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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1907
Page
7
The Pressed Steel Car Company, operating the Anniston plant, is reported to have received an order for 1 000 steel coal cars from the Norfolk & Western railway. The large order bodes well though the cars will not be built locally.
An advertisement from Scarborough Drug Co promotes Mi-O-Na stomach tablets as a permanent remedy to strengthen digestion. It claims the product excites gastric juice, aids natural digestion, and allows meals without distress. The ad guarantees a money back refund if it fails to satisfy.
A Terre Haute Star editorial argues that public ownership multiplies opportunities for corrupt partisan activity. It cites post office employees defeating a congressman over stated positions and warns that city officials could be swayed by large municipal employee bodies in elections.
Duluth Minnesota city council passed a resolution authorizing the water board to contract with the Great Northern Power Company to supply electricity for the pumping station. The proposed price is 6.50 dollars per 1,000,000 gallons, compared with eight dollars last year excluding depreciation.
An English writer recalls earning his first sixpence from a premeditated joke about his father’s chancery suit. The father had spent twenty seven years in a case whose costs consumed the estate, leaving only sixpence for the boy. The punchline clarifies the sixpences were all that remained, the rest being the buttons.
An elderly woman and her kin view a striking painting of a village blacksmith at his forge. The observer notes the drawn light and shadows while remarking that the sleeves are oiled and would spark, a critique that echoes familiar country scenes from the Indianapolis News.
Eczema tetter salt rheum itch ring worm herpes and barbers itch are described as intensely itchy conditions. The advertisement claims Chamberlains Salve provides near instant relief and, with continued use, a permanent cure may result. It notes many cases treated when other methods failed and lists price at 25 cents per box sold by J J Wikle.
A year after marriage a wife gives her husband a box of cigars for his birthday. He sniffs, reads the label, and tearfully asks to keep them as a token of love. She later buys three more boxes charged to him and tells him to smoke them and enjoy them.
The Evening Times analyses municipal ownership as socialism and a danger to sensible governance. It argues state control failed in roads and rail, warns of debt and taxation, and says water works under public control would raise costs and foster graft. The piece notes aldermen’ s water franchise vote and cites local business voices.
A rough speaker recalls an aborted plan for a dynamite cartridge invention. The Seedy-Looking Man describes the concept and notes the idea was exploded long ago, with the Street Car Conductor asking what became of it.
An enigmatic prose fragment urges a young reader to embrace death as a first step, declaring that all gods are dead. The voice blends admonition with mythic ruin, implying a radical rebirth through extinction of beliefs.
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a liver Invigorator and stomach regulator for biliousness and dyspepsia. It lists herbal ingredients Golden Seal Stone root Black Cherry bark Queen's root Bloodroot Mandrake root and claims endorsements by medical authorities. A detachable claim invites readers to send for a free booklet and notes Pleasant Pellets as a bowel regulator to be used with the discovery.
A Scrap Book note argues that prejudices against the left hand lack natural basis since skeletons show equal bone size on both sides and physiology confirms equal muscular and ligament strength. It suggests weakness on the left results from less use rather than inherent flaw.
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