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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1907
Page
4
Weather report notes barometer at 30.40 inches at 7 am and temperature 50 with no precipitation. Wind direction west two miles per hour from Boathurst region. Highest temperature 72 at 2 pm. Cloudy forecast tonight and Wednesday with colder conditions. official in charge.
Cheney & Co of Toledo offer Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a sworn oath by Cheney senior partner promising $100 for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured. Notary A W Gleason attests the oath dated December 6, 1886. Cure marketed with testimonials and 75 cent Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
The New York Mail notes that natural remedies from springs and kitchen items provide broad cures from gout to scurvy. It cites juice from wild plants, cod liver oil, egg whites, and raw yolk as treatments for various ailments and urges reliance on common herbs and foods.
The steamer Ponce from Ponce Puerto Rico is nine days overdue and believed to be in tow by the steamship Maracas of the Trinidad Trading Steamship Co. The Maracas failed to report in by last Sunday, and shipping men think it picked up the Ponce and is towing her toward port.
A theatrical star contemplates riches from fame yet warns that public adoration is fleeting. She earns 500 a week plus a share of box office, but popularity fades as new favorites emerge, leaving aging stars to charity. Bathel Barrymore in Harper's Bazaar.
Dialogue fragment shows a man named Rimmy Robinson pleading with a "Kind Lady" to keep away from alcohol, joking that the only booze is "the caboose" where brakemen ride, as quoted in Chica go News.
A desert chauffeur of the Tonopah to Goldfield route in Nevada helped open mining camps and later drove south to Bullfrog district camps. He is described as a picturesque, thorough-going pioneer figure alongside the freighter in the mining era.
Miss Adna Rhody visits friends in Rome. Mrs J M Williams visits her mother in Birmingham. Mr Jd H Church is well again after several days illness. Messrs H P Salter and J K Lanning go to Talladega Springs on business. Messrs J W Journey and D Martin of Jacksonville are here today on business.
Representatives from major railways testified before the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee opposing the Sherman bill to set a nationwide 2 cent per mile mileage book usable on all lines with no return deposit. Santa Fe executive George T. Nicholson argued Western rates could not match Eastern lines. Also heard were N. L. Bond Baltimore & Ohio T. B. Harrison Louisville & Nashville and former Senator Faulkner of West Virginia.
The Newfoundland supreme court hears the appeal of west coast fishermen fined $500 each for violating the bait act by fishing for American vessels within territorial waters. If upheld, Newfoundland crews would be barred from shipping on American vessels, nullifying the modus vivendi.
Senators Dillingham Kittredge and Pettus form a sub committee of the senate judiciary to review Oscar R Hurley s appointment as district attorney for the Birmingham district succeeding Judge Roulhac Handley s confirmation faces strong opposition and a bitter battle is anticipated before congress adjourns.
In Tokio bay 80 sailors from the cruiser Chitose drowned when a fishing boat capsized during a squall while 99 sailors and 30 visitors tried to reach shore. A passing boat rescued 40. 60 bodies were recovered as rescue efforts continued.
Camp Pelham invites Confederate veterans and Calhoun county camps to meet January 19 to celebrate General Robert E. Lee's 100th birthday. Activities include dues, officer elections, a march to the courthouse, prayer, songs, an address by Rev. Dr. J. G. Anderson, a cross presentation, and a lunch hosted by the Daughters of the Confederacy.
District Court of the United States Eastern Division Northern District of Alabama issues notice to creditors of Co E Hoy bankrupt. First meeting of creditors will be held in Aniston Alabama on January 18 1907 at 10 a m to prove claims and take actions authorized by the bankrupt act Anniston Alabama January 7 1907 H D McCarty Referee in Bankruptcy.
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