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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1901
Page
6
An advertise ment touts high quality piano or organ sales with easy monthly or yearly payments. The offer claims lowest prices and mail order access even to distant U S towns, noting they are not overly stocked and urge inquiries for a catalogue and personal letter.
Trade offers to reduce stock with a satisfaction guarantee and free outward and return freight for rail shipments. The note mentions accepting old pianos on payment plans and invites explanation of terms.
The Australian commonwealth posted last year a total product value of 550 million dollars, with pastoral 150 million, agricultural 140 million, minerals 100 million, and manufacturing 160 million. Wool from 120 million sheep totaled 100 million, while gold and silver output over periods added hundreds of millions, highlighting Australia's rich resource base.
Private cars have risen in use, offering greater luxury at lower costs. Some designs suit small parties with large compartments, private beds, baths, and dining rooms. Rental ranges from 25 to 50 dollars daily, with hotel cars the priciest. A buffet-equipped private car goes for about 30 dollars per day.
The article notes General Diaz prioritizes professionalizing Mexico's army with the Chapultepec military school. Foreign officers visiting deem it among the best for comprehensive instruction and strict discipline, shaping capable officers.
A Baltimore Herald quotation notes that the New York subtreasury receives hundreds of counterfeit cents. It uses the example of a Yankee who carved wooden nutmegs to lampoon how illegitimate genius might gain fame if redirected to legitimate work.
The text lists judges appointed by presidents from Harrison to McKinley. Harrison had Brown Brewer and Shiras. Cleveland had Fuller White and Peckham. Hayes Arthur and McKinley each had one appointee, Harlan Gray and McKenna respectively.
The medical students at Syracuse University in New York have adopted a college yell nickname and chant phrases including Wet 4 y Bickman and What Is Be OS Fibers, expressing school spirit and unity in the medical program.
May Irwin, resting at her seaside retreat among the Thousand Islands, describes cooking as akin to play. She notes she buys cookbooks, tests recipes on friends, and aims to tailor dishes to taste, with a specialty in hot dishes and a kitchen improvisation mindset.
The Argonaut reports an engineer of a fast freight line warned by President Underwood of the RCE Railroad about a deaf elderly woman who used a track shortcut. After several near misses the engineer threatened drastic harm, then later confessed he had finally run her down while she walked to a summer hotel to sell baskets and embroidery.
A Philadelphia Record note describes a bay horse owned by a Roxborough grocer with a distinctive white forehead mark resembling a closed umbrella. When wet in rain the hairs part and reveal an open umbrella shape, turning the ferrule into the handle and vice versa, a curious natural phenomenon praised by the owner.
A shy damsel the unens pecting youth escorted to a restaurant ordered nearly all the menu but bread and butter. She then told him she was not hungry, prompting the young man to wonder aloud if she was acting on a bet as he counted the $1.30 in his vest.
John Davis was found dead on Wheeling streets and pronounced by two doctors as died of heart failure. A coroner's jury ruled the death natural but, after revival in transit, he sang the Doxology. He was later fined $5 for drunkenness. doctors and jury not tried.
Sven Hedin’s Tibet explorations reveal a vast saline sea with crystal crusts on its surface. The body is intensely salty, with oars coating in crystals when placed in the water, and the sea's red hue described as a single large salt crust.
Elegant parlor observation and cafe dining cars operate between Memphis Tennessee and Atlanta Georgia. Depart Memphis 8 16 p m via K C M B R R arrive Atlanta 10 15 p m via Birmingham and Southern Railway No 36. Return Atlanta 6 a m arrive Memphis 8 05 p m using Southern Railway No 35 to Birmingham then K C M B R R to Memphis. Through service supplements Pullman sleeping cars between Atlanta and Memphis departing Memphis 9 10 p m arriving Atlanta 11 30 p m.
Pan American Exposition in Buffalo offers greatly reduced return tickets. For details contact C. E. Jackson TPA Birmingham Alabama or C. A. Benscover AGP Chattanooga Tennessee. Choctaw Route adds three daily trains Memphis to Hot Springs Effective October 7 with service to Indian and Oklahoma Territories and connections to Southwest Missouri Kansas Texas and the West.
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