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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1901
Page
4
A referenced 1900 census sketch notes 21 329 819 voting age males in the United States with illiteracy and foreign born totals. It discusses wheat shortages raising bread prices, Chicago's population, and demographic shifts including the growing Black population and its uses in warship packing writing paper smokeless powder cattle feed and potential food cakes for cavalry and tropics.
The piece notes poorer Germans use brown coal briquettes made from powdered briquettes with paraffin, selling 2 to 62.75 a thousand in Berlin and burning clean. New peat briquettes for fuel are being produced as 5,000,000 peats exist, potentially replacing coal. Also mentions US Agriculture Secretary Wilson promoting corn products in Europe and new uses for corn stalks.
The Hon. Geo L Knox editor of The Freeman lectures across the South on The American Negro and His Possibilities. He has drawn great crowds in Arkansas Tennessee Mississippi and Louisiana and will address Amishou citizens at the Auditorium on December 10 at 6:00 P M. Admission 15 cents for one and 25 cents for two. Rev James Brown chairs. Prof W A Battle sec.
District quarterly meetings list acrossTalladega area with dates from December through February. Key locations include Talladega Station Oxford Station Anniston and multiple circuits such as Childersburg Sycamore Munford Mefflin Alexandria Jacksonville Wilsonville and Piedmont led by P. E. J. L. Brermaim.
Ad touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as far ahead of old pills and liquids. Claims Genuine stamped CCC and non bulk sale. Endorses druggists as the only retailers.
The author compares Paris dramatic schools realism and idealism, arguing for suggestion over true realism. Realism demands real props, fires, and even a real cook, but stage suggestion avoids audience confusion over a dog. He favors imagination, balanced acting craft, and personal temperance, citing Whistler and Shakespeare.
A feature on football psychology by Professor G W Patrick of the University of Iowa. The piece analyzes mental strategies, motivation, and performance factors affecting players and teams.
An analysis argues football stirs large crowds and personal sacrifice as spectators seek primitive release. It claims the sport’s appeal lies in its spectator-driven enthusiasm, the collision and chase resembling ancient free fighting, and serves as Aristotelian catharsis for society.
A mid-article statement urges stern legislation against divorce and remarriage, arguing the church has no role in civil divorce decisions while advocating the state redefines marriage rules. The text emphasizes firm church stance against remarriage after divorce except for those never married by divorce.
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