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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1907
Page
5
A local ad invites customers to visit Jewel and Optician at 1111 Noble Street to get prescription lenses described as the finest, promising relief from headaches by proper eyewear fitting.
Essy Burks was fined $52.70 by Recorder Greene after a conviction for conduct exceedingly disorderly and a separate $102.70 fine for carrying a concealed pistol. Beginning July 20 through September 28, L and N Railway offers weekend excursion tickets Aniston to Talladega Springs for $1.75 round trip, on sale Saturdays with return Monday. Model Ice Company delivers good ice promptly, phone 59.
In a New Zealand town a municipal candidate, famed for his Scots identity, was given a colossal Scotch thistle resting on his committee room table. A feud participant abruptly withdrew saying, I beg your pardon I didn't know you were at luncheon.
An elderly man thanks a boy with a penny after a brisk errand run. The boy, wary of greed, jokes that taking all the money could lead to trouble, recalling a wry Philadelphia Press tone.
A North China Herald report recounts a poor family burying a youth thought dead of typhus. A horse trod the coffin, a white arm emerged, and a crowd watched as a resurrected man sat up and ate rice soup and wine before being confined in a temple until his identity was confirmed.
The New Bedford hotelman Andrew J. Dam proposed the Dam Black Guards as the name for a colored militia company during the Civil War era, while others urged using the Elliott Light Guards. The plan never materialized.
The New York Post notes a shift toward glamorous fabric and lace in linen coats, with white combinations and new blouse styles gaining appeal. Jumps to favor meron wear and peplums, hints at a fall return of tante grow date, as heavier fabrics approach.
The item notes an average annual rainfall of sixty inches and a Canadian action halting herring fertilization. It mentions Connecticut’s tallest flag pole in Burlington Center at 109 feet with a 26 by 14 flag. Klondike mechanics earn ten dollars daily while common laborers earn four to one dollars, with living costs cited as higher than in the States. A Fort Hill Maine chimney demolition yielded 10 000 bricks, enough for four chimneys, built over a year ago.
Travel notices announce one way routes to Norfolk and Chautauqua Lake with round trip fares. Epworth league in Miss and Knights of Pythias event in Louisville list sale dates and 25 cent add on. Sunday round trips available to points with same day return. Talladega Springs offers daily round trip season tickets. For details contact H P Salter in Anniston and C L Stone in Louisville.
A notice promotes a non corporal method from Mrs. M. Summers of Notre Dame Indiana claiming spanking fails to cure bed wetting. She offers home treatment at no cost and invites mothers to write her directly for guidance without blaming the child.
The cough or puff of a railway engine comes from abrupt waste steam release up the chimney. At low speed puffs are distinct, while at high speed they blur into rapid puffs, with about eighteen per second. A locomotive near seventy mph produces twenty puffs per second, about ten from each cylinder.
We will examine your titles and provide a guaranty bond for any title approved by our attorneys. Land Title Guaranty Co., April F. Anniston.
Seised proposals are invited until July 22, 1907 for the construction of the new Farmers' Union warehouse in Anniston Alabama. Plans and specifications can be had on application to W. L. Jones secretary board of directors. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
Beau Brummel sank into debtors prison and loss of memory before a fall from social grace. He relied on friends’ support though poverty struck. he bought boot polish with 4 francs and insulted creditors. His intellect faded, he entered a charity hospital and died March 30, 1840 in poverty.
The London Telegraph describes the robin trio with Mr Robin as a nuisance during nest repairs yet a fighter when danger threatens. The male neglects building and feeding offspring though may bring a worm for his mate occasionally. The female handles nest work while the father protects the young at risk.
A brief squabble aboard a steamer chair frames a joke about a yacht named Edith and a remark that anything feminine tacks clumsily, with Mrs Stubb peering over the rail and Mr Stubb querying the vessel’s name.
The statement notes lead is about 9,000 times as dense as air by bulk weight, while aluminum is roughly 2,000 times as heavy as air. It compares relative densities of these metals to air.
A school for teachers reports last session enrollment of 581 with 409 teachers from 55 Alabama counties. It offers free tuition and board from 10 to 12 dollars monthly, in a healthy location. Graduates are in demand. Catalogue from C. W. Daugette. Sept. 25, 1907 start.
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