Fraternal Orders Meeting Schedule for Local Lodges
Mountain City Lodge No 67 Ancient York Masons meets 2nd and 4th Monday at Masonic Hall Hookbridge Lodge No 58 I O O F meets every Thursday at Odd Fellows Hall Lexington Lodge No 66 K of P meets every Tuesday at Odd Fellows Fall Natural Bridge Council No 1920 Royal Arcanum meets 1st and 3rd Friday at Odd Fellows Thad Lee Jackson Council No 82 Junior Order American Mechanics meets 4th Friday at Odd Fellows Hall Liberty Lodge No 2 Daughters of Rebekah meets every Monday at Odd Fellows Hall.
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Mountain City Lodge
Ancient York Masons
Masonic Hall
Hookbridge Lodge
Odd Felows Hall
Lexington Lode
K. of P
Natural Bridge Council
Royal Arcanum
Odd Fellows
Thad
Lee Jackson Council
American Mechanics
Liberty Lodge
Daughters of Rebekah
Odd Fellows' Hall
Women and Kidney Trouble Advertised Cure
Women and men suffer from kidney trouble says a newspaper ad for Swamp Root by Dr Kilmer and Co. The remedy claims to improve kidney and bladder issues, reduce anxiety and restore vigor. It offers sample bottles and pamphlets with testimonials, directing readers to Binghamton New York for more information.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Bold Hoax Forgery Strikes Tichborne Trial Ledger
A dramatic forged letter purporting to be from Sir Algernon West at Mr Gladstone's direction oiled into the Tichborne trial moment. The missive urged action to avert a public scandal, claiming a state of justice threatened. Bovill and colleagues sought verification before reacting, exposing a costly imposture. The author remains unknown and the means of obtaining treasury note paper unclear.
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Tichborne
Algernon West
Mr. Gladstone
Bogill
Gladstone
Ballantine
Bovill
Tovill
Algernon
Westminster
Treasury
St. James Cagette
Adelaide’s Oldest Municipality and Founding Ties
Adelaide is the oldest municipality in Australia named for Queen Adelaide’s era. King William Street marks its main thoroughfare, and the South Australian Register began in London as the organ of the South Australia Association. Copper discoveries aided the early colony while Sir George Grey’s governorship helped avert bankruptcy.
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Adelaide
Australia
William IV
King William Street
South Australian Register
London
South Australia Association
England
George Grey
Despond
Suicide warnings strung along Japanese waterfalls
Authorities in Japan erected large warning boards for the rashly importunate to deter suicide attempts in streams, warning of serious consequences in the hereafter. It notes it is strange that few despairing individuals choose to leap into Niagara Falls.
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Japan
Niagara
Newark Trilaine
Heiress's strange coronet tale from Galway bay
Miss Roxie MacKinnes, an heiress, voices surprise over a coronet while an old family servant explains it was her grandfather’s car and net used when he caught fish and sold them from Galway bay. The exchange reflects a quirky, era flavored anecdote from Philadelphia Press.
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Roxie MacKinnes
Galway Bay
Philadelphia Press
GEMS IN VERSE by Grif Alexander in Pittsburg Dispatch
A fragmentary verse excerpt contrasts city life with nature. The speaker laments smoky skylines, crowded streets, and noisy traffic, while longing for coastal or woodland scenes and simple reading by a brook. The author cites a country poet who claimed God made the country but mag made the town, yet asserts true human nature reflects both worlds.
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Mag
Ged Haa
Grif Alexander
Pittsburg Dispatch
Coaxing the Trout Up and Down Stream Debate
A piece weighs the pros and cons of fishing upstream versus downstream. Advocates for up river casting argue data shows trout miss seeing the rod in rapid current, while downstream anglers praise the smoother motion and better line control. Both sides claim improved hit chances by matching current conditions.
Notable juror holdout over murder verdict tale
A London era anecdote recounts Chief Justice Dyer overseeing a murder trial where a foreman, a trusted farmer, secretly hid his own guilt to keep peace. The juror’s confession later exonerated the innocent man, revealing a fatal hayfork strike and the foreman's strategic secrecy to protect his livelihood. The tale spans years of inquiry and moral consequence.
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Dyer
Dao
Ile
London News
Holland November Courtship Four Sundays Observed
In Holland November is held as a courtship period with four Sundays named review decision purchase and possession. Each Sunday features church attendance and village parade where youths and maidens exchange looks and courtship advances.
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Holland
Witful shopper tricks shop with married name
A young woman on honeymoon asked a shop to send goods to the Naval hotel. In a moment of distraction she gave her maiden name. She quickly corrected herself stating the address as Miss Iwatevente at Mrs Royal hotel, leaving the shopkeeper and bystanders amused.
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Wate
Naval Hotel
Primitive Bigou dwellers and olive oil’s claimed benefits
The article reflects on the Bigou people at an extreme land point, noting their language and customs as largely incomprehensible to outsiders while highlighting Breton origins. It then extols olive oil as a nutritious food and medicine, advising daily tablespoonful intakes to support digestion, strength, and vitality regardless of origin.
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Andre Sagto
Spain
Italy
The Dramatic Hour in Life and Work
A reflection on the concept of the dramatic hour across life, work, and preaching. It argues that great public moments reveal years of unseen toil, training, and sorrow behind them, with growth and character forged in quiet hours, not the spotlight.
Prominent merchant recalls rise in retail trade
A Philadelphia merchant recalls his twenties in commission sales and learning the business. He details starting a self run warehouse at eight dollars a week and crediting newspaper publicity for building his strong retail trade. Plans in New York aim for a steel masonry office 34 stories tall, to be the world's tallest.
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Philadelphia
New York
Oflce
War costs and political notes from the era
A wide-ranging condensed telegraphic style summary covers daily war costs estimated at at least six million dollars, possible New Jersey Democrat nomination for Cleveland, vaccination campaigns in Charlotte county, diphtheria mortality drop from antitoxin in Chicago, and Baltimore fire losses around eighty-five million with forty million insured. It notes Senate commerce backing Crum for Charleston customs, Carnegie donations to Orange Episcopal church, Morgan declining Chicago pastorate, Cannon-led House record private pension bills, Baltimore safes protecting contents, Virginia government salaries, funeral catafalque transfers, a New York medico legal push to punish wife-beaters, Carlisle's Virginia politics clarification, Japan's naval prowess tied to 1865 Confederate ram Stonewall, China neutrality with Great Britain France Germany and the US, Knights of Pythias Virginia officers, and a Virginia injunction tradition. It ends with an advertisement urging readers to try Dr. Bosehee’s German Syrup for lingering coughs.
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Charlotte County
Chicago
Baltimore
Senate Committee On Commerce
Wm. D. Crum
Charleston
Washington
Kelinley
Canton
Cleveland
Hanna
Medico-Legal Society of New York
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Artorney At Law
Lexington, VA
Penick
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Fuaxk Moore
Lateark Rockbridge Notary Public
Foore & Moore
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Lexixaton
John H. Hartman
Main Street
Lexington
Just
M. J. Hess
Wr. S
Insurance
the Valley Tie and Lumber Co
Onice
Farmers and Merchants’ Bank
R.R. Witt & Co
Staunton
General Fire Insurance
C. E. Woodward
Jeweler
Brown's” Woolen Mills
Wiles
Moore & Moore
Rockbridge Lime & Stone Co
Loney
W. F. Pierson
Lexington Gazette Office
Iron
F. C
C.a.lacy & Son
Progressive Cash
Columbian Paper Company
Buena Vista, Va
Buena Vista
Columbian Paper Co
Feblo Ode
Virginia
R. S. Bruce
Main and
Washington Streets
Lexington Mutuat Telephone Co
Champ
John A. Champ
Imparien Te
Bull
Sunday School Magazine
Russia
Democrats of
New Jersey
Great Britain
France
Germany
United States
China
State Department
Nurrees
Grand Lodge
Knights of Vythias of
Petersburg
W. P. Holt l
Hampton
J. R. Bryan
Roanoke
Rev
D. HL Dickinson
Richmond
Darnell
L, Courtney
Warren
Portsmouth
Henry Schneider
Winchester
Mann
B. HH
Gorrell
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