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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1901
Page
4
An 9 year old gray mare suitable for carriage or delivery and a 6 year old bay horse described as sound and kind with capability for family use or work. Also a 4 year old black jack from imported Spanish stock and several colts. A herd of Jerseys offers cows and heifers, many registered or pure bred not registered, suitable for a family cow. Call 103 or contact W. J. Mitler, Manager, Rural Delivery, Avoviston, Ala.
William K Vanderbilt Jr and Foxhall Keene announce entry in the Paris Vienna auto race starting June 16, 610 miles. Keene aims to drive an American machine with Fournier’s design, projecting near 100 mph top speed. Mrs Vanderbilt initially opposed due to safety, but consent was secured for the international championship.
Harvard astronomers observed about 400 Leonids in the early hours, with nearly a hundred flashes in a half hour after 4 o'clock. Many were small rocketlike meteors while rarer ones burned as brightly as Sirius or the torch of Artemis, varying in yellow red and blue hues.
The anonymous resident at a New York boarding house was suspected after a jewelry robbery. Thomas Byrnes, former police chief, claimed the man was a natural born thief as he mingled with fellow lodgers posing as a postgraduate medical student. The theft involved all residents’ jewelry.
A letter from Archangel recounts an inventor who sought a permit to fly. The pristav consulted the law for three days and refused, admitting no law covers flying through the air and expressing deep regret.
The Record notes a shift in Philadelphia toward English pronunciation for several words. Ten years ago clerk sounded like cark and Berkeley resembled Barkley. Dartmouth and Darby follow English norms while the London style of patent as paytent gains ground with promise of success.
President Roosevelt jokes with Senator Mason of Illinois and Representative Boreing of Kentucky about dividing government affairs into two parts. The quip reflects the president’s time recently dominated by Kentuckians visiting and pressing issues.
Walter Miller pleaded guilty to two counts of larceny and received a three month sentence just before court adjournment. He wandered away and cried in the courthouse corridor until District Attorney Groman and Court Crier Dallas Dillinger guided him to the jail, where he rejoiced entering behind bars.
The Pennsylvania railroad bridge over the Susquehanna at Rockville is near completion. Forty eight seventy foot spans finished, arches covered, then grading ballast and four tracks will be laid. The largest stone arch railroad bridge in the world began less than two years ago.
Paris correspondent reports a French motorist ran through partridges on a road. A gendarme questioned him at his hotel asking for a shooting license. He was issued summonses for killing and carrying off game and failing to declare game at the patrol. later one partridge was found entangled in the car radiator.
Informaticon asks manufacturers if Banner Salve ever failed to cure ulcers sores fetter eczema or piles and promises a refund if such cases exist. The notice seeks curiosity fueled by belief no doctor or medicine cures all cases.
Incubators of various kinds are in use across Logland for pheasants and other birds. Artifier incubators are reported in action. Nearly all ostriches on the South African ranches are also under incubation.
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