Hall of Fame unveiling in New York features numerous dignitaries
The second unveiling at the Hall of Fame on the New York University grounds gathered Gov Hughes of New York and Gov Sinith of Massachusetts with twelve patriotic societies. Speakers honored Emma Willard, Maria Mitchell, Mary Whitney, John Paul Jones, John Adams, James Madison, and other notable figures across sections for women, foreign-born Americans, statesmen, soldiers, teachers, and authors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Star New York
Hughes
New York
Sinith
Massachusetts
Appukers
Hall of Fame
New York University
Fama Willard
Emma Willard Association
Charles B. Patterson
Mary Lyron
Mount Holyoke College
J. 1. Walton
Marian Mitchell
Nantucket
Maria Mitchell Association
Mary W. Whitney
Vassar College
Loggia
Jobn Paul Jonee
Daughters of American Revelation
Mia
Donald Mel
Alexander Hamilton
Colonial Dames of America
Helen van Lortlandt de Joyster
Lotia Agansiz
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Charles D. Walcott
Amithdenian Institution
Statesmen's Corner
James Madison
Sons of the Revolution
Russell Bayne
John Quincey Adams
Sons of the American Revolution
Warren Higley
Howard Smith Leaves Anniston for Montgomery
The many Anniston friends regret that Howard Smith leaves tomorrow for Montgomery to take a court reporter position. He has been chief clerk in the buying department at Western Steel Car and Foundry Company and has performed excellent work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anniston
Howard Smith
Montgomery
Smith
Western Steal Car and Foundry Company
Oxygen and Nitrogen in Nature
The New York Journal notes oxygen, named from the Greek oxua, is the most abundant substance in the earths crust and forms most of water and a large portion of the air. It supports life and combustion and without it no breathing or flame. Nitrogen is equally essential as the indispensable element in food and soil from which all food primarily comes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Journal
Picnic and weddings anchor social notes in Anniston
Oxford Lake picnic crowds with Miss Matthews guiding the class include Thelma Bester Mary Britton Nelly Doty Lillye Mae Hall Janie Fivie Mary Sawyer and Charlotte Simpson plus guests Miss Snellgrove and helpers Coleman and McKenzie. Ethel Pitts stays for Bullard Wilson wedding at Talladega and Miss Lyonle Smith honored by Epworth League with special Friday party. Carringtons move to Anniston with Nobile rental. various local visits and university events noted.
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Oxford Lake
Com
Powell
Misa Ethel Matthews
Parker Memorial
Misa Matthews
Thelma Bester
Mary Britton
Nelly, Doty
Lillye Mae Hall
Janie Fivie
Mary Sawyer
Charlotte Simson
Viola Strickland
Pierrie Thompson
Barnell Whelchel
Jia Snellgrove
Miss Matthews
Coleman
McKenzie
Ethel Pitts
Alice Trullard
Mississippi
Bullard Wilson
Talladega
Anniston
Oxford
Miss Smith
Epworth League
First Methodist Church
Lyonle Smith
Lees
Tenth
Wilmer Streets
Misa Smith
Reclaims the Waste and its New Machine Venture
A man unveils a waste reclamation operation claiming high iron content from 40 to 30 percent and output of about 150 tram car loads per day with 15 workers. He notes sand and slag are merchantable for paying and ballast use, and promises a future improved machine and further details.
Free Delivery in Talladega Begins
Talladega prepares a free mail delivery system to start by June first with three divisions and designated carriers N Franklin Riddle Albert W Stone James C Puckett and Clarence Stockdale serving as substitute. The business district includes Talladega College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talladega
N. Franklin Riddle
Albert W. Stone
James C. Puckett
Clarence 1
Stockdale
Talladega College
North Street
Towels Bid to Clean Hands of Legislators
Bids opened for towels to dry lawmakers hands during the upcoming session in Washington. In one month last winter members and attaches used 32 315 bath towels and 1 617 bath towels, totaling 33 932. Laundering costs exceeded 100 dollars for the batch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Uncle Sam
Senate
House
Helena Sent to Troubled China
The gunboat Helena is ordered from Shanghai to Amoy and then Swatow in Kwang Tung province to protect American interests amid the Chinese revolution. The vessel will not interfere unless necessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Star
Washington
Navy Department
Helena
Shanghai
Amoy
China
Swatoy
Kwang Tung
Jenifer Iron and Coal Co Incorporation in Alabama
The Jenifer Iron and Coal Company of Birmingham has notified the secretary of state of its incorporation in Jefferson county with a capital of 150000 dollars. Incorporators include J M Riebs Jr Frederick Hoff man and Charles R Schmidt. The firm will operate the Jenifer furnace in the Anniston district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Star
Montgomery
Jenifer Iron and Coal Company of
Birmingham
Secretary of State
Jefferson County
J. M. Riebs Jr
Fred Hoffman
Charles R. Schmidt
Anniston
Personal notices show local deputies and returning residents
Deputy Sheriff R. L. Phillips returned home last night after a business trip. Mr. Cornelius Landers of Talladega, formerly of this city, visited today. Roy Woodruff, with his father and sister Miss Besse, returned from the university. Mr D. Woodruff, expected from the Tuscaloosa commencement, arrived this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Howard
Williams
Mr. Williams
Birmingham
George BE. Cater
Mexico
R. L. Phillips
Cornelius Landers
Talladega
Oae
Mr. Roy Woodruff
Miss Besse
University
D. Woodruff
Tuscaloosa
Walter Scott as a Boy and Early Life
Young Walter Scott endured a severe fever at eighteen months that left him lame for life. A Bath visit offered no cure, but he grew up reading at a dame school and taking private lessons from kin. A theater night with Captain Robert Scott sparked his memory with the line not when one brother claimed kin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Walter Scott
Bath
Robert Scott
Scott
Orlando
This Date in History Highlights and Births
A list of historical anniversaries includes Columbus’s third voyage in 1498, Henri III of France born in 1574, Rubens death in 1640, Empress Josephine’s 1814 death, Alfred Austin born 1835, Hudson’s Bay charter in 1838, Garfield memorial in 1800, the 1898 US France treaty, and Paul Kruger’s 1900 flight from Pretoria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
New World
Henri III
France
Peter Paul Rubens
Josephine
Napoleon I
Alfred, Austin
Hudson Bay Company
Garfield
Cleveland
United States
Paul Kruger
Pretoria
Bucklen's Arnica Salve Advertised by North Carolina Writer
J G Jenkins of Chapel Hill N C urges spreading Bucklen's Arnica Salve calling it best for sores burns and wounds. He notes it quickly relieves pain from a felon and heals rapidly. Available for 25 cents at Elam Ordway Houser and Scarbrough Drug Co stores.
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Bucklen
J. G. Jenkins
Chapel Hill
N. Cc
Elam
Ordway & Houser’s
Scarbrough Drug Co
The Snow Bunting in Arctic Wastes
The snow bunting a polar singing bird native to Spitsbergen and Novaya Zemlya, with warm winter plumage and a single hind-claw aiding snow travel. It feeds on insects in summer and moss roots and seeds in winter, roams between climates in famine, and shares the Arctic landscape with puffins divers loons dovekies kitl skuas burgomasters kittiwakes terns swans geese hawks eagles and many ducks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spitabergen
Nova Zembia
America
Europe
Keeping Up Appearances in a First Class Restaurant
A tall man in a faded black suit complains to the cashier in a first class restaurant about slow service. He stalks out after a terse salvo and heads to a nearby five cent lunch counter, picking his teeth as he walks.
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Chicago Tribune
Memorial Day’s Confederate Roots and Nationwide Adoption
The Memorial Day origin traces to widows and children of Confederate dead and later spread north. In 1868 General John A. Logan ordered May 30 as a day for post ceremonies and graveside flowers, leading states to adopt it as a legal holiday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Logan
Cincinnati Enquirer
Blood Composition and the Role of White Corpuscles
A historical note explains that blood has solid corpuscles and liquid plasma with one third corpuscles. It states white corpuscles are deadly enemies of bacteria and germs, acting as watchdogs of the body, per Metchnikoff of the Pasteur Institute.
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Hall OF Pam
William Tecumseh Sherman
Grand Army of the Republic
James A. Blanchard
Moraece Mann
National Educational Nation
William i. Maxwell
Public Schools of
New York City
John Greenleaf Whittier
the Peace Society of New York
Benjamin Trueblood
The
American Peace Society
James Russell Lowell
National Arts Club
Charles Henry Babtock
Edward 8. Mowe
Peabody Academy of Science
Albert J. Smiley
Lake Mohonk
Richard Watson Gilder
Emer
McMillin
Adelaide Hamilton
Alexander, Hamilton
Anniston Boy
Price
J. A. Dulose
Selma
P. Kennedy
Laura
Oliver
Mrs. Kennedy
Carrington
Snd
B. Carrington
A. R. Nobile
Highland Avenue
Miss Fulmer
Sylacanga
Lucile Smith
Carrie Draper
Randolph-Macon College
Virginia
W. A. Davis
Clifford Davis
Sesson
Capt
Mrs. van Arsdel
Athens
Mary Mabry Kennedy
Miss Mayo
Knoxville
Tenn
J. P. Roberts
Anniston and
McFall
Esther Hubbard
Emma Chambers
Jenifer Company S
Walter Scott
Silvsmith
R. Steeler& Son
Furniture Bargains
Hill Building
Foard
D Safeguard
City National Bank
State of
Alabama
Anniston Steam Laundry
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