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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1901
Page
6
Lucy writes to Bear Johan in Anniston urging a trip to Forbes Mammoth Music Store for the new piano and to recall the promised machine. She emphasizes wanting the best light running standard and signs affectionately.
The notice describes E G Borbes leading in a broad range of musical instruments and mentions the addition of a new category to an existing piano inventory.
A local retailer advertises a large stock of pianos organs music boxes and related instruments plus sewing machines typewriters and phonographs. Prices and terms are stated as right to attract buyers.
Jared Burton, a 30 year old village resident from Iowa, disappeared after a business trip. After months of search he returned claiming amnesia from a mining accident and travel fate. His tale with memory gaps, familiar places, and recognitions sparked wide disbelief before verification.
A village tale centers on a blind man who identifies a stranger as Jared Burton using the feel of his hand, sparking a cloud of doubt. Sheriff investigations point to an impostor with forged papers, while locals debate whether the true Burton ever returned or died.
The Century writer lauds movable type as mankind’s greatest distributive invention, comparing its impact to telegraphs and phones in modern times. He notes rapid spread of ideas from Augustine to Europe, contrasts hand copying with printing, and cites Gutenberg’s first printing office as a landmark enabling cheap, rapid access to major texts and newspapers.
Higgins shows excessive curiosity about others’ affairs and, during a casual encounter with Smithers, pretends familiarity. The brief, comic dialogue reveals miscommunication and ends with the reveal that the “horse” is simply a clotheshorse, highlighting Higgins’s gullibility.
The record notes a man identified as Robbs-Old Titewadd is dead from insomnia. It states he feared sleep and wondered if burglars were present, while another figure named Dobbs recalls a dream of giving away money.
A compact sentence appears in the Detroit Free Press comparing a sponge to resilience or reuse. The line suggests a sponge absorbs and can be squeezed to reclaim what was absorbed, highlighting a metaphorical view on recovery or repetition.
What treasures dear of the days agone these which Obie State Journal cherishes now reveal memories of love and faded tokens. A garland of lace kerchief ribbons and a gown past its prime evoke past joys and vows long vanished, linking the present to a withered past.
In an 1882 diary chapter General Chaffee led a Sixth Cavalry retreat through a Mogollon canyon scene. He crawled to rescue a wounded scout under heavy Apache fire, spurring his men to resume the fight until the foe was routed. Chaffee earned a brevet to lieutenant colonel for the day's actions.
Alice Morse Earle recounts turnspit dogs kept in wheels to stir roasting meat. A coal-warmed chain punished failures as cooks instructed them through hours of aroma without reward. The tale notes aging dogs growing wary and the tavern setting in New York with Jesse the brown hound listening for roast days.
The article argues against perpetual motion, noting that even Arkwright and Newton once doubted it. It lists many claimed devices such as levers, inclined planes, wheels, screws, pumps, siphons, and hydraulic apparatus, but asserts no genuine motion results from any such schemes to this day.
A party of American tourists in Italy visit a centuries old cathedral and observe a lamp claimed to have burned for 600 years. After a moment of awe, one tourist puffs out the lamp and jokes that it is seven o'clock, eliciting applause from the group.
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