Notable Visitors In From Surrounding Towns
Birmingham residents and visitors travel today as Mr. J Morris from Morrisville and Mr. J W Hawke from Piedmont arrive for business. Others include Mr. Vornee Green of Alexandria and W J Wingo of Mastaboga. Mr. A Ste Bell visits Birmingham while Mr. Berman returns from Atlanta and Mr. Carlton departs for Unsealoga tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Hawke
Piedmont
Kuniston
S Ee
Mr. Vornee Green
Alexandria
A. Ste Bell
Birmingham
Canned Beef Exports Fall After Packing News
Washington January 24. American canned beef export dropped about 40 million pounds in 1906 due to packing house disclosures. The department of commerce and labor reports shipments mainly to Great Britain, with reduced demand in Japan and England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apevial
the Star
Washington
Jnet Sping
Atiou
Department of Commerce and Labor
de Tronna Wie
Great Britain
Milk based galalith touted as ivory substitute
A Technical World Magazine excerpt extolls galalith made from milk as a versatile, durable ivory substitute. It highlights uses from knife handles to billard tables, notes its white grade fetches higher prices, and praises its durability, dye uptake, resistance to water and fire, and ease of shaping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Glen Fling
Technical World Magazine
Lament of a Clerk and a Quip on Hair Loss
A facetious clerk jokes about using a wastebasket for hair loss while a warning to obey orders precedes a Ruskin quote. The text asserts the larynx of man is about twice that of woman on average, yet women use theirs more than twice as much as men, balancing the difference.
Not Needed Ad Has Neat and Prevailing Opener
The fragment hints at a newspaper style where an agent remarks about the letter opener and a business manager confesses a personal status. It reads like an OCR fragment capturing dialogue about domestic life and a married state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mgu
Germany colonially laden election tests empire unity
Special to the Star from Merlin January 24 reports Germany's general election seen as a clash between the government and the Center party. The decisive question is whether the emperor will lead or the nation will govern itself, with Ultranomontane influence and Catholic support shaping potential upheaval and future crisis amid tax and agrarian tariff discontent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Btar
Merlin
Kaixer
Reichetag
Reichstag
Social Democrate
Vatican
Germany
Hall's Catarrh Cure sworn to by F J Cheney firm
Frank J. Cheney declares he is senior partner of F J Cheney & Co Toledo and that the firm will pay a hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Sworn December 6 1886 by notary A W Gleason. Cure taken internally and targets blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists 75 cents. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J
A. W. Gleason
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
German Legend of Freiburg Ghost and the Murdered Husband
In Freiburg a shoemaker died suddenly and was buried near a cross by an old chapel. His ghost warned that a wall in the temple concealed the crime. The wife confessed and was executed, and the skull was placed by the cross as a warning to Freiburg wives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freiburg
Baden
Barbers Through Antiquity and Tudor Laws
A short historical note traces barbering from fifth century B C Greece to third century B C Rome and medieval England where barbers and physicians were linked. It cites Henry VIII era rules restricting barber surgeons in London to tooth drawing and forbidding other procedures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greece
B. C
Rome
England
Henry VIII
London
You must hear that which hurts that you may gain that which profits
A terse motto about enduring discomfort to achieve profit, attributed to Selected. The line emphasizes disciplined listening as a path to gain, aligning with a moral or motivational tone.
Apron party and society notes at Parker church
A busy week features Miss Trixie Call hosting an apron party with twelve couples, prizes for best hemming by Arthur Sewell, and social games with refreshments. The column notes B Y P A devotionals, Glen Addie firemen’s hen party rumors, a D A R meeting, and local officials in Heflin and Cleburne county court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trixie G. Call
Arthur Sewell
Graves Jordan
Fannie
Corrie Porterfield
Emily Evans
Zora Call
Grace Forbes
Ada Keown
Trixie Call
Nellie Leyden
Shirley Williamson
Mary Powell
Annie Porterfield
Maud Couch
Mesdames
R. G. Lyman
W. H. Call
Messrs
Edward Sullivan
Harry Flynn
Charlie Porterfield
Wilmer Forbes
Howard Atwood
Eddie Call
Judson Keown
Clifford Powell
K. G. Lyman
W. Hf. Call
Aged Negro Farmer and Local Notices Across Town
A man described as Mulally, aged and blind in one eye, traveled from near Fishhead with a bale of cotton for sale. The piece also notes illness of Miss Lurene Goodhue and Mrs. Lizzie Morgan, visits by relatives, and local social mentions including guests of John H. Hall. A new baseball team forms in the city with plans for an oyster supper to fund activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mulally
Bill Mulally
Fishhead
J. Wear
D. C. Smith
Abel
A. B. Philpot and Son
Cedartown, Ga
City
John H. Hall
Gray Street
Two Handsome Funeral Cars At Murphy Rhody Company
Two elegant funeral cars received yesterday by Murphy Rhody Furniture Co from Crane-Breed Mfg Co Cincinnati. Cars boast modern conveniences including automatic brake and rubber covered rainy day seats. Heads and trimings, hammer cloth seat cover cost $75 and lamps $50. One car reserved for whites and the other for colored patrons, a first in Anniston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murphy & Rhody Furniture Company
Crane-Breed Manufacturing Company
Cincinnati
Anniston
Murphy- Rhody Company
Burglar with Shoe Firm Offer Wins Five Year Suspended Sentence
Special to the Star. A Russian burglar, Joseph Svacek, received a suspended five year sentence after a prior jail escape and a Maryland burglary term. He then boarded a train to New York to take a job with a shoe company offering $8,000 a year plus royalties. The company had been impressed by a perforating device Svacek invented in prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Star
Delaware
New York
Joseph Svacek
Maryland
Svacek
Strawberry crop killed in Decatur area bloom noted
Special to the Ster reports the strawberry crop in the Decatur area is believed killed as many plants have been blooming for days. Some peach trees have bloomed too, but peaches are not yet believed damaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Oddities in Graves at Prestbury and Westminster
A London Chronicle item notes curious gravestones: a Somerset woman died a bachelor in 1703 aged 47. A Westminster Abbey stone marks George Graham, the clockmaker who invented the deadbeat escapement in 1700, honored by the Royal Society. East Ham tombstone recalls a woman buried cross. Legends place Noah’s tomb near Mount Ararat, 60 feet long, or a niche in a fortress wall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prestbury
England
Sarah Pickford
Westminster Abbey
George Graham
Royal Society
East Ham
Cross
Noah
Nakhitchevan
Mount Ararat
London Chronicle
Notice to stockholders Calhoun Home Building Co meeting
A stockholders meeting will be held at the company office corner Tenth and Noble streets at 3 p m Monday February 4 1907 to vote on increasing capital stock from 10000 paid in to an authorized 50000 and to elect additional directors and conduct other business as proper. W F Johnston secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calhoun Home Building Company
Tenth and
Noble Streets
W. F. Johston
Calhoun Home Building invites investors to meeting
Investors are invited to a meeting of the present stockholders of the Calhoun Home Building Company where plans and purposes will be explained. The notice promises a chance to invest in a home enterprise offering a good paying and safe investment opportunity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calhoun Home Building Company
Calhoun Home Building
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Momus
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J. W. Porter
Alabama Today
Mr. J. & Morris
Morrisville
W. J. Wingo
Mastaboga
Mr. ¥. Berman
Atlanta
Mr. Atharles W. Carlton
Mr. Uc, M. Watson
Hurt
W. Coc. Ledrande
Iad
Japan
Ious
Ruskin
All Grocers
GLR
van Election
Barbers
Miss Lehman
Parker Memorial Baptist Church
Glen Addie
Cer
Glen Addie Hose Company
Bienville
Walter A. Robinson
H. D. McCarty
Hugh D. Merrill
Cleburne County Court
Heflin
Howard W. Sexton
New York City
Oxford News
Lurene Goodhue
Gadsden
Davis’ Infirmary
Magic City
A. F. Bullard
E. A. Walker & C9
Lizzie Morgan
Elon Walker
White Plains
Mims & Co
Oxford
Julia Ward
Anniston Evening Peasa
Evening Star
the Anniston Republic
No. 68
Rebbe
W. F. Clarke
Murphy & Rhody Furniture Co
Job With Shoe Co
EFAS
Jurit
Bradfield Regulator Co
Oss
Cater rGrocery Co. Phone
W. F. Johnston
Sec’y
DERS
W. D. New
Montevallo
RB. O. Watson
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