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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1907
Page
5
A crowd en route to a recital at Elks hall on East Tenth Street suffered slips and falls as holes and ditches from Knox building excavations and bitulithic paving work disrupted the way.
Students at Synodical College have set up poles and baskets and are now playing basketball. Equipment for the game is expected to be moved to the Pelham Guards’ armory soon for use.
First class cleaning repairing pressing and dyeing for ladies and gentlemen. Will call for and deliver. All work guaranteed. Herbert Breedlove, mgr. Phone 575, 12th and Gurnee.
Readable fragments reveal a story of lovers and conflict with references to a drama or concert setting. Names and precise actions are unclear due to garbled OCR, but themes of love, betrayal, and possible violence surface alongside scattered proper nouns and dates.
The text describes delayed Everzides, pure water, and plentiful food including turkeyish birds, periwinkles, and turtle. It notes fruit desserts and a voyage crossing glides of Plovian as a notable venture, attributed to A. W. Dine wki Llarper's.
The text traces early oceans from brackish beginnings to a cooler state as land and rivers formed. It notes salts washed in and solids forming, with brine accumulating at the sea bottom. It claims around 7,000,000 cubic miles of salt exist today and removing all salt would not lower sea level.
A white horse and a brown mate limited to a wagon outside a Kensington Avenue feed store manipulated hay to share a bale. The white horse grabbed larger mouthfuls while turning his head to let the brown horse eat, and about half the bale vanished before the owner arrived. The owner praised the tactic and accepted the loss.
The New York Press reports southern preachers say time limits on sermons keep service brief. Clergymen in Newark compare style, noting one preacher held his watch face up to remind listeners time is fleeting and other engagements await. This concise critique contrasts long winded approaches with punctual preaching.
By order of the Calhoun County Probate Court the administratrix of W. Cox deceased will sell at public cash sale on February 25 1907 at the Griffin old place a house and lot of 2144 acres in Jacksonville bounded north by J W Burke estate east by Sam Lester lot south by Depot street and west by W C Cox place. Mary J Cox administratrix and C W Douglass attorney.
A Fulton market fish dealer recalls a fashionable woman who asked for a pound of smells to be cleaned and bones removed. He obliged, but privately muttered as he spent fifteen minutes deboning before wrapping the parcel. The woman claimed her cat refuses bone in fish. The anecdote reflects social pretense and light irony.
A quotation attributed to Alexander Hamilton emphasizes that genius results from deep study and sustained effort. He describes dwelling on a subject day and night, exploring all bearings, until the final work is the product of labor and thought.
A Christian World note states that to gain the best from reading one must begin early and work hard. Reading is an art like music or painting and requires a stern apprenticeship. a man who knows only his own tongue remains ignorant of others.
In an interview scene the major recalls seeing a queen mummy in Egypt. He notes the marvel of how the ancient display preserves the form, while a journalist from Philadelphia records the exchange.
The piece discusses animal play as a form of belief and imagination. It recounts a writer's memory of a kitten encountering a dead mouse, sniffing it, tossing it, and tracking it through slippers in a curious boot quest.
The article ponders why fashion clusters in the northwestern West End and poorer areas sit on the east and south sides. It attributes this to prevailing northwesterly winds pushing dust smoke and odors toward the eastern and southern quarters, making the opposite quarter more desirable.
A rural sermon on language argues that words, skillfully used, can transform ordinary speech into powerful rhetoric. It contends that profanity and crude talk can be outmatched by wit and intelligent word choice, making harsh terms seem like baby talk.
In Paris Blondin and Cham prepared to cross the Seine on a rope. Cham agreed to ride, but Blondin must carry him. Cham teased that Blondin feared being dropped, turning the joke on Blondin as the great showman faced hesitation on the rope.
A historical note praises shoemakers as gifted minds, citing a 19th century authority who links their stooping posture to brain power. It lists esteemed cobblers and figures such as Sir Cloudesley Shovel, Gilford the Terrible, Bloomfield, Carey, Admiral Myngs, George Po, John Kitto, and Sturgeon, noting the long roll of illustrious shoemakers.
A quotation from John Ruskin praises books as a doorway to a vast, open court where one may converse with kings and queens and join a society of the mighty, with entry granting fellowship and rank and no exile except by personal fault.
A humorous domestic vignette centers on a new maid with an Irish smile who admits mislaying the pudding. Dinner runs late as she explains she hunted the house for the dessert and claims it belongs in the oven.
The London World notes that new hats and other frocks lift spirits and restore confidence, while overindulgence in shopping can estrange a woman from herself and lead to disastrous outcomes.
The column quotes a sharp remark about polishing shoes and a sarcasm filled exchange. A Baltimore American note, an As Usual piece, and a Business Man dialogue from the Chicago Journal appear, touching on a father teaching his son the business and the son's growing experience.
A window washer on a narrow ledge of a fifteen story window watches pedestrians scatter at a crowded downtown corner as street cars, automobiles, wagons, and police in boots move about. The washer calls out in relief that he is not among the crowd.
Trigg Steele Co announces the completion of a new undertaking parlors branch led by Milton P. Crowe who is described as Alabama's most competent embalmer with over twenty years of experience. A night attendant is available by request and contact numbers are provided for day and night inquiries.
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