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Newspaper
Lexington Gazette
Location
Lexington, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1908
Page
1
A period newspaper ad extols Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a premier kidney liver and bladder treatment. It claims medical validation across hospitals clinics and private practice and offers readers a free sample bottle and an informational book by mail, with purchases available through druggists in Binghamton New York.
A collage of patent medicine pitches, religious exile mentions, early railway speedometer ideas, and medical quackery items. It cites Botanic Blood Balm, ManZan for piles, Pinsles remedies, Dean’s Ointment, Burdock Blood Bitters, and King’s Little Liver Pills, plus a note on a Cleveland skyscraper goddess and a Texas president’s widow.
An article cites a German medical journal noting African natives take special care of their teeth with home remedies. Observations from German colonies show natives preserve ivory whiteness through herbs, barks, and rinses, using native toothbrushes made from adanconia wood and other trees.
The poem speaks of a distant war scene where a woman ponders a sunset and a beloved soldier in England's banners. Amid battle cries and dying, the scene shifts to a pale corpse beside a deathly sky, capturing a stark, tragic spirit-tragedy.
Aug 2 1813 marked fame for Major George Croghan and Aug 3 1906 saw his remains reinterred at the Fort Stephenson field. The Kentuckian led a small garrison to repulse Proctor’s British and Indian assault, earning a lieutenant colonel rank and a gold medal for valor.
A bishop famed for recalling every clergyman’s name meets a pastor on a train. He cannot recall the time, smiles and asks, Excuse me for forgetting, how do you spell your name. The clergyman answers Jon es, my lord.
In Mes sages From the Past Duke of Argyll recounts Tennyson reciting in a Freshwater field avoiding hedges with a deep bass voice and even performing Boadicea. It also notes Prince Bismarck at the Berlin conference dining on beer per Princess Bismarck and a quip about a Pomeranian hausfrau ruining her husband’s stomach.
Head Con eul Boak of the Woodmen of the World rode through a southern town where a shopkeeper failed to make change for a ten. A seated old man whittling a stick offered polite refusal, saying he could not but appreciated the honor.
A dramatic exchange unfolds as Mr Wipedunks shaves and mocks wardships while Mrs Wipedunke muses that a bearded life could better support the family in Chicago. The dialogue reveals tensions over income and gender roles in a domestic scene.
A French painter visiting the Paris Salon with a friend on the selection committee noted his work was shown upside down. The friend had helped secure acceptance yet the artist cried out in astonishment. The committee refused to change the display.
A Chicago News report details the hairy Ainus of Yezo. Men wear heavy beards and body hair while women tattoo lips and foreheads. Tattoos are crude incisions. married women show more decoration. The Ainu skin is a deep bronze color, unlike other oriental races and resembles some American Indian tones. They lack written history and legends speak of pit dwellers conquered by the Ainu. They claim northern origins, hinting at possible southward migration via Kamchatka or the Kuriles. They reportedly have no religion or belief in a future state, per Mr. Landor’s interviews.
In Auvergne a vast outflow of carbonic acid gas from soil fissures marks remnants of ancient volcanic activity. The Montpensier springs yield gas that suffocates animals and threatens people who drink from cavities. Plants show gas damage, with lines of stressed vegetation across fields. Gas is found in large quantities and unusually pure.
Home Notes cites a Japanese dentist performing dental extractions with the forefinger and thumb of one hand. The skill, learned after long practice, permits about six teeth to be removed in thirty seconds without removing fingers from the mouth. The piece also reflects on orphaned or neglected children and the fate of aging individuals.
A collage of brief notes covers taxes and tariffs, Burns of a theatre in Jamestown Exposition, a smoking ban proposal for women, Japanese ex-soldiers urged to return home, a law school speech on oath and feelings, a Missouri woman’s will funding turkey drives, electric plant sales in Christhianeburg, debts of a Virginia egg and produce dealer, cement company mortgage in Craigeville, and church and political moves in Virginia, Tennessee, and Maryland with mentions of Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage, the Tennessee association, and debates on voter qualifications.
An advertisement claims PAZO OINTMENT will cure piles including stoking bleeding and protruding piles. It asserts a money back option if not cured within up to fourteen days.
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