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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1907
Page
4
The June 1907 issue shows daily editions with a total printed count of 56,450 and an actual daily average of 2,254. The statement affirms the figures are true to the best knowledge of the General Manager B. E. McKer and is sworn before Notary B. W. Ledbetter on July 1, 1907.
The Evening Star offers home delivery by mail and asks customers to notify the Star office when they move and provide the new mailing address for continued service. Telephone numbers are listed for contact.
Readers who miss the Evening Star are urged to notify the Star office immediately. The notice promises quick remedy and asks patrons not to wait for the next day to report a failure to receive the paper.
Anniston faces growing wagon yard and camping shortages as city growth and improvements crowd space for country patrons. Businessmen and visitors complain they lack hitching spots and feel unwelcome, despite earlier efforts to provide accommodations. The note ends with a sharp aside questioning a news item about Central America.
The piece recalls old Texas Siftings humor about West Texas justices and lawmakers. Outsiders note residents often chose the legislature, even if sentencing men to jail or legislature was the lesser evil.
The speaker defends the profession of arms as honorable and necessary for law and order while acknowledging peace efforts. He praises soldiers and sailors for humanity and sacrifice, argues defense is needed amid unrest, and supports Hague conferences to limit war and promote arbitration. He believes true peace awaits a dominion of Christ on earth.
Reports from Calgary and Ottawa detail the opening of an irrigation convention for Western Canada, a trans Mississippi golf tournament in Davenport, trials for Canada's cup challengers near Toronto with substantial prize money, the Army and Navy Union encampment in Washington, and the Masonic Grand Lodge jubilee preparations in Ottawa with about one thousand delegates expected.
President C. P. F. Thwing of Western Reserve University argues the college trains men for international arbitration through self restraint. He says self restraint, calmness, humility, and reticence shape a gentleman who can arbitrate, and such training strengthens the arbitration cause.
Timeline of historical events from 1134 Moors defeat Spaniards at Praga to 1893 London fire causing 7.5 million dollars in losses. Includes 1619 East Indies trade treaty, 1707 Toulon assault, 1763 Astor birth, 1821 Lachine Canal begun, 1862 Glaisher balloon ascent, 1870 Franco Prussian War start, and Paraguay independence recognition.
An old advertisement touts a single dose bowel aid named Deans Regulats priced at 25 cents per box. It promotes mild action and claims to cure habitual constipation and urges readers to ask their druggist for them.
An aged Scottish widow, unable to buy a drink, asks her granddaughter to fetch whiskey from Donald McCallum. He refuses without cash, prompting the grandmother to offer the family Bible as payment. The tale ends with the Bible rejected as security and the man declining both her word and the Bible for a gill or whisky.
A clergyman rebukes Mr. Smith for passing a counterfeit two dollar bill in the missionary collection this morning. Smith admits the offense, saying he bears a grudge against heathens who wronged a missionary uncle years ago.
Stockholm honors the tenth anniversary of Andre's ill fated North Pole ascent with a memorial designed by Eric Kindberg. The bas relief depicts Sweden watching the departing adventurers Fraenkel and Steinberg as cheers rise from a group of youths and a patriarch scans the horizon.
Heavy impure blood is said to cause a muddy complexion headaches and digestive issues. Thin blood allegedly weakens the body and causes pale sickly appearance. Burdock Blood Bitters are advertised to enrich the blood and restore health.
The first Kentucky line and first completed west of the Alleghenies, the Lexington and Ohio, began in October 1831 at Lexington and reached Frankfort in December 1835. It used iron rails on stone sleepers, marking a historic advance in early American rail travel.
One hundred dollars reward for an uncured case of catarrh through Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio praised by Walding Kinnan Marvin wholesale druggists. Cure taken internally and claimed to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A jesting friend asks for a subject and receives The king as the topic. The retort, The king is no subject, triggers a instant witticism about language.
The article traces common mint origins from Greek myth to Roman naming. It notes Menthe as the young woman transformed by a jealous deity, shaping a herb now central to drugs, confections, and cafe culture.
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