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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1901
Page
7
A program to prepare teachers offers a state life certificate and free tuition. Demand for graduates exceeds supply as the eighteenth session begins September 11, 1900. For a catalog, address the board at eight dollars per month.
Condensed timetable listing passenger routes from Birmingham via Atlanta to New York with connections through Greensboro and Washington. Notes include Pullman sleeping cars Birmingham to New York, dining and library observation cars, and multiple through services No 36 No 38 No 28. Officials include Jackson T P A Birmingham and Freeman P A Selma with Gannon G P A Washington DC.
Southern Railway announces one fare round trip tickets from Cleveland Tennessee Chattanooga Tennessee Attalla Alabama Talladega Alabama Atlanta Georgia and intermediate points to Rome Georgia for the Free Street Fair and Carnival to be held March 11 to 16 1901. Tickets on sale March 11 to 16 with final return limit March 17 1901. For details contact a Southern Railway ticket agent.
The Southern Railway will sell one fare round trips from all lines to New Orleans for the General Missionary Conference of the M and Church South in New Orleans April 24 to 30, 1901. Tickets sold April 22 to 24, with return limit May 2, 1901. Call a Southern Railway Ticket Agent for details.
The Choctaw Route will run three trains daily between Memphis and Hot Springs Ark starting October 7. The service expands to double daily runs to Indian and Oklahoma Territories with connections to Southwest Missouri Kansas Texas and the West.
The readable text refers to a public sale or notice with limited context and several garbled phrases. No clear names, dates, or locations are discernible to identify a specific event or party involved.
Notice to creditors that Ella W. Brothers is appointed executrix by the Probate Judge of Calhoun County Alabama for the estate of S. D. G. Brothers deceased. Creditors must present claims or be barred. Jos. J. Witsurt attorney. February 12.
The Chicago Times Herald notes robins leave for the sunny south ahead of cold snaps. They sense change, avoid risk, and migrate while days stay fair, proving wiser than many men who wait for luck to hold.
In Paris, a painter mocked a dissatisfied Count de X by adding oversized donkey ears to four crayon portraits after the count refused payment. The public display drew the count back to offer a higher price, and the artist revealed the gag by noting the ears would reveal the likeness.
A large man narrates how a tiny passenger sat on him in a tram. He shrank rapidly afterward. He learns the other man was the coroner, and he worries about fate and superstitions ahead. The London Mail reports the odd tale.
The London Daily Mail notes that Malay natives eat cicadas as a luxury. A naturalist in the region describes nighttime harvesting using torches and drums to attract and drive the insects, which cluster on bodies then are cooked and eaten.
The article notes Queen Victoria gave Charles Dickens a personal compliment during a Windsor dinner, presenting a copy of Tour In the Highlands with a royal fly leaf. It contrasts her treatment of Dickens with her later peerage of Lord Tennyson, and includes a humorous London Fan anecdote about generosity from a cabman.
A collage recounts a Napoleonic era siege at Pescara with a brigadier general De Pietramaggiore and a marquis heir, then shifts to an 1830s tale of Wellington as prime minister and Queen Victoria’s clemency. It closes with Athens dairy lore and a humorous pronunciation poem from Scribner’s and the Boston Journal.
The column cites wit about Bilkins and his wife misreading cough lozenges as chips and a lawyer who owns his client. It notes global surveillance by spies, hinting at lingering distrust of authority and a sensational cadence typical of era notes.
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