Industrial Index notes Alabama project boom and new mills
The Gear- Bit Alabama Industrial Index reports $1,591,000 of new capital stock for Alabama Georgia ventures this week. Projects include two botton mills, expansion of a third, new schools, hospitals, warehouses, and several factories in Elba Fayetteville Gird Odenville Tuscaloosa Auburn Livingston Selma and Mobile.
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Star
Columbus
SP Weiy
Georgios
Alabama
Georgia
Elba
Haley
Ite
Knitting Mil
Fayetteville
Conrete
Girrd
Arkwright
Odenville
Tuscaloosa
Auburn
Livingston
Montgomery
Selma
Hurch
Greensboro
Mobile
Railway Terminal
Birmingham
Prickly Ash Bitters touted as cure for female troubles
An ad claims Prickly Ash Bitters cures female ailments by targeting the stomach liver and bowels improving appetite strength and mood. It cites Mrs Mary Norshutt of Adel Missouri and lists agents Lam Ordway Hausler Marsh and Sons with a $1 bottle price.
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Mary Norshcutt
Adel
Mercer County
Women Begin General Federation Meeting at Jamestown
Special to the Star Norfolk June 5. The General Federation of Women's Clubs opens its Jamestown exposition meeting in the convention hall with Mrs Sarah Platt Decker presiding Miss Gatewood of Norfolk welcomes attendees and Mrs May Alden Ward replies. The program focuses on library education art literature and forestry. The session continues tomorrow.
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Star
Norfolk
General Federation of Women’s Clibs
Sarah Platt Decker
Federation
Miss Gatewood
Norfolk Women’s Club
May Alden Ward
General Federation
Shoes Are Boots In England
An American firm learned a costly lesson after sending 100000 pairs of shoes to London mislabelled as shoes. In Britain footwear is defined differently, with boots and winter wear not matching American high shoe expectations, leading to poor interest and failed sales.
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England
London
America
Queen Alexandra’s Secret Accounts and Joint Expenditures
The text describes Queen Alexandra’s checks drawn by Lord de Grey or Greville with vouchers, and occasional private advances from Charlotte Snollys. The treasurer can endorse incoming checks for her, while she maintains one or two special accounts replenished by Lord de Grey’s department for broad charitable benevolence.
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Alexidra
Lord de Gres
Lord Howe
Mr. Greville
Charlotte Snollys
Owever
Tme
Lord de Grey
Rosetta Stone Valued As Key To Ancient Egypt
A London World note describes the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum as an ordinary black slab whose hieroglyphs unlock Egyptian writings. It recounts how French tourists found it in Egypt, an Englishman bought it for a garden ornament, paid five pounds, and later realized its immense value that could fetch fortunes in England and America.
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British Museum
Ailion
Pnngland
America
Egypt
Paris
Ile
London
Comet Panics Over Lalande Prediction In Paris
Joseph Jerome Lafrancais de Lalande argued a collision of Earth with a comet was highly improbable yet the public feared destruction. His unprinted 1773 paper triggered Parisian panic, prompting police to publish it to calm fears, with belief it was toned down lasting for a quarter century.
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Joseph Jerome Lafrancais de Lalande
Newton
Providence
French Academy
Lalande
Alaska Homesteads Promise Big Settlement and Growth
Special agent C. Georgeson of the U S Department of Agriculture reports Alaska holds vast agricultural potential. It could offer 20 acre homesteads to up to 200000 families and sustain a population of about 3000000, enabling full resource development.
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Alaska
C. ©. Georgeson
United States Department of Agriculture
Names Lost in Africa on Maps and Laughing Misreadings
The New York Sun notes how mapmakers misrender African place names when guides forget terms. Senge becomes thinguimbeb and Atorigini means I forget, while Olotoibolologunya is printed as a town name meaning Your servant has gone on ahead.
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New York Sun
German East Africa
Cuba Forts Turn From Prisons to Show Places
Mrs. C. R. Miller notes in Lestie's Weekly that Cuba’s forts, once used to imprison rebels and pirates, are now mainly show places with some occupied by the rural guard formed in 1890. Many guards are sons of Cubans who died fighting for liberty.
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Cuba
Republic
C. R. Miller
Lestie’s Weekly
The Mask of Health and Moona Stomach Tablets
In Anniston many claim perfect health yet suffer indigestion. Moona stomach tablets, endorsed by physicians, strengthen digestive organs and promise pain free meals after a few days. The Scarbrough Drug Company guarantees a refund if Moona does not cure, costing nothing unless it works.
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Anniston
Scarbrough Drug Company
Miona
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