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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1909
Page
8
In preparing for Christmas celebrations, remember the adage about giving and receiving. Shop early to ease clerks’ workload and avoid the eleventh hour rush during the festive season.
A curious mix of home remedy and humor appears. Instructions suggest removing Mildewv with soap starch salt lemon juice applied and left to set, while a humorous note recalls a Hutchineesa land ad and a child misnaming objects as doors in a tale about a funny door of a stocking.
The article lists labor unions and employers attending a Taft addressed conference. Seth Low explains the National Civic Federation seeks uniform state laws on issues from master and servant to anti trust, taxation, labor safety, road building, and public welfare, with multiple examples of sectors urging standardization. Miss Bessie Blair and Miss Geneva Reed of Gadsden visit Alabama.
Under a 1909 probate decree in Calhoun county Alabama Hugh Walker is appointed commissioner to sell the described lands in Section 46 Township 12 Range 7 in Anniston for cash at public outcry. The parcel includes timbered areas and a valuable red ore deposit with sale set for Monday in January 1910.
During a visit, Mrs Humphrey Ward is asked about American women’s dress. She replies that they are beautifully dressed but should stop equating a woman’s value with a divorce suit, reflecting editorial tone from the Boston Herald.
Commuters between their homes and New York form a circle known as The Intellectuals. Each morning they watch for white horses along the rail line and tally a pool based on who spots the most horses. The practice is informal and based on the line’s scenery.
A cautious note argues tents are less hygienic than wooden shacks due to confined air and no windows. It suggests a simple shelter in dry regions like the Arizona desert using four posts, wire netting, and woven branches to admit light.
The article contrasts African elephants as the world's ivory source with their Arctic ancestors, noting they are mam moths of a different shape from India's tuskless exemplars. It argues the Indian animal is a plain beast of burden, more valuable alive than dead.
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