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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1902
Page
4
A reflective year end column notes the old year’s end and the varied impacts on different age groups. It praises global disasters and progress in religion, commerce, science, and literature, urging lessons to shape a better new year.
Word from New York reports a rich Alabama gold find within twenty miles of Anniston with ore valued at about 56 dollars per ton. A 20 stamp mill is finished and another is under construction, suggesting large scale, profitable development may follow in the Anniston district.
The passage contrasts Napoleon’s contempt for ideologues with the later realization that the conqueror himself was trapped by his own illusions. It notes the shift in history when Helena revealed the gap between ideals and outcomes and calls readers to maintain principled, fact‑driven vigilance.
A New York City context argues that 30 000 tuberculosis cases are treatable with competent care and that preventing transmission through practices like destroying sputum would cut spread. The author urges shifting funds from insane care to TB prevention and cure, noting historical measures saved thousands and explaining non hereditary spread via direct contact.
A public notice extols Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best remedy for burns cuts sores eczema and piles. It urges preparedness after horse accidents and street incidents and lists Miller Drug Co and West End Drug Co as suppliers.
A fragment discusses whether football emerged as an invention or as a means to promote medical surgery, outlining possible purposes and speculative links between sport and medicine.
An advertisement proclaims deafness from catarrh can be cured only by constitutional remedies with a $100 reward for any case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It also promotes Hall’s Family Pills and announces weekly excursion cars from Memphis to California and Portland via specified rail routes.
A snatch of dialogue shows a frail joke where one speaker asks about a word meaning frost while another mocks ignorance. The exchange highlights a humorous misinterpretation in a newspaper snippet from Cincinnati.
A witty exchange notes that a college education yields debt rather than immediate satisfaction. The speaker jokes that schooling teaches how to owe money without annoyance, reflecting on cost and value of higher education.
S Morris Pool, longtime distributor of the Patent Office Official Gazette, has served in the patent office since 1877.
Eugene Zimmerman the Cincinnati millionaire and Mose daughter the Duchess of Manchester expect to visit his child and grandson in England next spring.
A Portsmouth News quip notes a valet called a retainer for always keeping what he finds. The piece ties humor to gentlemanly conduct, reflecting period wit. The Saturday Evening Post and Baltimore American quotes add urban humor about self forgetfulness and unity.
An advertisement promotes corn fed beef lamb and pork along with turkeys chickens ducks and rabbits raised for holiday meals. It urges moderate prices so households can dine well.
An Atlanta drug firm markets Uricsol as a unique, harmless cure for rheumatism sciatica lumbago and various kidney liver and bladder ailments caused by uric acid. The ad frames it as the paragon of remedies built on long research by a veteran druggist and backed by a strong company, with price listed at 1 per bottle or six for a discount. It invites stamps for details and a cures book.
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