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Newspaper
Lexington Gazette
Location
Lexington, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1905
Page
2
The Gazette of Leitner Virginia issues rates for advance subscriptions noting One dollar yearly, three months for 50 cents and single copies at 50 cents. Advertising is moderate and local notices cost 100 per line for first insertion and 50 per line for subsequent insertions. Obituaries and tributes exceed ten lines require payment. office telephone connects with town and county lines.
The season renews the aged and reunites families at the hearth. Commercialism flourishes as dealers showcase a vast array of merchandise amid reports of strong trade across the country and charitable concern for those in need.
A poem urging readers to express love and kindness while friends live not after death. It argues gifts, flowers, and comforting words should be shared now to brighten lives and ease spirits, preferring genuine affection over posthumous tributes.
State education funding for 1906 totals 892804.50, a rise of 28048.85 from last year and the largest allotment yet. Counties listed include Rockbridge 10813.41 and Augusta 15519.50 with several nearby towns and counties named. Road conditions improve with weather but real county road work awaits concrete action.
The Virginia General Assembly adopts a new rule to meet the second Tuesday in January, aiming for more efficient 90 day sessions. The body will convene in renovated Capitol halls, with many new members, as the old House and part of the Senate were re elected.
Senate Military Affairs Committee favors a bill by Senator Foraker to mark Confederate soldiers and sailors buried in U S custody. About 26 774 known and unknown graves would be marked with an estimated total cost near 100 000, including headstones and administration. The measure gains wide support in Congress though fiscal caution might delay passage. The War Department tracks affected graves.
Multiple health boards in northern New Jersey publicize a folk pneumonia cure using onions rye meal and vinegar applied as hot poultices to the chest. The remedy, claimed to be fail safe, is said to have originated with a New England physician and to work within a few applications.
In Oxfordshire England a local custom let maid servants request a piece of ivy from the hired man to trim the house. If he refused or forgot, she would steal a pair of his breeches and nail them to a gate either in the yard or on the road. This act supposedly barred him from mistletoe privileges.
In Belgium children await St Nicholas with rituals of shoe polishing and offerings of hay or carrots for the saint's horse. If good, they find candies. if not, sticks. An ad urges remedies like Dean's Ointment for skin conditions and Dr Fahroey's Toothing Strop for babies, claiming samples on request.
The Board of Directors de clears a 3 percent dividend from past six months net earnings, tax free, payable after January 31 1906. Checks will be mailed to stockholders, Campbell cashier, December 27 1t.
Regular meeting of stockholders at Banklog House Lexington Virginia to elect directors on Tuesday January 9 1900 at ten o clock a m B E Vaughan cashier notice reads with date and location for the bank meeting
An advertised remedy claims to rapidly ease chest and throat cold symptoms. Gowan's External Cure promises immediate action without digestion, suitable for croup and sore throats, sold nationwide by druggists for one dollar, with a smaller twenty five cent croup size and mail options.
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