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Newspaper
Lexington Gazette
Location
Lexington, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1910
Page
3
An early notice urges starting the year by printing handsome letter heads billheads statements and more. It contrasts cheap stationery with a more stylish look, suggesting a fresh start despite costs.
A collage of verse and quips features Alfred Hustwick’s Call of the Heart about a restless forest call, a Teddy Bear piece contrasting calm and alert behavior, and a New York World excerpt praising the alert man’s quick seat grab on a crowded car.
A Goob strawberry profile notes The Buster as a leading variety from Moline Illinois with large pale red berries, bright red flesh, and mid to late season vigor. farm author W T Macoun highlights rapid strawberry expansion in Canada and new seedlings. The rest reports rehearsals remarks by Mime Rejane, Balzac and Black Coffee anecdotes, Burns as a tax collector tale, and Siam teaching debates about a flat earth.
A London lecture on dress explains the three marks on a glove back and the clocks on a stocking as remnants of seam concealment. Fourchette pieces and back hand braiding once hid seams, while clocks on stockings originated from cloth stockings where seams were placed. The feather band lining cue is traced to a balk in leather with a string pull.
In Borneoan customs, children are strapped with brass wire around ankles wrists knees and elbows to mold limbs into a desired form. The attire features a beadcap and bridegroom to be wears bangles of fiber and cowrie shells. Shell currency values vary. a yard of fiber or twenty to thirty cowries equals a penny.
A curious natural vignette describes a toad being back scratched, initial suspicion giving way to rapture. The toad swells slightly with pleasure, relaxes, and settles into a comfortable pose before hopping away.
A Washington Star exchange has Dustin Stax contrasting royal spenders with bankers. The financier remarks that many royalty borrow more eagerly than they disburse, while the other observer notes contrast between spending and lending in banking.
A rustic exchange jokes about paradoxes with playful dialogue between a father and son. The fragment hints at a riddle about a store and a pot that won’t burn until it is broken, all framed in light county newspaper style.
Real estate deeds entered in Rockbridge county show transfers across multiple tracts in Lexington Fairfield and Goshen plus exchanges on Kerrs Creek Hays Creek and Timber Ridge. Buyers include Wess Ayres Hartbarger Champe and the Rockbridge Building and Loan Association with prices ranging from 30 to 7000 dollars and noting adjacencies to Knick Zollman Campbell Miller and Reed.
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