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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1903
Page
12
The Evening Star offers summer mail service with no extra charge for Poles and Vinton residents. Mail price matches carrier price. Call 68 or write a post to The Star. remain on regular delivery during absence.
The article describes four idle and seventeen active industries in Anniston, with 8200 employees earning good wages. It explains midsummer trade dullness as normal, while urging optimism that three of the idle four will resume soon and that the many active plants counterbalance periods of idleness. It also cites social commentary about Lipton, Eve, and Adam to illustrate conjecture without evidence.
A philosophical piece argues that temperament clashes arise in all marriages and true harmony comes from deliberate understanding. It urges studying a partner's milieu, even consulting servants, to discern character, then cultivating intelligent acclimatization and mutual respect for a love that endures.
A sermon text stresses duties to God through the ones above and duties to associates for mutual benefit, while duties to those below uplift those lacking opportunities and are deemed most important.
Au burn Ala Aug 1 A very large attendance is expected at the Summer School of Agriculture to be held at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute August 4 to 14 Railroads offer a special rate of one fare plus 25 cents for trip to Auburn and back Good board available at low rate Courses conducted by college faculty plus experts from Washington and elsewhere Tickets on sale Aug 5 4 and 5 The program covers cotton corn small grains crop rotation soil and plant diseases fertilizers fruit trees spraying truck farming dairying animal breeding and related topics to benefit Alabama agriculture and allied interests
Boston crowds filled the courthouse corridors as African Americans gathered to hear the hearing on the Columbus Avenue Methodist church tumult and Booker T. Washington speech. No evidence was presented. cases continued until August 6 due to defense preparation time.
In Tuskegee on August 1 a resolution by the Alabama State Colored Baptist convention denounces the assault on Principal Booker T. Washington during his Boston address last night. The 300 delegates unanimously uphold Washington as a conservative worthy leader and pledge confidence and endorsement of him.
A runaway caused a severe leg ulcer on J. B. Orner of Franklin Grove Ji that resisted years of treatment until Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured it. Also advertised as good for barns bruises skin eruptions and piles. 25c at West End Drug Co and Miller Drug Co.
For a limited time only a sale offers grown palms and ferns at reduced prices. Quick growing vines provide instant shade and a variety of small flowering and foliage plants are available. Visit the seller at Nineteenth street and Blane Mountain avenue, F. J. Ulbricht.
The report notes personally conducted weekly excursion cars depart Memphis each Tuesday for California via the Colorado Rock Island System and Southern Pacific Railway and for Portland, Oregon each Thursday via the Chicago Union Pacific Route.
Professor Metchnikoff argues that a life span should extend to 140 years with a division of duties across ages. He claims only one in a million dies naturally and that the fear of death is an aberration, envisioning a future where elders are highly valued and time beyond a century is desirable.
Anniston Lime and Stone Co. claims their lime barrels are full size and will lay 300 to 500 more bricks per barrel than competitors. W. P. O Craft, architect and builder, Hatttesburg, Miss.
The Odell Company, Inc. outlines private wire links to New York, Chicago, and New Orleans with a capital of 200,000 dollars. Cincinnati based management includes H. H. McConnel as manager and E. D. Crawtonp as cashier. Long distance telephone number 136 and Alabama hotel bid details appear in the notice.
Montgomery Advertiser notes that the iconic Eden apple episode, rather than attire, shaped future events and posterity. The piece emphasizes food choices over dress and hints at lasting consequences from that breakfast.
The advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh in all stages, a constitutional disease, by internal use to affect blood and mucous surfaces. It offers $100 for any case it cannot cure and cites testimonials. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills and urges ordering wood from K. O. Watson by phone.
Congressman L Livingstons endorsement joins General Vaveler and Congressman Brewer in praise of Peruna as a splendid tonic and catarrh remedy. The ad quotes testimonials from Jas O Morin of Montreal and urges readers to write Dr Hartman in Columbus for free medical advice.
In colonial times a woman named Ann Willet faced a threatened ducking stool. A defender argued that sparing her would curb women from excessive scolding by example, suggesting she remain unpunished and unducked but despised. The plea prevailed and she was never ducked.
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