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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1907
Page
5
The Anniston Hardware Company asserts its sales approach based on value and customer choice. It highlights long experience with Studebaker products and announces plans to promote Anchor buggies carriages surveys phaetons and other vehicles while promising good service and price.
Pattern for a girl's dress No 5663 featuring a deep bertha and shirred waist and skirt. Describes construction with white Persian lawn, embroidered trimming, yoke options, and variations for lining or omission of the yoke. Sizes 8 10 12 14 years. pattern materials listed. send 10 cents and size to this office for mail delivery.
The piece lists humorous vignettes such as the Weerensee collection of fleas and a jokey Paris interaction. It features a set of caricatured characters including the Native, the Visitor, and Count de Bum Bum along with a shopkeeper, watchman, and book clerk in a playful dialogue.
The New York Times recounts a tale of a man who finds a pocket half dollar lacking the word sterling and explains a belief in a subtreasury exchanging bad money for good. A clerk at Washington’s subtreasury tests the coin with a mallet, breaking it into a battered Liberty face that forms a counterfeit mark.
The Washington Gazette surveys unusual bequests including T Bevan who asked for cremation and ash dispersed in air, an angler who wished ashes scattered over his favorite stream, Mrs Ernie-Brie-Drax who sought a glass coffin, and Lord Newborough who had his body exhumed after a year for reburial on Bardsey Island, a site famed as 20 000 saints resting place.
John B. Watson describes Jimmie the Rhesus monkey attempting a simple task. Tethered near grapes, Jimmie first bites and ignores the rake then strains toward fruit. He learns to pull the rake only when guided but never uses it unaided to retrieve the grape.
A Kansas man recalls Senator Ingalls and a doctor friend in Atchison who faced a persistent newsboy pestering the office. The anecdote begins with the boy approaching the doctor during Ingalls presence, illustrating old city humor.
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