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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1917
Page
2
Pension Warrants for Calhoun county veterans will be ready for distribution at the office of the probate judge Tuesday morning. The warrants for the last quarter were delayed but this quarter they will be issued as scheduled. Orris Flour guaranteed to satisfy or money refunded. The non jury term of the circuit court begins the first Monday in January at the county courthouse.
Editor John J. Thornton of the Hale county paper visits Anniston and reflects on his career in West Alabama. The item lists local moves, hires, transfers, and social notes including Miss Effie Mae Johnston as cashier, the Hanna family’s Huntsville transfer, and rabies cases prompting Pasteur treatments for two children.
The Wednesday Study Club will gather with Mic Christine McCaa next Wednesday at 3 30 p m to discuss upcoming readings and assignments.
Grand Madam Bates grandmother figure in city life fell on church steps after the Blackmon Miller wedding at First Methodist. She hit the back of her head and possibly fractured her skull. Carried to Mrs. Kiker’s home then moved to Sellers hospital in serious condition. Midnight reports say she regained consciousness.
Select Pictures reports that the film Over There starring Charles Richman and Anna Q Nilsson is heavily booked nationwide at the Strand Theater on Monday. The patriotic drama follows a young group responding to the war call while the land battleship Recruit anchors in Union Square, aiding the recruiting push.
A lush lawn scene from The Maid of Belgium sits on the Long Island Sound estate of a prominent New York banker. The production has drawn many brilliant receptions and coworkers react with astonishment at its completion. The studio audience and staff praised the result with enthusiastic exclamations.
The order directs pooling of terminal facilities and through routing to boost speed and efficiency while preserving existing rates and orders. McAdoo and Walker Downer Hines lead the administration with Alfred H. Smith overseeing transportation. Local and through freight, passenger services, and interline operations will be restructured, with private lines facing revenue shifts and potential industry cuts.
Miss Grant offers custom lace hats in Noble apartments, highlighting bespoke headwear crafted to client specifications and delivered to order.
Paul Hennig, naturalized German foreman at Bliss Torpedo in Brooklyn, is jailed on treason indictment for tampering with torpedo gyroscope bearings. Lieutenant O'Shea exposed emery scratches and vaseline-packed parts. Hennig denied charges. Trial set for January 18 before Judge Harland B. Howe.
A fragmented report describes Social Revolutionary leaders barred from private meetings and public address. Letters urge the nation to back the Constituent Assembly, warning of poverty and tyranny if Bolsheviks prevail, and call for rallies to Tauride Palace.
A wave of letters to Foreign Minister Trotsky arrives from Socialist Austrian and Ukrainian prisoners in Russian camps. The correspondence, described as a remarkable manifestation against the Bolshevik center, reflects growing discontent among detainees.
New York federal authorities in a December 29 report detained Gustav Paul Richter described as the son of a German military surgeon as a dangerous enemy alien now interned on Ellis Island.
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