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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1901
Page
6
A sales offer promises high quality piano or organ purchases with low prices and easy monthly or yearly payments. The notice touts no risk and a personal letter explaining prices, targeting customers in remote cities or villages across the United States amid overstocking.
Special inducements to reduce our stock. We guarantee satisfaction or the instrument may be returned at our expense for railway freights both ways. Your old piano taken as payment if you wish, Let us explain.
A Richmond Dispatch piece recounts the birth of long railroads in the South, recounting public fear of locomotives, anecdotes from observers like Samuel C. Clarke of Georgia, and the first primitive wooden railroads with piles and grooves. It notes the Charleston and Hamburg road as a precursor, and mentions John Hartman and Jobin Williams in the wooden rail debate.
A London Truth editorial mocks carpets as filthy in rich English or French houses. It notes customs like slippers or footbaths in mosques and criticizes servants sweeping carpets as unthoughtful. It links carpeted roots to floureps causing diseases.
An art dealer confirms a painting is by a classical master while a gallery visitor is warned not to touch the piece with an umbrella. The scene centers on a tense but polite exchange about provenance and care.
A detailed description of the honeybee mouthparts and feeding action. It explains the proboscis structure as two slender tongues with telescoping extension, hairy rings for nectar handling, and how the bee pumps nectar into the mouth and honey sac. Period-appropriate tone and vivid mechanism notes.
A collection of aphorisms on truth and manners from the Atchison Globe and New York Sun, followed by a note on Militia officers in New York from Clark's History. It contrasts social scrutiny of boarding houses with cautionary civic topics and traces the shift from appointment to elected military leadership after 1825. The 1823 and 1824 officer elections featured ceremony with officers in full uniform.
Willie Washington admits proposing to Miss Chillers and explains his fear she would hear about prior proposals from others. He notes an old saying that women can't keep secrets and he didn't want her to feel slighted.
Mrs Jones confronts Mrs Shinbone over a dog bite on Wille a child recently recovering from scarlet fever. The exchange hints at potential consequences if Fide is harmed, signaling rising tension between families.
A writ from Anniston Alabama court orders sale of real estate described by townships and ranges in Calhoun County including sections 81 6 34 85 35 and 88 plus personal property such as a black horse buggy and a cow. The sale to satisfy a Tredegar National Bank judgment occurs Monday July 29 1901 at the Calhoun County Courthouse, Anniston. Sheriff M W Wooprverr signs the notice.
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