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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1901
Page
6
A letter from Lucy asks to visit E. E. Forbes' Mammoth Music Store in Anniston to see new Pianoy models and to arrange the Light Running Standard machine, expressing affection and a reminder of prior guidance.
A local retailer announces a growing selection of musical instruments including pianos and other gear. Ef Borbes highlights their expanded catalog and invites shoppers to explore the enhanced offering.
Celebrated Everett and Marvard advertise a large stock of pianos organs music boxes and small instruments. Also sewing machines typewriters and graphophones offered with right prices and quality claims.
A 1882 account describes a Singapore trader's copra camp on a Pacific island near Borneo. The narrator and four Chinese workers discover a white woman's footprints on the beach and hear a strange laughter at sea before a body limb washes ashore, later killed by a gunshot as sharks circle. The limb is buried, leaving many questions unanswered.
A narrative fragment recalls Uncle Joale Johnson hunted in Big Cove, a deer sighting, a giant bear and turkeys, a rattlesnake, and a gun misfire that supposedly leads to a cascade of bizarre deaths and a two-horse haul of game. Multiple jumbled poems and vignettes follow about drawers and old explorers.
The New York Sun notes how sea anemones and Jersey coast coral polyps adapt to aquariums. Initially they shrink from stimuli and food sticks, but over months they tolerate touch and feeding approaches, showing movement and apparent intelligence as they settle in and ignore repeated disturbances.
The early United States Life-Saving Service paid volunteers ten dollars per rescue and nothing for drills or failed missions. Men endured hunger and deprivation, refusing higher wages aboard merchant ships to serve at lifeboats, a record Harper's Weekly calls unparalleled in surf history.
In Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson's Lives of the Disciples of Solace a tale from student days recalls Keats composing lines in twilight. Stephens, friend and medical student, hears Keats utter a new form of a thing of beauty poem and predicts its enduring joy and truth.
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