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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1907
Page
4
The document lists daily and total circulation for the Evening Star in March 1907. It cites daily averages and totals, noting 57,610 total copies for the month and a stated daily average of about 2,216, with signatures by General Manager R. B. McKee and Notary B. W. Ledbetter.
Anniston Civic Improvement and Free Kindergarten groups unite to beautify the city. They pledge spring and summer work, urging broad public support to transform Anniston into a more beautiful town through steady, united effort.
Memorial Day was broadly observed in Alabama and the South as people paused work to honor fallen heroes. In Anniston, June 3 marked memorial observance coinciding with Jefferson Davis birthday celebrations.
A collage of sassy remarks from various papers. The New York Press criticizes wartime bureaucracy labeling the navy weak. Kansas City Journal questions evolution and monkey to man progress. Montreal Star notes Chicago earnings versus expenses. Rosean Region jokes about sports finance. The Montreal Star and Louisville Courier-Journal share quips about food and travel.
A historical home remedy advises mixing half ounce Fluid Extract Dandelion one ounce Compound Karion three ounces Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, shake well and take one teaspoon after meals and at bedtime. It claims to cleanse the blood, support kidney function, and destroy harmful organisms, endorsing this simple prescription as a trusted spring tonic.
A reflective nugget about light and darkness, urging living fully while acknowledging limits. The text compares books to lighthouses on a vast sea of time and cautions against arrogance in wealth. A closing note warns that anger leads to public embarrassment as a clown in one’s own circus.
A joke from Tit-Bits features a friend asking if the baby talks yet and the baby's brother retorts that the baby does not need to talk. The punch line reveals the baby yells to obtain everything valuable in the house.
A playful exchange from the New Orleans Times-Democrate mocks the idea of awarding the Victoria Cross and hints at using a double cross as a mock decoration in a fictional Antegrea setting.
An advertisement claims deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It asserts catarrh inflames the Eustachian tube, causing hearing loss, and offers 100 dollars for any catarrh deafness case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Located in Toledo, Ohio, product sold by druggists for 75 cents with accompanying Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The article explains cold blooded animals adjust body heat to surroundings. Fish match water temperature, snakes vary with season, birds average 107 degrees, mammals about 101 degrees.
A Chicago Se w article recounts a young wife and her mother discussing trust in the husband. The wife says he confided in her this morning about business. She asked for five dollars for a new sowing but the husband refused, citing poor conditions in the business.
Dialogue notes a tall man known as Short due to his given name Jonk ley. The exchange hints at a joke surrounding a nickname derived from his real name.
A Venice banquet tale recalls a scullion sculpting a lion from butter for a grand table. Antonio Canova rises as a famed sculptor. Five emeralds in Cortes Mexico are described with figures, including rose, horn, fish shapes, diamond eyes, and gold cup with pearls.
The noted dwarf Count Joseph Boruwlaski, three feet three inches tall, lived to ninety eight. He married well and mingled with Georgian society, receiving King George IV at Carlton House before the coronation. He spent his final years in Durham where his body rests near St. Mary the Less, with an inscription noting his height and intellect.
Anniston and Alabama City meet on the diamond this afternoon for baseball honors in a promised jive contest. Anniston leaves this morning and the game will be called early. Lineups include Cozart Moten McCoy L McCoy Flakner Kline Hanis Dysert Loy Crook or Rivers for Anniston and Bowden Pierce Murphy Wiggin Biddle Brazeal Hull Roony Me Furlin or Ware for Alabama City with a listed pitcher.
The Birmingham team defeated Montgomery 2 to 1 in a seven inning game. Meanwhile Shreveport beat Little Rock 5 to 1 in another matchup, with Atlanta tallying 11 and Nashville scoring 2 in separate action.
Birmingham faces Montgomery while Nashville meets Atlanta. Memphis plays New Orleans and Little Rock hosts Shreveport in the early conference schedule reveal.
In yesterday’s AL results Detroit crushed St Louis 6 to 1 while Cleveland edged Chicago 2 to 1 and Philadelphia beat Boston 1 to 0. Washington and New York played with New York winning 4 to 0.
In league play Boston defeated Brooklyn 4 to 2 while New York posted a 5 to 4 win over Philadelphia. St Louis fell to Chicago 3 to 5 in another late game outcome.
Meridian defeated Gulfport 3 0, Vicksburg beat Jackson 4 3, Mobile lost to Columbus 3 9.
Baseball scores from Jacksonville 0 Augusta 5 Macon 3 Columbia 1 with results listed for the South Atlantic League affiliates.
The Louisville team defeated St. Paul 5 to 1 while Kansas City beat Columbus 9 to 2. Milwaukee won over Indianapolis 6 to 2 and Toledo downed Minneapolis 3 to 1.
An Indian social illustration shows caste prejudice where money changes hands on the ground to avoid defilement. A low caste man may not share carpet or enter a higher caste room. the superior’s threshold is sacred and communication occurs from outside.
Hammers appear in Heypt monuments dating twenty centuries before present and resemble modern tools. Claw hammers emerge in the middle ages, shown by illuminated eleventh century carpenters. Hammers range from tiny jewelers’ tools to fifty ton shipyard hammers with massive falling force.
The article argues many people fail to drink adequate water, linking this to kidney and bladder disorders. It promotes a three daily dose blend of Buchu and Ava Ursi extracts with Cordial and Liverwort in water, plus a strong push to drink water and continue the regimen for at least a month to flush impurities.
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