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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1906
Page
5
In Anniston district notices, Captain and Mrs. Robins of the Salvation Army appeal for a spare dining room table and small donations to support local work. Other items include Haviland china sets and theater tickets, with various community notices and court briefings interspersed.
Miss Jennie Deweese, a musical and dancing virtuoso, teamed with Carl Copeland the Minstrel King, for successful performances at Ponce de Leon park in Atlanta East Lake Birmingham and other major Southern parks.
A veteran who spoke yesterday at Sehenk's Springs spoke at a city gathering and now offers a general merchandise stock valued around 3000 dollars. Store rent is 75 dollars monthly, with one year rent free for the buyer. W T Owen, Real Estate and Sales Agent, 1208 Alabama Hotel, advertises other opportunities.
Oxford composer Gertrude Collins presents a three stanza song with home talent accompaniment by A F Roberts and 30 illustrated slides. Hailed as likely to gain great popularity. Delineators just received.
Dr Edward Wilmot Blyden, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Liberia in France, is one of the ablest living colored men. He has rendered distinguished services to his race in Liberia and in British West African colonies. His mission in France concerns delimiting the frontier between Liberia and French territory. French territory touches Liberia on two sides and with British surrounds the republic.
Mr F. Douglass visited his sick mother in Flovilla Georgia returning home last night. He found her improved and reports her speedy recovery expected.
Two Americans touring England visit Stratford on Avon and debate whether a local farmer knows Shakespeare. The man guesses the poet wrote for a Bible rather than the Times, prompting a comic exchange about fame and literary memory.
An assortment of advert snippets and brief notices appear. Items mention a guaranteed kidney remedy with a 50 cent price from Searbrough Drug Co and Carter Music Co advertising pianos and limited-time bargains. Judge James A. Bilbro visiting Gadsden is noted. Prickly Ash Bitters promotes vitality for harvest workers. Property offer on Tyler Hill near the Presbyterian college, with an investment or home angle. Col. Lee in the city with Col. Sumpter Lea listed in a partial item.
The article notes the sundew plant Drosera species in Spain and Portugal and recounts David Livingstone’s 1855 sighting in Africa. It details the plant’s dew-like glands, insect-catching mechanism, and its unusual carnivorous nutrition, linking it to broader botanical interest and Darwin.
The Evening Star reports a plan to limit seating to 25 per month, with a rash or rapid approach in advance of implementation. Details on affected venues or dates are unclear.
J. T. Hodge offers high grade furniture and New Home sewing machines with reasonable prices at 923 Noble Street, inviting shoppers to compare goods and values.
Alabama Abstract Company offers to examine real estate titles and provide a guaranty bond for any title approved by their attorneys. The notice indicates a service aimed at guaranteeing land titles for property transactions.
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