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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1909
Page
8
An excerpt from the Baltimore Sun extols the virtues of limburger cheese as a healthful preservative and stimulant. It claims daily consumption improves digestion nerves and vitality, enhancing intellect and capability in science commerce and art. The piece humorously notes the benefits extend to social cheer and even musical performance.
A notice discusses blindness in high judicial office. It cites Mr. E. F. P. Emmett of Burnley and Ireland’s Hon. Richard Pennefather, who served on the Irish Exchequer bench while wholly blind for five years before death in 1859. The House of Commons debate on February 15, 1856, questioned call dates, appointments, and absences from circuit.
Efforts to shield Perranzabuloe St Piran's oratory from wind, weather, and drifting sands continue. A concrete protective house is proposed to prevent the lost church, famed as the source of tin discovery by Cornish miners and a noted Cornish saint, from being buried again.
The history notes dentistry in Egypt in remote times with Herodotus and Aristotle commenting on the practice. Gold fillings and bridge work appear in ancient records. No American dentist is recorded before 1766, while Greek and Roman eras likely did similar work.
Capt Roald Amunilsen's 25 foot sloop Gjoa, famed for the northwest passage, becomes city property of San Francisco and will be displayed prominently at the western edge of Golden Gate Park for public view.
A fragment from a wedding tale shows a couple aboard a speeding train with a macabre exchange about dying together and life insurance. The lines hint at danger and a dramatic mood without clear context or resolution.
The rag pickers of Paris pass the trade to descendants with district inheritances and a mission to sift morning waste. They salvage scraps for papers, metals, tins, peels, and more, keeping a strict family workflow just outside the city limits, where dangers like poisoning or tin cuts threaten even young workers.
Question addressed to Dutchy asks how one knows they are fully through a door. The line frames a humorous or puzzled moment about spatial awareness during entry.
An advertisement touts Rexall Orderlies as a safe ideal remedy for constipated elderly, weak constitution sufferers. It claims candy-like tablets soothe dry mucous membrane and relax bowel muscles, producing natural contractions. Guarantee promises cost reimbursement if claims fail. Lexington Rexall store Crenshaw & Young carries 36 tablets 25 cents and 12 tablets 10 cents.
William Armstrong writes that about one percent of America's operatic students in Milan reach success. He counsels singers to found musical education at home with a fair Italian language knowledge and to begin studying roles for repertoire upon arrival in Milan. An older woman should accompany a young girl if possible. Vienna stands as Europe’s top city for piano study, with Theodor Leschetizky the leading teacher.
A humorous dialogue about a talking machine and a distant voice, featuring Mrs Peck and Mr Peck. The exchange notes the novelty of hearing someone not present and ends with a light remark about stopping the device.
A new teacher asks how to spark boys interest in percentage as a lesson. The wise old pedagogue suggests involving them in calculating baseball averages to engage students.
A brief, vivid exchange shows a wife asserting herself in a tense confrontation, while her husband concedes little yet persists in the same clash of voices. The scene centers on gendered speech dynamics within a domestic quarrel.
A fragmentary note describes a man devoted to his work in 1912 and mentions he tutors a 19 year old girl in 1911, suggesting a close mentor relationship with potential impropriety implied but not explicit.
What would be more pleasing as a gift than a nice Kodak Call at the Picture Shop and look them over Those cute expressions that first step that new toy what a pleasure to keep a Kodak book for the child as he grows up See Coffin the picture man Kodak work finished at the lowest prices Phone 245 J O Coffin Photographer Have you seen those Fancy Westings at Geo Wittenbergs Clem Tyree left yesterday evening for Shelbina to join his wife and daughter who are spending the holidays there I will have a lot of Christmas Trees Holly and other Christmas decorations in a few days Jos L Long Cash Grocer Advertise in the Intelligencer.
Advertises a woolen renovator that raises nap and softens woolens after improper washing. Claims to revive blankets underwear and similar items with no extra charge. Phone 130.
Figs grapes candies of all kinds and mixed nuts advertised at Jos L Long's Cash Grocer store with a wide assortment for shoppers.
A humorous Republic piece recounts a St. Louis newspaper staff wedding stunt at Union Station where a reporter arranged a marriage ceremony in the office, offering vows and orange blossoms for subscribers in nearby towns. It notes editorials and opinions from rival papers alongside this lighthearted event.
A string of real estate transfers lists buyers and prices from G C Branch to August Anderson and others including J T Prigmore, Anna Carpenter, and Isaac Gratz with varied sums. The Altoona Pa Tribune, a Republican contemporary, protests the cheap shots of newspaper paragraphers mocking rising living costs in the heart of the protection belt.
In a scene from The New One by Clara E Laughlin the narrator describes a tense exchange over dogs and names. Dewey clashes with his father Pa about his pup and the dog’s name Togo while discussing ethnic slurs and a potential insult to his guests. Mary intervenes with humor and pragmatism as the argument revolves around cultural tensions and a comical insistence on using a proper American name George Washington for the dog.
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