Swearing Off A Bad Habit
Slogan style ad urges readers to quit a bad habit and improve business by printing handsome stationery. It notes cheap options for letter heads bill heads and statements to start the year with better presentation.
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Newspaper
Lexington Gazette
Location
Lexington, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1910
Page
3
Slogan style ad urges readers to quit a bad habit and improve business by printing handsome stationery. It notes cheap options for letter heads bill heads and statements to start the year with better presentation.
McClure's Magazine argues that humans and rats are the dominant species worldwide with both sides feasting, warring, and surviving across eras. It notes the ongoing struggle against rodents despite advances in traps and poisons while humans and rats repeatedly counter each other's dominance.
The text discusses a $100,000 appropriation for recovering the Maine wreck and burying bodies, arguing the project could end the sinking mystery if funded, while noting navigation obstacles and Panama trade totals. It sews in unrelated items and literary snippets, reflecting a chaotic, era‑style newspaper page with varied topics.
A children’s page describes a playful game where players assume trades, a reader reads aloud, and nouns are replaced by tradesmen’s items. It includes a light experiment with shadows, a bird that sews nests, a quirky riddle about legs, and short vignettes such as a girl asking if a waiter follows a ship to England and sly exchanges about Jones and a clever remark on never getting stuck.
Baroness Bonde records Louis Philippe abdication through a war minister aide account. The king, anxious and unsettled, witnessed unled troops forming a chaotic scene at the Carrousel as cries of national guard loyalty rose. A sublieutenant begged for royal safety, and the king reluctantly agreed to abdicate in favor of his grandson amid pressure from public opinion.
A collage of short excerpts on American baseball culture noting the nation’s love of the game, sailing lore, gunpowder history, and odd Turkish superstitions. It references Ellis Parker on baseball education, compass boxing by seafaring youths, gunpowder’s ancient ties, a Turkish bread superstition, ancestral pride from Revolutionary times, limelight aspirations, and humorous exchanges about paying for poetry in print.
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