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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1914
Page
4
A satirical collection mocks wartime politics with jibes at Porté Williams and multiple nations. It quips about fashion, celestial talk, Chicago election officials, and suffrage symbolism, ending with light slights on Mme Caillaux and political activism.
Chalmers argues success is measured by honest work and good character rather than wealth. He praises self discipline, loyalty, education, civic involvement, and voting for capable leaders as key traits. He asserts life’s noblest truth is that giving yields the most.
The Star notes Anniston recent city funding for a meat and milk inspector and cites Wheeling West Virginia as a model. It urges adoption of similar measures, warns about malaria from stagnant water, and calls for road improvement and public health vigilance.
The Journal, Sylacauga Advance and Huntsville Times call for a north south highway from Montgomery to Anniston via Colvin's mountain and Gadster Anniston road, extending to Marshall County to form a national route. The urge aims to create a continuous link from Montgomery to Anniston and beyond.
A chronological list of notable events dated July 29 across years. Entries include seismic and volcanic destruction in Guatemala in 1773, public hangings in Boston in 1794, Indiana territory assembly in 1805, French Louis Philippe assassination attempt in 1848, and other political and royal actions through 1906.
Observations and tests to determine if the earth is shrinking begin in New York and Germany. A month long program will study measurements at Far Rockaway and other locations, with doctors observing whether the planet is contracting.
Memphis Commercial Appeal calls Faugeron’s La Verite the year’s artistic wonder. The nude central figure leads light through a cave into a panicked crowd, with Youth, Ignorance, and Innocence as contrasting figures, offering moral lessons on truth and humanity.
Department of Health issues detailed rules for dairy hygiene in Wheeling. Cows must be kept clean. manure managed. stables well lighted, ventilated, and swept. milking areas kept separate and clean. water and milk-house standards enforced. milker health and hand washing required. utensils washed and scalded. milk cooled quickly and kept below 55 degrees. no preservatives or adulterants. disallowed milk from diseased cows. regular grooming, bedding, and barn maintenance advised. strict procedures for milking, straining, and cooling milk to ensure safe city milk supply.
The 24 hour outlook for Anniston and vicinity calls for partly cloudy conditions with possible local showers in extreme south Alabama. A 7 am barometer stands at 30.00 inches sea level, with highs near 93 and lows around 68.
New York July 29. Noonan charged with larceny was turned from the Tombs to the street by a keeper who mistook him for a drunk. Police search Noonan after the incident. Official in Charge R. M. Williamson notes weather data and sunrise sunset times.
July 29 report from Tampa notes two Greek men, Spero Chickley and Dionisios Lignos, pulled a downtown fire alarm box believing it was a music box. The prank summoned half the city’s fire apparatus within minutes, and the pair paid $10 each in police court for the act.
Montgomery July 29 Total collections from motor vehicle license sales for the third quarter ending June 30 totaled 23837. The state received 15989 and counties and cities 9848. For the first three quarters the fiscal year total reached 101000, about 20000 more than the same period last year.
In Washington on July 29 Sarah Hose learned her name in the John Hamlin estate probate was misrecorded as Sarah Hamlin Socks. The court corrected the clerical error and restored the correct name to Sarah Hamlin Hose.
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