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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1906
Page
6
Anniston Electric and Gas Co promotes gas coke as a clean cheap fuel. Delivered at 4 50 per ton with delivery included. Telephone 109 for orders.
The text urges timely memorials for deceased loved ones. It argues grief fades without remembrance and that a proper monument preserves memory, stating monuments reflect care in life and death and inviting action now. It stresses personal taste and budget in choosing a marker.
The ad lauds Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a safe home treatment for female complaints including headaches backache and pelvic distress. It promotes a list of ingredients written in plain English and promises privacy and professional discretion for sick women seeking relief. It also mentions Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a laxative and regulator.
The first effect of cold on the skin is to contract small vessels linking arteries and veins. Capillaries narrow and the skin tightens before nerves dull and vessels dilate, turning skin red then blue as lymph thickens and skin surfaces crack. Severe cold may coagulate blood, causing frostbite.
Striking folk remedy from Moscow peasants uses live ants in a linen bag to infuse hot water with formic acid. The patient soaks in the ant bath, producing a strong irritant action on the skin that allegedly drives away rheumatic pains, as described in Strand Magazine.
An old advertisement asserts Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy contains no opium or harmful drugs and is safe for children. It touts over thirty years of use for colds croup and whooping cough and claims it always cures and is pleasant to take. Sold by J L Wikle.
A young man recalls two interviews where managers refuse higher pay. One asks for a $2,500 yearly salary and rejects a $150 monthly offer. In another case the firm offers $100 a month, despite the worker's belief in higher value. The tale questions salary setting vs. worker worth.
A 1906 expose tells how Jose Favara extorted $200 monthly from the New Yorker silver mine in Mexico, bluffing President Nervely and the board. When wages were cut, Favara tightened his grip and a dramatic abduction led to a $10,000 ransom payment ending the strike.
King of All Cough Medicines Mr E G Case a mail carrier from Canton Center Conn says Chamberlains Cough Remedy is king of all and reliable for every time It is the best remedy for coughs and colds giving certain results with no bad after effects For sale by J L Wikle.
A critique of literary criticism questions its value and notes critics err when most confident. The piece cites Homer, Aristarchus, and a vivid Blanco White remark about primroses to illustrate imagination versus ordinary reader judgment. It ends with a reference to Milton Keats and a quote from Success Magazine.
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