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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1907
Page
3
An advertisement for the Ohio Conservatory of Music promoting autumn enrollment for daughters in a high class program. It highlights national reputation faculty in instrumental, vocal, elocution, and dramatic art, safe home life in a city famed for musical culture, and a new liberal tuition proposition for preparatory and artists' departments.
The article promotes new wall paper choices with striking price concessions, claiming it will cost little to repaper interiors. It emphasizes old dingy papers covered by fresh designs in a showroom-style notice.
Special to the Star reports that in the next two weeks large tracts in the Northwest will be opened for settlement by presidential proclamation and Interior Department rules. The Huntley irrigation project lands in Yellowstone County Montana cover 633 farms of about forty acres each. About 356,000 acres will be open for settlement next Saturday in the Portland Lakeview The Dalles and Roseburg districts and near the Cascade National Forest Reserve, with 132,920 acres withdrawn for Heppner National Forest additions also becoming available in La Grande and Dalles districts. Additional lands in the Waterville and Seattle districts of Washington will be eligible for settlement this week and entry a month later.
A testimonial from J. H. Walker of Sunbury Ohio claims years of dyspepsia and loss of appetite were relieved by Burdock Blood Bitters. The ad-style statement emphasizes quick stomach relief and improved digestion.
The London Spectator notes a revolution at Oxford as Euclid's Elements is discarded. The text has endured since antiquity, dating from 323 to 285 BCE, making Euclid the iconic figure of geometry and a lasting influence on the sciences.
A Philadelphia Ledger feature praises interior cement stairways made without structural iron. The design uses small channel bars with expanded metal lathing, supports its own weight plus 7,500 pounds of marble, and a 2,000 pound load without deflection after two weeks of false work removal. Only top quality cement is advised for interior work.
A Metropolitan Magazine feature describes the harpoon gun aboard a whaling vessel. The gun fires a heavy harpoon with a bomb head and barbs, controlled by a flexible hemp line of 1,800 feet. Harpoons require blacksmith straightening between shots and are fired at close range to strike whales.
A Scrap Book note recalls how early 19th century London patent theaters hid Shakespeare plays behind euphemistic titles to avoid royal censorship. Othello appeared as Is He Jealous, Macbeth as Murder Will Out, The Merchant of Venice as Diamond Cut Diamond, Romeo and Juliet as How to Die For Love, and Hamlet as Methinks I See My Father.
A Chicago Record-Herald quips about golf with a speaker claiming to never keep score, suggesting the sport eases strain while another doubts its tiring nature. The exchange blends humor and sport into a brief society note.
Many members of the American Institute of Mining Engineers have arrived at the King Edward hotel for the annual two day meeting. After sessions the group will tour government supervised mines in Cobalt Temagami and visit Sudbury nickel mines and the Hutton iron range with local committees hosting. The institute, founded in 1871, has over 4 000 members.
A Derpetoc Advertiser claim describes a coated bullet with gan powder gum and friction powder. As the bullet exits the barrel the paste ignites like wet gunpowder, leaving a luminous trail to reveal its exact path for the marksman to adjust aim if needed.
A humorous snippet features a young man and a widow in a light exchange about romance and business ties to a glove shop. The dialogue plays on flirtation and wit within an illustrated Bits piece.
Judge Walter Malone of Memphis notes the Mississippi River’s extreme bends cause steamer encounters where a southbound vessel risks meeting itself while signaling and narrowly avoiding a collision en route.
A performer says he has a high place in the next show and will appear near the flies to tear up paper for a snowstorm moment. Comedian-Well adds there is a high profile in the act. The note reflects Chicago News theater chatter.
An advertisement touts Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets as a pleasant laxative for constipation. It promises gentle bowel movement with no disagreeable effects and lists a price of 25 cents with free samples offered by J L Wikle.
A copy of Gibbon’s Roman History presented to Charles James Fox sparked a vivid anecdote on the fly leaf. The note claimed ministers would fall before reforms, and the book still fetched 3 guineas at auction due to the seller's fame.
A wandering band visits an Australian mining camp with no women or children present except the musician's wife and baby. A grand concert unfolds in the saloon but the crying infant halts the performance as a tall Irishman loudly orders to stop the music and listen to the baby's cry.
Mrs. K hires a middle aged colored cleaner who recalls a one eyed man named White who claimed to need work. The helper confirms knowing him and says he is not trusted in town and is in fact married to the speaker.
A fragmented exchange features boastful lines about past usage and a playful jab about a broker dropping bank stock. The dialogue hints at thirst and a warning about landing in mucilage while mentioning goats and a water reference.
A three by five foot frame holds a moody landscape clock. Plum blossoms and rich plants bloom in front while a hill with a crystal cascade appears behind. A threadlike stream winds around rocks to a distant woodland as a sun on a silver wire marks hours on silver gongs. A tortoise marks each hour as a plumage bird sings and a mouse darts from a grotto.
Cherryvale postmaster F M Hamilton reports Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as standard in his general store stock. He says it never fails to give satisfaction and notes they could hardly afford to be without it. Sold by J L Wikle.
In retrospect Seward foresaw Alaska's value despite early opposition. The 1867 debate mocked the $7.2 million purchase from Russia, with critics predicting polar bears and ice only. Time has proven the acquisition pivotal, as Leslie's Weekly notes Seward’s vision was vindicated.
A fashion figure contracts pneumonia after a doctor blames a low necked dress. The patient responds with a wry remark about the costume, noting its perceived effect, while treatment continues with pills and remedies.
A brief editorial note from the St. Louis Globe Democrat discusses the hazards faced by naturalists when observing animals. It uses the metaphor of holding a bull by the tail to illustrate the challenge of gaining a safe vantage point during field study.
A fragmentary excerpt shows a speaker acknowledging a lover’s sorrow and a line about love being blind. The tone hints at unseen hurt and miscommunication following a separation.
Local claimant Mr L Carter of Skirum Alabama extols Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as the best in the world He says repeated attacks nearly killed him but the remedy saved him He reports relief after taking half a bottle of the 25 cent size and notes no trouble since before this week Sold by J L Wikle.
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