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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1902
Page
6
A city official recalls a comically misread dinner scene in a dimly lit restaurant. The narrator and wife attend a meal with a host who vanishes from a corner seat as a mirrored trick reveals a hidden observer among diners. The quirky tale ends with a note on hunger and misperception.
An Exchange letter questions the term cafe used for coffee houses in America arguing the label misleads by signaling liquor sales in many cases. The writer criticizes foreign origin labels and suggests plain terms like meat or bread would be clearer.
A faithful Irish worker earns a holiday with a month off to visit his brother after steady service. His employer grants the request and gives a new traveling bag as a gift. Tim questions what to do with it, asking what clothes to put inside and how he will wear them.
A Washington correspondent once praised suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as old war features yet faced backlash. The writer said the women kicked like young fillies, and the correspondent subsequently lost his job.
An Anglo-Indian narrator describes an English judge in India using a typewriter to take notes in court. The device produced clicks and bells as proceedings unfolded. The prisoner was found guilty and sentenced, but appealed claiming the judge played a music making instrument instead of hearing evidence.
A loud talking patient is silenced by a doctor who demands to see the tongue and instructs her to keep it in place while he delivers his diagnosis. The scene portrays a stern method to curb incessant speech.
The passage argues that nothing can be destroyed, only transformed. It compares a Thoreau idea of gathering and scattering to natural cycles where decay feeds new growth, so nothing is lost as one form becomes another.
A maid reports the dyer cannot dye a silk dress to match the lady's hair as requested. The lady suggests asking the dyer what it would cost to dye her hair to match the silk, noting the colors clash as they stand.
A Philadelphia bank rejects a customer relying only on a handle for identification. The Philadelphia Record notes banks require formal ID beyond casual names for security and trust services.
A neighbor named Chiengo notes a woman’s strenuous effort to meet social expectations, which leaves visible strain on her cheeks as she strives to please others.
Fragmentary items show a young woman thanking a friend for a day old kitten with a pink bow though the color is disputed. Another girl struggles to spell and convey a message to her mother by telephone amid garbled fragments.
A medieval tale claims Lord Thnere of the Lancastrians was buried seated on his favorite horse after Towton in 1461. Excavations near Lord Dacre’s supposed grave yielded a horse skull standing upright, supporting the longheld belief.
A visitor recalls Manila’s extreme monsoon with thirteen inches of rain in one September day and fifty seven inches that month. Despite flooding the rain recedes quickly and the sun returns hotter, yet many locals still prefer Manila for its intense weather and atmosphere.
A gifted boy received a blue glass goblet for his seventh birthday and it became his daily meal companion. One night he stared into the goblet and exclaimed in wonder that a cow could not have been ripe, a humorous remark cited from Current Literature.
In Chicago a wife explains her husband’s monthly temper tantrums. he rips her hat but buys a better one the next day. Miss Singleton questions the label dear old darling, while Mrs Temperton notes his prompt remorse and gift gesture.
An East Indian law student confounded examiners by calling marriage a lottery and lotteries forbidden by law. He smiled and explained that matrimony is a lottery, thus illegal.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer note recalls a mis tress who was busy and had her maid compose a letter. The maid mentions only one winter at night school and a poor pen. The anecdote highlights miscommunication and literacy in domestic life.
A youthful member of parliament recalls being advised to "go home to his mother" by a bibulous audience member. He retorts that the advisor would benefit from following his own counsel, claiming the man has not outgrown his fondness for the bottle.
A saying links heredity environment and will. If heredity and environment of the child are proper, the will will choose the right and act accordingly.
Fragmentary text shows a partial quote with a second person name likely misread and the phrase I am going to not doing it. The source lacks clear event or location details.
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