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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1907
Page
5
The Children Civic League plans an auxiliary meeting at Wilmer avenue school tomorrow at 3 PM for a general discussion on expanding city improvement work. Also noted are brief local items about community notices and staff movements.
In a city court session, Johnston Bros faces burglary charges with co-defendants Frank Belcher and Jim Evans. Belcher and Evans pleaded guilty. Samples fights the case. Belcher and Evans may be sent to the state reformatory. Black faced type ads warn of higher rates for local notices.
Anniston market reports spot cotton and produce prices dated April 4. Prices include chickens 25 to 35 cents, eggs 15 cents, sweet potatoes 1 dollar per bushel, Irish potatoes 90 cents per bushel, white peas 2.50 dollars per bushel, speckled peas 2 dollars per bushel, and corn 66 to 68 cents per bushel.
A New York Sun anecdote recalls Noy Bean the Justice of the Peace in Langtry Texas. It recounts a 19th century case where cowboys shot Chinese railroad workers, a trial ended with the judge freeing the prisoners for lack of Texas law against shooting a Chinaman by a white man.
The London Chronicle recounts William Lee’s invention of the knitting frame in the sixteenth century. Driven by love and spurned by a stocking knitter, he aimed to ruin her livelihood, fled to France, and died, with the motive left to tradition rather than fact.
A playful reflection traces a life from birth in New York to a rebirth in Boston. The speaker notes twenty-one years as a son, thirty as a husband, and ten as a father, asserting a “family plan” rests on contentment rather than grand structure.
A newspaper note explains common neck discoloration in women from dyes and products. It recommends natural washing with soap and a hot washcloth for a month, then peroxide of hydrogen as a bleaching aid. If irritation occurs, apply vaseline or sweet almond oil after the chemical dries.
The Housekeeper recommends a pork free method for baked beans using olive oil and molasses. Soak one pint of beans overnight, parboil, drain, then cover with boiling water. Add two tablespoonfuls olive oil and a quarter cup molasses, with salt pepper and mustard. If sweeter, use half cup molasses.
A spoof argues against chasing scientific truth and mocks medical and dietary trends. It notes pork as digestible, port as a medical safeguard, and sea air as harmful, spoofing authoritative guidance from doctors and experts.
A missionary challenges Kipling and others by exposing the cruelty in Indian elephant handling. He describes the goad used by mahouts and the practice of keeping a painful sore on the elephant’s forehead to force obedience, urging travelers to notice the suffering on the brow.
During the French Revolution M Condorcet seeks refuge with M Suard. At a tavern he orders twelve eggs for an omelet causing suspicion and his arrest. He is imprisoned and never released, illustrating peril for aristocrats.
If your horse needs better shoes, take him to George E. Peterson, expert horseshoers, at G. H. Brummel & Co's on East Tenth Street for quality work.
The text traces old geological views that mountains form by earth cracks and opposes such upheaval theories. It notes Table Mountain at the Cape of Good Hope as a peak formed by subsidence of surroundings rather than upheaval, with cooler ground beneath preserving its height and shape.
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