Anniston Evening Star note of publishing staff
The Anniston Evening Star lists the publishing company and editors B Gordon and B McKern.
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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1906
Page
4
The Anniston Evening Star lists the publishing company and editors B Gordon and B McKern.
The document records actual editions and daily averages for the Evening Star in November 1906. It lists issue numbers and daily circulations with a stated average of 2 527, sworn by General Manager EB McKemn and witnessed by Votary Public W Ledbetter in Calhoun County Alabama.
Local Salvation Army officers organize a Christmas dinner and gifts for the poor with funds raised by the Evening Star. Readers may send their name and contribution to Captain Robins. listed donors include the Anniston Elks, Pell City bank, Mrs Adkins, R E Garner, and John S Reaves among others.
At Christmas evening program by Second Presbyterian Sunday school members will present scenes on a ste reopticon. The program includes biblical episodes and hymns followed by a tree lighting and gift distribution for orphans.
The governor and state pardoning board granted clemency to at least 25 prisoners, with many friends and relatives sharing in the joy. The piece defends pardons as humane and prudent, noting Tennessee voters recently re elected Bob Taylor as governor and made him U S senator. It argues executive clemency can reform offenders and cites critics who dub pardons as excessive.
The piece notes an eight story office building in Anniston would lift prospects and happiness. It references Santa Claus as a jovial union member and cites Roosevelt's firing of soldiers, implying more firings if needed. The Woodstock sale and its early operation are seen as boosting Anniston's industrial standing and Christmas cheer amid prosperity hopes.
The fragment presents a quotation attributed to Sir P. Sid ney arguing that true reason cannot reveal itself more reasonable than to abandon reasoning on matters beyond reason. The text is an isolated aphorism with no clear article context.
Clerk I. B. Watson reports all records prepared for naturalization under the new federal law. Many foreign born residents in the city plan immediate steps, with strict eligibility: 18 years old, five years residence, declaration filed, and waiting periods before certificates can be issued.
Mr. L. Mallory travels from Tuggday to Hot Springs Arkansas to seek rest and health treatment for an extended period.
A posse armed with guns and bloodhounds pursues Wesley Wilkes, a condemned felon, and Eaton, an armed white desperado, after they escaped from Gate City jail. They attacked the sheriff with an iron bar and Wilkes bit the sheriff’s daughter before fleeing into the Eastern Tennessee mountains.
The original copy of the degree of L L D conferred on Washington by Harvard University in 1852 has been presented to Harvard Library by E. Leffts, a wealthy New York alumnus.
Three days before Christmas shoppers in Anniston see bright shop windows while Gadsden plans a new gas plant with work starting immediately. Albertville reports 100 houses built this year, 18 store houses, a greenhouse stove blast ruined plants, and Southern railway slows schedules. Talladega Eks will deliver gifts by wagon on Christmas morning as Noble street paving nears completion but faces weather delays between Eleventh and Thirteenth.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh in all stages as a constitutional disease. It is taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces, with a promise of 100 dollars for any failure and a request to send for testimonials.
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