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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1906
Page
3
Howard W. Sexton proposes borrowing several thousand dollars at 8 percent interest payable semi annually for one year with 60 days notice. Security offered includes CALHOUN HOME BUILDING CO. stock or first mortgage on improved local real estate. Lender may arrange strict examination by advisers.
Electric & Gas Co announces delivery of gas coke at 54.1 cents per ton for grates and base burners with delivery service and telephone contact.
Southern Railway offers round trip winter tourist tickets to Georgia Florida and Cuba points at special low rates from October 15 to April 30 with return by May 31 1907 Sleeper from Anniston to Jacksonville Fla leaves 6 25 p m for rates schedule and reservations contact M H Bone D P A M Coxwell C P A Birmingham Ala G N Meredith Union Ticket Agent
A brief notice states price at four dollars fifty cents per ton delivered by Anniston Electric and Gas Co with contact telephone 109.
A survey of prominent women and noble figures includes Mine Modjeska seeking a New York home after her last stage appearance, the Duchess of Northumberland with a Synon House garden famed for lilies and roses, Mrs. Baird the celebrated chess prodigy, Juno May claiming world champion status in wrestling, Viscountess Aoki introducing tapestry weaving, Baroness Hengelmuller noted for social exclusivity, Miss Morosini admired for fine carriages, and Miss Rose L Fritz who won the world typewriting title with a high-accuracy score in Chicago and Madison Square Garden contests.
Mr E G Case a Canton Center Connecticut mail carrier with sixteen years in service praises Chamberlains Cough Remedy as king of all cough medicines for croup and colds. He says it gives certain results and leaves no bad after effects and notes it is for sale by L Wikle.
A reflective note on labor and the inner harmony that emerges as a person commits to work, drawing on a Carlyle quotation about how any task can align the soul when one begins.
A description depicts a Chinese fisherman using a long bamboo pole to suspend a net and a balance board to raise or lower it. The scene focuses on the fisher’s method and the balance mechanism used to manage the net’s depth.
Foreigners without written permission face prosecution for carrying kodaks in Montenegro and even for taking snapshots of scenery as authorities enforce strict limits on photography.
A major Vatican cleaning and repainting project employed 6 700 workers, marking a broad housecleaning effort that touched many areas of the city state and involved extensive labor.
Washington December 6 large attendance marked the opening of the National rivers and harbors congress. The gathering drew commercial agricultural manufacturing and consuming interests nationwide to press for higher river and harbor improvements and a proposed annual appropriation of at least 50 million dollars.
This entry lists notable events in history including Henry VI birth in 1421 and death in 1471 on May 21, Lady Masham's death in 1734, John S. Mosby born in 1838 a famed Confederate soldier, Banks expedition sailing to New Orleans in 1862, and a large fire destroying the courthouse and other structures in Hagerstown Maryland in 1871.
A historical notice recounts the death of Jefferson Davis in New Orleans in 1880s era context, and references a 1899 lynching in Maysville Kentucky for assault, plus a 1901 industrial arbitration bill passing in the New South Wales parliament.
The text notes that over 100,000,000 stars are known and speculates on Earth’s 200 mile depth reaching 18,000 degrees Io. It states light travels 185,000 miles per second, the sun lies about 90,000,000 miles away, and light takes roughly eight minutes to reach Earth from the sun.
New York City sees population grow at about 150 000 annually while Madrid marks Tuesday as unlucky for marriage. Tetoun Morocco streets are arched with vines bearing grapes left for anyone to pick. Market prices run around 2 cents per kilogram.
Sugar harms a canary’s voice while the Mexican lapdog is the smallest dog in the family. Leeches have three jaws with eighty to ninety teeth each. Ornithologists list sixty five hummingbird species, illustrating diversity in bird life.
A nursing aid recommends Chamberlain's Salve for sore nipples. Apply after nursing and wipe clean before nursing again. Widely used by trained nurses with reported success. Price 25 cents per box, sold by J. L. Wikle.
At two hundred feet only the finest Spanish armor withstood English arrows as many museums report steel corselets pierced by a single shaft.
The article notes a ritual where the deceased is tightly wrapped in century plant matting and laid in a coffin hired for about a shilling. One or two natives carry the coffin on their heads to the grove, where the body is interred and the coffin returned.
A miscellany notes Poland bans speaking the Polish language in public resorts. English landowners total 5 in 1000, Russia 140 in 1000. Suez Canal denial issued. Lisbon forms an anti handshaking society with fines used for lottery tickets. Denmark’s butter exports yield two cows per family. An American consul in China reports brisk demand for American trade catalogues. A caller’s remark about thick leaves leads a consul to discovering catalogues used as inside shoe soles.
Dr Clarence J Blake of Boston offers to donate a modern fireproof library building and science hall to Howe Military School in Lima Indiana. Budapest establishes a bureau selling ready written essays and translations at 8 cents a page, while authorities seek to suppress it. Mrs C T Milla leads Milla College as a venerable president admired by leading women across California Oregon and Washington.
A concise note states the Dardanelles strait is under fifty miles long yet its significance extends to all European capitals and reaches as far as the state department in Washington.
The Cross of St Sodrew possessed by Ruveia bears a unique feature. Any bearer gains the right to demand a pardon for a Russian subject condemned to death, a peculiarity noted in reports.
The text advises avoiding pastry gravies and all meats except loin mutton for a boll condition. It suggests remedies to bring a head using a warm camomile poultice or boiled white fly root, fermentation with hot water, or by stimulating plasters.
Under the old Saxon law a maiden and a widow were valued differently. A widow could be bought for half the sum demanded for the guardian of the maiden, suggesting a man unable to buy a maiden might still purchase a widow.
The first ecclesiastical anthology known as the Book of Sentences by Mierre Lombard compiled leading fathers arguments on divinity arranged under beads. It is said 244 commentators wrote annotations on this work including Thomas Aquinas Calliagne Durand and St Bona venture.
An 8 A. Brown of Bennettaville claims Heidric Bitters restored his wife after years of dyapepsix and chronically torpid liver. Electric Bitters are touted to cure chills, fever, malaria, biliousness, lame back, kidney and bladder troubles. Sold on guarantee by Elam Ordway Houser, West End Drug Co., and Scarbroug Drug Co. price 60.
In the British museum are books written on oyster shells bricks tires bones ivory lead iron copper sheep skin wood and palm leaves as writing supports and record media across many ages and cultures.
The text describes the regulation tenpin as fifteen inches high and fifteen inches in circumference at the largest part, with a base diameter of two and one fourth inches. It notes variations for family alloys but confirms fifteen inches as the standard height.
The market item labeled chamois skin is actually tanned sheep skin linings. Real chamois skin supply is extremely limited, and all of it in the world could not meet a single day's demand in the United States.
Australian rabbits show gradual adaptation as some individuals begin climbing trees in search of food. Their feet become lighter and claws sharper, enabling a new mode of movement as climate conditions push behavior toward arboreal foraging.
Eager to connect buyers with the latest and best in Christmas novelties for 1906. High quality goods with honest worth and affordable prices. A varied complete assortment promises satisfying selections for young and old, with uniform prices and guaranteed satisfaction on Christmas morning.
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