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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1900
Page
3
Eddie Jony will meet Ellwood McClosky at the Central Athletic Club tomorrow in a featured boxing bout. Both fighters are listed as top contenders, with local fans expecting a decisive clash.
Palm Beach reports Vardon and Findlay contesting powers in golf. London notes Tommy Logan, American featherweight, facing Billy Chester for the British title tonight at the National Sporting Club.
Boston reports Yale Harvard Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania will compete in different athlete games at the portman show tonight. Paris hosts the International Cyclists meet today with John Blanreck as president.
A cock fight is held today near Chattanooga Tennessee between Knoxville and Round Mountain Alabama. Fine conditioned birds fill the ground and the match promises hot competition with good stakes. Alabama birds are favored by judges to win the latters.
Henry B. Glover, candidate for re election as Calhoun County Treasurer, writes from Anniston Feb 22 1900 asking voters understanding due to family illness that keeps him at home and prevents canvassing before the primary. He hopes to meet voters later.
The American Journal of Health endorses Murray Hill Club whiskey as an absolutely pure brand. It argues that properly used alcoholic beverages can sustain strength and body vitality and recommends its use by physicians for pure stimulant value.
A fragment notes Murray Still Club Whiskey sold in An niston, with unclear details about seller and exact location. The readable portion confirms the product and place, suggesting a local sale or notice in a community listing.
The National Education association meeting in Chicago discusses abolishing local school power vested in superintendents. A proposal favors a special board to govern schools.
The Democratic Executive Committee of Calhoun County announces primary elections on March 7 1900 at voting places for Sheriff Tax Assessor Tax Collector County Treasurer County Superintendent of Education Coroner and County Commissioner in the Second and Fourth Districts. If no candidate wins a majority a second primary will be held March 22 1900 between the top two vote-getters.
The Parish Jewelry Company announces its opening and invites customers to bring watches clocks and jewelry for repair or sale. The store promises fair prices and courteous service with guaranteed up to date goods and repairs.
A gossiping scene unfolds as a bachelor’s Washington Square party exposes a bedspread of embroidered initials and photos. Nellie, Dell, Jane, and others tear up their pictures in anger, vow lifelong enmity toward Dick Larrabee, and end uneasy friendships after the scandalous event.
Fatma and Smaun, a married pair from the Tom Thumb order, attract attention in Berlin as the smallest couple in the world. Smaun stands a bit over 20 inches tall, Fatma about 18 inches, both around 20 years old. They perform gymnastics and dances and have toured Europe under a vaudeville manager.
The article details high Great Lakes losses with 168 wrecks in September and 285 disasters in October of a tempestuous year. It notes about 300 ships lost annually and $3 to $4 billion in shipping value, plus dramatic rescue efforts at Chicago Harbor where life-savers saved 60 men in 1808.
The piece notes high costs of field correspondents and cable tolls while praising censorship that blocks dispatches. It cites the Transvaal war and London’s fear of British garrison news reaching Boer forces, referencing Sir Redvers Buller’s stance on war correspondents once labeled by Sherman.
Julius Levy has received a fine line of spring samples including latest weaves in domestic suitings and feign. The text quality is damaged and many words are unclear or garbled.
In New England, young people seek city life while the elder generation remains rooted in rural towns. The old folk form the community’s backbone, with routines, friendships, and farms tying them to the land. Moving to new homes proves difficult, and aging parents are left behind as sons and daughters depart.
Quoted line from Clifton Johnson in Frank Leslie's depicts lingering occupants in a sparse New England farmhouse through harsh winters and hot summers, emphasizing endurance amid stark rural life.
Collier's Weekly notes an average man utters about 11.8 million words yearly and shakes hands around 1,200 times. He spends roughly 24 years asleep and 11 years at work in a 70 year lifetime, with thinking and speaking occupying equal total time at about one year and four months each.
The Central rabbit board in Australia quits extirpation efforts by spreading chicken cholera, deeming results ineffective. The Westminster Gazette notes this adds to a long list of failed remedies and highlights poisoning by phosphorus as previously seen as economical and effective.
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