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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1907
Page
3
A miscellany of humorous and reflective vignettes from families, servants, students, and notable figures. Anecdotes include a captain and servant debate over mismatched boots, children’s quips about science and manners, Elizabeth I’s chivalry, a naval officer’s wife in Annapolis, and a Missouri governor story at a royal visit.
A farmer asks a Biddeford dentist the cost of tooth pulling. The dentist offers 25 cents without gas or 50 cents with gas. The farmer declines gas, explaining his wife will be the patient, while the dentist remarks on his courage. The note ends with a reference to 1780 Coburg officer’s daughter writing to Haydn requesting music.
The article recounts absurd vignettes from travel and society history: a poodle retrieves a thaler then steals trousers from a tailor, Gladstone allegedly evades a frontier ban on grapes, and anecdotes about senators, General Wrangel, Frederick William IV, the Shah of Persia at Newgate, and a Kentucky joke.
A local woman suffered two to three years from tetter on her hands disabling household duties. One box of Chamberlains Salve cured her completely. Chamberlains medicines are popular in Almond Alabama with M. H. Rodney & Co. and J. La Wikle selling them.
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