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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1907
Page
2
Pelham Warnock comes for his brother's death. funeral for Gus Orr held at College Hill. Edward Trammell and Nellie Pierce wed at McFiderry. Minstrel visit teased. Oxford baseball next game teased.
The clerks of Oxford near the local diamond by the depot at 4:30 this afternoon. A great game is expected. The chafing dish club will meet with Miss Jennie Aderholt at her Collage bill home Thursday night. A new Oxford organization will add to the social life of early summer.
An advertisement urges readers to use Dr King's New Life Pills to cleanse the bowels and prevent headaches biliousness malaria and jaundice. It lists Flam Ordway Houser and Scarbrough Drug Co as selling points.
An anecdote recalls Napoleon and Alexander touring Erfurt after peace. A grenadier at the palace stairway, scarred from battle, says with grave resolve that the man who inflicted the wounds is dead. The exchange underscores enduring valor in the French Old Guard.
A New York Times anecdote recounts Jay Gould calmly defusing a ruined investor’s threat. After a man faced total ruin from a failed stock investment Gould revealed a hidden bank balance of 25 000 dollars and paid the man to preserve Gould’s safety and reputation.
The silent man muses on the perils of talk and the value of keeping one’s is lips shut. He warns overheated talk leads to illness and nasal problems and urges using the tongue for eating, not endless chatter, ending with him shutting his mouth. The Columbus Dispatch attribution appears.
Thorpe mentions a friend of Badger who has been talking about him. Badger dismisses the gossip, noting he already suspects it will be disagreeable and leaves with a crisp good morning.
A brief quip from the Philadelphia Press recalls an awkward moment as one speaker explains he spoke to a woman’s father but discovered he was not home. The exchange captures a light, domestic humor vignette.
The piece surveys royal sobriquets from France's Little and Bold to Russia's Terrible and Lightfoot, noting how nicknames reflect a king's career and personality across lands such as Denmark Hungary Portugal Spain and beyond.
A Bermuda souvenir called the life plant sends out shoots after its leaves shrivel. Leaves are four inches long and waxy green. Pin a leaf to a wall and new roots and tiny leaves appear within days, depending on heat and light.
A woman near marriage age seeks counsel from a so called wise woman. She is told she is already married on the astral plane and that her astral husband blocks earthly suitors. The bride pleads for him to stop.
The passage on mean men from last Sunday’s sermon drew curiosity as Smith and Brown discussed it. IT met Smith yesterday and asked for opinion on the message and its impact.
A passerby eyes a woman across the street waving her hands as she explains her new hat to a companion. The scene captures a lively moment of fashion talk in public.
A quoted line recalls a patient awakening from surgery saying I felt as if I was burning up and another voice replies You must have thought that it had been unsuccessful. The exchange appears in Smart Set.
A single day grants what a whole year denies, a compact Dutch saying reflecting sudden mercy or opportunity. The line contrasts fleeting luck with persistent hardship, suggesting timing beats duration in life’s favors.
A description of tapping a sixty foot rubber tree. The juice is collected next morning after evening tips. Incisions yield about six ounces every three days. The milky sap is heated with a wood mold and palm nut vapor to dry into rubber, layer by layer, at five to six pounds per hour.
A London Notes and Queries discussion notes how trousers once drew religious prohibition. It cites 1812 St John’s and Trinity colleges bans on trousers in hall and chapel, a Bethel chapel clause barring pulpit preachers who wear trousers, and quotes Rev. Hugh Bourne disparaging cofounder Clowes for trousers and beer. The piece traces the link between theology and clothing and its shifting boundaries.
Salt appears ordinary in daily life yet carries deep history. Moses asked about savory food without salt and Jews used salt in sacrifices. Herodotus notes brine preservation by Egyptians. Hebrews rubbed newborns with salt to harden skin and prevent disease. Salt held strong importance in ancient writings.
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