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Newspaper
Lexington Gazette
Location
Lexington, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1909
Page
1
On New Year’s Day a husband vows to reform in a light hearted Scots style recital. He renounces the lodge, avoids the hameward road, stops smoking inside, and refrains from telling chestnut jokes to his wife. He promises servant manners and patience, seeking wedded bliss and fewer dry goods bills.
Woman commits to trimming expenses and idle displays and to avoid gossip and mixed company. She plans to focus on her husband’s business, reduce social hopping, and deliver only weekly lectures, acknowledging her past folly.
A preacher vows to turn a leaf on New Year and shorten sermons. He aims for plainness and meekness, avoiding pomp or wrath, and pledges not to seek wealth or praise.
A lawyer vows to avoid prevarication and dodges in the new year and to advocate only just causes. The verse frames professional integrity as a timely standard by which lawyers will be judged.
The page features medicine pitches and health tips. Advertisers tout pain relief, cough syrups, chewable tonics, laxatives, and tonics for children. Proprietary syrups claim to ease croup, bronchitis, sore throat, and digestive ailments, with testimonials silent or generic.
A traveling salesman, kept from settling, discovers a jury notice on his property and rushes to the official's office. He learns it was intended for his brother and confesses he never served. Willie story follows with a moral about a grandmother’s candy investment and a swallowed cent, told in a dated speech.
An old advertisement promotes Swamp Root by Dr Kilmer as a universal kidney liver and bladder remedy. It claims to restore health, relieve back pain and urinary troubles, and offers readers a special size bottle via mail order. The copy emphasizes ease of use and druggist availability.
The Nashville Visitor notes animals respond to music with examples from a blue jay guest who learned to sing, cattle drovers lulling stampedes with song, and squirrels and mice listening to an operatic aria. It cites 200 years ago violinist Isidore Berthaume and a spider tale, urging readers to try singing or playing for woodland creatures.
A mother urges Anne Margaret to donate toys to distribute to less fortunate children before Christmas. She offers a broken trunk a reracked set of dishes and a one legged bear, but insists on keeping her baby doll she sleeps with each night. She asks if God would send another baby if she were away.
A heated lecture titled How to Be Happy Though Married argues the wife’s duty as a loving helpmate through cooking and managing the household. A heckling spectator mocks the final duty of sewing, displaying pinned shirt cuffs as the crowd laughs.
A village baker sued a well to do neighbor for short weight after a dispute over butter bought from the farmer. The farmer claimed no weights were needed and could not produce any scales when summoned, prompting the magistrate to question the fairness of the measure.
A famous Canadian guide explains how his sense of prevailing winds helps him travel straight in wilderness without a compass. The piece shifts to a dentist noting adults collect and question teeth kept as mementos or envelopes full of extracted teeth from both genders.
Fragmentary note describes arranged marriages in provincial France and odd customs of signifying acceptance, including a man offered pea soup with cheese and a stinging detail. A New Orleans scene appears with a man addressed by a passerby and a local exchange.
A Roanoke to Norfolk run carried a 120-car steel coal hopper train, claimed as the era’s longest pulled by a single locomotive. An eclectic scrawl of notes covers polar exploration, alfalfa value, rattlesnake cures, legal gown debates, airship warfare, Virginia politics, and regional newspaper acquisitions.
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