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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1907
Page
4
On the first day of Pebronis the undersigned Wale acknowledges a subscribing witness to a document before me B W Ledbetter Notary Public. The record indicates official witnessing of signatures and attestation in this matter.
Robert B. Speer, senior secretary of the board of foreign missions of the Northern Presbyterian church, seeks a contract to evangelize the world. He says 4,000 missionaries and $6,000,000 yearly would reach 100,000,000 souls in the present generation. He argues earnest workers and funds could finance such religious venture.
The article honors Washington's birthday as a significant though smaller celebration than Independence Day. It stresses Washington's birth and leadership in the cause of liberty, praising his truthfulness and timely actions that helped shape America’s greatness.
Judge John Pelham is viewed as highly qualified for Alabama's new federal judgeship and his appointment would be wise, reflecting strong credentials and regional fit.
A gathering in Anniston honors rural free delivery carriers for their faithfulness amid hardships. The piece lauds their long journeys to deliver letters and packages, notes the public owe them better treatment, and anticipates greater appreciation and pay from the government.
The Star outlines a proposal for a Salvation Army building in Anniston adapted to its benevolent work. The article notes the Army aids poorer residents unreachable by individuals and groups and urges strong support for a permanent, portable home in the city. It also mentions Evanston’s mayoral race and Fred Funston’s battlefield fame as context.
The article explains sunspots may influence daily news and weather through electromagnetic disturbances. It notes solar outbursts send metallic vapors into space, affect auroras and magnetic storms, and disrupt telegraph systems, with Mount Wilson’s Solar Observatory seen as a key future aid to understanding.
An advertisement touts a cough remedy using Virgin Oil of Pine one half ounce glycerin two ounces and aloe vera of unknown measure. It warns that mixing at home yields best results and features a sealed wooden case with serial number under the Food and Drugs Act of 1906. Prepared by Leach Chemical Co Cincinnati.
Dr. Ella K. Dearborn of Portland proposes selling her brain to the highest bidder for dissection after death. She asserts the funds will aid science and would attend the autopsy if possible, claiming her brain is notably developed and valuable to researchers seeking moral, cultured lobes.
Special to the Star reports the two day Texas educational conference began in Austin with sessions focusing on public education funding education and politics agriculture teaching in public schools and the need for Texas education conferences.
An advertisement touts Foley's Honey and Tar as cures for la grippe coughs and pneumonia prevention. The copy urges refusing substitutes and highlights Elam Ordway and Touser as sources, presenting a period medicinal sales pitch.
A Kansas City Times item recounts a lawyer preparing to argue a case with piled law books fetched by a boy for the courthouse trip. A southern born observer jokes that with all those books the attorney must have no case at all.
A windowed dialogue in a period piece shows a young doctor questioning a visitor who may be a patient or a creditor. A servant reports groaning sounds, hinting at a large outstanding bill and raising tension in the scene.
Caution against mercury containing catarrh ointments as harmful to smell and system. Recommends Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo, claimed mercury free and to be taken internally. Sold by druggists for 75 cents. Testimonials available.
A traveling crook named Richard Rusk, described as from Philadelphia, is jailed in Birmingham after a lap robe theft from Dr Fields of Ensley. He was impish in town near the Bijou theater with a derby and cane and claims to be from Annis on, then Cincinnati, amid authorities seeking possible warrants elsewhere.
The Norwegian whale fisheries extend across the Arctic Ocean from north Norway toward Spitzbergen and to the Rhetland islands. Whales are harpooned from small steamers using bontb harpoons fired by a small cannon. The whale drags the vessel until exhausted, then is towed to shore, stripped of blubber, with bones crushed for manure and flesh used for fodder. The industry began in 1868 by Svend Foyn.
To expand clerk space the interior was redecorated and walls altered, with no disruption to business. Vice President Young will have an office in front and the receiving and paying tellers windows moved forward to increase clerical space.
Gadsden February 22 The Alabama City Gadsden Attalla Railway Company will immediately start a gas plant with capacity for 40000 cubic feet daily. The project follows the new $125000 electric power house, with a temporary water station on Town Creek pending a permanent river pumping station. The gas works expenditure is approved by Messrs Schuler and company directors.
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