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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1907
Page
4
The March 1907 issues show total printed copies at 57 610 with daily averages around 2 216. The document lists each date and daily totals, notes Sundays, and contains a notarized statement by ER B McKee, general manager, sworn April 1 1907 by BW Ledbetter.
The advertising columns present a Buyers Guide praising local firms for enterprise and reliability. It emphasizes trustworthy merchants offering good goods at honest prices and deserving community support.
The Birmingham Ledger answers a subscriber question on billion counts. It says Americans use 1 000 000 000 as a billion, while England counts 1 000 000 000 000. The piece argues the American system is natural and standard. It blends trivia with local curiosities and a weather joke.
Yesterday Birmingham beat Nashville 1 0 and Montgomery defeated Atlanta 3 2. Today Nashville visits Birmingham and Atlanta goes to Montgomery while Shreveport hosts Memphis and Little Rock plays New Orleans.
A collage of baseball chatter and college games, mentioning players like Hickman Laporte Nazel Hazel Hoffman Sullivan Crawford and Walthour, with notes on managers, leagues, and upcoming Southern College Baseball matchups. Ends with a health ad about deafness cures.
An article promotes a home blood cleansing mix claiming to detoxify the kidneys. It lists fluids and compounds, instructions to take a spoonful after meals and at bedtime, plus ample water, warning of benefits for those with sour blood or rheumatic poison and sluggish kidneys.
An inspector of wines conducted coal dust experiments in a 150 foot shaft. Two hundredweight of dust ignited with gunpowder produced towering flames and smoke. High explosives yielded no effect. The dust originates from mosses and relates to lycopodium used for signaling.
Twinemont readers learn arrivals including Mr T Tulley from Indiana who will live with D B Jones family. Local residents Jim Hendrick and Miss Shirley Williamson are mentioned along with school reopenings and illnesses. visits to Mrs D B Jones and social visits with Miss May Rodgers and Miss Annie Portefield noted.
The Kingfisher Legend recounts a tale of a gray bird turning blue after fleeing toward the setting sun, its back dyed by the sky and its lower plumage scorched to bright hues. A dried kingfisher was used as a charm against thunderbolts and moths, hung with its bill pointing to the wind.
Cadell resident Earl Shamburg recalls severe coughing fits in hard times until he used Dr King's New Discovery, claiming relief after less than a bottle. The ad touts the cough and cold remedy as a lung and throat healer guaranteed by local druggists with 50 cent to 1 dollar pricing and a free trial bottle.
An Arctic expedition led by Captain Amundsen mistook a Greenlandic word for dog as child in the Netheli tribe. He offered to buy a dog, provoking consternation until a laughing boy was carried past. The error revealed a language misunderstanding between explorers and locals.
Mrs. N. Peck notes many windows show bridal couples and wonders why. Mr. Peck jokes the husband wants one last pleasant look before commitment.
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