Local Fraternal Meetings and Community Notices
Local notes report J. M. Curry council No. 6 Jr. 0. 7 A. M. plans a semi monthly session with work and visiting Juniors invited. Calhoun lodge No. 46 selects Dr. T. Z. Brothers as alternate representative to the grand lodge. Anniston lodge No. 443 and First Methodist church announce services and events. Col. R. Lee Byrd visits. gas and water heater ads appear. police court adds $151.10 to city exchequer. diverse local business promotions and weather and agricultural notes conclude.
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Calhoun Lodge No
Knights of Pythias
T. Z. Brothers
Grand Lodge
Driving the Logs from an Old River Drive
The piece extols the true riverman who rides a log as his vehicle and labor tool. He never lands except to eat or sleep, moving with grace through swift, perilous water, leaping logs, balancing with a peavy, and daring rear men who ride upright through dam chutes.
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Duck Boyd
Grand Tiver
Stewart Edward White
Outing Magazine
Fear and the Hair Through the Ages
The piece notes tales of hair standing on end linked to fear and supernatural signs from biblical times to the 19th century. It cites Eliphaz and Job, an 1825 horse thief execution with hair that stood upright, Cardinal Paccaeus reacting to Pius VII, and Ecclesiasticus describing the impact of oaths on hair.
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Job
Eliphaz
Pacea
Pius VII
Ecclesiasticus
Plays and Players Features and Plans This Season
Three companies have given 800 per formances of The College Widow this season. Sallie Fisher is engaged for the prima donna Rosebud in Noahs Ark. Grace George starred in The Marriage of William Ashe and a London production is planned. The Lion and the Mouse second act uses solid wood set. Frothingham to appear in violin reed for the summer opera season. Modjeska writes memoirs in Polish. translation to English planned. Frolman brothers to stage Father Jerome with Richard Bennett in the lead. Mrs Fiske to tour the Pacific coast in The New York Idea with an expanded city itinerary.
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Sallie Fisher
Rosebud
William Ashe
Grace George
London
Charrles Klein
George Ti. Frothingham
Iiolin Fieed
Dr King's New Life Pills Offer Cure Claims
Purported remedies urge avoidance of drastic purgatives for appendicitis and claim Dr King's New Life Pills cleanse and invigorate. Advertises availability at Elam Ordway and Houser’s and Scarbrough Drug Co stores with broad health promises.
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Dr. King
New Life
Elam
Ordway & Houser’s
Scarbrough Drug Co
Noahs ark taller than a house seen in New York
Four year old Cameron visiting New York with his mother described an enormous Noahs ark he saw in Central Park. He told his older brother about the wonderful things he witnessed during the trip in a small town southern household.
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Cameron
South
New York
Central Park
Noah's Ark
Harper's Tf
Travel in Abyssinia
Frank Mowrer, former consul general to Addis Ababa, offers a vivid account of Abyssinia. He notes dangers for lone whites, the rarity of white women, native customs, and the beauty of birds and lions, with practical observations about health, cuisine, and daily life.
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Abyssinia
Frank Mowrer
Adis Ababa
Leghorn
New York
Pennsylvania
Virginia
New England
Washington Post
Convertible chair that forms a couch from two joined sections
A Pennsylvania inventor patents a convertible chair that can transform into a couch. The seat and cushions split into two sections that telescope and spread, turning the chair into a full-length seating unit with head and foot ends.
Chintz Decor Trend Extends to Bedroom Walls
Chintzes remain popular as a design fad with walls now matching curtains and furniture. A recently finished bedroom showcased pink and green flowered chintz on walls, trimmed with a pink gimp, creating a cohesive, attractive look. Some opt for chintz borders with plain paper to save on full wall coverings.
Grace in carriage signals inner worth and poise
The Columbus Dispatch notes that a woman who carries herself erect and with grace earns more respect. It warns that slouched posture hides inner beauty and that outward appeal helps express inner sweetness.
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Columbus Dispatch
Wealth and restraint in living within one’s means
A reflection on budgeting and the dangers of wealth excess. The speaker argues that with a modest income like 100 pounds a year one can be free and self sufficient, yet with 5000 pounds a year wealth could bring domination, fear of judgment, and loss of liberty, urging prudent money management.
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Tan
Tiefan
Two Curious Autographs and Sleep in Old Age
The article notes costly autographs bought in Paris in 1851 and two brief signatures as witnesses to French government aid amid unrest. It then discusses sleep across life, noting infancy to old age, with emphasis on the value of early hours for health and beauty and a reference to psychological experiments from the Pall Mall Gazette.
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Lord Clancarty
Paris
Clairon
Mile Clairon
Chaptal
Pall Mat Gazette
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Wilmer Hotel
Triaon
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Col
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Panama Canal
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Col. Byrd
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Taft
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Iron City
E. M. Lewis
Empire
Montevallo
Jelico
Modjeska
Poland
Charles
Gustav Frolman
Jerome
Richard Bennett
Bradierd Segulator Co
Atlanta, Ga
California Fig Syrup Co
United States
Secretary of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
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San Francisco
Cal
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Louisville, Ky
Anniston Electric & Gas
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