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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1907
Page
8
Pittsburg chamber of commerce plans a banquet at the Sehenley tonight to spotlight civic achievement. About 30 to 40 invited men are honored for accomplishments in literature law theology philosophy sciences statesmanship arts mechanics invention and philanthropy. All guests are noted as loyal Pittsburg citizens with no divorces.
Judge G B Randolph of the Anniston board of education seeks to fly the Stars and Stripes over every school during hours. He started private fundraising after a committee estimated poles and work would cost about 125 dollars. Poles have been placed at Wilmer avenue grounds awaiting completion.
The article lists early New York milestones from 1635 to 1683. It names the first schoolmaster Adam Roelandsona, the first graveyard laid near Broadway above Morris Street in 1653, the company farm from Hudson to Wall Street in 1638, the first clergyman Dominic Boguecus and a 1683 church, the first artist Dirk Hermans and his 1655 New Amsterdam sketch, and the initial public punishment whipping post established in 1635.
The article notes that ancient scholars across Egypt, Assyria, China, and Central America taught a world shape like a cube or square plane. It cites Toltec and Inca/Quiché ideas that the globe was cube shaped, suspended by golden cords from its corners.
The greatest mystery of medical science is the thyroid land and its role as the seat of goiter. This fragment reflects early questions about thyroid function and disease.
A local druggist endorses a home mix using Fluid Extract Dandelion, Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, and Compound Karyon. He claims the blend is harmless, easy to prepare, and can heal kidney and urinary issues, relieve backache, bladder weakness, and blood disorders.
Mr J T Wall of Lineville in the city today. Birmingham visitors B R K Starnes J M Stillwell and Leroy Smith arrived in Anniston. J W Brooks of the Atlanta Georgian is here representing the paper. W Carlton returned from Ashland after inspecting the new Clay county courthouse. J M Lewis from Baltimore went to Talladega. Deputy Collector W W Battle of Jacksonville is here. H Weeden of Boston is at the Alabama. A I Blackmore and P Gaboury of Jacksonville are in town.
Special to the Star from Brussels reports Chief Weremael proposes 12 women officers in Ghent. They will not wear uniforms but will have police powers to warn citizens likely to incur prosecution to obey the law.
The report lists barometer 30.12 at 7 a.m. and temperature 56 with precipitation .0. Wind direction South at 9 mph. Highest temperature 76 at 2 p.m. Lowest 52 at 5 a.m. Condition partly cloudy. Forecast rain late tonight or Friday.
Strong detachments under General Kaulbars are being rushed from Odessa to the Roumanian frontier to quell peasant unrest and restore order along the border.
Representative S John Lamoureux of the Massachusetts legislature was arraigned in criminal court on charges of soliciting and accepting a bribe.
More than 1 000 delegates and visitors gather in Shreveport for the annual Louisiana teachers association convention opening this afternoon. The three day session will cover standard topics for the state’s educators.
A resident warns against trying to outsmart government agents noting the U S Secret Service relentlessly pursues fugitives and can locate and detain them anywhere. He argues defeating Uncle Sam is the most hopeless challenge a criminal could undertake.
A well attended Question Bee at the Church of Christ featured a Sunday school quiz among classes over the past quarter lessons. Dr. E. C. Anderson presided as contestants answered, with Mrs. E. G. MeLin delivering the Rocket story and contributing as an elocutionist amid stirring songs.
In Lake Charles on April 4 the state horticultural society focused on pecan culture truck growing and orange culture with government experts prominent on the program.
The Etowah blackberry crop has been damaged by frost with tops bent and turning black. D. P. Goodhue observed the berry district reports of nipped vines as frost and ice hit valley regions. Blackberries are farther advanced this year than ever.
The ex treme warm spell a week ago caused vines to shoot up to enormous height and become unusually tender when the cold snap arrived, according to Mr. Goodhue cited by the Gadsden Times News.
The magnificent new public library in Columbus Ohio funded by Andrew Carnegie was formally opened and dedicated this afternoon at noon marking a major civic achievement. The event highlighted Carnegie’s gift to the city and the library’s intended role as a regional cultural hub.
In Baltimore rules require full fare for children over five. a seven year old rides with his mother on a Charles Street car. The boy grows restless and calls for his mother, asking about the fare and mimicking a child’s plea, revealing a mischievous moment captured by the Times.
A 1788 Scheele milestone laid foundations for potassium cyanide manufacture using prussiate of potash and dried animal matter. Superheated vessels and iron borings yielded a lemon colored crystal from which prussic acid emerged. a tiny 2 percent solution proved highly potent, with later work revealing gold plating via cyanide in electroplating and ore treatment.
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