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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1902
Page
6
Purkinje notes a simple night time lab demonstration in a dark room using a moving light to make the retina's veins and vessels appear in relief against a reddish field. The central trunk shows where the optic nerve enters, illustrating that light perception parts lie behind the blood vessels as shadows on the retina.
The Denver Times reports Governor Bob Taylor, described with tender regard, defied a legislative committee urging a halt to pardons. He ordered his pardon clerk to prepare pardons for every inmate, declaring his constitutional right to pardon and warning the committee against interference.
In Boston a frail John Quincy Adams, at eighty, greets an old friend and notes his home is dilapidated and nearly uninhabitable. He reassures that the former president himself remains well and proceeds with his accompanying staff.
The late Lord Queensberry interrupted a Tennyson performance review with a dramatic protest. He visited a society journal office carrying a heavy whip, demanded the editor, and faced an aged woman who lectured him before they agreed to discuss the matter calmly recalling the Queensberry rules.
The Duc de Roquelaure, far from handsome, meets an ugly Auvergnat bearing a petition. He brings the man to Louis XIV and claims a special obligation to him. The king grants the favor and asks why, and the duke replies the man would make him the ugliest in the realm without him.
A mother calls her child to notice the pale moon visible in the early afternoon. The boy doubts daytime moon sighting but finally admits the sight, noting it seemed not lighted. The exchange captures a playful moment of child logic about natural phenomena.
A playful exchange debates marriage partners based on hair parting styles. He vows never to wed a woman who parts her hair on the side, while Ste echoes a similar rule against Li marrying a man who parts his hair in the middle. The room falls to silence as the banter ends.
A dialogue fragment shows a speaker lamenting shrinking memory and asking Vickers for a loan of ten dollars for roughly thirty days, illustrating personal financial strain and trust issues in a brief exchange.
A nervous speaker asks if the hotel rocks are the only lodging option, while the proprietor hints a graveyard as an alternative. The fragmentary text includes garbled phrases and names, suggesting a corrupted or oblique news snippet with unclear context and potential railway or city references.
The notice lists women’s footwear including patent leather Oxford ties, strap sandals, vici kid, and tan Russia options at 95e per pair. Prices rise to 1.95 for higher grade five patent kid designs with flexible soles, and 1.50 for tan oxfords with welted or stitched soles.
In a small town a shiftless man faces his comeuppance after his wife leaves him, taking everything. He returns home to find the house stripped bare except for a white mug in the center of the floor bearing the words Think of me.
A New York newspaper claim suggests Americans think faster and more to the point due to reading, especially newspapers, while asserting books and magazines shape later refinement. The piece credits newspapers with setting initial pace and inspiring push and pluck through daily journalism.
In a Chicago Tribune excerpt a museum ornithology department shows two Labrador ducks bought for $1,000. The visitor jokes about their value and odor while learning these birds were shot in 1856 and are now extinct.
A. H. Davis of Mt. Sterling Iowa says two bottles of Foley's Kidney Cure cured his two year kidney ailment. The statement stems from McElsrath Drug Co. and reflects product claims aimed at promoting the remedy.
Licenses for the last half of 1902 are due and will be delinquent after July 15. Delinquent parties will be summoned and costs added. City Tax Collector C. L. Queyn issues the notice.
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