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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1901
Page
6
Lucy writes from Anniston about visiting EB Borden's Mammoth Music Store to see new French models and unsuccessfully chase a light-running sewing machine. She asks Jolun to remember her instructions and to get the best wall-mounted light standard.
The note announces EE Borbes leading a broad assortment of musical instruments and mentions adding to an already large list of pianos. This concise teaser highlights the expansion of musical goods without extra details.
Before buying elsewhere you should call and examine our large stock of pianos crank resan music boxes and small musical instruments of all kinds Also sewing machines typewriters and gramophones The prices are right The terms are right and the goods are right.
A Boston correspondent recounts Bishop Brooks at Windsor Castle who, rebuffed in the corridor and balcony, hid the cigar in a room chimney to continue smoking. The custodian repeatedly urged him to stop as smoking is forbidden there. The bishop finally finished the cigar unseen in the chimney, unseen by the staff.
A Cincinnati druggist awoke to two men with prescription blanks signed by Dr Al K Hall. They sought whisky claiming illness, offered a $2 bill, and left with drinks after the pharmacist billed $2, noting he charges $1 per filling after closing. The tale ends with the crooked men departing. In the same issue, a note on photochronographic timing measures sword thrust speed.
A five inch square cardboard rolled into a tube creates a visual effect when held to the eye. With one end around the eye and a book pressed against the side of the tube the viewer sees a single hole and objects appearing through walls. The experiment keeps both eyes open and challenges depth perception.
A lyricic fragment expresses longing for a awaited reunion with a beloved aboard a sea voyage. The speaker pleads for faithfulness and patience while awaiting return, promising devotion and resilience against separation and time. The text alternates between farewell and greeting refrains.
A Nashville American item recounts a courtroom exchange where an attorney questions a woman about her age. The woman deflects, saying she does not know the answer, while the attorney urges a direct response before moving on to the next question.
A hotel boarder recalls a friend’s death in a hotel and a clerk’s refusal to sell mourning emblems for the door. The clerk notes guests do not expect death in hotels and urges not to hold funerals there, reflecting a prerogative of hotel life.
The article notes Werchojansk in Siberia as the world’s coldest place with January temperatures at 90.4 degrees below zero in 1888 and January averages around 64 degrees below. It cites calm, clear winters and 3.0 feet above sea level, challenging the belief that the pole holds the coldest weather.
Spectators at a Chicago Tribune seance mock the delay as the medium cites a cold room. One spectator urges action while another grumbles for a rap of spirits to begin the performance.
A brief exchange features Uncle Groutt explaining to his nephew that the thickest bark forms on the outside of a tree. The nephew asks which side and the uncle replies with the joke.
The text explains that healthy kidneys can enlarge to compensate for a failed one, and that skin vessels may excrete to prevent poisoning when kidneys fail. It also notes kidneys assist when pores are chilled, making it dangerous for kidney patients to take cold.
A rural editor quips that Bill Jones of our town wrote ten sonnets in one day while a magazine editor argues poetry benefits from two years of refinement. The remark appears in the Atlanta Constitution and reflects local humor about literary work.
The Old Man and Young Man exchange sharp lines about money and marriage in a witty Detroit Free Press snippet. The father notes the suitor’s love grew quickly upon learning the fortune, while the son praises the rapid, money-tinted courtship.
A butterfly settles head downward folding its wings to a narrow ridge among seed heads. By morning the gray sleepers awaken on sun warmed stems opening their wings to reveal azure flowers-like color on the grass tops.
A Philadelphia Press comic caption shows Jack calling women puzzles and Jill retorting that men are stubborn. The exchange ends with Jill noting men won t give them up.
Rivers recalls near death as doctors saved him after a near drowning. Brooks asks what caused the rash act, in a Chicago Tribune style exchange.
The festival of fools began January 1 and lasted several days with licensed absurdities and indecencies. It was not celebrated after the late thirteenth century. Fools were kept at court until Charles I in 1625, but the ancient custom never returned to the people.
An excerpt from the Chicago Record shows a dialogue about sleep and arctic nights. The lines hint at a quarrel over waking in three months and enduring six months of cold. The text reflects a literary aside within the newspaper page.
A brief note from the Philadelphia Record praises a young male writer for a realism approach. The piece hints he has yet to fully realize his potential in his writings.
A weather remark prompts a pointed reply about rent in the Obio State Journal. The exchange centers on practicality and the need for shelter against rain.
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