Local notices from Anniston and Gadsden
Local items report travel by H P Salter and J K Lanning and business in Gadsden. Anniston youths discuss police elections. Alabama bankers meet in Birmingham May 17 18 with no Anniston participants. Local firms advertise gas ranges coal and wall paper while Odd Fellows plan a new lodge and police raid disrupts a craps game.
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W. H. McKleroy
Lodge of
Odd Fellows
Twinemont
Net
Twine Mill
Blue Mountain Lodge No
TRAINING OF CHILDREN IN MANNERS AND MOTIVATION
The Youths Companion notes that manners arise from unselfishness rather than mere convention. Parents differ on teaching, but true charm comes from the genuine desire to please others and to cultivate kindness, not just outward polish.
Long Lived Razors and Veteran Shavers
A barber recalls razors lasting decades and the TWV Series he sold, noting a customer who has worn out a razor in twenty five years. The piece cites the New York Press quote about value and durability of old tools.
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New York Press
Miserable Mindset Warned by Kingsley Advice
A Kingsley quotation warns that focusing on self and demanding respect leads to impurity and misery. It argues that such self-centered thoughts ruin what one touches and corrupt what God sends, ending in wretchedness by choice.
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Charles Kingsley
Mistaken Occupations and the Value of Fit Work
A quotation argues that choosing the right occupation matters greatly for personal and moral progress. It contrasts potential misdirections with the happiness of doing what one can, citing figures like Handel and Schiller to show the cost of misaligned careers.
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Handel
Turner
Claude Lorraine
Schiller
Pascal
Lida A. Churchill
Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription Promises Safe Woman’s Health
An advertiser extols Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription as a nonaddictive, known composition remedy for "woman’s peculiar diseases." It cites forty years of cures, insists on open formula, warns against secret nostrums, and offers free letters of consultation from Dr. R V Pierce in Buffalo New York.
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Pierce
Dr. Pierce
R.V. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel and Sum Institute
Buffalo
N. 7
Old stage line ad highlights 35 day California trip for 200 in gold
A Kansas City Star reader recalls an 1857 Atchison to California stagecoach handbill offering 200 in gold fare for 1013 miles in 35 days. It touts new wagonettes, telegraph stops, 25 pounds baggage, and a risky return with gold dust.
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California
Atchison, Kan
San Francisco
Atchison and California
Stagecoach Ine
Stagecoach Line
Atchison
Denver
Kansas City Star
Misread Sermon Notice Sparks Debate on Bible and Science
A passerby in Fifth Avenue stops at a church bulletin board and questions a Rev Doctor's claim to discuss Deuteronomy and astronomy. She insists preachers should stick to the Bible and leave science alone, challenging the clergyman’s expertise.
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Fifth Avenue
New York Telegram
Used to It in Courtroom Exchange
A barrister apologizes after asking many questions of a woman. He asks if the questions annoy her. She replies she is used to it and mentions her one year old son. Philadelphia liquor.
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Philadelphia
Attitude Before Murder Recalled In London Tatler Note
The London Tatler questions what attitude a person reached before his murder described as an assassination. The writer urges clarification of the matter as one long troubling issue.
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London
Tatler
Engagement with Kittie Cutely Reported
In a brief exchange from the Tlous ton Post the speaker notes that the subject did not go to the dogs after refusal but instead became engaged to Kittie Cutely, described as the little cat.
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Kittie
Tlouston Post
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Pat Allen
Alabama
Anniston Banking & Loan
M. B. Wellborn
Bill
Jim
VIM
Kall 3 Mining
Geo. W. Persell
Cater Grocery Co
Anniston Oak Tannery
W. M. Schroeder
H. P. Salter
J. K. Lanning
Gadsden
Anniston Typographical Union No
Model Ice C Co
J.C. Sproul
O. M. Reynolds
Anniston
The
Model Ice Co
John Williams
Saks’ Store
G. FE. Harrison
Gadsden Times- News
R. O. Watson
Shied
Harmon
C. W. Cohen & Co
Noble Street
Annist
Mountainboro
L. M. Dyke
Attalla Bank
Co. W. Cohen & Co
Jamestown
Kansas
City of AnnIston
State of Alabama
First National Bank
Ala
Resources
U. S
W. W. Stringfellow
T. H. A. Young
A. J. Goodwin
Cashier
A. W. Bell
J. B. Knox
A. L. Tyler
J. M. Garvin
W. L. McCaa
A. L. Tyler Jr
J. B. Goodwin
J. C. Sproull
E. L. Turner
Carre-Field Shoe CO
G. H. Brummell & CO
Brummell] & Pinson
Twelfth Street
Quintard Ave
Aim
Thomas E. Kilby
State of
Anniston City Land Company
WM. A. Davis
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