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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1916
Page
9
Anniston area readers learn subscription pricing and delivery notes for The Star and Hot Blast. The page also offers brief editorial jabs on politics war and preparedness with local candidate mentions and light vintage opinion lines.
A mosaic of quips and quirk from readers and writers. Lines thread jab at jobs bargains and barbers with onion heads. They note a Chicago convention singing and Rotterdam dispatches with playful fire.
A four year old, Philip Wall of San Francisco, can read write spell and name the capitals of all fifty eight states and recite county seats and discuss Abraham Lincoln and Merchant of Venice. The Star notes earlier tombstone stories and related inquiries but highlights the child’s achievements.
Multiple papers condemn night riding and dynamiting cattle dipping vats used to eradicate the cattle tick. They cite Tom Watson’s inflammatory rhetoric as dangerous and urge swift legal action to halt lawless acts while defending scientific tick control as essential for healthier, marketable cattle across Alabama and Georgia.
An Anniston essay condemns parents who let children with contagious whooping cough roam neighborhoods. It argues quarantine and public health measures are needed to protect other youths and prevent spread, urging local authorities to act for public safety.
U. S. Public Health Service releases a free bulletin stressing urban ward health protection and summer infant care. It argues sanitation safeguards city dwellers and warns education without proper typhoid prevention endangers boys.
The Alabama Association of Teachers of English plans a intensified effort during Alabama summer schools to improve speech usage. The Birmingham Ledger urges ending phrases like I done it and ain’t as it promotes refined, better English through education and family influence.
A self help style piece on the discipline of saying no to temptations to save money and build a future. It argues that decisive, consistent choices shape character, wealth, and success, warning that weak will leads to mediocrity and drift. It stresses ambition, goals, and firm resolutions to resist easy temptations.
An advertisement from Carter Medicine and Cartel Barby Medicine urges parents to contact them about a child’s illness, offering $100 if the child does not recover. It claims prior success and asks parents to write to several Anniston names or contact a local druggist for a bottle, implying remedies have failed elsewhere.
Charles D. Kline runs to keep city finances within lawful revenues and to run Recorder's Court for justice not profit. He backs dust nuisance abatement and closer city county ties and aims to grow business and welfare. Scarborough and Wikle also seek mayoral posts in Anniston Democratic primary.
Date for re election as president of the Anniston City Council is set subject to action by the city executive committee. The notice indicates the formal timing depends on committee approval and local council procedures.
Several residents of Anniston declare bid for Councilman from the First Ward subject to Democratic Executive committee action. Names include L H Hollingsworth H L Dock Brown J W Mallory Jesse Evans John F Boozer and others seeking Ward One seat.
A political notice proclaims J. D. Holcomb as a candidate for City Council from the Fourth Ward, with Benj. Rh. Sawyer and the friends of Holcomb urging support. The executive committee in Anniston endorses the candidacy and outlines the campaign role.
A. H. Arnold and P. C. Wigley announce their candidacies for Fifth Ward city council seats. T. H. Cockerell and the Fifth Ward Democratic primary are noted as the action points.
Local notices show multiple residents and businesspeople endorsing and announcing candidates for Councilman Second Ward. Names include TOM CARTER M F P Snider and W B Parker with references to the Democratic primary and city committee actions.
For Councilman Third Ward, CLAUDE J. SETTLES seeks re election. The Friends of J A Burgess, known as Uncle Jack, announce his candidacy for Councilman Third Ward, subject to the city executive committee action.
A formal declaration announces a bid for the Fourth Ward seat. The candidate states intent to run for council, subject to party or local election actions as required by law.
Notice announces the annual meeting of the Anniston Country Club stockholders to be held at the Anniston City National Bank offices on Friday June 16 1916 at p m. Officers for the following year will be elected and other business acted on.
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