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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1901
Page
6
A NY maidservant used a sweeping tactic to trap a burglar hiding in a closet. She lured him by closing the door with deliberate slow sweeps then called for help via telephone lines tapped by linemen. Police arrived and arrested the intruder.
A collection of cartoonish vignettes from Chicago News shows children misinterpreting moon phases and simple sayings. Tales include a girl noting the moon is partly in the sky and half sticking out, a boy boasting a finger blister, and a youngster misquoting Sunday school songs.
Fragmentary exchange recalls bonds and a failed attempt with consequences mentioned by Steckman and Pye, leaving names and specifics obscured by garbled text. The snippet hints at a financial or legal dispute but lacks concrete details.
Fragmentary OCR text presents garbled quotation and names, unclear event or speaker. No resolvable people, places, or actions emerge to form a coherent news item or outcome.
A fragment from a Washington Post piece recalls a restless married life with a fearful wife and a soldierly husband at odds during a late night fire alarm. It then shifts to a National Library of Ireland fee book for Daniel O Connell, detailing his early legal work and rising income from £2 6d to £3,808 over a decade.
A Scottish minister in a small parish turns a two hour Jonah sermon into a lively session on the whale. The tale centers on marine tales and the mock debate over which sea creature could fit in the biblical whale. An older parishioner finally voices a candid question about the whale.
An eccentric secondhand bookseller treats his wares as a collection not stock and pangs at selling rare volumes. A flirtatious youth asks if any volumes are for hire, but the proprietor replies they are for love. The text blends scattered city notes and odd catalog snippets.
A New York Mail and Express article argues that suicide method choices spread by suggestion. A doctor cites acid suicides as an example, noting one method inspires others in a chain reaction. He recalls predicting this after writing on practial self destruction methods.
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