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Newspaper

Anniston Evening Star

Location

Anniston, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 17, 1906

Page

6

What Do They Cure Dr Porce’s Medicines Readable Text

The article extols Dr Porce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription as potent remedies for mucous- lining diseases affecting nasal passages throat bronchial tubes stomach bowels bladder and pelvic organs. It claims cures in chronic stages and touts their use for female weak health and nervous fatigue. Both are described as non-alcoholic, secret-free, plant-based tonics with ingredients supported by medical authorities.

Jeroe Theaa Doctor Orce Porce

Cleanest cheapest factory fuel for your grates

ANNISTON ELECTRIC & GAS CO offers the cleanest and cheapest factory fuel for grates and base burners at 4.50 dollars per ton delivered. Telephone service number provided for orders.

I Electric & Gas

Christmas party games for children and guests

A 19th century guide to festive home gatherings outlines playful Christmas activities for children and adults. It details eye spy style games with paper over the eyes, blowing out candles blindfolded, blind man’s buff, bobbing for apples, musical chairs, and improvised charades with old clothes. It also describes a Plum Pudding game where players are named after culinary figures and tell a rolling roasted tale.

Wehmericht Westphalia Kettle Pot

Why the Indians Masked In Masked Orators and Warriors

A writer explains the origin of masking among North American Indians. Masks conceal emotion to prevent enemies from reading fear or sympathy in combat. In religious rites the masked orator speaks without personal interference, channeling inspiration unimpeded by identity, as any tribe member might be gripped by the spirit.

If Men Were Insects Cartoon Idea Explores Pygmy Humans

A speculative piece imagines a world where humans split into insect like races. For every gigantic man there would be four pygmies with three body segments and shell like rings. The pygmies would have legs in the mid or hind body and breathe through holes in the middle body. Young pygmies would weigh a pound and eat like silkworms, devouring vast amounts in weeks. The piece notes how grasshoppers devastate fields and gypsy moths ruin orchards.

Animal Kingdom

Cigar Etiquette On City Car Stirs Tense Exchange

A street car conductor confronts a passenger with an unlit cigar and orders it out. The passenger retorts with a long explanation about removing nicotine remnants and odor, prompting the conductor to threaten removal of both the cigar and the passenger if he refuses. The exchange ends with the passenger apologizing.

Philadelphia Ledger

What a Jubilee is from Harper's Weekly

Two Scotswomen discuss jubilees in London before Queen Victoria's death. They define twenty five years of marriage as a silver wedding and fifty years as a golden wedding, but if the husband dies it becomes a jubilee.

Queen Victoria Harper's Weekly

Arnold and Mrs Circus and Their Traveling Troop

Matthew Arnold traveled with Mrs Arnold, his two daughters, and an impresario agent. They often carried railway passes and, when shown to conductors, were mockingly tagged the Arnold troop. The conductor joked about a traveling circus.

Matthew Arnold

Foley's Kidney Cure testimonial from New Britain reader

Passed Examination Inc reports James Donahue of New Britain Connecticut credits Foley's Kidney Cure with curing his kidney and bladder issues after trying various remedies and doctors. He states after two bottles he improved and five bottles cured him, enabling a life insurance examination. Elam Ordway Houser endorses.

James Donahue New Britain Conn Foley

Rimini City Echoes of Caesar, Saint Anthony, and Lovers

A Travel Magazine sketch highlights Rimini as a crossroads of history with Caesar crossing the Rubicon, Saint Anthony preaching to listening fishes, and the lovers Paolo and Francesca linked to the area. The piece notes a chapel by the water marking Anthony's stance and recalls the famed romance associated with Rimini.

Rimini Caesar Rubicon St. Anthony Paolo Francesca

The Grand Canyon Vast as an ancient ocean bed

The narrator describes the Grand Canyon as immense and deep, deeper than 6000 feet, a gulf so vast that Niagara would be insignificant. The scene emphasizes scale and wonder as sunlight glints on a submerged continent, with valley walls resembling a cleft into eternity. The excerpt is from E W Gibson Wesson in The Wide World Magazine.

Mount Washington Niagara E. W. G. Wesson The Wide World Magazine

Foley's Honey and Tar a Safe Cough Remedy

Advertisement claims millions bought Foley's Honey and Tar with only beneficial results for coughs colds and lung troubles. It asserts the genuine yellow package contains no opiates or harmful drugs and warns consumers to guard health by choosing the genuine product.

Foley Poley Elam Ordway Ouser

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R. S. Pendle Annisto Electric & Gas Alabous Busines Nesopie Aete Ne Onl Guardian Punto Anniston Banking & Loan Company BR. Whllbors Anniston Cater Grocery Co Santa Claus Gamma Aunt Jane Grandma Duck Maj. Corkscrew Gen Arnold and Mrs Circus the Grand Canyon H. McKleroy Provident Wm. A. Davis Vito Presi Suum D. Woodruff Cashel Randolph Smith Aaster Maslien Anniston National Bank United States Belcher Plumbing Co Frisco Indian Territory, Oklahoma and Griffith, T. P. A Birmingham Ala Thomas’ Drug Store Phone Tenth St Ieee Geo. H. Lee Frank M. Griffith Trav Little Rock, Ark
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