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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1906
Page
3
Local readers gather at Baraca reading rooms tonight at 7 30 to elect officers for the year, arrange exhibition games with Southern league teams, and organize finances to start the season. Community notices mention Donahoo coal, Mr Shaler Houser's Cuba visit, and local lodge meetings.
Highlights include the Hohenlinden battle defeat of the French in 1806, Virginia governor Henry A Wise born 1772 died 1876, Illinois statehood 1840, Jules Clarette born 1871, Saline County Nebraska immigrants frozen in 1889, Stanley’s voyage to Africa in 1894, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s death. Also a testimonial about Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil easing a child’s severe facial burns.
The Scar brough Drug Co guarantees Mi o na stomach tablets will improve digestion and restore health or refund the 50 cent price. The offer frames indigestion as root of many ailments and asserts many customers have been helped, backed by their assurance with every package.
A Mirror editorial warns that an army of vagabonds and slum dwellers, half starved and dirty, driven by lack of work, endangers society as long as such conditions persist. It argues unemployment creates recruits for this social threat.
A London Tit-Bits anecdote shows a sharp exchange where a professor scolds a well fed student who retorts that his father feeds him. The brief dialogue captures wit over education and sustenance in a humorous exchange.
The dialogue frames a pledge of unwavering generosity within a marriage as one partner offers to give, not withhold, implying a dramatic shift from restraint to total indulgence in affection and material sharing.
The Tramburger Nachrichten reports Bismarck recounting his falling out with Emperor William II. He says the emperor could have sent him away politely with a six month vacation, but felt nearly expelled from his house in the Wilhelmstrasse as Cavrivi waited at the door.
A. Symons recalls telling Walter Pater about The Story of an African Farm and Pater’s habit of avoiding reading works that might affect him emotionally. Pater explained he was always writing and shielded himself from new currents of emotion during the act.
A comic exchange pits Mrs Gayboy asking the time and Gayboy replying in a joking riddle about dark and daylight. The punchline hinges on the paradox of after dark versus daylight as the two characters tease each other.
Southern Railway promotes through Pullman cars to New York and dining car service with broad regional reach. Rates, schedule and all information are available to any destination by inquiry.
A light humorous exchange has a pupil ask which is farther England or the moon. The teacher notes England is farther because it cannot be seen while the moon is visible.
A passage explains that Dubuque Iowa earned its nickname the little night from a French phrase misread by a land clerk. The term originated when lands were granted to the miner Dubuque and the document was written in Prairie du Chien. The clerk misinterpreted la petite cult as the old miner, a mistake kept in use today.
Anniston Electric & Gas Co advertises gas coke as the cleanest cheapest fuel for grates and base burners at 4.50 per ton delivered. The notice includes telephone contact 109.
A Perthshire yeomanry colonel boasted at an Edinburgh evening gathering that he bore all duties of his regiment alone. A sharp Scottish lady discreetly quipped that he was almost his own trumpeter as well.
Letters praise Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for fast relief and croup prevention especially in children. EB A Humphreys of Alice Cape Colony testifies to warding off croup and colds and recommending the remedy. Sold by J. L. Wille.
In Washington a group of legal minds gathered in a smoking room to discuss honesty among lawyers. One says the average man suspects all lawyers lie, while a criminal lawyer replies that they will do anything to win a case.
A brief London Fun exchange shows Mrs Scribbles discussing a debt with Ferdinand the butcher and landlord Jerdy. Scribbles explains she has paid rent but is short while negotiating with the butcher. The dialog plays on financial strain with quick repartee.
James Donahue of New Britain Connecticut credits Foley's Kidney Cure with curing his kidney and bladder troubles after failing to improve with other remedies. He reports passing a rigorous life insurance examination after using five bottles. Elam Ordway & Howser promote the product.
A Chicago Record-Herald line notes a student remarks that another college has conferred the degree LL D on his Uncle Benjamin. The speaker fears there may be little left for him when he dies, reflecting family inheritance concerns.
A playful exchange reveals repeated marriage proposals and questions about a specific beloved. The dialogue hints at romantic interest and the knighted Miss Pert among several suitors, reflecting social wit of the period.
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