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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1906
Page
5
A fragment promotes Dr Shoop's Cure as a universal remedy for female ailments and womb issues. The dubious ad claims the treatment soothes inflamed membranes and restores vigor, naming J. L. Wikle as seller. The copy uses medically styled language and promises results during sleep.
T M Henderson operated a shop at 918 Noble Street offering cash for second-hand furniture and related items, advertising a broad trade in used furnishings.
Men’s clothing and furnishings from The Famous on Eleventh and Noble streets. Furniture outlets J. L. Murphy at 1214 Noble and J. T. Hodge at 923 Noble offer high grade pieces and sewing machines with reasonable prices. City Grocery Company on East Tenth lists fresh produce and groceries, with fish available Saturdays and Tuesdays.
Thomas Botsford, a diligent helper in Dr. Duncan's William Street chemistry lab, foils a time critical ore assay as a clock mischief plot leads to a costly Eureka mine purchase that proves worthless. The tale ends with Thomas revealing a magnet prank causing the clock to stop, provoking the doctor’s anger.
A private note tied to an offending package reads Horseshoe Mag. nets as Thomas inscribed the label and left it with the afternoon nail. He marked his place carefully before the elementary chemistry hurried his hat and he departed for the night.
A Nation of shifting views on women and horsemanship emerges as many educated women observe skilled horsemen and learn to handle horses. The piece notes that while some women still lack knowledge, increased show riding across the country accelerates education, and capable horses can be trusted to women with the right approach. It adds that horse suitability varies with the person, and comments on humanity's impact on nature and balance.
Physicians and druggists report more illness in Anniston this spring, mainly digestive ailments and languor from overworked stomachs. Miona stomach tablets are in high demand after testers found them effective for heartburn indigestion and debility, with Scarbrough Drug Co promising a money back guarantee on every 50 cent box.
The portion of Chinatown in Los Angeles exposed by the blaze shows deep subterranean passages and hidden cellars where thousands lived and died. Witness W. W. Overton describes charred wooden remains, gaping holes, and tunnels reaching hundreds of feet, with opium dens, joss houses, and imprisoned women destroyed as ashes.
An Englishman, returning after ten years in Canada, laments the loss of London’s charm. He recalls picturesque buildings and historical associations replaced by wide streets, vast new structures, underground tubes, and incessant motor buses, concluding the poetry of the city has departed.
A doctor near Manchester was struck by a glass shard from a broken lymph vial while vaccinating an infant. Calf lymph adhered to the shard causing a painful eye reaction. He cannot sleep and walks at night with the eye bandaged, reading forbidden, but recovery is hoped.
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