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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1909
Page
2
Remitters are urged to send payments to Anniston Publishing Company rather than to individuals connected with the Star.
A dispute arises over a wedding decoration shaped as a four foot cross of white and red roses with the word Pence in the center. An old gentleman mistakes it for a funeral piece, and confusion grows as others note the banner reads Peace in error.
The London Globe reports Margaret Wilson of Westminster instructed her funeral with a snuff theme. Six bearers and six maidens to wear snuff colored hats and carry snuff boxes, snuff to be sprinkled at the threshold and along the route, and the clergyman to be paid in snuff for the ceremony.
The piece describes a unique ancient Peruvian belief about the afterlife. The disembodied soul must choose a resting rock based on moral life. Left rock grants oblivion seen as Nirvana like rest, while right rock leads to a purgatorial hell where flesh is grated from bones for about 10,000 years before returning to earth.
An elderly woman pesters a guide aboard a boat as she spots an oily water streak. He mutters and explains that the streak marks where the road crossed the lake last winter, revealing a faded memory of winter's passage.
A biographer recounts Emerson's struggles with memory in Boston. He mislabels people and objects, and even at Longfellow's funeral he laments forgetting the deceased's name. The anecdotes illustrate his profound memory lapses and social missteps.
The New York American describes Nero's Golden House as a monumental dwelling, among the largest ever built for a mortal. Enclosed by parks and pools, its mile-long colonnade crossed a main city thoroughfare, with walls clad in gold and pearls and ceilings on marble columns.
An American recounts crossing the ocean on the Fourth of July while the national holiday is celebrated with gusto aboard. A British sailor asks if the day marks Bull Run, and an American corrects him with a playful misreading, "not Bull Run John Bull Run."
A Philadelphia Record clipping quotes a tense exchange about money and influence. A savvy man notes a woman may sting more than money, underscoring streetwise psychology in a lowlife dialogue.
A mournful exchange as a husband learns his wife has died. The speaker reflects on faith and sorrow, noting the cradle hand has kicked the bucket in a concise, period-voice dressing.
A Chicago Record-Herald quote condemns taking another man s automobile and wrecking it beyond repair rather than returning it to a shop. The remark underscores courtesy in vehicle use and responsibility for damage.
A brief note from the London Family Herald stating a needle has a single eye yet presents a sharp appearance. The remark plays on the common notion of sharpness and eye count in familiar objects.
An advertised remedy claims indigestion is caused by fermenting food in the stomach. It touts MI-DNA as a guaranteed cure from Elam Ordway Hoover, offering Miona tablets at 50 cents a large box to relieve the worst gastritis.
A colored applicant for a butler post in a fashionable Philadelphia suburb tries to impress a prospective employer with civil service exam results. The employer notes this may not be directly useful, then highlights civil service as a rare virtue, and considers the man for engagement.
The excerpt recounts Babar becoming ruler of Ferghana at eleven, fleeing and reclaiming the throne after betrayal, losing it twice amid Mongol loot conflicts, and wandering for two years. He regains Ferghana before seventeen, dies 32 years later after a dramatic sacrifice for his son Humayun, noted by the London Spectator.
A Hungarian farmer’s son seeks a legal career but fails the exam. To avoid returning home empty handed he forges a diploma written on parchment kutya ber or dogskin. The father notes the shortage of kutya ber since there are more barristers than dogs in Hungary.
A dialogue notes soil quality and crop choices based on seed type. Native answers that results hinge on seed selected, while Tourist questions which crops are grown in the area.
The note lists events on various dates: death of James Quinn in 1766. 1800s conventions, births, and political shifts. 1829 Oscar II born. 1855 Atlantic storm. 1873 governor shift in Pennsylvania. 1887 Interstate Commerce Bill. 1892 Indianapolis surgical institute fire losses. 1908 Panama Canal dispute settlement with $1,600,000 payment.
The Franz Hals Museum in Haarlem preserves Hals memory with guild scenes alive in color and directness. The works reveal his power at eighty and invite reflection on Dutch painters’ harmony of values, atmosphere, and human life.
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