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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1906
Page
6
The notice touts cheerful bill payments and high quality meat. It claims customers are well satisfied with tasty tender cuts, rich nourishment, and great value. Contact Pat Allen at 23 W. 10th or phone 107.
The Anniston Electric & Gas Co advertises the cheapest coal for grates and base burners at 1.50 per ton delivered. Telephone 109 is listed for orders and information.
Calhoun Home Building Co seeks several thousand dollars for one year at a specified rate payable semi annually. Loans from $500 upward with 60 days notice, secured by stock equal to first mortgage bonds on improved local real estate or by mortgage on real estate. Offered through banks where accounts exist, with optional adviser referrals.
Railroad notice describes a Pullman vestibuled train from Birmingham to Washington and New York with sleeping, dining, and observation cars. It lists connections from Birmingham to Richmond and Asheville, and routes including Atlanta to New York with multiple dining and sleeper services.
A young fireman named David Holmes rises from wiper to engineer on the 6. and 8. road with grit and ingenuity. He wins Nettie, daughter of the general manager, after tense elopement plans are thwarted by a dramatic confrontation. They marry with the GM approving, though Nettie mocks the proper process.
An 19th century medicinal pitch extolls Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for pelvic organ weakness and related symptoms. It claims forty years of cures, lists non alcohol ingredients, and endorses medical authorities while warning against substitutes and fake imitators. Also mentions Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as original Liver Pills.
Mrs Eliza Scheirer of Macungie Pennsylvania at age 76 reports regaining vigor after more than a year using Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey as a tonic. She describes herself as active and says the whiskey serves as a valuable preservative for both young and old and wholeheartedly recommends it.
An advertisement touts Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey as a health tonic and medicine. It warns against other medicines, promises purity after fifty years of testing, and instructs buyers to ensure authenticity by seeking the Old Chemist mark and sealed bottles.
A shellfish study shows the limpet can pull 1,984 times its weight in air and about twice that in water. Fleas reach 1,493 times dead weight, Venus verrucosa 2,071 times, and an oyster needs 1,319.5 times its shelless body to open. Extrapolating to humans suggests an average man could lift about 2,976,000 pounds in proportion and sustain 3,106,500 pounds for the same proportionate pull.
During a Forrest engagement in Boston a struggling artist visited the old Winthrop House multiple times, leaving a painted picture with a note claiming need. Forrest read the note, looked at the painting of himself as Spartacus, and exclaimed a line offering the artist ten dollars to inspire him to keep going.
Advertises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as safe for children with no opium or harmful drugs. Highlights thirty-year reputation for colds croup and whooping cough and notes it is pleasant to take and popular with kids. Sold by J. L. Wikle.
Southern Railway offers round trip winter tourist tickets to Georgia Florida and Cuba at special low rates from October 15 to April 30 with return by May 31 1907. Through sleeping car Anniston to Jacksonville leaving 6 25 p m. For rates schedules sleeper reservations apply to M H Bone D P A M Coxwell C P A Birmingham Ala G M Meredith Union Ticket Agent.
An OCR fragment lists contact data for INISTO 18 11 Electric and Gas O with a telephone number 109. The readable portion provides no clear event or narrative context.
A collection of quotes on criticism and financial prudence. Gladstone notes that criticism reveals weaknesses or warns of trouble, while false critique harms only those lacking character. A Chicago Daily News exchange discusses a fiancée asking a groom not to overspend, and Married life reducing such requests.
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