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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1911
Page
7
The Columbus Horse Show Association opens a three day event featuring top breeding farms from Kentucky Ohio West Virginia and Illinois. The June 27 exhibition draws prominent stables and promises a highly successful show.
An advertisement urges parents to keep a bottle of Mc GEE'S BABY ELIXIR for sour stomach wind colic diarrhoea or summer complaints. The remedy is advertised as wholesome with no opium morphine or harmful drugs and sold by J. L. Wikle at 25 or 50 cents per bottle.
The saying emphasizes that steady persistence by advertisers yields eventual victories in campaigns and business outcomes. It highlights discipline, consistency, and ongoing effort as key factors for success.
Telephone No 72 promotes Watson hauling with teams wagons drays and men. The brief ad promises prompt careful service in all hauling needs.
The piece discusses rising prices amid disputes over causes. It cites Secretary Wilson noting farm products exceed national needs and argues prosperity alone cannot justify higher costs. It questions equity, noting gains and losses favor those able to raise living standards, and ends with urging action to shoulder the burden.
The Pittsburg Gazette notes a St. Louis race track syndicate case revived by a New York newspaper ad. It touts a scheme promising guaranteed gains of 150000 to each member within a year and claims 520 percent profits, urging investors to assemble 250000 capital. Authorities are alerted to possible fraud.
An editorial cites the New Orleans Times-Democrat on rising foul language in America. It argues vocabulary limits drive people to call things "awful" or "funny" and claim men use oaths to express thoughts that cannot be conceived or expressed adequately.
A historical notice describes a job opportunity or project converting personal property into sash. The text suggests a craft or manufacturing task involving repurposing materials, with expected labor and outcome implied by the short fragment.
Miss Gertrude Hendricks becomes deputy to Sheriff Charles T. Brooks of Calhoun County in Anniston. The Kansas-born former stenographer, not a suffragette, now oversees the office amid contraband beer and spirits, while her pistol placement remains under discussion in the Model City of the South.
In a quiet western evening a Kansas farmer surveys purchases and items: Rubens hung in an art gallery beside Rembrandt, a new but delayed balloon, a French car with tire needs, government bonds, a first folio edition of Shakespeare, and a finished day of work as he locks up for the night.
In a Georgia town of about 6000 people a Chautauqua assembly drew large daytime crowds. A steam merry go round was set up halfway between town and the grounds on the second day. A country youth spoke with a townsman who asked about the event and the ride. He replied he enjoyed it saying he rode nine times.
The Rev. Dr Leighton Parks recalls Bishop Potter as a young man faced with a temperate parishioner who challenged him about wine. Potter replied that if the man vowed never to drink again he would abstain as well. Both made the pledge and kept it, despite early ridicule as a wine bibber.
Classified advertising helps sellers and buyers reach specific audiences with tailored offers. It emphasizes value and visibility for items, services, or events.
The Boston Globe imagines a vivid scene where the ex President feels joy upon seeing a black maned lion while the lion braces for the bite of sharp teeth.
The Washington Post suggests a ten-million-dollar prize for solving a clearer sugar schedule to help consumers understand it, calling it a better message than a message to Mars at this time.
A fragment notes an unidentified grand duke seen in Paris climbing onto a tram. The remark ponders whether the end-seat hog moved aside during the ride.
A reflective quote notes that without boasting of honesty some men would remain unknown for their integrity. It suggests virtue is recognized only when proclaimed.
A humorous profile notes Miss Hendricks as deputy in the sheriff’s office. It teases duties from restraining a chatelaine gun to attending ball games and theatre appearances while studying statutes on silk stockings and spiked punch. Sheriff Brooks clarifies the piece as light satire.
Itch not cured by scratching, skin bleeds. Ballard's Snow Liniment relieves itching instantly and, after several applications, aims for a permanent cure. Priced 25¢, 50¢ and $1.00 per bottle. Sold by J. L. Wikle.
A morning bowel routine is praised as essential for daily work. The ad promotes Herbine as a purifying strengthening regulator for bowel irregularities, priced at 50e and sold by J L Wille.
Historic note suggests men who drink get into a shocking condition, aligning with earlier observations in public reports from Pittsburgh Dispatch.
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The note hints at funding for a wartime advertising effort, urging a solid business plan to attract backing. It frames investor interest around structured strategy and financial viability to support a wartime campaign.
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