Council Meets Tonight at City Hall
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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1907
Page
5
W. F. VAN ARSDEL POLICE COURT CONVICTIONS AND REAL ESTATE NOTES
Police court fines total 13.50 for three defendants with two cases continued and one discharged. February 1 is the last day for paying poll taxes and voters are warned to act now. Real estate activity noted in Jacksonville with B N Milligan planning a brick building on a public square lot. Also notices about a 6 room $2,000 house by N Armstrong and local coal ads. Poll taxes paid reach 750, under 50 percent of those due. Onward Lodge No 254 IOF to meet January 25 with first degree work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
8. N. Milligan
Onward Lodge No
Buckwheat praise and a lucky local watch find
Competent judges hail Virginia buckwheat as the best in years with bulk prices at 6¢ a pound and sack rates of 65¢ 1.25 for 24 pounds. R O Watson offers coal or drug calls at 72. A Leighton Avenue youth, Charlie Ellis, 13, found his grandfather's watch after lanterns searched a pine straw bed, still running, a surprising tale of luck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Charlie Ellis
Leighton Avenue
Twenty-first Street
Dormouse Delicacies From Roman Banquets Revealed
A historical note traces dormice as a Roman delicacy from goby to garum times. It cites Bumbouseivergius as the sausage inventor and details dormouse dishes from soup to brown, with Petronius Arbiter noting dormice fattened by sleep and a poppy seed honey sauce said to induce sleep after meals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Tiberius
Bumbouseivergius
Petronius Arbiter
Gas Coke Delivers Clean Fuel at Low Price
Anniston Electric and Gas Co advertises gas coke at four fifty per ton delivered to grates and base burners. Delk 109 telephone line lists delivery service and contact details for customers seeking inexpensive, clean fuel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anniston Electric & Gas CO
Delk
Shonts Resigns as Isthmian Canal Chairman
Theodore P. Shonts resigns as chair of the Isthmian Canal Commission, accepted by the president, effective by March 4. Shonts will become president of the Interborough Metropolitan Company. Commission HQ will move to the isthmus, with Chief Engineer Stevens named chairman in addition to his duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Star
Washington
Theodore P. Shonts
Isthmian Canal Commission
Shonts
Interborough Metropolitan Company
New York
Isthmus
Stevens
London Banquet of 1582 Reveals Odd Dishes and Mock Fools
A Spanish visitor recalls a 1582 London banquet with strange foods and a midtable quaking custard scene as a fool leapt overhead. Guests feasted on unfamiliar meats and later took custard home. Wives sought costly delicacies, while 1601 satire notes high prices for cherries and peas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Will Quit Work in Gotham Slums
New York January 4 7 Phelps Stokes renounces life among East Side residents ending his plan to join New York 400. Rose Pastor Stokes also quits settlement work saying efforts fail against rich interests. They blame an unjust social system for persistent poverty and inequity and vow to promote awakening and reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Star
New York
Phelps Stokes
East Side
Stokes
S O
Rose Pastor Stokes
A Cat's Eyes Time Indicator in Chinese Legend
M Hue first learned of using a cat as a time cue in a Chinese mission tale. A party asked a youth to tell the time by a cat's eyes, which narrowed to noon and then dilated again, confirmed by locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Hue
Hue
Chicago Chronicle
Were there slaves in Scotland in early coal mining
A discussion of eighteenth and nineteenth century Scottish industrial life notes that coal miners endured servitude akin to slavery. A 1606 Scottish law bound workers to mines for life as necessary servants, with punishments for escape and sale of land carrying workers with it. A 1775 parliamentary act freed most pit workers, and the system gradually ended by century's end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Vermont's Two Seasons and Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens, confined by a severe cold in his Vermont Peacham home, receives a visitor, Lewis Clark, disguised in a long buffalo coat and fur cap. Clark urges Stevens to return to Vermont life, but Stevens says there are only two seasons here winter and late fall, reflecting Harper's Weekly framing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thaddeus Stevens
Vermont
Lewis Clark
Stevens
Peacham
Mr. Clark
Lewis
Mr. Stevens
Thad
Harper’s Weekly
Warmed by Their Perfume and Urban Heat Trapping
Dr. Jean Chalon finds aromatic plants with essential oils emit a perfume that creates a sun warmed atmosphere, trapping heat similarly to a greenhouse cover though less effectively. Professor Spring notes higher city temperatures likely partly due to carbon dioxide in the air acting as a heat trap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Chalon
Professor Spring
Leather spot removal using oxalic acid solution
A Philadelphia North American snippet advises using two or three oxalic acid crystals dissolved in warm water to treat spots on leather. Apply with cloth, watch for fading, then rinse with clear water to neutralize the acid and dry with a clean cloth. For bright leather, make the solution weaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
North American
Prince's Clever Wager Ends With Arrest Made Easy
A foreign prince, wearing ragged clothes, tried to get arrested within two hours without breaking any law. He ordered chocolate at a top Paris restaurant, paid with a large banknote, prompting staff to summon the police. The incognito prince was arrested and then released after explaining the ruse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imperial Club
New York Tribune
Right In His Line, Irate Father
An irate father challenges his daughter's six month engagement to an actor. The daughter defends the delay, noting her fiancé is fond of long engagements and urging patience.
The Crocodile Jaw Power Measured by Explorers
The article cites Sir Samuel Baker on crocodile jaw strength. A large hook bent by a bite and a seventy pound fish bitten through illustrate the force of a crocodile's snap. M Paul Bert measured a 120 pound crocodile closing with 308 pounds of force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Baker
M. Paul Bert
Coal sale ad from Montevallo with contact
An old advertisement promotes Montevallo coal available in quantity. It directs readers to call phone 72 and contact R. O. Watson for pricing and purchase arrangements.
Too Rapid Growth in Sermon Turns Child’s Query
A six year old, fixed on literal truth, questions his minister father after a Sunday sermon. He challenges the idea that "The boy of today is the man of tomorrow" as being too soon. The exchange reveals a child's frank critique of church discourse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Papa
Seasick passengers and a whale sighting in a diary
An exchange recalls a diary entry dated June 14 describing seasickness among passengers and a sighting of spouting whales. The humorous tone questions whether any passenger truly swallowed a whale, attributed to Abser Dobbs in Life magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abser Dobbs
Gas Cokr. The Cleanest, Cheapest and Moot Sat Burners
Anniston Electric & Gas Co offers reliable fuel burning devices with telephone access number 109. Local service advertises low prices and practical options for home heating and stoves.
Color blindness and its forms in daily life
The discussion explains that color blindness ranges from complete absence of color sense to partial deficiencies in red green or violet perception. The line between imperfect color vision and normal sight is unclear, with many people showing only a feeble color sense. It notes higher prevalence among less educated groups.
A Freak Maud S He’s Quite a Linguist
A New York Times excerpt notes Maud S described as linguist with eight tongues at her fingers, wonderment over her abilities and whether she works in a museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maud
Hill
New York Times
Paying Debts: A Costly Route to Credit
A concise remark notes that repaying debts is an expensive method to obtain commercial credit, highlighting that for most people without wealth, this remains the primary option. The quote underscores the harsh realities of credit access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puck
Real estate ad touts booming Ledbetter offers in Anniston
W G Ledbetter and company announce population growth and urge quick buys in many property types. Listings include lots on Teighton avenue near Oxiana, Noble street sites, a 5 room house on 25th and Wilmer, and suburban tracts of 20 to 30 acres with orchards and fruit trees. Agents claim Calhoun county farm land holdings from 20 to 1,000 acres. Kline Building, 1st Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anniston
Téighton Avenue
Oxiana
Harber Memorial College
Noble
25Th
Wilmer
Christine Avenue
16Th
Walnut
Ear Line
Calhoun County
W. G. Ledbetter & Cow Kline
Embalming Service In Alabama Branch Opened
The Trigg-Steele Co announces a new undertaking parlors branch with Milton P. Crowe in charge. Crowe is described as a leading, over twenty years trusted embalmer in Alabama. Members invite public inspection and offer day or night service via listed phones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton P. Crowe
Crowe
Alabama
Trigg-Steele CO
Mardi Gras Pullman Party Rates Contact L N B
Attendees urged to join special Pullman party for the Mardi Gras festival. Call early for rates or contact undersigned managers Bertha etc. H. P. Salter General Agent J. K. Lanning T. P. A. Phone 41.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. P. Salter
J. K. Lanning
Winter Tourist Tickets via Southern Railway Plan
Southern Railway announces round trip winter tourist tickets to Georgia Florida and Cuba from Oct 15 to Apr 30 with limited return until May 31 1907. Includes through sleeping car Anniston to Jacksonville leaving 6 25 p m. Rates schedules sleeper reservations apply to M H Bone D P A and M Coxwell D P A Birmingham Ala.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Railway
Georgia
Florida
Cuba
Anniston
Jacksonville
Fla
M. H. Bone
M. Coxwell
Birmingham
Ala
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Comer-Kennedy Co
Noble Street
10Th
O. H. Parker & CO
Security Bank Building
City News
W. F. van Arsdel
Will Bud
N. Armstrong
Sixth Street
Quintard Avenue
E. M. Lewis
Empire
Montevallo
Jellico
Onward Lodge
Sterne’s
R. O. Watson
Carre-Field Shoe CO
Will
Gotham
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Atlanta
Prince
Parin
Trury
Wales
Anniston Electrig & Gas CO Telephone
W. G. Ledbetter, W. G. Ledree
AL Mountain.& CO
New Orleans
Anniston Threatori
UM Company
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