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Anniston Evening Star

Location

Anniston, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Feb 05, 1901

Page

7

Dictionary and mountains cause a punchy tale of pride

A city educated guest blindsides mountain folk with pompous diction at a sawmill meeting. He flees after a sharp public rebuke, then a book agent’s Webster's Unabridged sells 25 copies, leaving the speaker to distribute his own caustic remarks.

Big Mountain Lumber Company Machiavelli Jonathan Wild Tabor Bacchus W. T. Lampton Washington Star

Convent Lanterns Inspire Modern Imitations in Cities

A New York Post feature notes a revival of lanterns once favored by travelers, now produced in Birmingham and New York. Machine made imitations outshine hand crafted originals in durability, though lack the inlaid work. Lantern shapes range from cylinders to spheres and mosques, often bronze with silver or colored glass. A Brooklyn Heights collector uses electric bulbs to illuminate large lanterns, creating cathedral like radiance.

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Comedy in the Ambulance and Other Snippets

A newspaper column blends humorous ambulance tales with anecdotes from The Home Journal and Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. It recounts a New York Sun ambulance ride with a drunken couple, a Cavalry officer’s widow, national figures, and light quips on Washington era absence of modern tech.

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