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Lexington Gazette

Location

Lexington, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jun 28, 1911

Page

7

Doan's Kidney Pills Advocated By Lexington Resident

Rapid kidney disease progress urges prompt attention for any dull back pain head aches fatigue or dark foul smelling urine. Lexington citizen Lewis B Wright reports long relief after using Coap's Kidney Pills and urges others to buy the Dean's labeled remedy from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.

Doan Lexington Lewis B. Wright Main St Foster-Milburn Co Bufalo New York United States Dean

Travel agent M F Bevil l Bragg in Roanoke faces Jan 13 1909 case

General passenger agent M F Bevill Bragg of Roanoke Virginia appears in a dated travel dispute record. The note lists Bevill Bragg as the acting travel agent with a January 13 1909 date reference and Roanoke as the location.

Pass Bragg Roanoke Paces

Dean's Regulats Ad Promotes Easy Natural Movements

Promotes bowel regulation and constipation relief with options priced at 250 per box. Ad copy urges readers to ask their druggist. includes misspelled or garbled phrases and references to unrelated headlines and quotes from Toledo Blade and Emerson.

Guaranteed Cure For Piles Advertised By Druggist

A druggist offers PASO OINTMENT with a money back guarantee if piles itching bleeding or prolapsing are not cured within 6 to 14 days. The ad promises prompt relief and refunds.

Persian Bread and Drug Ad Snippet in Harsh Humour

A fragmented 1910s style page features a Persian bread note claiming dough rolled thin as a pancake and long as a towel. It includes claims about Dr Fahmey Teething Syrup conforming to the Pure Food and Drug Law with sample offers and testimonials, plus quips about marriage quarrels and a medical ad for Foley Kidney Pills with a traveler’s name.

Persia

First Napoleon Caricature From Brienne Schoolmate

A Brienne schoolmate drew an early caricature of Napoleon Bonaparte showing the future emperor with a stern face and hands on a musket. A smaller, older figure trails behind as Napoleon rushes forward and backward, with a caption about aiding Paoli crossed out.

Brienne Napoleon France Gilray and Iowlandsen England Germany Austria Bonaparte Norwood Young Young Bonaparte Corsick Paoli Enemiles

Looking Out For No. 1 Hat With Ostrich Plume

Sydney sits with a grand hat trimmed by herself a long red ostrich plume hangs down from the brim over her baby face. Her mother asks to tuck the feather away but Sydney insists on seeing it herself noting that others often see the feather before she does.

Sydney Judge

Baby Croup Relief Promised by Dr Thomas Electric Oil

A reader is urged that the baby will not suffer two minutes with croup if Dr Thomas Electric Oil is applied immediately, described as acting like magic.

Ireland’s Early Inhabitants and Foley Kidney Pills

An old notice claims Phoenicians as Ireland’s first inhabitants and mentions Foley Kidney Pills by B. H. Gorrell for kidney and bladder troubles in middle aged and elderly users.

Ireland

One Exception at Least In Fielding Of Health Claims

An advertisement endorses Foley Kidney Pills by B H Storrell claiming the product regulates and strengthens kidney and bladder function. It urges readers to try the pills themselves with a brief exchange highlighting confidence in the claim.

Foley B. H. Storrell

Puzzler Wisdom Quote From Chicago Tribune

A thought provoking exchange on learning and association from the Chicago Tribune. The sage urges surrounding oneself with wiser people while a learner questions how such a rule can apply when others follow it as well.

Chicago Tribune

New Discovery Helps Grieving Wife Recovering Patient

A Muscadine Alabama man credits Dr Kings New Discovery with saving his wife who was bedridden with severe bronchial trouble and a dreadful cough. He reports rapid improvement after using the remedy and praises its effectiveness for lung issues while noting a trial bottle is free and guaranteed by B H Gorrell. A London theatergoer recalls a nightingale and lark performance where a Society for the Protection of Animals investigator finds the birds were mechanical, powered by windup mechanisms.

Writea O. H. Brown Als Dr. King B. H. Gorrell Haymarket Theater London Society For the Protection of Animals Nightingale Iank

Electric Bitters Prove Cure For Liver Trouble

In 1906 lightning killed 169 people nationwide yet a man from West Burlington Illinois was saved from virulent liver trouble and yellow jaundice after eight months by Electric Bitters. Four doctors gave him up before he found relief, proving Bitters the best stomach liver nerve and kidney remedy and blood purifier on earth. Only 500 at B H Gorrells.

Robert Madsen West Burlington B. H. Gorrell's

Bucklen Arnica Salve praised by Marilla carpenter

E 8 Lopez of Marilla praises Bucklen Arnica Salve as a universal healer for cuts wounds burns and sores. It is sold for 25 cents at H Gorrell's. Also included is a note on looking and seeing warning against overbusy observation and choosing only what suits one to avoid weariness and disappointment.

Thareof Lopez Marilla H. Gorrell

Dr Kings New Life Pills Advertised By Local Store

An old advertisement urges taking Dr King s New Life Pills for constipation biliousness and indigestion to regulate liver and bowels and build health. Available for 25 cents at B H Gorrell s.

Hollister Wat Mountain Rocky Mountain MoueTts Dave Comray T. Madison Wis Dr. King H. Gorrell

The Persians Not Ruled by Caste but Etiquette Obsessed

In Los Angeles Times Mary A. Colquhoun notes Persians are refined yet largely illiterate. They are natural linguists speaking multiple languages amid many races. Caste exists only in social custom as etiquette strictness governs rank, not birth.

Persia Nasir Dio Shah Bia Anderun Zi-l-Sultan Nasir-i- Din Muary A. Colquhoun Los Angeles Times

Curious Box Toy Brings Laughs to Waiting Room

A New York Sun excerpt describes a spyglass box in a specialist's waiting room. Visitors eagerly open it to reveal a single word Curiosity inside a tiny paper. The box amuses patients as one by one pass through, a light oddity that entertains while they wait.

India New York Sun

Peg Tankards and the Pegging of Drinking Cups

A historical note explains St Dunstan introduced pegging to regulate drinking by forcing all men to drink a fixed peg. The device, meant to curb intemperance, instead encouraged excessive use as even the sober were pressed to drink to the peg whether they could or not.

St Dunstan St. Dunstan

Different Positions and a Cashier's Craft

A lively image contrasts two desk workers: one checks cash while the other leans back and cashes checks. The Baltimore American notes an exception, while a metaphor in the Toledo Blade jokes about happiness as pursuing or catching what eludes.

Baltimore Toledo Blade

Sensitiveness and minds touched by trifling words

A reflective quotation attributed to Lew Wallace from Ben Hur notes that even the smallest bird cannot rest on the largest tree without a faint tremor through its fibers. It asserts every mind remains highly sensitive to slight words from time to time.

Lew Wallace

A Difference In Customs At Supper

A Philadelphia minister’s daughter invited a friend for supper and whispered that the prayer at grace was “saying grace.” The minister asked about coastal grace and the guest joked that the father would say grace when he comes into the dining room, bowls his fist, and exclaims at the table.

Philadelphia

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