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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1906
Page
4
The statement lists daily evening edition circulation for November 1906 with values per date, totals 68 175 printed in November and an average daily circulation of 2 827. Be. B. McKee, general manager, swore to the figures December 1, 1906 before E. W. Ledbetter, a notary in Calhoun County Alabama.
Local Salvation Army officers organize a Christmas dinner and toy distribution for the poor. The Evening Star will publish donor names and addresses to facilitate contributions, with listings updated as gifts arrive. Recent donations include amounts from Mumroton Pell City bank Mrs Adkins Jacksonville and Salem Reaves.
The Evening Star marks its seventh anniversary on December 19 1899 in Annis ton noting steady growth in circulation and advertising. The paper expresses gratitude for its history and optimism for its eighth year and invites well wishers.
The Evening Star lauds Roosevelt's senate message on the Brownsville affair. It condemns alleged crimes by Negro soldiers and their supporters while praising the President as prompt, fearless, and deserving of national confidence beyond party lines.
The Torreon Star edited by Howard Williams former Anniston editor issues a 40 page Christmas number. Williams' enterprise is making the Torreon Star one of Mexico's leading weekly papers as Greasers sit up and take notice.
The Gadsden Times-News issued a festive Christmas number featuring holiday reading artistic illustrations and timely advertising for the season.
The Montgomery Journal unveils a four page Christmas number described as the biggest and best yet in its special edition series. The piece credits the paper and its city, noting growth in size, quality, and popularity under Editor Hood and Manager Miller.
PF J Thompson chairman of the immigration committee writes to all Alabama legislators on immigration. A bill modeled on the South Carolina immigration law has been drafted, and the association's member organizations will mobilize to secure its passage.
The public favors a pause in President Roosevelt's dispatches praising his messages but notes that too much of a good thing can be tiring for readers and the press.
A newspaper advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, claimed to be a constitutional disease. It offers $100 to anyone with a case it fails to cure and notes the product works by acting on blood and mucous surfaces.
A 32 year old man places a morning newspaper ad declaring he will undertake any adventure however desperate. The notice from the London Evening Standard portrays him as a willing, daring volunteer seeking work or perilous tasks.
The United States consular court opened in Shanghai yesterday. A banquet by the American association celebrated the event. The court will protect American citizens and handle civil and commercial cases involving Americans in China.
The president sent to the Senate the nomination of Joseph W. Lee of Maryland as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Guatemala and Honduras. The appointment marks a key diplomatic posting from Washington with emphasis on Central America relations.
Items note ten Christmas trees seen in Anniston and mixed forecasts about rain and sleet. Oxford divided on annexation. Leighton avenue school heating criticized as customers seek furnace repairs. Cotton prices fluctuated but market closed near yesterday’s figures. Local ad promotes home purchase plans at 1202 Noble Street with payments.
Mr W Hi Jackson spends the week in Atlanta on a combined business and pleasure visit. Walter H Bryant returns from Warrenton Ga where he attended the Morris Aitchison marriage. R C Young returns from Atlanta. W L Zinn arrives from Boston and New York. W B Arbery and Oscar Sargent of Jacksonville are here today. FP Douglass is in Atlanta for today and tomorrow on business.
A flying lemur from the Indian archipelago measures about 30 inches and can leap up to 300 feet using a membrane that connects its limbs.
The oldest royal house in Europe is the Mecklenburg line. It traces its descent from Genseric, the vandal of Rome in A D 455, through medieval rulers to the present. The article notes its ancient roots and significant historic lineage.
Busy Sheffield probably employs more workmen in the steel industry than any other city in the world, reflecting its dominant role in heavy industry and manufacturing.
Australia hosts the world’s biggest farms with South Australia leading in scale where the typical squatter holds about 78 000 acres. The report highlights vast landholdings and regional concentration in large farming.
The executive committee records expenses for the city primary in Anniston dated November 19 1906. Items include printing stenographers notices meals ballot boxes stationery stamps travel pay lamp cord painting and numbering of ballot boxes plus salaries totaling 165 dollars with signatures R P Thomason chairman and H W John secretary.
In Aberdeen's early grammar school records a legend says Byron cried and ran out when called Georgi Baro de Byron instead of Georgi Gordon Byron after his peerage was announced. The tale notes his dramatic response on the first morning at school.
Summer showers bring remarkable hail in South Africa with reports of hailstones as large as pigeons eggs. Weather observers note frequent vivid displays and damaging hail in several regions.
Report mentions two famed caches on Cocos Island a pirate plunder estimated between 50 million and 60 million dollars and Keating s treasure said to be worth about 15 million dollars highlighting legendary maritime riches.
A Missouri veteran recalls a schoolroom moment with young Mark Twain in Hannibal. The class was asked to write on laziness and Clemens submitted a blank slate after half an hour.
City notice from Geo. J. Freedkin seeking secondhand office fixtures. Respond with items for sale and contact at 18% East 10th street. Classified in-house sale inquiry.
The text notes that the Koran describes bells hung on trees of paradise moved by wind from God’s throne. It ties this image to Laila Rookh and the idea of bells and music as eternal in the Edenic setting.
In a clipped dialogue from a domestic scene a mother questions a man about his expectations while the daughter asserts that she is the focal point of those hopes. The exchange reveals family dynamics and the meaning of love and status.
The Anniston Electric and Gas Company advertises handsome reading lamps in various designs for gas and electric use. They promise reasonable prices and delivery on Christmas morning from the 10th and Noblest streets location.
A man asks about young people in a box. He mentions Elsie Blugore and her fiancé, Marie Rich and hers, Belle Browne and hers. All are to be married next month, described as a box of matches in a playful remark.
A lighthearted exchange describes Mr Specks arriving home to find a roast prepared by Mrs Specks, illustrating a vegetarian household that also indulges a meat dish in secret. The dialogue contrasts boy and mother impressions about dietary choices.
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