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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1909
Page
10
The city editor urges unity for upbuilding as Anniston anticipates the new year. A lighthearted note mentions mistletoe and holiday shopping patterns, advising early morning store visits to avoid the last minute rush.
Anniston plans growth next year as panic fades and normal business returns. The piece notes steady progress over two years, with southern crop diversification and cotton potentially boosting the region to become the richest part of the world through smarter farming and economic expansion.
The passage presents a dated and intimate opinion about marriage and a humorous take on a editor's newlywed status. It references a hookworm metaphor and describes how a wife tests her husband by his enthusiasm for dressing tasks, framed as social commentary rather than reporting news.
Alabama corn contests show soil potential with growers reaching near 150 bushels per acre. Fifty bushels per acre would be profitable at current prices, and with intelligent study farmers could reach forty to fifty bushels per acre for home consumption. Large harvests could spur diversified farming, cattle, hogs, mules, and horse raising.
Anniston will likely not achieve a large census showing due to less favorable expansion prospects than Birmingham and Atlanta. The city could pursue a greater city movement to annex surrounding towns like Oxford Jacksonville Heflin and other nearby areas to improve later census results.
A concise proverb notes that a rolling stone gathers no moss yet implies that such a path brings lack of smoothness and accountability, reflecting a sharp quip attributed to Puck about critique and self reliance.
The era's labor news surveys unions across regions from Nebraska to Minnesota. It notes 65 000 Chinese and Lascar seamen aboard British ships, wage changes in England and Lehigh Valley, and planned arbitration trends amid broad worker mobilizations. It mentions a Saskatchewan eight hour day clause, stenographers unionization, and safety exhibit plans in Minneapolis.
Three children of John Krodick perished after a kerosene lamp exploded and ignited a blaze in their Chicago home while the parents were elsewhere in the building.
Havana hosts about 400 kinds of edible fish while England and nearby waters offer around 50 varieties. The notable disparity highlights Havana as a richer fish habitat and market.
Isabel Truesdell seeks to persuade her father Tom to accept Jack Goodale as a son in law but he favors Gerald Van Ingen for social advantage. Wheat market chaos at Truesdell & Co triggers large losses as Goodale and Van Ingen steer through a tense Christmas Eve of high stakes and shifting loyalties.
Aniston man recounts seeing destitute children in a bitter winter, forced toward theft to gain relief. He describes families freezing and children wading in ice, a scene so shocking it broke his sleep and moved him to tears.
Mrs Phillip Lydig, a New York society figure, wore a black satin Louis Quatorze coat and gathered 1300 dollars at a Colony Club meeting. Miss Anne Morgan remarked on the surprising amount as she counted the collection for the shirtwaist workers on strike.
A newlywed husband answers a wife's question about happiness with a humorous remark. He says he is glad to be married because it will prevent him from making more mistakes of that kind for the present.
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