Extravagant Legislature Faces Taxpayer Scrutiny
The Evening Star denounces the current legislature as an expensive luxury while noting numerous appropriations totaling 1 355 000 for extraordinary expenses. It cites funds for pensions, prison needs, capitol repairs, monuments, education, and other programs, urging taxpayers to see the true cost of constitutional action.
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St. Louis Exposition
Virginia
Capitol
Eastern State Hospital
Executive Mansion
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
State Female Normal School
Farmville
William and Mary College
Cuticura Skin Cure Advertises global relief products
An advertisement extols Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment as instant relief for pain in babies and soothing for mothers. It claims a great cure for eczemas, skin eruptions, hair loss, and irritations across adults and children, with depots listed in London Paris and Boston and prices for Ointment and Resolvent.
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London
Paris
Columbus
Perpetual Light Lamp in Louisiana Described
A coastal Louisiana lamp near Bay St. Louis, between Lake Borgne and Mississippi Sound, is called the Perpetual Light. It sits in marshy land, seen from the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and supposedly never goes out. A keeper visits quarterly to oil and trim it, ensuring a steady, unvarying flame for mariners.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Lake Borgne
Mississippi
Bay St. Louis
Chinchuba
The Difference and Small Jests From Various Papers
A collection of comic exchanges and quips from Philadelphia Ledger Smart Set Town Topics Washington Star and others. Humorous lines touch on breakfast foods pumpkins weddings and a joke about a coat with no buttons.
Vintage Floor Oil Cloth and Skirting Sale Notice
Oil cloth at 22 cents a yard and line 15 cents. extra heavy skirting for walking ladies' suits left at 5.00 worth 10.00. Itemized sale text suggests a clearance listing with discounted textiles and fabric remnants.
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Special Tours to Florida at Low Railroad Rates
Special tours to Florida offered by Baltimore and Ohio and Seaboard Air Line with January 26 departures via Washington and Jacksonville. Round trip rail fare sleeping car accommodations and meals included en route to Washington and Jacksonville. Return trips set for February 9 10 and 24 via Southern Railroad from Jacksonville.
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Washington
Seaboard Air Line
Jacksonville
Via
Southern Railroad
Washington, D. C
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