Lexington Bond Issue For Town Streets Vote
At a remoral meeting on Friday April 8 110 the Mayor and Council of Lexington adopted a resolution to issue up to 30000 in bonds to run twenty years nine with ten year redemption. Funds to pay floating debt and fund street and road improvements are proposed with a financial plan showing estimated receipts and expenditures for the coming year.
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Lexington
Pncussary
Onder
A. P Waodf
A. P. Wade
The Silks of Samarkand Season in Silk Bazaar
The article notes that Samarkand silk and velvet peak season varies like fruit, with wurtma spun and dyed at the silk bazaar. Only fabrics made for local consumption remain after export, leaving native silk mainly as ready made khalats outside the season.
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Samarkand
Sawarkand
E. A. Powell
Cordially Invited and Jests Across Cities
A collage of humorous snippets and banter from various papers. Characters joke about airth and boxing gloves in Glasgow and London, a bride’s telegraphed forgiveness, a party memory gaffe, and a senator’s quip about cherry trees. The tone mirrors light column humor and social jests.
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Glasgow
Tam
London
Hadley Back to the Soil Plan Aims Colonies on Model Farms
Governor Hadley advocates a nationwide back to the soil movement launching colonies on model farms in Texas Missouri and Alabama with 32 farms forming a central School of Scientific Farming Each colony to receive a central farm expert and farming supplies tenants pay over time with profits benefiting investors and the plan includes schools churches and libraries to prevent isolation and encourage settlement
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United States
St. Janis
National Parma Homes Association
Merhert & Hadley
Missouri
Tasket
Hadley Long
Tse
Europe
Association
Texas
Alabama
Tim
Fenres
Stapinwy
Hadley
Kates City
St. Louis
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Salt
Geome
Around the World on Horseback Captain Barry Hicks Plans Voyage
Captain Barry Hicks, noted rider, will depart Muskogee Oklahoma about noon for a world journey on horseback. He rides from Mireles gee to San Francisco, sells his horse there, boards a steamer, crosses the sea, buys another horse, and resumes the trek lecturing and giving exhibitions of fancy shooting. Hicks formerly commanded Troop K under Colonel Roosvareit in Cuba.
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Oia
Mirelesgee
San Francisco
Hicks
Wicks
Roosvareit
Cuba
Down's Kidney Pills touted by Lexington reader
A Lexington reader claims Down's Kidney Pills relieve chronic back pain and kidney soreness. The letter describes personal improvement after using the product, purchased at local drug stores, and urges others to try Doan's Kidney Pills as marketed by Poster Milburn Co. Buff alo.
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Bere
J. G. Loyal
Houston St
Aries
Dean's Kin ’ Mills
Gorreil
Orsimur
Dean
Milburn
Buffato
New York
United States
Doan
Olter
Fragmented health and product ads mirror early 20th century tones
A garbled mix of medical claims and product pitches mentions Holester's Mountain Tea, Dr Thomas' Electric Oil, Doan's Ointment, and Chamberlain Palle in British Guinea. It lists supposed cures for pimples, biliousness, headaches, and weak nerves, plus agricultural notes on Alaska gold output and a Montana wheat record.
Rats Onboard A Frightful Shipboard Infestation
A crew recounts a voyage plagued by rats from bow to stern with estimates of up to 15 000 or more rodents. They fumigated after docking and claimed the rats weighed about half a pound each, with the ship tonnage around 150 tons.
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Big George Srey
Sorel Ves
Jim
His Sarcastic Apology Meets a Pan Bootier in Cleveland
A well known New Yorker hosts a quaint encounter with a pan bootier on a street corner. The man asks for a dime and the dialogue turns as the bootier recalls past asks and the celebrity apologizes in a humorous, self deprecating exchange from the Cleveland Sealer.
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Cleveland
Eminent Physician Scarfed by Loan Joke at Diffident Visit
A London physician and an eminent surgeon mingled with polite ceremony during a visit to a patient. The physician then invited the surgeon to another patient. The surgeon noted the patient would be more liberal than the first, asking why he did not pay a fee. The physician replied that the patient owed him two guineas borrowed to give to the surgeon, ending the anecdote with humor in Tit-Bits.
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von Moltke
Moltke
Wttle
Beth
Viet
Sca
Din Heir
M.D
Inertia of the Nerves
A Fresch scientist concludes the cerebral nervous system can perceive only about ten separate toe presses per second. After each nerve excitation a period of inertia lasts about one tenth of five seconds, during which no new impression is evident.
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Perwon
Romantic Career of John Gully in 19th Century Fame
John Gully, famed prizefighter and Derby winner, rival of Cribb, later a bottle racer, legislator, and colliery owner. Fought before Trafalgar, retired seven years before Waterloo in triumph, served as MP, owned a large colliery, and died in 1863 leaving twenty four children.
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Wau
John Gully
Cribb
Moti- Henuxs
Drowning Session Ends With Offbeat Sendoff
A commented exchange about a burned house reveals awkward sympathy and a comical note as the drowning season closes with a sendoff that may rival the automobile season. Mrs Jones and Airs Slawkins comment on loss while jokes hint at new freedoms after the fire.
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Sesson
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