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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1901
Page
6
A brief friendly note from Lucy to John mentions stopping in Anniston at E. J. Barbe’s Mammoth Music Store to see a new Light Running Baldwin ae machine, aiming for the best instrument. She reminds him of H’s advice and asks him not to forget.
EE Borbes leads shop in instruments and announces a new addition to a already large piano inventory. The note highlights ongoing expansion and catalog growth in the music shop's offerings.
Before buying elsewhere call and examine our large stock of pianos organs music boxes and all kinds of musical instruments. Also sewing machines typewriters and phonographs The prices are right and the terms are right.
A garbled archaic sounding text presents a cryptic meditation on loyalty love and fear with scattered phrases about dawn weight and hidden emotions. The passage reads as a disjointed poem or puzzle lacking clear narrative kto.
A Sioux man sworn by a shaman to kill the first living being he met murders a missionary beloved by many. Indian custom forbids bloody retribution for the act, but the shaman condemns the killer to die within a year. The vow-wearied hunter falls ill and dies within the allotted time.
A magazine excerpt describes criteria for freshness including firm flesh with no indentation, clear bright eyes, stiff fins, red gills, and a clean odor. It contrasts fresh fish with stale fish, deeming the latter unwholesome and unworthy of consideration.
Mrs Manhattan recalls the shift in servant hiring as she replaces a longtime maid with a new hire who arrives with a fine letter of recommendation from Mrs Newlyrich. The new maid awkwardly tells a caller to insert her card between her teeth due to wet hands.
The coasters of the Fiji islands will not eat until they can sit flat on the ground over a triangle of three small fish bones. They then handle food only with the left hand. In the interior, people avoid eating when a cloud appears, especially in the west, fearing the Great Air Whale will pounce and annihilate them.
Detroit Free Press notes a hiccup during a signing on stage as a quill pen fails and a fountain pen is grabbed in frustration. The anecdote highlights oddities in a historical play company’s engagement and paperwork.
A Louisville Harrison press item recalls a boy named Willie pleading for his brother to escape a whipping. The reply notes the brother’s pattern that each punishment prompts the other to retaliate, illustrating a domestic truism about family dynamics.
A passerby recalls witnessing a brief kiss on a streetcar this morning. The moment is described with playful, nostalgic humor, reflecting an ordinary city tableau.
A small Mexican island near New Orleans shows a changing color shoreline. Millions of purple snails leaving the beach after tides create a purple upper edge as sand vanishes, making the beach appear to shift from neutral to purple nightly.
A European traveler recalls reading on an English tombstone the line Ieve lies as he was born a man but died a grocer. The essay argues vocation should overflow beyond mere work and that true success makes a person greater than their calling.
Henry Labouchere once described his view of humanity as little animals on countless globes, existing briefly in eternity. He said artificial distinctions among people have no significance, much like ants swept away by a passing foot.
The Chicago Post describes the Afghan ameer as a moving mix of luxury and military readiness. He carries revolvers and bread daily, keeps a small arsenal near him, and his retinue rides saddled horses for swift actions. Yet he governs with autocratic power and harsh punishments while promoting education and religious duties.
The New York Sun notes 5 cent shaves in Bowery barber shops with extra charges for bay rum. Some shops offer 10 cent shaves including bay rum or Florida water. Signs advertise 5 cent shaves with bay rum or witch hazel and variations at nearby East Side venues.
Courteuil of France weighs an ordinance banning tall silk hats or stovepipes within town limits. Advocates call the hat ridiculous headgear and a badge of social superiority used by aristocrats who profit from the poor.
Mrs Hankey, a lugubrious character, discusses her niece Susan's wedding and predicts the bridegroom's likely end with wry wit. She notes the aunt may be upset now there is no daughter to bless, then jokes that funerals will follow weddings and urges cheerfulness.
The Lanarkills Gazette notes increasing use of printed letter heads and envelopes by farmers. By naming the farm and owner with post office address the business is completed, as printing costs are small compared with benefits.
A long haired man presents two poems to an editor. The editor, after a quick review, declares the second poem superior and returns to his interrupted work.
The Spanish succession conflict grew from Austria and France over a throne claim. After King Charles I dies, a Paris crowd scene leads to a spilled water incident and a duel. The quarrel between French and English residents escalates into a generalized war-feel joke about a broken glass of water.
A dubious applicant sought a van driver post and cited a dealer as reference. The referee quipped that the man had been tried seven times for stealing and escaped each time, leaving the applicant unengaged. Also notes about railway entertainments and a soldier diagnosed with mono mania discharged for shouting after a paper.
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