Fraternal Orders Meet At Odd Fellows Hall
Hockbridge Lodge No. 58 meets Thursdays at Odd Fellows Hall. Lev Jackson Council No. 8% and Junior Order of American Mechanics gather on Fridays for their sessions, with meetings held at Odd Fellows hall.
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Lexington Lodge
Odd Fellows’ Mall
Liberty Lodge
Daughters of Rebekah
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Mountain City Lodge
Ancient York
Masora
Masonic Hall
Natural Bridge
Royal Arcanum
Lev Jackson
Real coffee Advice and Bridal Customs Reflections
The article contrasts coffee quality and storage with social notes on wedding traditions. It comments on coffee grinding while critiquing bridal practices in Russia, noting bridesmaids and bridesmen, gifts, and ceremonial imagery, in a London Answers tone.
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Christ
London
Poems of Longing and Renewal From 19th Century Voices
A collage of verse fragments from Carolina Baroness Nairne and Lucy Larcom. Themes of lost love, longing, memory, and hopeful renewal connect across stanzas. The pieces evoke yearning, dreams of reunion, and a rising dawn symbolizing future promise.
Button Fashion Through Ages From Mycenae to Louis XIV
The article surveys historic buttons from Mycenae to Louis XIV, noting gold and diamond pieces in the Louvre and royal inventories. It details 1685 purchases and gifts totaling about 8 million livres for the king’s buttons, with prior year values exceeding 1 million livres. It also mentions early Rothschild origins in Frankfurt and Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s rise in the coin trade.
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Mycenae
Schliemann
Childeric I
Louvre
Musee Des Louverains
Louis XIV
M. Maze-Sencier
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Montarey
Marquis de Seignelay
Lania Xtv
Local Maine election rivalry and a paired vote scheme
A small Maine town's election saw Republicans and Democrats clash. Blacksmith Hi Tam Morse proposed a plan to abstain from voting with farmers, claiming the result would mimic a nonvoting outcome. Morse later paired with five Republican farmers, altering the vote dynamic.
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Maine
Hi- Tam Morse
Morse
Kilmer’s Swamp Root promotes kidney and bladder cure
Readers urged to try Kilmer’s Swamp Root for kidney liver and bladder trouble with a free sample bottle offer and an informational book. Dr Kilmer and Co advertise a 50 cent home remedy sold by druggists and warn not to miss the chance noted in this paper.
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Kilmer
Bright
Klee & Co
Biby
Mer
Sa. Hamton
N. Y
Myrrh Incense and Manna Placed Under Glass in Lesson
A Sunday school lecture on biblical items yields a shock when a local druggist retorts with sample bottles. He demonstrates frankincense myrrh and manna, explaining myrrh as tree sap and manna as gum exudate from various plants. He notes incense relies on alibanum and discusses origins and church use.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Arabia
Persia
Red Sea
Africa
India
Mediterranean
Sicily
Asia
Mount Sinai
Egypt
Europe
Doctor Goldsmith Sends Aid in Time of Need
A destitute wife appealed to Dr. Goldsmith who visited her sick husband and promised help. Within an hour a box arrived containing la, with a cryptic note urging patience and good cheer for those in need.
Praise and hammering misread by a couple
A wife jokes about a carpenter's remark that she can hammer nails like lightning. The husband defends his praise, while she questions his unprejudiced judgment. He quips that lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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Carpenter
Mrs. Morse
Mr. Morse
Worldly Smoker on Train Seized After Escape
A man in a parlor car boasted of his claim to understand women as two keepers boarded the train at the next station. They took the solitary smoker into custody after he escaped from an insane asylum earlier that morning.
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Roosevelt
Belfast
M. W. Ailen
Virginia and Southwestern Railway
State Corporation Commission
Virginia
Southern Railway
United States
Coffee Talk Sparks Family Debate
Mabel defends heavy coffee use despite her mother's warnings and Mme. Loockes, a beauty expert, claiming it ruins the complexion. The daughter insists she cannot quit and implies she would stop only if advised by the pera.
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Mabel
Mme. Loockes
Pera
Grand Jamestown Exposition to Open in Hampton Roads
A historic exposition at Jamestown opens April 26 near Norfolk, Virginia, presenting an immense relic collection from the colonies. Daughters and Sons of the American Revolutions join, with pieces from Massachusetts to Georgia, including Paul Revere silver and Guilford antiques. The event features ships, war relics, and state buildings, with attendance projections from ten to fifteen million.
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Hampton Roads
Norfolk
Virginia
Union
Daughters of the American Revolution
Sons of the American Revolution
Association For the Preseryation of Virginia Antiquities
The
Daughters of the Confederacy
Massachusetts
Paul Revere
Connecticut
Guilford Antiques
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Williamsburg
Wiliam and Mary College
Bruton Church
Fathers of the Republic
Yorktown
Appomattox
Hampton Roade
Merrimac
Monitor
Metoria
Willoughby Boulevard
Neasee
Halle
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
Charles Carroll
Carrollton
Old State House
Annapolie
Washington
Roosevelts call on government lands and race debate
A string of brief items notes Roosevelt urging retention of federal lands, West Virginia liquor on trains, Lincoln Day observances, and international cooperation against Nicaragua Honduras clashes. Also mentions Thaw losses, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and rail safety orders amid a flood of varied topics.
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W. A. Barr
St. Luke’s Church
Norfolk
Monumental Church
Richmond
Roosevelt
John A. Brashear
Allegheny Observatory
Eugene D. Saunders
Basters
Louisiana
Virginia
Harry K. Thaw
New York
Stanford White
Lynchburg
Grand Lodge
West Virginia
Lincoln
Warfield
Pittsburg
State Department
Guatemala
Salvador
Costa Rica
United States
Nicaragua
Honduras
Soothing Spray of Ely's Liquid Cream Balm
The atomizer form provides relief for catarrh, described as a Godsend by sufferers. Liquid Cream Balm is claimed to dislodge thick discharges and ease breathing, with a 75 cent price including a spraying tube, sold by drogylsta or mailed by Ely Bros. at 56 Warren Street, New York.
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Ely
Drogylsta
Ely Bros
Warren Street
New York
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