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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1901
Page
6
An advertisement offers piano or organ purchases on easy monthly or yearly installments with low prices and no risk. The seller emphasizes nationwide delivery, a personal letter with catalog and prices, and an invitation to order despite being overstocked.
Piano dealer offers to reduce stock and guarantee satisfaction or repay freight costs both ways. Option to return instrument at dealer expense. Old pianos accepted as payment and explanation offered.
The state offers a life certificate program for teachers through iNp ioma. Demand for graduates exceeds supply. The board approves 88 per month for applicants. The program begins its nineteenth year on October 11, 1901. Address for the catalog is provided.
A fragment from a Washington Post style piece recounts a diminutive man boarding a west bound street car at Sixth Street and the avenue. A large woman sits beside him, he sneezes, she offers room, and onlookers laugh as he exits at a hotel. The column blends quips and brief jests from magazines and papers.
A hunter recounts discovering four mountain lions sleeping in a sunlit ravine while foraging for meat. He froze, felt his hair stand on end, and watched the animals turn and retreat after showing aggression. He fled to camp and avoided hunting that day. The tale comes from the St. Louis Republic.
A description of the children’s toy game using slate bits shells or stones to skim a pond. The aim is to rebound the object multiple times, with terms used for different rebounds and a winning condition based on the rebound count. Also notes a peculiar tribe along the Purus River in South America that is mottled black and white and subsists largely on fish.
A sheriff sale is scheduled in Anniston Calhoun County Alabama to satisfy a judgment in favor of Tredegar National Bank against J A Cresswell. The land described in sections 31 15 6 6 6 34 35 15 5 and other parcels will be sold at public auction on Monday July 29 1901 at the courthouse front door during legal hours. Personal property including a black horse mule buggy a black cow and a yearling will also be exposed for sale.
A boy named Abel Roberts in Liamcton England earned an honor for never missing a school day across ten years and nine months from age three in 1880s. He attended infants then seniors with perfect punctuality, never absent due to illness.
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