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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1911
Page
3
A humorous dialogue contrasts touching wet paint to test dryness with a reply about wealth. The speaker shifts from a joke about painting to a reflection on money, suggesting stress about future security rather than abundance.
A survey of American innovations credits the United States with founding a government based on equal law and advancing democracy. It highlights American feats from steamships to telegraphs, electric light, the reaper, sewing machine, anesthesia, and global exploration. It also mentions a Norfolk crab lobstering study testing crab migration with metal tags and reports Westminster Gazette observations.
A survey of century old liqueurs traces Benedictine from 665 AD and monastic secrecy at Fecamp to Chartreuse, Curacao, maraschino, Kirschwasser, Kumel, anise and coriander-based cordials. The piece notes production methods, origins, and monastic links to these popular beverages.
A travel writer notes Moroccan pastimes tied to religion and skill including football style play, leapfrog, and fencing. He highlights barood powder-play on horseback with gun fire at a marked spot. The passage admires Moorish horsemanship and ends with a literary aside about names and Xenophon.
The London Globe reports Dutch efforts to recover gold and silver from the 1799 sinking of the English ship Latin in the Zuyder Zee. A new Lloyd company venture uses a floating diving bridge with metal rooms and pipes to pump sand and access the wreck, following prior partial recoveries valued at about 2.5 million francs.
In Lassen Forest Preserve California Angora goats numbered three thousand are used to clear brush and manzanita along mountain slopes. Split into two bands under herders they graze within defined areas and effectively remove thick vegetation by eating and barking. The herd remains in good condition and more valuable in markets after work.
The article describes breadless diets in South Austria and northern Italy where sterz and polenta serve as staple foods. It notes sterz, also called beiden, in Steiermark Carynthia and Tyrol, and polenta in northern Italy. It compares mamaliga in Romania, a maize dish similar to polenta but kept grains distinct.
A seller offers a simple illusion using a strong magnet placed behind a drawn hook on paper. The magnet secretly holds a steel object over the hook image, fooling friends into thinking the object hangs on the drawn hook. A confederate repositions the magnet to reset the trick for repeated demonstrations.
A sequence of posture and finger movements is described. It includes sitting with legs crossed, folding arms, pressing fingertips together at the chest to resist being pulled apart, standing against a wall with one arm raised, and attempting to lift the opposite leg while maintaining balance. It notes linked finger bending effects among the third and fourth fingers.
Clergy guard against copper in church bags while richer parishioners give silver. A parish funds a second curate through a penny fund, which proved so successful the new assistant is still known as The Penny Curate.
The piece notes English boys prefer unskilled work such as errand, shop, office, messenger, or van jobs while shunning trades. It cites that seventy five of every hundred leaving elementary schools enter unskilled occupations and in London 40 percent become errand or van boys, 14 percent shop boys, 8 percent office boys and junior clerks.
Mosquitoes persist despite freezing weather in Alaska, described as an intolerable nuisance to residents and wildlife. Local reports note biting annoyances and challenges for outdoor activities and health concerns during the cold season.
A humorous rural column contrasts country and town husbands noting that country husbands train better and that brides attract visiting kin soon after moving to town. The author jokes about size dynamics in marriages and mentions how big women or small men influence household bossing. The piece ends by touting classified ads as a quick way to find work.
The Chicago News notes that the waning powdered wig era followed the French Revolution and wars, aided by hair powder shortages and wartime taxes. Jacobin influence also helped level social distinctions, with Walpole lamenting the younger generation's dirty shirts and shaggy hair erasing nobility.
The Kansas City Star notes a new solid alcohol lozenge that fuels travel lamps. Travelers can fill the lamp by dropping a single lozenge, enabling safe tea making in sleeping car berths on trains and steamships without spills or fire risk.
Over 200 cygnets were reared on the Thames between Southwark Bridge and Marsh Lock Henley in the last season. The largest brood was nine at Maimford. Black swans at Goring owned by the Vintners Company have multiplied. About 500 swans exist on the river with the King owning the largest number and the rest held by the Dyers and Vintners companies.
A call for support outlines plans for a wartime advertising campaign and seeks investors or sponsors. The message emphasizes a strong business plan as essential to secure backing and advance the project.
The Massachusetts highway commission plans to extend asphalt compounds for the next season. Engineers found asphalt more reliable and durable than tar, prompting treatment of worn macadam miles. Roads were leveled with a mix of asphalt oil gravel or sand and screenings, then coated with hot asphalt and covered with sand or screenings to absorb oil.
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