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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1906
Page
2
Oxford reports guests from Oklahoma and Birmingham visiting local families on Gray street and Pearmanville. Lions Club style officers named and plans noted for lodge meeting and the Oxford lodge L O O F session tonight. Gordon Memorial Camp U C V admits two new members as Confederate veterans and local dog show excitement grows.
The case against Cleve and Don Holcombe was postponed from yesterday and set for tomorrow at 9 o’clock. J J Sparks of Sparkesville reports flouring conditions in the nearby settlement as thriving. Joshua Draper notes first home grown grapes of the black giant variety with large bunches and excellent flavor. Mr and Mrs Ross Davenport and Master Floyd Werbest visit Dr and Mrs Fermor Staples at Heflin.
The Oxford delegation at the Anniston College recital performed with distinction and earned praise from attendees. Mrs. Joseph Aderhold learns her brother Judge L B Chastain of Cuthbert Ga is critically ill with little hope of recovery, drawing sympathy from Oxford friends. Mrs. Moore and her children arrive from South Carolina to stay with Mrs. Reed and other Oxford friends for part of the summer, joined by a visiting young cousin.
Bay at Gwins Bay at J P F Wright has returned from visit to Lamar. Mrs Wright and children are home after staying with friends in the country. Farmers Union Beat 13 holds semi monthly meeting in Oxford on Saturday July 14. All members are requested to attend.
During summer months children suffer bowel disorders requiring prompt care at first looseness. Cham berlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is recommended for rapid control. Sold by J L Wikle.
A naturalist found snails revived after years of dormancy when warmed water revived specimens mounted on a card and others left loose in a drawer. The shells, previously thought dead, showed life again as they crawled in tepid water.
The island of Ascension in the Atlantic is the sole property of the British Admiralty and listed as a vessel. It is treated as a tender to a Royal Navy ship, governed by naval officers, with personnel under shipboard rules and no private land ownership or taxes.
E B Curtis sketches Red Cloud a living legend of the Sioux at Pine Ridge. Ninety one years old, blind and almost deaf, he recalls the days before white settlement and the great battles like Fetterman as his people fade from memory.
Alaska remains a vast frontier with growing railroad construction that could transform isolated hamlets into towns. Rail routes lure travelers to gold fields, while many settlements stay small and uncertain. Congress has neglected Alaska and schools struggle, hindering homeseekers, though commercial prospects look promising despite unfulfilled arctic dreams.
In Hungary a son is accused of fraud after servants testified to an ancestral will heard as a voice from a dying father. Investigators later revealed the phonograph record captured the supposed wishes, exposing Alois as the likely speaker and triggering formal charges of fraud.
The French set a comprehensive alimentary law to curb adulteration and to prevent imitation of foods with reputations. It covers not only products but also localities, forbidding selling a cheese or a wire as from a place unless actually made there.
After a large blaze in San Francisco, residents on Russian Hill used backyards as makeshift burials for household items. The International hotel clerk buried trunks bedding and furniture in a ten by ten foot pit on a sloping bank behind his home. The fire swept away the building, yet buried items remained intact and odorless under a foot of earth, preserving thousands of dollars in valuables.
The International Association for Testing Materials will meet in Brussels at the Academy of Science from September 4 to 8. The King of Belgium grants patronage with Prince Albert as honorary president. other honorary presidents include ministers of finance railways war trade and the Brussels mayor.
Mrs Jennie Duncan of Haynesville Me aged 70 reports Electric Bitters cured her chronic dyspepsia of 20 years and left her feeling strong. The tonic claims to cure stomach liver and blood disorders as well as general debility. Sold with guarantee at West End Drug Co Elam Ordway Houser. Price 50 cents.
A large blacksnake blocked the Perkinmen railroad near Zionsville a few miles north of here. The snake reared and struck at a moving locomotive and was killed when the wheels crushed its body as an extra freight passed.
Researchers report that telegraph poles made from paper pulp are cast into hollow rods with a central core. The hollow paper poles are claimed to be lighter and stronger than wooden poles and resistant to sun, rain, and dampness that shorten wood life.
A fragment notes a discussion on past possibilities versus current state and future potential. It frames speculation as foolish while urging focus on present conditions and what can be made in the future. Medical Talk comments on practical outcomes over hypothetical pasts.
Mrs. Grant Shy of Springfield Illinois says Bucklen's Arnica Salve is an absolute housekeeping necessity. It guarantees to cure cuts wounds burns sores and all skin eruptions per West End Drug Co. and Elam Ordway Houser.
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