Fraternal Lodges Meet at Local Halls
Lexington Lodge No 66 K of P meets Thursday nights at Odd Fellows Hall. Liberty Lodge No 2 Daughters of Rebekah meets Monday nights at Wid Fellows Hall. Mountain City Lodge No 67 Ancient York Masons meets first and third Monday nights at Mason Temple. Natural Bridge Council No 1990 Royal Arcanum meets on second and fourth Wednesday nights at Odd Fellows Hall. Lex Council No 179 Jrntor Orger United American Mechanics meets on Friday nights at Odd Fellows Hall.
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Lexington Lodge
Pueate
Odd Fellowa
Laberty Lodge
Rebakah
Wid Fellows Hall
Mountain City Lodge
Ancient York
Masonlethal Natural Bridge
Lex. Council
Jantor Orger
United American Mechanics
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement From Lexington Citizen
A Lexington Va reader, A B Beckwith, touts Dawn's Kidney Pills as best for kidney pain and backache. He says two years of attacks caused severe misery until few doses at Gorrell's drug store relieved the trouble. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY is sole US agent. price 50 cents. remember the name Doan's.
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Lexington
A. B. Beckwith
Main St
Dawn
Gorrell
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United
Blood Balm touted as cure for skin and blood diseases
An old advertisement compiles claims for Botanic Blood Balm with broad disease cures and sample offers, plus testimonials praising kidney, cough, and skin relief products. Mentions Foley remedies and Rocky Mountain Tea with various endorsements and lifestyle tips.
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Bala Co
Atlan
Verse Fragment From Edgar Allan Poe Poem
A damaged text fragment presents lines of verse about love longing and mortality. The speaker conjures images of nature and eternal night as a voice from the future urges continuing, while the speaker laments the fading light of life and the beloved’s gaze.
Incoherent ledger of giving and receiving found
Fragmentary text expresses a contrast between wealth and poverty. The speaker claims abundance from little, while others have much yet lack, and vows to give what they can as others observe the exchange. Names or places do not clearly emerge in the excerpt.
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PFI
The Boy With Cowlicks In A Barber Shop Tale
A local artist notes that boys with cowlicks spark barber competition as each tries to please the difficult customer. Cowlicks form from hair roots and hat wear can create stark, uneven growth. Some cowlicks fade with brushing while others persist, amusingly linked to fortunes and personal traits.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Prairie Dog Curiosity Triggers Clever Trap Tale
A Chicago News feature recounts a humorous frontier tale about prairie dogs. The piece praises the animal’s sharp senses while warning how curiosity is its weak point, describing a simple trap using a barrel to lure and capture a hole-dwelling dog.
Wasp robs fig and the wind alters its flight
An 19th century scene describes Darwin observing a wasp seize a large fig. A breeze twists the wasp’s burden, then the wasp bites off its own wings to free the load and flies away. A later exchange recalls a harsh punishment for a man deemed an idiot.
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Dr. Darwin
London Globe
The Age of Money and Its Moral Echoes
Writings attributed to W. G. Bowdoin in the Brooklyn Citizen explore humanity’s shift from ancient epochs to the modern age of money. The piece laments wealth worship, urges retention of cardinal virtues, warns of speculation and luxury, and imagines money’s eventual replacement by something nobler.
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Newport
W. G. Bowdoin
Brooklyn
African Marriages and Dowry Traditions Across West Africa
The article describes coastal versus inland wedding customs among West and Southwest African tribes. It details parental consent, multi visit bride negotiation, dowry payments with gin or palm toddy, and the ceremonial reception and kanja dance. Polygamy is common. men may divorce easily, while women seldom can.
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West
Africa
Hamburg
Gifta
London
Freeman's clash with a gardener over 1883 Battle Abbey visit
In 1883 Professor Freeman surveying Battle abbey faced interference from a person who claimed the Duke of Cleveland ordered no gardener interference. Freeman insisted he sought no help, and the reply acknowledged the order and obedience to it.
Virginia News Briefs From Roanoke And Beyond
Virginia reports curb on liquor in seventeen cities with many towns without licenses. Virginia's coal and ore sectors see Dixie Mine at Vesuvius resume on February 1 employing about one hundred men. Lincoln centennial stamps announced with a Poe tribute and University of Virginia centenary events. High railroad demand as Chesapeake and Ohio contracts with American Locomotive Works for 16 locomotives and options for 15 more, boosting Roanoke/ Richmond area employment toward May.
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Carmack
Nashville
Dixie
Oriskany Ore and Iron Company
Vesuvius
Norfolk Sod Western Railway
Geological Survey Hue
Leater Layne
Joe Canada
Danville
Wooding
Willing Hedgen Dan
Necowey
Wiberustoria
Mano Je
Col
James Motn
Norfolk
General Assembly
Met
Theo
Virginia
Eariea
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Femill
University of Virginia
Edgar Alles Poe
Oreasion
Bern
Charles W. Kent
John &. Patton
George W. Stevens
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Richmond
American Locomotive Works
and Bee
Thieix
Richmond Trench
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Hockbridge Lodge
Odd Felowa’ Hall
Greenlee D. Letcher
Arrorgxey At Law
Lexington, VA
Arrongsy
Laaimeton
Notary Public
Pace M. Penice
J. Paceros Moore
Court Core & Moore
Arronxeys At Law
Laxinetes
Foawe T
Glascow
Glascow & White
Attorneys-at-Law LeXington Ve
Ww. P. Houston
Louis K. Walz
North Main Street
H. Fl. Quisenberry
Jabnke
Lexington Hotel
Leiotor
J. W. McClung
Fire and Life Insurance
M. J. Hess
M J. Hess
Agnor's
Baltimore & Ohio
R. R
Harrisonburg
Winchester
Charlestown
Harper’s Ferry
Chicago
Pittsburg
Washington & Baltimore
Hagerstown & Frederick
Norfolk & Western
Buena Vista
Bristol
Pullman
Butt
Knoxville
Roanoke
St. Louis Express
Columbus
Bluefield
Cincinnati
Hinefield
Pocahentis
Norton
Winston-Salem
Charlotte
Welsh
Pullman Sleeper
Gary
Hagerstown
Philadelphia
Pullan
Buffet
Harris Darg
Philatelia
Iladelphia
B. Bevill
Agt
Dan
F. Bragg, v, Pant
First National Bank
U.S
U. S
Post
CIA
Thin Bank
Ross Bay
Pennsylvania
International
Syracuse
Clark
Lexington, Virginia
W. Harry Agnor
Atkins
James E Heck
OPP
Baptist Church
Fahrney
Epee
Memo
Nick
Paru Journal
C. R. Kluger
Virginia Ave
Indieuspolia
B. H. Gorrell
Bii
J. H. Gotrell
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Lollister
Foley
H. Gorrell
H. H. Orrell
Paradise
Edgar Ajlan Pos
Prive
Prairie Dog University
Chicezo News
Wasp
AGE OF
MONET
Acer
Oleerman
Joel B. Cutchin
Beneft
Mollie Graytill
Rev. L. WH. Graybill
Episcopal Church
Sowth
Peuline Atkine
Fincastle
Gray Pill
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