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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1901
Page
6
A promotional note claims well dressed men in Anniston wear Boyer suits. They fit better and cost little more than other kinds. New Pall stock now in.
A Jacksonville Alabama school for training teachers offers a state life certificate program. Board is five dollars monthly, tuition free. Now in the nineteenth year as session begins October 1, 1901. Address W Daugette, President, for catalog.
A list of circuit meetings scheduled from Sept. 8 at Talladega station through Nov. 24 Lecta circuit, with entries for Sylacanga Oxford Piedmont Munford Harpersville and other circuits. Includes times such as 8 p.m. and 11 a.m. and notes on locations like West Anniston and Jacksonville White Plains. The item ends with an advertisement for The Mode! Laundry at 12th and Noble, promoting clear water and soap as laundering principals.
A storied meeting shows Lord Brougham being urged toward teetotalism by Father Mathew in 1844 London. Brougham jokes about restraint and later flaunts the ribbon at the Lords, inspiring a notorious drinker to vow sobriety. The piece then shifts to animal lore on hare and rabbit swimming, citing Millais and Peterson’s Magazine for strange limb visibility and paddle wheel imagery.
A naval tale describes a boatswain and a paymaster inspecting a ship’s beef. The boatswain studies the four shanks of a bullock to judge its suitability, remarking that the ship will eat what they can obtain, since shanks are all they assess.
An observer notes a young woman moistened the stamp with her tongue and affixed it. He advises wetting the envelope corner instead to preserve adhesion and keep letters from going to the dead letter office.
In the 1888 campaign Major Kitchener was wounded by a bullet to the face near Sua kim. He was evacuated to Cairo where surgeons could not locate the bullet. He later suspected he had swallowed it during a beefsteak meal and confirmed it after feeling it pass down his throat.
The seed called Job's tears is used in Siam and by the Naga and Assam tribes for jewelry and decorations. Angame Nagas craft elegant earrings with a rosette of seeds around a greenish beetle wing. The seeds may enter European craft for artificial flowers, laces, and rosaries in Catholic regions.
A little girl cannot eat her dinner despite appetite. After dessert arrives she sits sorrowful as she explains to her mother that her eyes are hungry, not her stomach.
A fragment recalls Mark Twain at a London banquet with 800 to 900 guests where a mayoral list prompted applause for prominent names. The scene shifts to a stray note about clapping and later a garbled ad for a used organ sale in Bovenkirk dated the 24th.
A mangled quote reflects a confused speaker describing a difficult time and a sense of being in a deep personal fix. The text hints at comparing cigars and a life turning rocky, but details are unclear and fragmented.
The article explains golds extreme malleability, noting gold beaters produce leaves so thin that 14,000 leaves equal a millimeter, and 14,000,000 layers would stack to a meter. It details a cubic meter of solid gold weighing about 680,440 ounces and capable of gilding vast areas, while gold lace uses silver threads with only the surface gold. A single gram of gold can gild a long stretch, illustrating astonishing surface efficiency.
A dismounted elderly rider leaves his horse with a scantily clad youth at a wayside inn. Returning, he finds another poor boy holding the horse. The elder recognizes the deception, learns the boy bought the horse from the other lad for a penny, and the honest boy earns a dime for candor.
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