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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1901
Page
6
A piano sales pitch promises high quality instruments at low prices with flexible monthly or yearly payments. The offer targets any United States resident, stressing overstock and inviting inquiries with a personal letter detailing lowest prices and buying steps.
Special inducements to reduce our stock clear out piano sale policy. 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 will. Let us explain.
The excerpt blends humorous anecdotes from past newspapers. It recalls an emperor visiting a ship where cadets slept under bright lights and joked they slept as well there as at home. It includes a Cannon anecdote about handling a roasted inquiry from an opposition paper and a note on how Longfellow’s song came to be written through a sudden inspiration after a cold night.
A compact collage of vignettes from Emerson on heroism and duty. Waldo’s brave walk home alone after a rescue offer, Prince Edward’s vow to be a doctor, elephants resisting work until the bell, and a classroom quip about spelling reveal quaint moral anecdotes and childlike insights.
In a playful verse from St Nicholas, General Yellowbill plots a mock goose unrest to scare visiting city Misses. Bess clings to Papa while Little Sis remains brave, calling the geese game goosies as the cousins plead to postpone.
An execution from Anniston city court in Calhoun County directs sale of J A Cresswell's land in sections within townships 15 26 6 and 5 along with described parcels in Calhoun County Alabama plus personal property including a black horse mule buggy and a yearling. The sale is at the courthouse steps Monday July 29 1901 during legal hours. Sheriff M W Wooprerr notes the sale date and location.
Southern Railway announces summer tourist rates from June 1 to September 30 to popular resorts across the Southeast including Asheville Black Mountain Brevard Lookout Mountain Virginia Beach and More. For rates and schedules write R E Jackson T P A Birmingham or A Benscoter AGP A Chattanooga Tenn.
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