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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1907
Page
8
The report lists barometer 30.55 at 7 a.m. temperature 26 with zero precipitation. Wind southeast at 1 mile per hour. Highest temp 56 at 2 p.m. Lowest 26 at 7 a.m. Weather clear. forecast fair tonight and Wednesday.
A clipped ad urges readers to visit J. L Wikle's drug store to obtain a free sample of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. The copy promotes the tablets as superior to pills, easier to take, with a pleasent effect and claims they correct disorders of the stomach liver and bowels.
An elderly woman mishears a cabby at Liverpool Street Station. He laughs at her fear for his horse's bad knee and insists the horse is prayerful and hopeful for a copper to ease fare. The exchange mixes dialect and humor as the old master groans at dwindling faith.
A medical man says ovens cause more dyspepsia than any other household device. Baking is easier than roasting and the spit dog is nearly extinct. Food cooked in confinement may digest poorly compared to open-fire cooking where gases escape.
The note cites M Linquet de la Baetilieta’s 1783 suit over a prospectus from Correspondence Secreto about a distant talking device via tubes and public dialogue. It references Charles Bourseul’s 1854 Illustration paper proposing vibrating plates and a battery as the basis for telephony, suggesting Bourseul’s claim to telephonic honors.
Frank J Cheney sworn as senior partner of F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio promises one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason attests December 6 1886. Cure taken internally claims to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists 75 cents. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A Central Christian Advocate quotation features a prosperous farmer who explains that moderate drinking would waste an acre of good land yearly, prompting him to quit drinking entirely. The speaker contrasts alcohol use with prudent land stewardship and financial restraint.
The war office has long discouraged inventors while guarding a special stance toward one who coats a soldier’s coat. General Shrapnell, creator of the eponymous projectile, faced hardship after spending thousands on his invention, while the London Regiment emerges in the tale.
A fragmentary children's tale recalls Uncle John giving a good little boy a quarter as a simple moral. The brief exchange ends with the boy’s contentment and a closing moment of kindness.
Fragmentary OCR note appears unreadable. No clear names places events or dates emerge to form a meaningful summary.
A mother forbids her daughter from social gayety and the daughter replies she must see the folly for herself. The exchange illustrates youth questioning age’s warnings, captured in a London Lady voice.
Dialogue between Mr Misfit and Mrs Misfit hints at a past decision and marriage sentiment in a fragmentary Los Angeles News item, depicting tense exchanges and wistful conditional statements across a local gossip snippet.
Special to the Atlas reports Alabama progress in 21 new corporations and major projects. The Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index cites a $250,000 residence, a cotton mill expanding capital stock to $750,000, mine openings, cement plants, bridges, paving, schools, banks, warehouses, grain mills, fertilizer plants, glass factories, and electric light and water systems across Anniston, North Birmingham, Ensley, Mobile, Gadsden, Decatur, Andalusia, Attalla, and Laverne, with widespread construction and business development.
A small Austrian watering place Eichwald holds a remarkable church. Built in Venice by a Malian architect for Prince Carlos Clary Aldringes, it was shipped in thousands of numbered cases to Eichwald where it was rebuilt and presented to residents as the prince’s gift.
In a sharp exchange Bess objects to a fiancé who says she should abandon novels for something more substantial. He insists a reader can be improved, prompting a bitter if humorous clash over personal growth and pride.
Sallie Van Wyck of the Anderson driving club in Atlanta praises Vinol for curing a severe cold and cough without stomach upset and claims it strengthened her health. Scarbrough Drug Co. touts Vinol as superior to other cod liver oils, promises refunds if no benefit, and notes Vinol is sold in Anniston and nationwide.
A dialogue features a daughter noting Julius Caesar as one of history's strongest men who supposedly threw a bridge over the Rhine, prompting the father's puzzled question and the daughter's clarification.
A Baltimore American reflection notes that if love and faith spoken on tombstones were spoken daily they would ease life’s briery fields and rocky roads, urging steadiness and virtue in everyday conduct.
The Hill Gladden and Allen Swanson trial in police court concluded with Swanson convicted of bicycle theft from Tom Durgan, a black porter at Lloyd's drug store. Swanson fined $43.30. Gladden declared innocent. The bicycle, valued at $10, was returned to the owner.
Personal item reports Mr John Stillwell of Birmingham, brother in law of Judge Hl D McCarty, was in the city yesterday. It notes Mrs W H Jackson and her son Donald leaving for Talladega to be guests of Mrs T L Bellingrath for several days.
A Sunday fire at Newbern Hale County destroyed three brick stores starting in Pollard Bros. and quickly spreading to J R and W M Carothers and W R Tubbs Co. Loss estimated at 50000 dollars. Pollard Bros. insured. Carothers and Tubbs policies expired last Tuesday.
The store advertises 25¢ to 2 yard band patterns for shirt waists and flouncings, 45 inch French lingerie lawn at 15c, and new cotton suitings in tan black and white plaids at 25¢. It touts linen lace, Swiss edging, black chiffon taffeta up to 1.29, and a strong note on black silk, plus lingerie styles in lawn and silk waists from 98c to 3.50 and Japanese silk 1.50 to 4.50.
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