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Newspaper
Lexington Gazette
Location
Lexington, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1908
Page
4
A Montreal clairvoyant recalls a doctor recommending Cuticura as last hope for a severe leg eczema. After using Cuticura Soap, Treatment, Pills, and Resolvent for two months, the leg healed, new skin formed, and the patient has remained cured for seven years.
Advertisement for Cuticura products claiming instant relief and refreshing sleep for babies and calm for mothers. Promotes Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent in various forms with price hints and a free Cuticura Book on Skin Diseases from a Boston address.
An 1800s style note advocates a simple fence design to separate hogs from cattle while allowing easy cattle movement. The plan uses two by twelve inch planks nailed to posts near ground with extra posts and a sliding plank arrangement to form a controlled opening. Hogs cannot pass the plank gaps but cattle step over. sheep may require a third plank.
The Mohawk valley celebrated New Year with Dutch rituals from early settlers to descendants. Girls baked hundreds of New Year cakes and brought them to children visiting from dawn, often at the Glen estate named Scotia. Milkmen carried cakes in a New Year wagons and exchanged greetings as towns woke.
J H Hale notes freight and refrigeration on long distance fruit loads cut profits for growers. A full car of strawberries from southern points incurs 200 to 300 dollars in charges while peaches exceed 500 dollars per car, with 400 dollars in profit for local growers. Direct selling minimizes transit costs, yet distant shipments still drain over half to two thirds of gross sales.
A reader advises selecting a wart and rich soil for a new asparagus bed, planting in fall then deep plowing in spring. Strong Palmetto plants set later create a replacement plantation, with fall and spring planting both practical. Coryvat and Defoe reference mountebanks and English gullibility in advertising cures and quack remedies.
An unnamed man complains that bis cuits are heavy coffee weak bacon burned at a breakfast table. His wife calmly reads letters and tells him not to growl over his breakfast. Cincinnati Enquirer notes the exchange.
A tenderfoot travels long distance to witness a famed sunset but faces playful doubt from Arizona Al. The exchange highlights frontier humor as the visitor clings to the claim of ownership amid the rugged landscape and local wit.
Vague OCR fragment from Chicago area paper notes uncertain names and events. Reads like a local brief with scattered phrases about weary figures, travel, and conflict hints. No clear date, place, or attributable outcome present.
The New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day customs in the Mohawk valley are described with open houses and hospitality. Women prepare confections and wine is shared as rum toddy becomes the official drink, while Dutch hosts drank sparingly and farm workers largely kept out of the revelry. Outsiders once changed the festive tone into drunkenness.
In a Philadelphia saloon on New Year’s Day a lean owner suspends John and Lorry for two weeks as patrons vow to quit drinking. The bartender quips about the New Year’s resolution causing layoffs as an endless cycle hurts workers and families during January.
A vivid snapshot of Chinese New Year customs describing children in bright clothes and braided hair, their limited play during the year, and the festive atmosphere with lanterns and firecrackers. The piece notes street beggars earning coin, the contrast with well supervised children, and mentions borrowed fireworks from China for the Fourth of July.
The piece surveys New Year resolutions as a long standing practice in Hoisteries and convents, noting Protestant traditions and a centuries old habit of self reforms. It recalls the scrapbook maker figure who marked Saturnalia like periods and the idea that many vows fade quickly.
The text surveys varied January practices from Herzegovina to Oman and Dalmatia, noting ducking the drunkard as a New Year custom, and describes Roman January rites honoring Janus with white robes, offerings, and public parables. It mentions gifts, peace, vows to Caesar, and new uniforms.
The village pastor delivers a sermon to parishioners traveling great distances through deep snow. At midnight bells ring in the Alpine night and echo over hills and valleys, with village church bells harmonizing in a concert no city could match.
The Floral Park Woman's Club, nine years old, unites about thirty women who drive village improvements and civic care. Led by Mrs. John Lewis Child, they maintain illumination gas lamps, waste paper boxes, and street cleanliness while fostering home life and summer plantings to keep Floral Park a model community.
Advertises Tur Ses at one cent per copy with mail order access for subscribers across the District of Columbia Virginia North and South Carolina Pennsylvania Delaware and nationwide via mail order. The offer targets readers and agents.
The Sun's correspondents across the United States and abroad report promptly on major events. Its Willington and New York bureaus are among the best in the country, providing readers early reformations on legislative and financial matters.
A collage of market reports from Baltimore to New York and comments on public figures and humorous quotations. Notes include Sims Reeves illness at a Dickens dinner, fox hunting anecdotes, witty exchanges about candy distribution, and memory verses from the New York Sun.
A Massachusetts merchant attracts city shoppers by broad newspaper advertising, drawing money order customers away from Philadelphia and New York department stores. The piece argues that if small state stores imitate this energetic ad strategy, they can survive without new laws, noting big stores’ advantages but highlighting nerve and hustle as key factors.
City planners and scholars argue against uniform straight street trees. They note authorities favor a single tree type yet suggest grouping trees along streets as an alternative to regular single specimens.
Lasta month celebrates New Year from December 18 to January 16, extending the holiday in Japan. The custom, passed through generations, is marked by long observances and a stew of red beans, rice, sliced fish, and konofaka root eaten during both occasions.
A dialogue about New Year’s resolutions and timing. One man concedes he urged a friend to try, predicting the resolve will fail within six weeks but notes the friend will be six weeks ahead of the game.
An 1807 Baltimore advertisement lists The Sun weekly and Sunday editions with pricing. The Daily Sun costs 53 a year, the Sun including Sunday 4, and the Sunday Sun alone 1 year, published by Abell Company in Baltimore Maryland.
Gossip in a Washington Star column notes Miss Miami Brown asking if any New Year regulation exists. Erastus Pinkley says no but persuaded Mistah Colli flower to make one after social visit, promising to stop disturbances. The piece ends with reflections on gossip and appearances and a remark about Miss Smythe's color and drawing.
A Cinenvati Enquirer excerpt describes fishermen using baby crocodiles as bait on a crocodile stream. A sailor explains how a single baby can lure a crocodile, enabling a hunter to shoot it, while local women earn roughly two dollars weekly renting the baubles for bait.
A veteran teases a young man about sport and gambling in the office. The youth recalls a $1.50 bet winning $40 in a pool and buys coal and false teeth for his wife. The veteran jokes about future gifts for relatives if he wins again. A second item describes a Scots custom of bellringing for a kiss, with no evasion if the recipient is older or unattractive.
A curt dialogue shows Geraldine pressing for gender equality before marriage, proposing a test of standard expectations as they discuss finances and a potential gift to the minister. The exchange hints at social norms and contested roles within a domestic setting.
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