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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1914
Page
2
A collection of mangled remarks notes cotton and Lord Kitchener, reports a Philadelphian boy's suicide over a century life, and cites Alabama government spending on treasurers and auto taxes. It laments funds missing for basic items and recovering loss from a convict department clerk.
The grill room of the Alabama hotel will host a Monday drive to collect aid for non combatant Belgians. Calhoun county relief urges clothing donations including woolens, shawls, sweaters, undergarments, boots, and sewing supplies. Contributions to Mr C J Houser fund the effort.
The article urges Elan Anniston residents to donate sewing supplies and garments for Belgians facing wartime need. It notes shipping instructions will follow and stresses the charitable duty to help the starving people of the country, calling for self sacrifice to aid in relief efforts.
A New York Times analysis shows nine U S cities with populations over 500000 running 2.62 per capita in expenditures above per capita revenue receipts for the year ended June 30 1913. Chicago is most frugal with a 2.98 surplus, Boston 2.04, and St Kent 11 cents. The piece notes property taxes dominate revenues differently across cities and warns that applying private business tax models could bankrupt the nation. Alabama representatives gather in Tuscaloosa to discuss reducing state treasuries and urge Aniston to attend for impact on city representations to the legislature.
It notes 66 years since Francis Joseph ascended the Austria Hungary throne as war loomed. The piece recalls Archduke Ferdinand's 1914 Sarajevo assassination and the monarchy's strain from multilingualism and Russian advances, with grim reports from a troubled empire.
A dense editorial urges unity in business and community to sustain a town. It argues every sector links to the whole, warns against removing patronage from home merchants, and cites a Jewish immigrant bulletin asserting immigrant labor forms the American economic backbone. It emphasizes shared prosperity and loyalty to local enterprise.
Films depicting farm operations in the bay state were shown at the annual winter meeting of the Board of Agriculture in Worcester. The cinema program will be exhibited later at the Panama-Pacific exposition.
Washington reports successful wireless propulsion of torpedoes and a 200 shots per minute automatic rifle prototype. Young Hays Hammond Jr demonstrates a shore powered wireless torpedo boat off Gloucester and Boston light, aiming to submerge as a submarine engine.
The passage portrays Frapeis Josephija as the most envied yet feared monarch since his 1848 accession. It notes internal revolts rumors, the Herculean task of improving conditions, partial successes, and widespread concern over succession complexities following Ferdinand's death.
The fragment describes an individual seeking liberty and better opportunities in the United States. It contrasts restless wanderlust with hopeful purpose and frames the journey as a pursuit sparked by a mood of new-born hope and expectation. The text sets a departure toward a promised land.
Forecast for Anniston and vicinity partly cloudy with possible showers and colder Thursday. Alabama wide partly cloudy to night and Thursday with showers and colder interior. Barometer 30.08 inches at 7 am. Temperatures ranged with mean 60 degrees, record highs and lows noted. Total precipitation since January 1 26.54 inches and deficit 8.46 inches. Sunrise 6:31 am sunset 4:34 pm.
A Philadelphia mother reports her 13 year old daughter recovered from a chronic cough after four bottles of Vinci tonic wine. The notice claims Vinci uses cod liver extract and iron to build strength and throw off coughs, offering refunds if no benefit.
Montgomery dispatch reports the state highway commission will meet Wednesday evening at seven to approve several contracts for state-aid road construction. The session accommodates Masonic grand body activities during the same evening.
Military companies from Oxford Alexander City Troy Eufaula and Tuscaloosa arrived in Montgomery this afternoon for a week of practice on the state rifle range under supervision of the federal war department. They succeeded South Alabama companies.
Nary led ing home and foreign missionary workers of America gather in Somerset Kentucky for a regional session on December 3 as part of a nationwide church outreach effort.
The Southeastern Kentucky Inter nominational Mission-Conferet opened today with speakers including Dr. Lilly of Nashville. Churches from the entire region participate in the event.
Lexington Kentucky December market opened with rising prices and strong demand for Burley leaf. bidding ran above average as warehouses predicted a record session for the month amid brisk activity and healthy futures interest.
A Marshall County deputy sheriff was shot and mortally wounded in Camden Alabama. Details were not learned as of Sunday. investigators from Guntersville and Jett were en route to the scene to determine the trouble and identify those involved.
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