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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1917
Page
6
A column of varied quips notes Taft’s stomach ache drawing attention to Clay Center Kansas, jokes on hose materials and dairy prices, and scraps from Alabama and Georgia newspapers. It mentions Watnson’s magazine ban and a spike in velvet bean crop forecasts tied to A C Darling.
The piece paints Alabama on a rising prosperity wave from the Tennessee Valley to Mobile. It highlights Aniston Oxford Jacksonville Piedmont and Birmingham as engines of growth, with army camps pipe plants cotton mills and a new shipbuilding era in Mobile. The tone urges statewide optimism and economic revival.
The Birmingham Age Herald argues Camp McClellan will be a permanent army post bringing lasting prosperity to Anniston and northeast Alabama. Under J B Carrington the city prepares for 45000 servicemen with steady growth, stable real estate values, and opportunities for investors.
The Georgia legislature, ending its 1917 session, enacted a modified Torrens land title system and the county unit primary plan. The measures, drafted by a legislature appointed commission chaired by Judge Arthur G. Powell, shift Georgia toward modern land registration and party primary rules. The Wright bill expands superior court powers to close disorderly houses by injunction, a wartime measure aiding cities with nearby military camps.
Petrograd dispatch reports in August that the council of workmen and soldiers delegates says a separate peace with Germany is impossible and unacceptable to all parties. It insists the war’s end can only come through international socialism.
Paris reports the Moldavian battle around Marasheshti on the Roumanian front as the bloodiest engagement yet, with ten Teuton divisions, nine German, attacking Russo Romanian forces. Each onslaught was repulsed amid enormous losses and the fight was expected to continue for days.
Russia has officially adopted a black list of hundreds of Swedish Danish Norwegian and Dutch firms with whom Russians may not trade. The list was approved at a conference of the New Republic chiefs and publicized, following an English model aimed at U S firms.
Petrograd reports M. Lepine once thought to be in Switzerland is now said to be in hiding in the city. He is alleged to have been in contact with congress extremists during their session last Sunday.
Rome reports Austro Hungarian assaults in the Vodice sector were met by heavy Italian artillery fire. The war office says the Austro Hungarians were forced to fall back to their previous positions after the bombardment.
Atlanta Aug 16 driving cars with gas from sewage purification is the scheme of J J Mulholland city garage superintendent. A chemist captured waste gas to light heat and cook in homes now a new tank stores gas for autos aiming to cut the gasoline bill by about $1800 monthly.
Four Class A normal schools in Florence Jacksonville Livingston and Troy educated and trained teachers. Last year about 1200 students attended and 200 teachers earned diploma and first grade certificates. Around 80 percent entered rural and village schools with strong community building aims.
A letter to the editor argues that keeping doors open seven nights a week benefits merchants but harms sales staff who already endure long hours. The writer demands extra pay for added shifts and notes rising rents and living costs as proof of the burden on workers.
A reader from Anniston Alabama dated August 15 1917 complains about extra hours on Saturday night not adding four hours to the weekly toil. The note is signed by Ross Green.
Harvey B. Lutz as trustee will sell at public outcry on September 6 1917 in front of the courthouse in Anniston Calhoun County Alabama the property described in the deed of trust securing bonds issued December 18 1903 by the Anniston Furniture Factory. The parcel includes land in City of Anniston with buildings and all improvements and personal property thereon. Chas. F. Douglass attorney. 3-T-10-14-17-21-24-28.
An old advertisement touts McGee's Labb y Elixir as a genuine stomach and bowel disorder remedy for babies. It promises quick relief, purity, wholesomeness, and pleasant taste, priced at 2 1/2 and 50 cents per bottle and sold by Scarbrough's Drug Co.
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