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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1907
Page
7
Local notes report Joseph Goodlett plans to have the New Wilmer hotel ready to receive guests by April 1. Pat Allen, recently ill with pneumonia, is improving and expected to recover in a few days.
The article highlights the saw mill industry in the Anniston district led by W. L. Little. It notes his shift from working as a traveling agent for an Atlanta drug house to running two large mills with extensive timber resources.
Calhoun lodge No. 208 T. O. C. F. will hold its regular weekly meeting tonight at 7 30. A good attendance is expected and visiting Odd Fellows are cordially invited to be present.
A humorous exchange reveals how Wittly imitates others and unsettles relationships. Miss Quick and Mrs. Henpeck exchange tensions over love, control, and social expectations while a census comment and dining mishap add situational silliness.
The article explains decorating a room with a high window and presents a practical method. A recessed casement window on a high wall is addressed by building two steps and placing a seat on top, achieving a satisfactory result.
A columnist advises wives to foster their husbands hobbies as a self sacrificing act. Create a personal den at home for the man to pursue harmless hobbies turning simple crafts into prideful works. Praise finished projects as better than racing or drinking and note benefits for family training. Elam Ordway Houser endorses Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup as a pleasant new remedy.
Ancient sources describe widespread food adulteration from Greece and Rome to medieval Europe. Pliny notes Rome bakers adding white earth to dough for look and weight, while wine adulteration, coloring with aloes and drugs, and inspector efforts appeared in Athens and Falerno. The term artificial as Canthare arose from wine practices.
A young new housekeeper receives a mailed bread recipe and questions what to do with the remaining dough after following the directions. The anecdote ends with a reminder about Foley's Honey and Tar as a cough remedy in a yellow package.
A note traces the phrase What the dickens to Shakespeare in The Merry Wives of Windsor act 8 scene 2, where Mrs Page questions the weathercock and Robin responds Stir Falstaff. The article cites Gay's Beggar's Opera and Samuel Johnson era usage to argue the expression predates Dickens.
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