.
Claim asserts Green's August Flower as the largest selling medicine worldwide for indigestion and biliousness. It alleges the remedy cleans the system, stops food fermentation, regulates the liver, and energizes the nervous and organic system, with a claim that few doses relieve worries of serious illness. Sample bottles available at Gorrall's Drag Store.
The article discusses trading corn for cheaper by products like cottonseed meal and gluten to boost profit, and the value of manure from such exchanges. It covers chemical fertilizers for roses, stable ventilation, thousand headed kale, Essex rape, milk quality, pasture seed mixes, and using pigs to dispose of milk refuse for added profit.
A collage of aphorisms from Howe Joan Selden Burke Franklin Shakespeare and Franklin mix reflections on wisdom discretion courage and learning. The excerpt presents quotable lines about action versus inaction pride ignorance and experience.
A Farm Journal selection voices a horse’s plea about restraint and care. It urges humane handling, proper feeding, comfortable harness, appropriate water temperature, blinded by light, timely teeth care, safe gear, and patience under the whip. It stresses compassion for beasts and warns against mistreatment.
A garbled collection of jokes and quips from the Smart Set. snippets feature aging, courtship, advice, and rural humor. A farmer family banters about studies and marriage while a weary maiden and others exchange light banter and rural wisecracks.
A printed card found in British coffee houses outlines a six tenet guide to virtue and success. It urges integrity caution against vice and rapid decisive action while promoting patience, from avoiding harmful drinks to promoting polite conduct and perseverance toward right.
Annie E Springer of 1125 Howard Street Philadelphia notes a dramatic cure from a long hacking cough using Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. She praises its relief of chest pain and restored sleep and recommends the remedy for throat chest or lung troubles. Trial bottle free at drug stores with a money back guarantee.
Advert shows Allen's Foot-Rase powder cooling feet and easing tight shoes. Claims cure for corns bunions swolen hot sore and sweaty feet with over 30 000 testimonials. Sold by druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents sample offered free address Allen J Olmsted Le Roy New York.
Advertises Dr King’s New Life Pills as a cure for sick and nervous headaches. Claims they purify blood, strengthen nerves, and boost health, priced at 25 cents with a money back guarantee. Sold by all druggists.
A collection of short sayings on humor appetite temper loves flattery and social behavior. The text notes sayings about barbering boils hunger bears barking dogwood and the folly of good people and reprobates. Each line offers a compact moral or humorous pairing with light moral framing.
The Philadelphia Record Almanac for 1901 offers concise accounts of the Philippine, Transvaal, and China wars along with major items such as complete state census returns and the 57th Congress. It is a valuable reference work to be kept on desks throughout 1901.
The El Progreso Copper Mining Co proposes mining six rich ore bodies in Mexico with high copper and precious metal content. It promises projected 24 percent annual return on 1.5 million capital, with stock options priced from one to several dollars and a concentrate plant to yield large copper profits.
An official notice invites sealed bids by January 14 1901 for supplying the hospital with up to 20 000 pounds of beef on the hoof or in cuts. Requirements call for smooth fat steers weighing 800 pounds or more and delivered in specified lots to Staunton Virginia, with hospital weights used for payment. The hospital reserves the right to reject all bids.
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