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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1906
Page
3
A Weekly notes various animals showing tears or cries when distressed. Horses, apes, a chimpanzee, elephants, and a hunted young all mourn or react with sorrow, suggesting animals cry from grief or pain.
Local notice touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as preventing poisoning and healing a severe neck sore for Seth Burch of Rensselaersville New York. Advertises Elam Ordway Houser End Drug Co and Searbrough Co as distributors.
The article notes white talc talc used in meerschaum is relatively recent compared with long smoking traditions. It explains oriental crafts use talc for bowls and goblets but not pipes and observes long pipestems cool smoke before reaching the mouth. It mentions Turkish smokers showing indifference to bowl quality.
A fragmented historical note lists regional chicken calls and cries. It catalogs terms from England Virginia and Pennsylvania to Germany Spain Bulgaria Hungary and Danish Dutch Bohemian regions, noting variants like chuck coop pl pl pul pule and many more. The text echoes linguistic variation in fowl calls across Europe.
Fragmentary text mentions a fete and septic blood but provides no clear event, date, people, or organization to summarize into a coherent news item.
A physician argues medieval practice used ground oyster shells to treat rickets and scrofula. He cites lime and minerals in shells as tonics and compares its effect on teeth and appetite to strengthening eggshells, claiming it would benefit frail children today.
Willis T. Morgan of Concord New Hampshire claims Dr King s New Discovery kept him in perfect health after two years in Cuba and two in the Philippines. He endorses it for colds bronchial troubles and all lung diseases and notes its availability at local drug stores with a trial bottle free.
Observers describe Bangkok bazaar life where petty merchants prepare and sell betel nut mixture. Leaves from chavien betel vine wrap the paste made from arica betel palm nuts. Craftsmen cut leaves into triangle cups and fill them with turmeric stained filling.
A detailed stage portrait describes Dorothy Randall as the ideal college girl in the new play At Yale. The heroine is fair skinned, willowy, with silken hair and bright eyes, well educated and virtuous, beloved by Dick Seeley and admired by her brother and classmates amid athletic college life.
The London Standard highlights Donegal’s northwest coast with steep dramatic cliffs facing the Atlantic. It notes Steve League near Glen Columbkille and Achill Head’s Croghan cliffs rising about 3000 feet, near the sea within half a mile.
In a fragmented note from London Tit-Bits a speaker jokes about smoking glass and seeing sunspots, wondering if the glass is needed or if Dooley is fooling him. The passage blends antiquated slang with comic mishearing and pipe-dream imagery.
An advertisement extols Electric Bitters as a universal restorative. A. Brown of Bennettsville claims they cured his wife’s dyspepsia and torpid liver after years. The product supposedly treats chills, fever, malaria, biliousness, back pain, kidney and bladder issues. Sold by multiple druggists with a 50 cent price.
France moves to compulsory spelling changes in schools. Plurals will replace x with s as in chevaux, the h is dropped in some words, affecting termes like retorique and theatre. The article notes the French hen will now cluck with an euf.
A new trend sees people monogramming stationery with a focalmile signature using initials. stamping happens on the fourth page with the monogram in the left corner and the address die balancing it to the right.
An advertisement style description extols Pabst Beer as a fully sterilized, food quality brew. It claims millions spent on exclusive processes from closed kettles to hermetically sealed storage, pasteurization, and sterile air contact, asserting unmatched purity and healthful qualities of Pabst eight day malt and choice hops.
Judges select the couple deemed most graceful in a skating contest to receive a season ticket and a pair of Winslow skates as prizes. The event is set for Thursday night, December 18, inviting spectators to witness the season's finest skating.
The notice lists coal at 4.75 per ton wood at 4.50 per cord and fuel gas at 1.25 per 1000 cubic feet. No further details or context are provided beyond the quoted rates.
Anniston Electric & Gas Co promotes a full seasonal display of Christmas novelties for 1906. The store touts high quality items, uniform low prices, honest values, and guaranteed satisfaction for both old and young shoppers.
Announcement for gas coke advertised as cleanest cheapest satisfactory fuel for grates and base burners. Priced at $4.50 per ton delivered by Anniston Electric & Gas Co. Also includes phone contact 109.
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