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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1907
Page
7
A passage extols starting right with a personal bank account to pay local bills in a businesslike manner by check or drafts usable nationwide. It lists M. B. Wellborn as President, W. W. Stringfellow and H. A. Young as vice presidents, and A. J. Goodwin as cashier.
News notes report J J McPherson sustaining a forehead injury from flying timber at Woodstock furnaces but returning to work today. Also items mention registration week, Mrs. Wallace’s recovery from surgery in Birmingham, and various local notices about clothing, farming prospects, and charity aid.
Coosa Tribe No 83 I O R M announces council fire at their wigwam with work in the warrior and hunter degrees. All brothers in hunting grounds urged to attend. business to come before the tribe. Also notes about local tradesmen and lodge activities.
Fifty years ago tigers were common in western Tibet but population growth and cultivation reduced their numbers. A man eater killed a woman on Chipla prompted a hundred villagers to trap and kill the sleeping tiger with stones and axes after a fierce pursuit ending under a cliff.
A Richmond citizen appeals to those with weak lungs to try Dr King’s New Discovery. The remedy is claimed to cure throat and lung ailments including asthma bronchitis croup whooping cough and hemorrhages and is guaranteed at local druggists with 50 cent and one dollar prices. A trial bottle is offered.
A humorous quip explains that the taciturn man beside Miss Smith is Louis the Fourteenth. His name is Louis, and he is nicknamed the Fourteenth to prevent the party from being thirteen at table.
A collection of snappy comic exchanges with misheard lines and mockery of manners. Characters include Skately Dinkelspell Percy Willie and others trading playful jabs about health, jobs, and arithmetic. The piece uses phonetic humor and satire.
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