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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1907
Page
7
A playful classroom dialogue explores the meaning of Excelsior and a string of questions and answers about words feathers optimists and park joys. The teacher prompts and students respond with light humor and misheard lines.
A young wife confronts a grocer with a soap mishap that turns out to be cheese. The scene shifts to Benjamin Brewster’s testimony about childhood burns, ending with a pointed comparison to an opponent’s heart.
Local notes report Mr. R H Cobbs of Coosa River Power Company planning a Lock 3 plant, plus updates on Isaac T Houser and the Birmingham Architectural Stone Co. Several ads promote gas water heaters, coal, gas ranges, and services from Calhoun lodge to Dona hoo & Co. on Noble Street with community events and church sermons noted.
All kinds of horseshoeing offered by Geo. 8. Peterson at G. H. Brummel & Co shop on East Tenth street for coal that will burn. Telephone 59 Model Ice Co.
The note suggests using a gas range for a fast hot lunch before bed, highlighting convenience and comfort. This compact tip emphasizes flexible meal prep at night.
The excerpt discusses historical claims about inhaling herbs before tobacco and questions whether pipes resembling tobacco devices were used medicinally. It cites Lyte and Gerard on coltsfoot and notes tobacco pipes as a later invention, with references to Sylvester and humorous observations. It also includes a brief testimonial for Foley's Kidney Cure.
The text notes pedometers and cyclometers used to measure distance in Roman times. Emperor Pertinax reportedly attached one to his chariot to gauge progress along famed roads. Relays of horses could push about 100 miles daily on these routes.
Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs colds and lung troubles is not affected by the National Pure Food and Drug law as it contains no opiates or other harmful drugs. Elam Ordway and Houser recommend it as a safe remedy for children and adults.
Poem fragment by Thomas Bailey Aldrich reflects on a widow at a bier and the eerie mood as a carriage passes through a dark street. The speaker muses on the day and month, and the last touch of the robe or a white rose in the hair.
The superintendent of streets summoned an officer to report a dead dog in Horner street. The officer, after inquiries, relayed that the dog was a savage one, noting the disposition as such.
The passage argues virtue comes through struggle and repeated use of effort. It cites sailors, farmers, and soldiers as examples of hardened bodies and minds. It ends with a royal anecdote where King Edward, convalescing after appendicitis, is asked by his grandchildren to see the baby.
Willie tells his father about a dream where St Peter assigns climbing a chalk marked ladder to heaven. The twist ends with the father descending for more chalk, implying a humorous failed ascent.
Benjamin W. Brewster, Philadelphia attorney general under Arthur, appeared for the Pennsylvania railroad in a bitterly contested sale case involving franchise rights. The opposing lawyer denounced the railroad during summing up.
The passage notes Teresa Carreno the pianist and her third husband Eugene d Albert, with Otto Lessmann’s critique of a Berlin concert. It then shifts to a San Francisco ruin visit, a stranger offering a 25 cent pocket book, and ends with Schopenhauer on erudition, warning that reading too much dulls the mind and hinders original thought.
An uneasy scene unfolds as a boy boasts of being good while his mother, guests present, doubly confronts discipline. Amid racial and class tensions a merchant and a Black servant argue over settled debts, revealing social strain and limited options for repayment.
The passage describes Sir Walter Scott’s vivid laughter from dawning humor to boisterous mirth. It notes his radiant countenance and shy glances as he判ferred from restraint to gleeful overflow, his voice growing plangent and his lines swelling with comic energy.
A brief exchange shows Mrs Benham recalling a childhood food memory while Benham agrees she learned her trade well in a sharp but understated dialogue. No further context provided.
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