Fraternal Orders Gather for Lex Council Meeting
Lex Council No. 179 Junior Order United American Mechanics meets Friday at 7 PM at the Odd Fellows hall for a regular session. Members urged to attend and discuss upcoming events and community service plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockbridge Lodge
O. F
Odd Felows
Lexington Lodge
K. of P
Odd Fellows
Liberty Lodge
Daughtereo Rebekah
Mountain City Lodge
Ancient York Masons
Masonic Hall
Natural Bridge
Royal Arcanum
Odd Fellows Hall
Dean's Kidney Pills Endorsement from Lexington Sufferer
A Lexington Virginia resident Chas H Chittum Jr testifies to Dean's Kidney Pills curing kidney complaints. He praises relief from weak kidney secretions and weight-related issues after using the product bought at Gorrell's drug store. Sold nationwide by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY agents for the United States. Remember the name Dean's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Lexington
Chas, H. Chittum, Jr
Main St
Gorrell’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Purported Remedies and Health Ads from Old Newspaper Page
A sprawling set of 1900s style ads and notices touts Botanie Blood Balm for blood and skin diseases, Foley remedies for coughs and kidney issues, Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea, Burdock Blood Bitters, and other patent medicines. Includes brief endorsements, pricing notes, and scattered product mentions, with references to locations such as Atlantis Georgia and Melbourne officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Express
Atlantis
PUSSY WILLOWS IN VERSE BY MARY E. KILLIlea
A short verse vividly describes spring scenes with birds, nests, and warming sunshine. It paints a streamside overhang, brown kits in cradles, arbutus breaths, and a bluebird singing above budding elms. The poem captures renewal and nature's quiet joy.
The Nun and a Poet in Twisted Verses
A fragment from Leigh Hunt presents a playful vow scene about becoming a nun and the suitor’s defiant counter wish. The poem features humorous religious imagery and a bold, wry edge. An unrelated verse by Edith M. Thomas follows, hinting at love letters and a lingering heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith M. Thomas
Ghosts, Dignity, and a Fourteen-Year-Old's Courage
A village tale recalls Washington Irving's quip about esteem and weight. A 14-year-old girl investigates a late night reported ghost, finding only a shirt on a windy clothesline, illustrating how ghosts often prove to be ordinary.
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England
Poetic Husband Sentiment From Arthur and Photo Swap
A London Tit-Bits note describes Charlotte weeping over a letter from her husband Arthur in Carlsbad who writes of dying for love and kissing her picture daily. She reveals she swapped her mother’s photo into his travel bag to test him.
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Charlotte
Arthur
Carlsbad
London
Postal Doctors of St Martin’s Le Grand
Four senior sorters at St Martin’s le Grand perform the duty of “doctoring” damaged letters and parcels. In the sorting room they are humorously called doctors as they mend items from counterfeit notes to stamps and even bottles of medicine and poison.
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St. Martin’s le Grand
Brooklyn
Cat chase in a dark kitchen ends with a hairbrush pursuit
In a Chicago New story fragment a tense scene unfolds as Jones hunts a cat in a dark kitchen. Tommy shouts for his father, who reacts angrily and chases him with a hairbrush after a noisy exchange.
City Manager Plan Boosts Powers in Staunton
After 12 months of centralized executive rule, Staunton approves broader authority for the city manager. The manager now controls all departments including light, streets, water, and almshouse, with removal and appointment powers across offices.
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Staunton
Portrait of Richard Wagner by Sir Hubert von Herkomer
English artist Sir Hubert von Herkomer describes painting Wagner from life in 1877. Wagner allowed daily access at his home for a month as the portrait progressed from Friday to Sunday. When finished and presented, Wagner expressed delight at the completed work.
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Hubert von Herkomer
Richard Wagner
Wagner
Negro Business League of New York
Beoker T. Washington
Alabama
Louieville
Magistrate Sentences Several Notorious Drunkards
A London magistrate orders ten days in jail for a drunk and disorderly prisoner who, after a pensive reply, criticizes humanity while listing other “bad” names. The officer is told to run a list of those names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Promante
Byron
Poe
London Mail
Smart passenger stirs brusque rural humor on train
A summer afternoon scene on a stalled passenger train shows a "smart" young man asking a rural lad a joke question. The boy's blunt reply exposes a wary, prickly wit, turning the exchange into a brief comic moment aboard the isolated car.
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Sonny
March to Lexington and the Jackson Grave Relic Tale
James F. Hays recalls Hunter's June 1864 march from Staunton toward Lexington with Averill and Crook. He describes the Lexington skirmish, Jackson's grave desecration by relic hunters, and his mule mounted ride, plus a note on a mule saddle improvised from a rope and oats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waverly
James F. Hays
Baltimore American
Hunter
Piedmont
Staunton
William Jones
Crook
Averill
Clyde Mountain
Jeckine
John Morgan
Wytheville
Lexington
Virginia Military School
Sis
Nick
James M. Schoonmaker
Pittsburg
Fourteenth
Pennsylvania Cavalry
Miles
Natural Bridge
Virginia and national notes in a scattered 1900s column
The report cites Eugene Davenport on bread supply, announces the State Bar Association meeting August 10 12 at Hot Springs with James M Beck as chief speaker, and records Winchester's tax on insurance premiums. It covers Virginia legal cases, a Blacksburg hotel assault on Elizabeth Dundreary, fashion fads with snakes in hosiery, a Fairfield New Jersey bequest mystery, Virginia finances optimism, cotton production estimates, a large Washington bar fee, and a carrier crash suit by Gertrude Paxton with N W Railway injuries.
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W. J. Bryanenya
I. 5
Heneuw
Nebraska
Eugene Davenport
University of Illinois
State Bar Association
Hot Springs
James M. Beck
United States
Winchester
T. W. Harrison
Elizabeth Dundreary
Wise County
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Blacksburg
Virginia
Fairfield
N. J
Sarah Maroh
Steve March
Guaranteed Cure Claims for Piles By PAZO OINTMENT
An advertisement asserts PAZO OINTMENT cures piles in six to fourteen days. It promises relief from itching bleeding and protruding piles with a money back guarantee if symptoms persist.
Also Mentioned on This Page
SeesiEs D. Letcher
Lexington, VA
Pace M. Penice
Lauiieton
J. Prestos Moore
Frauke Moore
Court Notery Public
Toonz & Moore
Lextvetes
Faane T. Glascow ,Muem A. Waitepeers & White
Arttorners-At-Law
W. P. Houston
Louis K. Walz
North Main Street
Ours
Jahnke Building
Lexington Hotel
Lexinotos
A.i
R. R.witt & CO. General
Soc
Oxford
H.L. Kennedy
Buena Vista
Magnolia Avenue
J. W. McClung
J. Preston Moont
Frank Moore
Aeton Fire Insurance Co
Hartford
M. J. Hess
Presbyterians Church
Main
Leslie L. Weaver
First National Bank
U. S
U.S
Wee Eee
J. Gassman & Son Hardware Company
Waterloo
Columbus
Jones
Smith
James E. Heck
OUP, Baptist Church
Farm Journal
Poley
Foley
H_ Gorrell
Gorrell
Oley
B. H. Gorrell
John F. Jewell
Melbourne
Victoris
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
H. Wortell
New York City
Catskill
Panama Canal
Rocks Mountain
EB. H. Gorrell
Asanada
Rocky Mountain Tea
Congal
John A.merkle
Bergen
Bright
Mery
Burdock
Hope
Mary E. Killilea
Leigh Hunt
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Washington Irving
Irving
L.C. Jahre & Company
Cot
Son
Tommy
Chicago New
Dr. Fahrney
Maomstows
Dukes de Nivernois
Count de Treason
Duke de Nivernois
de 'L'Ressan
Olix
Richmond ‘Limes Dispatch
South
Texas
Washington
Holmes Conrad
Supreme Court of the United States
Harry St.George Tucker
Amberet Judge Main
Mr. Tucker
Judge Mann
Gertude Paxton
Vesuvius
Mina Paxton
Mies McCorkle
Migs Paxton
Chicago
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