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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1901
Page
6
Jackson vill e Alabama reports a call to prepare teachers with a life certificate. Demand for graduates exceeds supply. Board offers eight dollars per month for tuition free. Eighteenth year session begins September 11 1900. For catalogue address GC W Daugette, resident.
A sheriff sale order from Anniston Alabama orders public auction of Sun Pressed Brick Company assets including six thousand red pressed bricks and eight hundred earthenware jars. The sale of all rights and property, held by Superior Brick Company, will occur near the depot town in Brickford during the designated sale hours. Local official M W Wooprerr serves as sheriff.
By virtue of an execution out of the circuit court at Aniston Calhoun county Alabama T W Ayers factor Hurter John Bb fare W T Edmondson for Suni of 8500.00 and costs the sale will proceed on the 71st day of January at the courthouse door in Aniston between legal hours of sale to the highest bidder the described property levied as the property of L Py ee town B34 of an ft avdept of section 6 township 14 east containing 160 acres in Calhoun county Anniston December MW Woopevrr Sheriff Calhoun County Alabama
Mrs Gallup believes she has three days to live and warns her husband Samuel about home repairs and a second wife while he reads a pamphlet praising the Wiggins washing machine. The scene mixes humor and morbid fate with domestic chores and inventor praise.
Storied curse linked to the Browne family and Cowdray ruins in Sussex traces back to monastic times with drownings and fires said to purge the lineage. The piece bundles historical myth with Victorian anecdotes and literary quips across scattered references.
An engineer explains the costly process of launching large warships with lubricants and timing, noting costs from a few hundred dollars for torpedo boats to four to five thousand dollars for battleships. A New Orleans Times Democrat piece follows, describing a Liverpool harbor fog scene with missionaries aboard a liner bound for Bombay and a Birmingham passenger’s ironic zeal, plus a note on Diomede Island near Russia and Alaska and Eskimo youths learning in mission schools.
A jumble of quoted lines and remarks. It mentions a bore and spending an evening talking to each other. London Fun contrasts pride and humiliation with a fiver refused. Chicago News compares Dead Sea waters to Salt Lake’s relative freshness.
The poem spoken by Winifred Patton in Spectator laments distant homeland and broken heart as a wind from the sea stirs old sorrows. The speaker longs for freedom from roaming and recalls heath clad hills and the scent of home.
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