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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1901
Page
7
The Overland Monthly recounts how President Diaz offered amnesty in the 1870s to highway robbers who joined the rurales. The force, skilled in horsemanship and firearms, earned higher pay than cavalrymen and, under disciplined leadership, reduced brigandage and crime across Mexico.
A refreshment stand named The Haunted Swing will offer sandwiches crackers canned goods cake ice cream soda water lemonade milk shakes and more to patrons seeking snacks and drinks. The proposal highlights a broad menu and ready supply for visitors.
Southwestern timed solid passenger service showcases Pullman sleep cars from Birmingham to New York. Dining car meals served en route with Library Observation car Atlantia and accompanying coaches. Schedule includes connections from Chicago and Louisville with multiple daily departures and arrivals.
J K Taylor supervising architect states no danger of theft from the new mint vaults. He notes solid rock beneath the building and across the street floods any tunnel, with springs flooding openings. He describes massive steel vaults seven inches thick for gold and one inch for silver and mentions silver ingots in hallways secured only by tarpaulins.
The Montreal Star notes a Japanese paper claims a new island named Yanko was found between Ul song do near Korea and the Oki archipelago about 30 miles offshore. It is two miles by two, with trees, grass, inlets, and anchorage, discovered by a fisherman last year amid sea horse activity.
A New York Times Saturday Review item recounts Frank Stockton’s tale about a boy fishing. A gentleman asks the boy to speak plainer and the boy replies in a punty exchange about bait. The anecdote is labeled a new fish story in the piece.
The London Globe reports that in Russia a woman who wishes to study must marry a male student as a social rule. The civil union is legal and lasts while courses run, but is dissolved upon graduation if the partners choose. Both may then marry others if they wish.
A herd of 130 Angora goats in Illinois clears 1 800 acres near Decatur. The goats browse leaves buds and small shoots and work collectively to topple saplings by piling on trunks while others climb branches.
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