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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1907
Page
4
The document presents February 1907 circulation totals with daily print runs and weekly totals. It includes a signed statement by EB. B. McKee, general manager, and notarization by LEDBETTER, dated March 1, 1907, with the March 19, 1907 issue date.
The piece argues that Anniston’s prosperity is tied to Woodstock furnace activity and recalls a spring near South Noble Street said to lure residents back to the city. It cites anecdotes of people who drank the spring water and returned, cautioning against dismissing ancient omens.
The article urges thorough cleaning of premises and alleys to ward off sickness as warmer weather arrives. It emphasizes that clean surroundings reduce illness and promotes health.
The text alleges Hubbard donated his newspaper business to a brown finish and criticizes his papers as poor. It mentions a man in Hubbard's condition needing liver medicine and a harsh digestion remedy. It also discusses a supposed Confederate who did not attend a Brownsville shooting, affecting Foraker's planned pyrotechnic display.
The Madras fishermen use a three-log catamaran lashed together to ride the surf and reach ships with letters. Despite danger and storms, a lone oar guides one or two men out to sea, earning pennies from deliveries and proving the craft astonishingly seaworthy.
The piece surveys folk beliefs attributing earthquakes to various creatures and spirits. It cites Mongolia a frog, China a dragon, India an elephant, Celebes a hog, other lands a bull or tortoise, Siberia trolics of mammoths, and Vancouver Island a spirit of evil guiding wicked people.
The ad offers one hundred dollars reward for an uncured catarrh and touts Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. It presents testimonials from Walding Kinnan Marvin as wholesale druggists and asserts the cure works internally for blood and mucous surfaces. Price 75 cents per bottle and pills for constipation are urged.
The Travelers' Club rejected Thackeray amid fears of a future novel portrayal, while a quarrel over George Moore's Brooks' election led to a mistaken mislabeling as a scoundrel. Nineteen of twenty two votes were black balls before the ceremony was delayed and Moore was later admitted unanimously.
A settlers group named their new town Dictionary claiming it the only place where peace prosperity and happiness are always found. The idea of God as a footstool maker and enemies as raw material remains a popular notion in some circles.
It was iron that drew Samuel Noble and Gen Daniel Tyler to this part of Alabama. The high grade iron and the Woodstock charcoal furnaces made the South’s famous industry. Noble and the Woodstock company built Anniston as a model city, and with iron again being produced here, Anniston fulfills its destiny as a great iron making city.
The coming of gentle spring should serve as a reminder that spring clean up and refresh rituals deserve attention beyond dwelling spaces. Communities may embrace broader efforts to renew routines and surroundings.
Eczema, tetter, salt rheum, itch, ring worm, herpes, barber's itch are described as intensely itchy and relieved nearly instantly by Chamberlain's Salve. The ad claims many cures where other treatments failed with a permanent cure possible. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by J. L. Wikle.
A prominent journal extols a blood cleansing recipe using Fluid Extract of Dandelion, Compound Karyon, and Compound Syrap Sarsaparilla. It claims to purge impurities, renew blood, boost energy, relieve rheumatism, and assist kidneys and liver, recommending home preparation by any pharmacist.
The Philadelphia Ledger quotes a witty exchange as a grass widow remarks on a guilty verdict prompting a possible second trial. She comments on marital error and the notion of reevaluating a union after the verdict. The dialogue highlights social attitudes toward divorce and remarriage in the era.
The week’s bride quips that Jack knows all she knows and vice versa. Her ex-rival responds that their time together must feel heavy with quiet, reflecting rivalries and social pressures surrounding a new marriage.
A fragment from Brooklyn Life compares early affection to teeth, noting the first kiss as a prerequisite for the next stage of experience. The dialogue features Stela and Bella reflecting on emotional development and social norms.
In a terse exchange, Mr Askins questions Why don’t you go to work as Weary Ways refuses, recalling that his grandfather worked nearly every day for ninety seven years before dying. The grim dialogue underscores weary endurance and the toll of labor.
Open letter from President R. L. Carr urges Calhoun County Sunday School superintendents to appoint delegates for the state convention in Birmingham on April 9 to 11. Each school may send the superintendent and two delegates. send names to Mr and Dy Monroe in Birmingham. Fare is one fare plus 25 cents round trip.
Selma Mayor Atkins after visiting Mobile favors creosoted block for business streets. He notes asphalt pavements require repair plants and Mobile struggles with contracts, leading to growing holes in the pavement.
The Anniston Electric and Gas Company will hire two young ladies to canvass and demonstrate gas stove use this spring and summer. Apply to Miss Helen Beveridge for 12 demonstrations at the Alabama Hotel starting March 20 at 3 p.m. Ken to office, corner Tenth and N.
The text presents a dialogue between a boy and a kid about self image and reactions to insults from a girl. It uses playful dialect to explore how each character processes teasing and seeks reassurance or dignity.
A surgeon reflects on a fatal error after giving arsenic in place of salts to a patient yesterday. The doctor remains unremorseful, claiming to have a substitute considered just as effective.
Fragmentary quotation discusses Galliel and Ellicot in a scene of timing and motion. It mentions a pendulum, breath puffs, and two clocks ticking apart by a wall. The passage reads as a skewed literary or scientific aside with no clear event or attribution.
In a quiet family scene a father shares a humorous tale during dessert. The laughter fades and Tommy’s request for another story highlights his playful anticipation.
Saturday evening a small black mare is missing or stray. Reward offered for return to Joel Eason in Oxford. mh18-to
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