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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1906
Page
5
City hall notes show Mayor Kilby presided over twelve cases this morning with the city securing 116 dollars and 50 cents. ten cases continued. An advertisement urges Prickly Ash Bitters for digestion and appetite. A Going Out of Business sale at Anniston Cash Store offers big bargains in ladies muslin underwear.
A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Snyder. Local ads promote Jelly Glasses at 30 cents a dozen from Anniston Trading Co ten cent store, Fern plants on sale, and shipping deals. Lee Pounds, white, faces a $53.90 fine in police court for soliciting labor. Postal Telegraph removes a pole on Noble Street and reroutes cable to the office. Mansfield’s Pasteurized Butter marketed as finest, 35 cents per pound.
A young Scottish man named Rob sought work as a diver. His first dive ended with panic when he bungled the escape valve, filling his dress with air and almost drowning. A second attempt nearly killed him as he repeated the mistake, losing consciousness. the tale concludes he was unsuited for diving.
An official recalls a private secretary who ignored a cabinet member then treated a patriarchal visitor with deference. The old man sat opposite and asked to wind the clocks, illustrating how recognition alters courtesy.
Tickets for round trip travel and reserve tickets to the lake theater are sold at the office of Anniston Electric and Gas Co at Tenth and Noble streets from 7 to 8 30.
In the examination season teachers share anecdotes of odd student papers. One boy defines shoemaking as injurious to health because it presses the thorax. A girl calls dust mud with the juice squeezed out, while a boy says a snake is a tail all the way to the head.
Agency claims to have secured the Monte Vallo coal deal with the hotline phone number 78. The brief note mentions Washom as part of the contact, suggesting trading or distribution arrangements.
Navy recruiters in the middle west offer promising routes into the service with training stations and clear paths from apprentice seaman at 16 dollars a month to chief petty officer at 70 to 85 dollars with rations and housing. Promotions depend on merit, with commissioned rank possible through study, and Lieut. H. B. Soule cited as an early example rising from apprentice class.
Senator Bacon of Georgia presented figures on the proposed Erie ship canal. Senator Whyte of Maryland, noting similar figures used in a 1881 Senate speech, offered to vouch for them as well, praising Bacon’s careful secretary who dug up the data.
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