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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1909
Page
12
A reflective column mulls football rule reforms and the drift of years from 1910 to 1009. It notes winter weather, forecasts a big fruit crop, and jokes about the season’s temptations and the ease of swearing off after the new year.
A fragment notes Washington residents favor Private John Allen from Mississippi as a jokester. It clarifies Private John is not a joke but a man who tells jokes, while the line hints at a humorous stereotype.
The cold weather is seen as beneficial for business and soil, will kill pests, and slow fruit tree budding, likely saving the fruit crop and aiding both town and countryside communities.
Montgomery County proposes using convict labor to improve public roads and bolster road quality. The piece notes Montgomery’s road system already draws attention and argues other counties must invest, suggesting Calhoun County could gain 10 000 residents with a 500 000 dollar road program, boosting land values and profits for existing residents.
A brief quip recalls a legendary exchange where Webster’s words met a judge’s interruption, noted for its sharp retort and enduring sense of law. The remark highlights how the judge’s statement shifted the moment from argument to legal precedent.
A junior public figure disappoints no one by choosing Bren Mawr over Smith in a playful prom invitation. Amber is cited as our Leat Clover in a lighthearted caption.
A mother recalls her child naming openings in daily life as funny doors. He first called many things doors and later a hole in a stocking became a funny door, a charming example of child language and association at home.
San Francisco prepares for citywide New Year celebrations amid optimistic outlook for year end festivities. Illuminated streets feature music from numerous bands and a grand parade showcasing electric floats from the Portola festival. Hotels and cafes arrange special entertainments for thousands of revelers.
Chicagoans may greet 1910 with a push for celebration or a quiet night. The outcome hinges on Chief of Police Steward’s enforcement stance and local orders with liquor and public merriment tensions likely to shape the scene.
An enduring claim praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the quickest cure for coughs and colds, a timeless favorite recounted for generations as a health aid.
The poem humorously depicts stockings laid by and two voices debating Christmas tradition while the mistress snores. One resists change while the other jokes about a hole in a toe, delivering a light holiday vignette from New York Times.
A Cleveland bookseller recalls a humorous talk with a wealthy illiterate client who bought a Kensington house and demanded handsome books. The client asks for half bound in Russia and half in Morocco, then insists the entire lot be bound in Cleveland to suit his needs.
A Calvestan News note mocks women’s first half hats as frightening, then shifts to remark that marriages have not fallen behind the fashion trend. The item reads as a light society snippet on attire and nuptials.
Mrs Harriman inherits 220000000 dollars making her by far the richest woman in the world and reshaping wealth rankings globally. Net worth status elevates her among the era's premier philanthropists and social figures.
A writer recalls Cornwall’s coast where smugglers thrived and locals prayed for shipwrecked sailors. The Rev Hawker’s servant Tristram Pennitre confesses a life of drinking, idleness, cursing, gambling, and violence, yet ends noting their former sins.
Arthur Roberts, playing Captain Crosstree in Black Eyed Susan at Glasgow, accidentally caused the inn scenery to topple as he staggered on stage. He recovered quickly and quipped that when they come to Glasgow they always bring down the house.
Dialogue shows a barber scolding a customer over carelessness with a razor. The barber jokes about deducting a ha penny and mentions a fourpence purchase, set in London Water.
Fragmentary dialogue centering on optimism and a character nicknamed Sid. The sufferer questions the bright side of a puzzling phrase as another character urges a positive outlook with cautious cheer.
A late report notes Frailman intends to challenge his deceased wife’s will. The exchange questions the courage of pursuing the matter, given the woman’s death.
A New Year greeting from the Washington Star bids readers a merry start and calls for readers to reform the bold and overbearing trust, the coal manipulator, and others notorious in papers. It humorously targets figures who pay wild election bets and vanish with cash, wishing better conduct in the year ahead.
A meditative man asks about meeting the solemn event of the New Year and a flippant friend responds that he has more material for swearing off than ever before. The exchange hints at resolutions and personal change with a humorous edge.
A well meaning Ape in a palm drops coconuts on Goats neck, killing him. The tale ends with a moral that friends cause more harm than enemies.
A humorous exchange where Fred wonders why the tailor sent Pollock's Course of Time and Jack suggests it is a reminder to settle the bill, noting they cannot pay before.
A Buffalo Express item reports a rider alleging insult by a Motorman who stopped abruptly to let the passenger board, remarking it treated her like an old woman.
Moe Rose-Did Slogoes asks if Moe Rose-Did Slogoes had a happy New Year. Joe Cose responds with a negative note, saying he was not happy and wore a smoking jacket made by his wife for a Christmas gift. Browning's Magazine.
A conversation notes a guest who avoids demanding light meat when fowl is carved, calling him desirable as a dinner companion. The exchange highlights social etiquette about meat preferences and the charm of easygoing guests.
An elderly reader quotes a Cleveland Plain Dealer line about faster travel to Europe via a new line promising seventeen minutes shorter trip time. The excerpt highlights a shift toward quicker transatlantic service.
Yonkers Statesman dialogue captures a light exchange between a couple about trust and proposals, highlighting playful misread signals and domestic humor.
Teenzy cries over smaller stockin in a playful courtroom scene. Jack teases as Bill-Say questions the fuss in a satirical piece set near a judge's library.
A humorous excerpt features a left shoe lamenting it cannot begin the new year on the right, voiced in Browning's Magazine style with personified footwear expressing festive frustration.
Brown- Ing's Magazine mentions New Year's content and the usual material for a place nobody wants to go to with a wary tone about public taste and offerings.
IRON CITY reports a flurry of family visits with Oxford guests Miss Graet and Miss Myrtle Williamson staying with grandparents Mr and Mrs J Hughes. Relatives are visited by Rev W W Scott from Springville and his aunt Mrs M Reaves. Others travel to Heflin Coldwater Choccolocco Talladega and Sylacauga for funerals visits and business as typhoid illness fades.
Success Magazine notes Coney Island drew seven to eight figures in visitors last summer, spending about 45 million dollars in nickels and dimes. The piece highlights massive crowds on holidays, peak days, and the fragile link to weather, with stands renting for 1500 dollars and vendors recouping earnings in small change.
The water pump traces to Grecian times under rulers Ittolomies Philadelphos Energetes with a Greek seed or throw name. Hero of Alexandria provides the earliest description. German use is late, sixteenth century, with mining pumps replacing earlier chains and buckets. Seventeenth century saw rotating pumps like Pappenham and Prince Rupert. Morland and De la Hire contributed piston pump innovations.
A judge sentences a prisoner to ten years confinement in a reception room he allegedly built himself. Lawyers begin an appeal arguing the punishment is cruel and unusual.
Warning that all notes or legal papers executed in Mexico must bear revenue stamps and that documents executed in the United States or other countries must have these stamps prepaid before proceeding to Mexico.
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