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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1907
Page
4
The May 1907 edition list shows total papers printed 61 885 with a daily average of 2 229 excluding 1 700 extra papers. It includes Sundays May 4 11 18 21 28 and notes Shore statement of circulation declared true by E th McKee general manager and notarized by B W Ledbetter.
The Evening Star offers to mail readers away for the summer with no extra cost by notifying the Star office of their departure and giving the new address to receive the paper. Telephone 68.
Alabama towns push concrete sidewalks and better country roads. Florence expands to nine miles of sidewalks, inspiring Decatur and other North Alabama towns to follow. The 1897 Aniston convention sparked ongoing efforts to link farm markets and rural commerce with improved routes.
A harsh portrait depicts a man who feels useless to the world and hates both himself and the world. The passage emphasizes his bleak, critical mindset and sense of futility.
The Mobile Herald notes looming legislature reconvening expected to challenge railroads unless lawmakers shift sentiment. Ned Brace of the Age Herald is praised for a Benedict-like stance as society circles prepare for intensified press activity and potential strikes.
Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy discusses social norms and public life in America, analyzing how conventions shape behavior, influence politics, and steer cultural expectations in early 20th century society.
The Atlantic Monthly excerpt centers on Emersons Brahma and the debate over its meaning. A relative of Longfellow bought a sleigh prompting a family letter that yielded an untitled verse by Longfellow about a sleigh purchase. The piece notes the poem has never been printed before and hints at its themes of hidden subtleties.
A night watcher in Galway spots a pale figure near a graveyard and speaks to it as a ghost asking for a drink. The figure replies and is exposed as a local poacher using the ghostly encounter to set night lines and plunder without disturbance.
The Inspector questions a group of miniature philosophers about swimming and foot size in a whimsical scene. A child and a teacher discuss why a duck can swim and the boy cites the teacher's large feet as a reason.
A reflective essay urges Americans to test ordinary conventions, embrace fearlessness, and pursue spiritual knowledge. It argues courage, faith, and sincerity guide poetry and life, urging defiance of fear, longing for inward truth, and viewing God as a nurturing, radiant spirit.
In a public appeal Secretary Coward H. Hall warns New York faces desertlike ruin unless forests and streams are protected. He urges three steps: protect existing preserve land, expand the preserve, and replant denuded areas to avert ecological collapse.
Reported experiments show a 5 ft 0 in man weighing 16 lb lifting 156 lb eight inches or 217 lb 1.2 inches. A 6 ft 1 in man at 185 lb lifts 156 lb thirteen inches or 217 lb six inches. A 6 ft 3 in man at 188 lb lifts 156 lb sixteen inches or 217 lb nine inches. Average strength equals lifting 50 lb two and a half feet per second.
A fragment from the Countess of Kent s Chalee Manual describes a cure called Oil of Swallows. It instructs to bruise thyme lavender cotton strawberry leaves four swallows with feathers, add sallet oil, simmer in a posnet, strain through canvas, and store for use.
A fragmented old note describes pollen travels over water up to 200 miles from shore forming yellow crusts on lakes and sea. It mentions hollow vessels aiding airborne travel, likening it to a hex Wie and comparing pollen grains to St Nicholas in flight.
A Kansas City Star photographer notes that faces are rarely perfectly symmetrical and the right side often ages faster. He observes the right side develops crow’s feet sooner, appearing about a year older, with more character but less beauty, guiding which side he photographs to suit patron preference.
A speaker questions whether poker is a game of chance while noting mixed outcomes. The dialogue references a wife discovering the truth and asserts that certainty varies across moments.
A reflective line by Richmond Mirsourian labels work fear as the index to a broader catalogue of troubles. The remark links anxiety about labor to wider social ills and personal strain.
Advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive remedy for a constitutional disease. It claims internal use cures catarrh by affecting blood and mucous surfaces and offers 100 dollars refund for any uncured case. Includes testimonials, Toledo company address, price 75 cents, plus Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A fragment features a character, Cannibal, recalling a previous missionary visit and questioning knowledge of religion in a terse exchange. Cleveland Lesdee appears as the likely speaker or source.
Intermission sees Tommy cry then pause. He declares he is not finished but resting as his mother asks if he will be good. The exchange reveals a child’s stubborn yet tender moment in a family scene.
A terse exchange shows a shopkeeper irritably urging a bystander to buy cough lozenges while boasting a fight over selling goods for black eyes. The jab hints at petty street commerce and sharp humor in a London periodical.
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