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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1906
Page
3
A Mt Zion event features a morning and afternoon program for Beat 2 Sunday schools led by Pastor W. H. Griffin and C. A. Hollingeworth. The program includes songs, recitations, prayers, and addresses with participants such as Lizzie Em, Essie Lanford, Nannie Lou Whisenant, and J Woods.
The 387th annual meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners opened in Washington with a focus on a uniform insurance law. A committee met with the American Bar Association in Minneapolis, producing a bill intended as a general model for action in Congress and for states including the District of Columbia and territories.
Long before Shakespeare the bay tree symbolized misfortune when it withered. The idea appears in Richard II and in ancient beliefs that lightning spares the tree. English lore linked bay leaves to thunder charms and death as seen in old verses and poems.
A tile of horror reports human blood found in the home of J. W. Williams, a prominent merchant of Bae Kentucky. He claims twenty years of severe lung hemorrhages ended after using Dr. King’s New Discovery which he says cured him and kept him well. The ad touts the remedy as a cure for hemorrhages, coughs, colds and bronchitis with bottles guaranteed by West End Drug Co and Ordway & Houser Drug Co. Trial bottle offered free.
A historical note explains that radium disintegration releases about one billion great calories per gram as helium. Reconstructing the dissipated elements would need equal energy, making synthesis hopeless. German physicist W Meigen suggests element dissipation is irreversible, like heat loss.
In various countries ants are eaten as a delicacy. They are spread on bread with butter and sauces. In Siam they are costly and accessible mainly to the well to do. Northern Europe trades them, cooking and boiling them to produce vinegar or formic acid.
A Kansas City Star joke has a clergyman asking the choir leader to rouse the male members. The leader quips that he could hire a widow to stir interest, but the women would then claim the revenue.
Mrs Ora Buscard of Bru baker Ll states two years ago her child suffered pneumonia and a severe cough. After using Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy the coughing stopped and she gained weight. The remedy is sold by J I Wikle.
J O Heflin and Co are noted as contractors and builders in a historical listing. The brief item identifies the firm and its trade without detailing projects or locations.
An advertisement assures mothers that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is safe for small children with no injurious ingredients. It praises its effectiveness for coughs colds and croup and notes sales by J. L. Winie.
A blue transparent butterfly frames a news article with its wings. The professor calls it the pteropodal Mediterranean butterfly and notes it eats fish using hooked teeth on its tongue. He mentions its rarity outside the Mediterranean and rare Florida or California coast sightings.
A woman explains that intuition is not mysterious but a refined method of reasoning from observation. She notes the intuitional person perceives many details overlooked by duller minds and that this ability is not exclusive to women.
A Cary Maine postmistress praised Dr King’s New Life Pills as the best remedy for stomach liver and bowels. The laxative purifiers are sold by West End Drug Co and Elam Ord way Houser druggists at 25 cents with a guarantee.
Thousands of bottles of foreign wines cordials and hundreds of gallons of beverages were auctioned in New York at the United States appraiser stores. The sale, a long feature of customs work, was the biggest in the service's New York history with many items labeled One claimed goods to cover duty and storage costs.
An editorial from the New York Press argues that cities should supply ice as a public good, even if inefficient. It claims health benefits justify costs, reducing public dependence and benefiting the founder population, with public ownership seen as superior to private operation in warming seasons.
The Louisville Post editorial argues against Chicago’s push for municipal ownership, saying existing health, nuisance, and police laws already regulate slaughterhouses. It asserts that proper enforcement by city officials would reduce calls for federal intervention and questions the necessity of municipal ownership.
The intense itching of eczema and tetter is instantly allayed by Chamberlain's Salve and many severe cases have been permanently cured. For sale by J. L. Wikle.
A Chronicle excerpt recounts humorous tobacco episodes from early life. Speakers, likely residents of Charlotte, describe attempts to hide smoking and chewing from parents, including a pipe moment with a cook and a large chew witnessed by a father.
An old advertisement extols beer especially Pabst Blue Ribbon as a nutritious food. It praises malt and hops, the eight day Pabst malting process, purity, cleanliness, and health benefits for both the sick and well. It invites moderate consumption with meals.
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