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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1900
Page
3
An amateur golfer tells how luck thwarted reclaiming a lost watch after finding a notice in a skate house. A fire struck the skate house at five in the morning, destroying the notice and leaving no trace of the watch’s owner. The tale includes a wry comment on fate and Sunday golf.
The itemized notes cover Pittsburgh banning street peddling of theater tickets, Baltimore seeking a fire department search light, Chicago inmates to farm flowers for market, Triangle Texas town layout, Tacoma using sea water for street sprinkling, and remarks on water sources at the White House. Additional items reference immigrant labor conditions, Avon New York Italians under control, Anniston Carpet Mills worker ads, and real estate and business notices from Anniston.
Within the last 18 years 8,670,120 miles have been added to the colonial empire of the great colonizing powers. The total, not including Egypt nor the Sudan, is as follows: Great Britain France Germany Russia United States Netherlands. (Fragmentary OCR text with missing and garbled portions.)
Ex Speaker Reed cites Paris transit woes in Saturday Evening Post series on Paris and French justice. The article, quoting the French capital with over 3,000,000 residents, notes the city’s transportation facilities as a prime example of contrasting habits between Americans and the French.
A glossary of Boer and South African War terms with pronunciations. It defines words such as Afrikander, Berg, Biltong, Boer, Burgher, Commando, Donga, Dop, Dopper, Dorp, Etshowe, Gaberones, Geldenhuis, Gorqualand West, Kantoor, Klip, Kloof, Komati Poort, Kopje, Kraal, Krantz, Laager, Mealies, Nek, Oorlog, Palapsewe, Pan, Pont, Poort, Ramathlabama, Rooinek, Schuia's Loogte, Sluit, Spruit, Taal, Trek, Witlander, Vereeniging, Vierkleur, Viel, Voorlooper, Voortrekker, Zirp and related terms.
Hercules Iron and Supply Co expanding its Anniston plant under President Weeden. Four new pipe floors completed this week to house more workers as machinery and buildings are upgraded. Supt. Ross advertises for workers on the pen pipe floors with ten percent higher wages.
The post office department ordered carrier registration in twenty five more towns and cities but did not name any Alabama towns. Anniston remains the only Alabama city with the improved registration service. The experiment here is proving successful as letter registrations rise daily and residents find the new system convenient.
Call on A. R. Noble & Co to buy or sell and visit Model City Restaurant at No. 18 West Tenth Street for fish oysters and game offerings.
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