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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1907
Page
4
The Sainton Star established in 1899 operates as a daily newspaper published by the Ston Publishing Company. Editor is Gordon and general manager McKay. Office at Market Street location provides local news and notices.
Public notice from the Anniston Publishing Co. lists weekly and yearly rates for the Anniston Republic and mail delivery. Rates include ten cents a week, five dollars a year by carrier, three dollars by mail, with advance payment required. The office serves Calhoun Talladega and Cleburne counties and invites communications and remittances to Anniston, Alabama.
The document shows daily and total circulation figures for March 1907 with an overall total printed of 67 610 and a daily average of 2 216. The statement is sworn by BB McKER General Manager and witnessed by B W Ledbetter Notary Public on April 1 1907.
The Russian famine relief committee led by Agee Rusgiog and Bishop Henry Potter appeals to Americans for immediate aid. It details widespread starvation across twenty one provinces, with thousands dying and peasants selling livestock and even daughters to survive. Five dollars sustains a resident until the next harvest. contributions go to 135 East Fifteenth Street, New York.
A letter to a relief committee from Russian women describes dire hunger and freezing conditions in villages. Peasants live underground with almost no fuel and poor bread made from acorns. Typhus and scurvy threaten both adults and children. relief is urgently needed, as seventy five cents could sustain an adult for a month.
A 19th century advertisement asserts deafness stems from Eustachian tube inflammation and promises one hundred dollars for any case of deafness caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Care cannot cure. It urges sending for circulars and lists J Chenery & Co of Toledo and domestic druggists selling Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
An excerpt recalls Suleiman of Aleby an Arab assassin condemned by a French court martial for killing Kleber. His punishment included burning his right hand and impalement with his body reduced to a skeleton, endured with no outward sign of pain.
The article explains that salt quality depends on its source and preparation, noting historical methods and current risks. It cites Turk's island rock salt, used in pork packing and ice cream, arriving in dirtier conditions, and compares spring salt production as increasingly dominant for table salt and meat packing.
The Liberal, a literary venture conceived by Lord Byron in Italy with Shelley and Leigh Hunt, planned for London publication. It began in 1822 with only four numbers, including Byron’s Vision of Judgment, as Hunt served as editor before Shelley's death.
In 1908 Frankfort Kentucky installed a municipal electric plant at six dollars per inhabitant. Trustees now sign a five year contract with Utica Gas and Electric as its price undercuts the municipal plant operating cost.
A fifteenth century system by Amontons sent Paris to Rome messages in three hours using chained posts and telescope signals. The code remained secret between Paris senders and Rome recipients, but officials hindered further work and Amontons abandoned the project.
The fragment lists vast ancient forces: Terah of Ethiopia with 1,000,000 soldiers and 300 chariots, Sespetris of Egypt with 600,000 troops, 24,000 cavalry and 27 chariot scythes, Thebes capable of 1,000,000 at gates, Hannibal sweeping 400 towns and 400,000 killed, Harmiticar from Carthage with 300,000 soldiers and a 2,000 ship fleet, plus 3,000 small vessels. The figures imply epic mobilizations and clashes across 191 B.C. to Hannibal’s era.
The London Telegraph notes that the word home carries irreplaceable emotional meaning unlike translations. It cites a Freselman translating Newman’s hymn as illustrating how other languages fail to capture the intimate sense tied to the English term.
In Dakota winters horses wear snowshoes crafted from boards twenty inches long and fourteen inches wide. Each board bears a horseshoe indentation and is fastened to the hoof with an iron clamp and bolt. After brief practice, a Dakota horse becomes proficient at snowshoeing across deep drifts.
Robert C. Spencer in House Beautiful argues that cottages signify modest, economical living and true home creation. He distinguishes them from ostentatious seaside mansions and emphasizes quiet proportion and harmonious coloring as central to cottage charm.
A Louisville Courier Journal snippet reports a call seeking a number ended with a joke about cowboys borrowing the line to hang a horse thief. The telephone operator confirms the line is busy, while the caller dismisses the claim.
A brief exchange from the Philadelphia Ledger contrasts grand opera with light opera, noting that one may pretend to appreciate grand opera while truly valuing the other, highlighting the perceived distinction between the two styles.
In a Fliegende Blatter panel an irate father scolds his son George about money. The son retorts that he needs nothing and that others need it, highlighting comic financial tensions.
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