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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1916
Page
2
War correspondent Herbert Corey discusses the fame of Guynemer and Navarre in France. Their aerial exploits are celebrated in newspapers, shops, and streets, with debates over who truly holds the top score as official tallies vary.
Fragmentary ad text touts a new chemical discovery described as anuric. It claims relief from symptoms like backache and burning urine and mentions Tre, Preeve’s Pellets as a treatment. The language is promotional and contrasts unsafe “outsized” claims with supposed healing by a simple remedy.
The Calhoun county and city high school manual training and domestic science exhibits drew crowds. Items included a piano bench costing 42 cents in materials, a boy’s desk under $2, bookcases, a hall seat and hat rack, a flat top desk, and an electric lamp fixture. Garments and cooking displays showed neat work and good taste. The notebook and drawing work also impressed visitors. Elder G A Reynolds will preach at Friendship Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Mrs. J C Wright returned from a visit to Butaw. Several locals were noted visiting or traveling, with improvements cited in the year’s work.
Since opening of Mchrool a tram moved back to Choccolocco W H Treadwell left for Bristol Tenn to be located there in future Mrs Treadwell and the children will join him soon Miss Margaret Toland returned from Piedmont where she taught at the high school and will spend summer with her parents Glover Johnson is visiting in Cornelia Georgia with friends
Farmers rejoice over recent rains after cotton and corn planted but not emerged. Mrs Harper Jones and family from Birmingham visit relatives in Durham in a new car. Morrisville Sunday School and Literary Society attract more members while local debates on whiskey policy stir interest.
The Morrisville graveyard cleanup is planned for Saturday with all invited to help. Preaching at Morrisville Sunday by Brother Taber draws a large expected crowd. Mr Glen Propst escaped serious injury after his car overturned last Sunday. George Adama has been ill for a week. W F Morris attended the Birmingham reunion. Houston Wilbanks and wife visited Morrisville Sunday.
In San Francisco on May 24 the Japanese chamber of commerce reports plans for a capitalized marketing company serving Japanese farmers. They cite finance and marketing as main obstacles while about thirty thousand Japanese in California rely on land for their livelihood.
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