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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1907
Page
3
A vintage advertisement promotes Zoa-Phora as a remedy for menstrual periods and related conditions. It claims rapid relief for pain and distress from puberty through change of life, and asserts wide national usage with bottles sold for one dollar.
The shop promotes new wall coverings with low price concessions and a wide selection including flowered papers for bedrooms stripes dignified designs and plain colors suitable for parlor hall or dining room Cohen and Kircus 921 Noble st Phone 550.
An advertisement for the Ohio Conservatory of Music urges families to enroll daughters autumnly for musical education. It highlights faculty reputation, safe home life in a cultured city, and a new tuition proposition for preparatory and artists’ departments. Contact Directress Mrs. E. C. Graninger at 116 Seventh St., West Cincinnati.
Editor recalls a recent all day Georgia singing with dinner on the ground in Waco. He describes a joyful gathering among old friends, praising Georgian hospitality and the musical talents of a renowned local ensemble.
John Kemp of East Otisfield Maine recommends Bucklen's Arnica Salve to cure chilblains and frost bites. He reports using it for salt rheum with excellent results and notes the product is guaranteed for fever sores ulcers piles burns wounds and skin diseases and available for 25 cents at local druggists Elam Ordway and Houser Scarbrough Drug Co.
A Metropolitan Magazine account explains whaling methods aboard a vessel. The forward harpoon gun fires a heavy missile with powder, a ruptured bomb, and expanding barbs to secure the whale. Harpoons require blacksmith straightening between uses and are connected to long flexible lines stored under deck.
In early 19th century London plays evaded a royal ban by using disguised titles. Othello appeared as Is He Jealous and Macbeth as Murder Will Out. The Merchant of Venice was Diamond Cut Diamond. Romeo and Juliet as How to Die For Love. Hamlet as Methinks I See My Father, all to gain access in patent venues Covent Garden and Drury Lane.
A Chicago Record-Herald quip recalls a golf round where one player claims never to keep score while the other notes fatigue. The light exchange highlights competitive banter over golf’s exertion and skill.
L A Bartlett of Rural Route 1 Guilford Maine says his family uses Dr Kings New Life Pills. The pills tone the system cure biliousness malaria and constipation. Available at Elam Ordway Houser Seaborough Drug Co 25 cents.
The Civil Service exam today offers a start for young men in the forest reserve service as forest rangers. Pay begins at 720 dollars, rising to 1400 with merit, with cabins and family allowances in remote woods. Knowledge of trails, surveying, timber work, and Spanish in the Southwest aids advancement to supervision up to 2000 dollars.
The London Spectator notes a revolution at Oxford as Euclid Elements is discarded. The author argues no textbook has endured so long or shaped a science as Euclid shaped geometry, likening his influence to Aristotle in logic and Adam Smith in political economy.
A Philadelphia Ledger note praises a novel interior cement staircase built without heavy structural components. The design uses small channel bars and expanded metal lathing, allowing false work removal in two weeks. The stairway bears 7,500 pounds of marble plus 2,000 pounds more without deflection.
A nature observer details a grebe nest built on the water edge that floats like a boat when approached. The mother bird paddles with her foot and steers safely to a quiet cove, illustrating a rare spectacle of avian adaptation.
The article notes European pensions offer affordable meals and warns travelers to apply careful judgment in selecting lodging and bargaining. It cites a rule of tipping guidance, suggesting travelers use a safe tipping approach as they compare options and prices.
In a sale of Charles James Fox's effects a copy of first volume of Gibbon's Roman History drew keen bidding. The fly leaf contained an anecdote from the author to Fox predicting collapse of the government if ministers were not removed. The note shocked bidders and the book fetched 3 guineas, a high sum for the era.
The annual stockholders meeting will elect directors for the ensuing year and handle other legal business. It will be held at the company office in Anniston Alabama on Saturday August 30 1907 between 5 and 6 p m. Secretary Kk B McKee announces the details.
In a courtroom exchange Mrs. Maloney confirms her husband struck her, describing him as a physical wreck since the incident while a magistrate questions the matter. The brief dialogue reflects a domestic conflict being addressed in court.
Quote attributed to Wimer bon: discontent is the infirmity of will and the want of self reliance.
Purchase a buggy and a horse from Dona hoo & Co. and take a voyage into the bracing air for a refreshing outing.
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