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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1909
Page
2
The Philadelphia Times recounts Julian Story, famed portrait painter, visiting the recent PAFA show where he hung few works including a Lyman Biddle portrait. Two men joke that the sitter drank, but Story reveals he himself did after the session.
The fragment notes Thomas Moffat as the new consul to the Hill region, with limited surrounding context. No clear event date, place, or organization is legible to confirm scope or outcomes.
Trinidad refused to sign a local document praising La Guayra’s sanitary condition amid bubonic plague. He recalled officials anger at his stance, comparing their policy to a hazardous brakeman tale about a steep grade and a risky ascent.
A fragment from Young’s Magazine quotes Eleanor Robson and a western youth on suffrage remarks. The passage contrasts enthusiastic sisters with doubts about equal rights in a religious context.
Ad claims Mi-o-na tablets from Elam Ordway Houser cure indigestion and stomach distress in a week. It promises a money back guarantee if not satisfied, listing relief from belching heaviness pain heartburn and coated tongue. Sold by leading druggists.
A speaker urges that no young man should visit places he could not take his sister. A youth in the back shouts that the barber shop is such a place, provoking a sharp exchange about proper conduct and boundaries.
A Boston Journal style anecdote recounts Nordica contesting her aunt Mrs Allen s testament and the slager s claim that much wealth traced to her grandfather John Allen known as Catup Meeting His wife enters a carriage and he quips You aren t as gallant as when you were a boy and you aren t as buoyant as when you were a gal
A light exchanged quip in a Cleveland Plain Dealer column leads to a playful kiss as a man calls a hat like a corn basket and teases two red ears, prompting surprised smiles.
Mrs Stubbs notes the report that Abdul Hamid is alleged to have twelve wives. Mr Stubbs comments that the former sultan will gain no peace wherever he travels in this Chicago News item.
A small boy sobs that there is nothing to cry about, while a kind old lady asks why. He answers in a muffled stutter that there is nothing to cry for, and then shouts Bochoo in a humorous finish.
A light humor item quotes origins from Pick Me Up with lines about a fat man abroad and a Venice canal incident. The quip contrasts travel mishap and the arrest for obstructing navigation, reflecting playful newspaper humor of the era.
A Baltimore American exchange questions gender seating norms at a ballgame. Probing remark suggests girls prefer grand stands over bleachers, prompting debate on traditions and spectator roles.
The Kennedy homestead in Covington, built in 1787, where Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote early chapters of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is slated for demolition. The building features loopholes, heavy oak doors with tomahawk marks, and arrowheads still lodged in its log sides.
In Calhoun County Alabama on May 26 1909 Herbert W Savage files a petition in Probate Court seeking correction of an error in land description. Lands sold to S D G Brothers as administrator of Oswall Griffin estate in 1890. E J DeFreese bought the lands and the administrator later deeded to S D G Brothers. Savage now owns the lands and requests correction. A hearing is set for Monday June 28 1909 to decide the petition. parties may appear to contest. Judge of Probate Court May 27 Thursday 31
The notice states that lands sold by administrator R. P. DeFreese in 1892 passed to Herbert W. Savage via Defreese and seeks correction of the erroneous description. A hearing is set for Monday June 28 1909 to determine the petition and allow contestation in court.
Dr Gustave le Bon argues Hertzian waves could end war if controllable and concentrable. He envisions an apparatus using parabolic mirrors over five miles high to transmit parallel Hertzian waves, making distant destruction possible and potentially impossible to wage war.
An item details train arrivals at Union Station with Birmingham Calera and Anniston service. Services include No. 85 Birmingham to Calera No. 83 Birmingham to Anniston No. 86 Calera to Birmingham No. 8 Calera to Anniston No. 84 Anniston to Birmingham No. 81 Anniston to Calera.
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