Fraternal Orders Page Lists Meeting Nights
Hockbridge Lodge No 68 I U O F meets Thursday nights at Odd Fellows Hall. Lee Jackson Council No 8% Junior Order of American Mechanics meets weekly on the first and fourth Friday at Odd Fellows hall.
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Hockbridge Lodge
I. U
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Om Lodge
Odd Fellows
Liberty Lodge
Rebekah
Mountain City
Ancient York Masons
Masonic Hall
Natural Bridge Council
Royal Arcanum
Lee Jackson Council
American Mechanics
Cures and Cures Advertised in Local Drug Store Notices
A collage of medicinal claims and product promotions from B. H. Gorrell's Drug Store includes Foley's Honey and Tar for lung trouble, Pineyoles for kidneys and bladder, and Circa various tonics. Other items mention Pineal remedies, Bees Laxation Syrup, Rings Dyxpepsia Naber, and Pinculea, with notes on copper ore shipments and immigration statistics.
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B. H. Gorrell
B.A. Gorrell
Gems In Verse Delight In Disorder
A fragment of verse describes beauty in a sweet disorder of dress and movement. The speaker admires a careless elegance, from a lawn turned to shoulders to a crimson stomacher and a neglectful cuff. The playful chaos of ribbons and shoestrings bewitched by artless civility is praised.
Abuse of the Horse in Stables and Tack Fittings
The article urges humane care for horses, condemning tight surcingles and cruel restraint. It warns to check stall conditions, halter fit, blanket security, and lighting, noting many stall kickers fear darkness and could be calmed by a kept light. F M Ware in Quuling Magazine points to practical, low cost remedies.
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James
F. M. Ware
Quling Magazine
Dancing and discipline in rural life and military regiment
A pine hills social ends with a sharp schoolteacher rebuff to a loggers hand who asks for a dance. In a separate anecdote a colonel shames an untidy soldier by parade, the crowd witnessing the blunt remark from the Emerald Isle recruit.
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Logging Hand
Boston Man Teases Wife About Church Visit Diamonds
A Boston man who rarely goes to church attends with his wife. On returning home he jokes about attending yet not paying attention to the service. She blushes, replying that his jab was horrid, then he admits noticing the diamonds on the woman ahead.
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Boston
Iri
Serous
Queer Actions of Watchmaker Trusts Wary Claim
A Cleveland Plain Dealer account recalls a watchmaker who asserts a watch can be influenced by its wearer. An engineer and his night engineer brother shared ownership, swapping the timepiece which later ran accurately when the brother stopped wearing it. The anecdote suggests a mysterious link between watch and owner.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Duel Threat Over Thunderous Lie in Georgia Legislature
A Georgia lawmaker named James Hamilton Cooper overheard a colleague call his remark a thundering lie. Cooper challenged the offender to a duel but a court of honor forged a settlement. Cooper withdrew the insult and replaced it with a formal rephrasing, averting violence.
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Georgia
James Hamilton Cooper
Cooper
Ainu Women Adorn Faces With Mustache Tattoos
Islanders from Yer-20, believed to be the origin of Japan’s inhabitants, shape their appearance with upper lip tattoos resembling flowing mustaches. Women bearing these marks are deemed especially attractive and favored in arranged marriages, as men value the tattooed design over overall beauty or features.
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Yer- 20
Japan
Cold Werchajansk and a Welsh hotel guest joke
Reads like a miscellany noting Werchajansk in Siberia as one of the coldest places with winter averages around 74.8 below zero and permafrost to 880 feet while July rises above zero. A Welsh hotelier bids a guest farewell with a playful gift gag about preventing future visits.
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Lena
Siberia
Ercajanek
Werchajansk
Svernpeves
Why Only Humans Laugh Says Professor Kronberger
A World column argues laughter emerges from the human capacity for ideas. It cites that animals observe incongruities but lack reason to form ideas, so only humans can laugh at the mismatch between expectation and outcome.
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Professor Kronberger
Vienna
Herbert
Spencer
New York World
Diverse World Notes From April Era
A wide array of odds and ends from a distant era touches on New York City population, Norwegian furnaces, Manhattan damage costs, floating agriculture in Alaska, riots in San Francisco, political tours, Interstate Commerce debates, Honduras Lottery crackdown, and a Jamestown Exposition invitation. It also reports on weathered dairy hacks, a Cincinnati factory incident, Jim Crow hearings, and leadership changes at Virginia Tech.
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Honduras Lottery Company
Roosevelt
Richmood Blues
Georgia
Villevke
Prenchian
France
Remedies From Raw Egg For Stomach Ailments
A raw egg can be taken with a touch of nutmeg lemon juice chopped parsley and salt or cayenne to improve flavor. The white of a raw egg applied to burns soothes and cools to prevent inflammation and stinging. Partly beaten raw eggs taken in one swallow aid bowel troubles and heal inflamed stomach and intestines. four eggs in 24 hours provide nourishment and medicinal benefit.
Teaching Children Courteous Disagreement
The text urges parents to curb a child's instinct to contradict, arguing polite disagreement is essential. It suggests phrases like "I beg your pardon, but you are mistaken" and "I think you are mistaken" as better manners. A mother can teach this without creating a prig, equating it with learning proper grammar.
Vision and distance on the city horizon
A reader cites the New York Sun on training the eyes with daily ferry trips and skyline views to master distance in a dense urban setting. The fragment also recalls a reverend's Sunday lesson on penitent hearts and a watch that may misbehave, illustrating daily concerns in city life.
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New Jersey
Long Island
New York Sun
Piles Remedy Promises Refund If It Fails
Hundreds suffer painful piles without trying Mian Zan Pile Remedy. It comes in forms for easy local use, relieving pain and inflammation for all pile types. Price advertised and sold at B A Gorrell's Drug Store.
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B. H. Gorrell
Acta
B A. Gorrell
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