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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1910
Page
8
The Oxford School Improvement Association members are called to meet at the school auditorium Wednesday at three oclock for important business and the annual election of officers. Miss Florida Pinson is noted in the report.
Fire department responded Saturday to a blaze in the servant house of B. C. Humphries. The fire was extinguished before they arrived, with the most damage to bed clothing where the fire started.
Dr. W H Price, a returned missionary from China, spoke to an audience at the Presbyterian church yesterday afternoon.
Washington move reports the Supreme Court recessing today until April 3 with no decisions issued on trust cases.
Boston March 20 plans for a great federation to include every railroad employe branch are under way following a mass meeting of railroad clerks in Faneuil Hall yesterday.
Booker's dialogue with his wife unfolds in the hallway of Ulrich’s apartment. An odd affidavit claims payment to Frank J. Cheney’s firm for each case of catarrh cured with Hall’s Catarrh Cure, sworn December 1880. Hall's Catarrh Cure advertises internal action on blood and mucous surfaces with testimonials and a Toledo address.
Little Hugh Kenner Brown arrives from Talladega to visit his grandfather Judge J H W Wilson and attend the Buster Brown performance. Mrs Clara Ross, previously with friends in Shreveport, La, is due to visit Mrs James Cunningham. J R Robinson visits from Atlanta, W J Webbard and son of Heflin spend time here, Miss Erma Yee returns to Ashland from a family visit. Judge W A Yeatman’s condition unchanged this morning. Will Snow of Hicks is a local visitor.
The man injured his wife describes Washington's injuries as painful with sixteen stitches to the head and a nearly torn ear. Mrs Ulrich testifies the accused spoke familiarly to her and followed her on the street before the trial tomorrow afternoon.
President Taft arrived in Washington from Augusta Georgia at nine o clock this morning. He looked browner than on leaving the capital and seemed to have shed his previous worried expression from the southern vacation.
Charleston March 20 A fire that started yesterday and is still burning swept eleven blocks destroying almost the entire national broom corn supply. Losses are expected to exceed three hundred thousand dollars.
Twenty-five firemen were injured in an all night butter fire at Monarch Storage plant in Chicago. More than one million pounds of butter burned and losses reach about one million dollars. The blaze followed by seventy one fires in twenty four hours.
Fourteen hundred telegraphers of the Illinois Central railroad will vote on a strike after the company refused a 25 percent wage increase plus thirty cents an hour overtime. Voting runs from March 27 to April 1 in Chicago.
Cen tennial marks the birth of Napoleon II the son of Napoleon I and Maria Louisa. He was styled King of Rome as a child and later Duke of Reichstadt in Austria. He died at Schoenbrunn Palace at age twenty one from consumption.
The note emphasizes that continued effort by the advertiser leads to success and that placed ads are worth checking. It urges readers to look up the tag and compare values, signaling the power of consistent promotion and due diligence in advertising.
A public notice describes property to be liquidated under a wanted when condition. The document specifies the process to turn the asset into cash, listing relevant dates and parties involved in the disposition.
An old style advertisement promotes buy your coal from T. O. Watson, claiming best grades at reasonable prices. It encourages readers to call the provided phone number to discuss arrangements.
Classified advertising presents highly specialized publicity options to boost offers or desires. The notice outlines targeted exposure, audience reach, and pricing for tailored promotional campaigns.
A Polish store notes that ads must pay for themselves or the advertising budget is wasted. If the ad earns revenue, it benefits the business. otherwise, funds are squandered. The paragraph argues for effective ad investments and measurable returns.
A street tale cites a boy trading ice cream for a nickel to see a show and then crying after a bigger boy robs him. Clergymen urge censoring cheap films, arguing pictures shape children and many offerings tempt youth toward crime. managers bear responsibility for wholesome entertainment.
Dr Frederick Peterson warned that alcohol is the chief poison factor in insanity. He claimed six thousand New York patients owe their insanity to alcohol and that about 30,000 nationwide are affected. Dr McDonald estimated annual losses to New York and the U S total tens of millions from alcohol related insanity.
The text estimates 30,000 insane in New York hospitals with 20 percent due to alcohol and 150,000 nationwide, implying 30,000 alcohol related cases. Dr MacDonald cites a $400 annual cost per insane person, totaling about $2.4 million for New York and $12 million nationwide.
A speaker argues for a strong national temperance law to end liquor sales. He links alcohol to ruinous social ills from crime to broken homes and poverty, urging enforcement by officials for the good of American families and national character.
Heads of Germany's chemical industry circulate a call urging members to educate workers on alcohol harms. The memo advocates banning alcohol in factories, offering non alcoholic drinks, reading rooms and worker homes, and punishing violations with dismissal to reduce accidents and health decline.
The Retail Liquor Dealers' Association and wholesalers, brewers, and distillers fear a rising wave of intelligent thinking. Citizens nationwide show a crystallizing sentiment calling for delivery of the Union from the abuse and use of liquor in any quantity.
The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company reports its employees have pledged to abstain from liquor on and off duty. Initial figures showed 25,000 names, with a later update raising the total to 40,000 pledges.
In 1844 five million people in the United States and Ireland signed a pledge urged by Father Matthew an Irish priest who joined temperance work after a Quaker prompted him to act.
A deterrent note on drinking links the habit to family disaffection social neglect of duty and rise in crime, warning readers of the moral dangers and social costs of intoxication.
The excerpt argues that there is no shortcut to wisdom and rules only imitate wisdom. It emphasizes common sense as the ability to consider all sides of a case and pick a practical solution. Insanity is linked to fixation on a single idea, while a sane person compares new impressions with existing knowledge to decide if they fit.
The author argues common sense is unreliable and people defer to rules and authorities. Yet true success requires knowing when to follow or break rules, such as paying cash versus credit to build a great business.
The passage argues that artificial rules guide behavior but true character comes from principles. A good man acts from inner disposition rather than outward conduct. Rules tempt hypocrisy, while principles shape consistent, genuine virtue and deeds that flow from one’s nature.
The Westminster Gazette notes a French tobacco tax growth with per person yearly expenditure of 48 francs and 11 francs 97 centimes going to revenue. The monopoly dates from 1674 under Louis XIV with interruptions during revolutions and restorations. Income figures rise from 2,480,000 dollars first year after renewal to 23,000,000 dollars forecast, with 1908 yield at 20,360,000.
An Atchison Globe piece notes a common superstition that a son ends a mother's future stresses. A newborn man child brings protection and care, with the mother called Little Mother, but the son later forgets and marries, leaving the mother’s concerns unresolved.
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