Fraternal Orders Meet in Local Lodges and Councils
Mountain City Lodge No 67 Ancient York Masons meets 2nd and 4th Monday at Masonic Hall with W M J Will Moore and Secretary A T Shields. Rockbridge Lodge No 58 meets Thursdays at Odd Fellows Hall led by W or Quisenberry and secretary Grinstead. Lexington Lodge No 66 K of P visits Odd Fellows Hall Tuesdays with L C Howser G O J Y Grinstead. Natural Bridge Council No 20 Royal Arcanum meets 1st and 3rd Friday with A W Manspile as Regent and James Withrow as secretary. Lew Jackson Council No 2 Junior Order American Mechanics meets 1st and 4th Fridays at Odd Fellows Hall led by J P Birmingham and D B Radford as secretary. Liberty Lodge No 2 Daughters of Rebekah meets Mondays at Odd Fellows Hall with Miss Anna Beetor N G and E N Boogher secretary.
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Mountain City Lodge
Ancient York Masons
Masonic Hall
J. Will Moore
W. M
Odd Fellows’ Hall
L. C
D. B. Radford
See
Liberty Lodge
No. 2
Daughters of Rebekah
Anna —. Beetor
N.G
E. N. Boogher
Seev
Over-Work Weakens Your Kidneys
Kidney trouble weakens blood purification and can cause aches, heart strain, and illness. Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root is advertised as a remedy, with promises of cures and sample offers by mail from Kilmer & Co of Binghamton New York.
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Dr. Kilmer
Binghamton, N.Y
Siameses Beliefs Reflect Peculiar Notions of a Superstitious People
Ernest Young describes Siamese beliefs as extremely superstitious. He recounts explanations for natural phenomena including thunder as the sky crying, a giant in the heavens, and angelic torch throwing that causes rain. He details funeral practices, the burning of ashes, and a grim afterlife where souls serve a dogheaded taskmaster, with slaves carrying water eternally.
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Ernest Young
Heaven
Tle
Hell
Engine Room Heroes and Perilous Maritime Ingenuity
Tales of seafaring repair prowess show how a ship’s machinery can be fixed with a hammer and ingenuity. A Red Sea boiler, a missing propeller off West Africa, and a chief engineer nailing a solution while sharks circle reveal the daring, resourceful world of engine room heroes. Also, a playful note on a society woman’s enamel like cosmetic habit and a proverb about washing old pictures.
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Elisel
Red Sea
Africa
Benjamin Brooks
Scribner's
Weaving Love and Resolve in a Royal Carriage
In a tale of romance a judge, Daisy, Ralph Carewe, and Mrs Lambert navigate love, duties, and forgiveness. A late kiss, a stern verdict softened by affection, and a journey toward a shared future culminate in a quiet wedding party reunited and hopeful. The ending hints at a new life together as old wounds heal.
Their auto elopement on the New York and Boston pike
Daisy and Ralph flee in love toward a white spire while Aunt Ruth laments and the Judge discovers their plan. Mrs. Lambert observes the scene, recalling past loves as the couple nears marriage under a sunlit countryside backdrop.
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Daisy
Papa
Ralph
Mrs. Lambert
Carewe
New York
Boston Pike
Pike
White Spire
Ruth
Nortons
Carewes
Jack Norton
Allike Ralph
Negro problem debated by North Carolina governor in Baltimore speech
Gov C B Aycock told the North Carolina Society in Baltimore that the state has solved the negro problem by excluding him from politics. He urged continued segregation, self-reliance, and racial separation while defending past ties with Black citizens and stressing white supremacy. Governor-elect Edwin Warfield attended.
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Baltimore
C. B. Aycock
North Carolina
North Carolina Society
Edwin Warfield
Maryland
Aycock
Panama
South
Various 1900s notable facts and miscellany items
A tour through diverse 1900 era notes includes a Czar autograph sent to Wim Bryan, Rockefeller's $1.55 million gift to the University of Chicago, Treasury calendars marking Gen Lee’s birthday pulled from walls, a Cleveland husband’s Christmas tragedy, a salary cut for Rev J Powell Garland, Gloucester couple Mary Ann and Charles Smith’s Baltimore wedding, a bride’s first pair of shoes for her bridal tour, Entwistle’s sudden $50,000 fortune from England, a 32,000 turkey shipment from St Louis to New York, Barnard Shipp’s library bequest to the University of Virginia, a Harrisonburg liquor conviction policy, Boston’s Democratic win amid Roosevelt policy critique, Pension Office figures showing 3 million beneficiaries and 782,722 soldiers on rolls, and the consolidation of the Baltimore Richmond Christian Advocate with the Southern Methodist Recorder with leadership changes.
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Russia
Wim. J. Bryan
John D. Rockefeller
University of Chicago
Treasury Department
Washington
Gen. Lee
Cleveland
Ohin
J. Powell Garland
Portsmouth
M. E. Church
South
Charles A. Smith
Mary Ann Smith
Gloucester County
Baltimore
David H. Entwistle
Albion
R. I. Entwistle
England
David
Fouri
St Louis
New York
St. Louis
Barnard Shipp
Louisville
University of Virginia
Shipp
Henry C. McDowell
United States District Court
Harrisonburg
Roosevelt
Bay State
Interior
Hitchcock
Baltimore and Richmond Christian Advocate
Richmond
Southern Methodist Recorder
Blackstone
James Cannon, Jr
J. Sidney Peters
J.J
Virginia
8. K. Cox
Climatic Cures For Consumption German Syrup Benefit
The influence of climate on curing consumption is overestimated. Proper home care with food and rest, plus regular use of German Syrup, aids expectoration, improves sleep, and reduces coughing. Those able to move to a warmer climate often benefit, as with other convalescents. Trial bottles 2 1/2 cents, regular size 75 cents, via B. H. Gorrell, druggist.
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B. H. Gorrell
Druggtat
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Main Street
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Engine Room Heroes
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Egypt
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Jericho
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