Personal notices from the Gadaden Journal visit Dallas and Birmingham
Mr Thomas and S Plowman of Talla dega with Dallas headquarters are in Alabama today. Addison F L McGhee Jr of Birmingham is on business and visiting his father. Judge McGhee and Prof J B Madden spent the weekend with homefolk at Annis ton. J W Vorhis manager of the Baltimore plant Central Foundry Co is in the city on business. Mr and Mrs N F Hazen of Denver are visiting Mrs J G McKinney Messia. Walter Dean J A Gaboury and Dr Dick Arnold of Jacksonville are here today.
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Thomas &S. Plowman
Talladega
Dallas, Tex
Alabama
Addison FL McGhee Jr
Birmingham
Idcere
Judge McGhee
J. W. Vorhis
Baltimore
The
Central Foundry Company
Messia
Walter Dean
J. A. Gaboury
Dick Arnold
Jacksonville
Barnum Show Set for Birmingham This Sunday
Barnum and Bailey greatest show arrives in Birmingham for Sunday October 27 with all features and attention to detail. Children’s coats in crushed velvet and bearskin range from 3.75 to 6 dollars. Local notices include police court fines for larceny and upcoming lectures by Congressman Heflin and Rev. Heflin.
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Birmingham
New York City
Johnston Bros
Construction Work Advances in Anniston and Pensacola
Excavations proceed for conduits to house Southern Bell Telephone Company cables. The Anniston Electric and Gas Company readies its track at the Tenth and Noble streets corner for a paved street. In Pensacola Rev. Hugh O'Brien and his mother visit the city this week.
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Ing
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Anniston Electric and Gas Company
Tenth and
Noble Streets
Pensacola
Hugh O’brien
Sarted Heart Catholic Church
Why Cut Glass Breaks And The Singing Tone
Cut glass can crumble when exposed to certain tones or harmonics. Reports claim that the life of the glass is affected by the tone as it resonates with a responsive chord. Tests in New York and Paris linked singing to breaking pieces of glassware.
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New York
Paris
Logansport Faces Bond Limit Violations and Power Plant Troubles
City of Logansport struggles with exceeding its 2 percent bonded debt limit and a failing municipal electric lighting plant. Citizens demand that private power firms, offering cheaper rates, be given a franchise. The piece recalls earlier scrutiny of the plant’s bookkeeping and hints at an impending reckoning and municipal ownership concerns.
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Logansport, Inc
Logansport
Monster harp built in 1787 by Veritan near Basel
A gigantic 20-foot harp by M Véritan, provost of Burkli near Basel, made of fifteen wires on two poles. The tool aimed to foretell weather by wind induced vibrations, a curious open-lot construction not for display but for meteorological prediction.
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Veritan
Burkli
Basel
Switzerland
M. Veritan
M. Véritan
Return to Birthplace Sees Changed Village Landmarks
A traveler notes the village has changed since his youth. The native disputes him as the speaker recalls vanished sights and mentions the town pump as a landmark, leading to a quip about it being a water mark.
Popular mayor aims for re election with backing from city voters
City residents show strong support for re electing the mayor of a town and insist they will vote for him whether allowed or not. The ad highlights F M Nixon as supplier of best goods at honest prices with lines from Van Camp Swift Libby Heinz Omega flour Elegant flour and Fox River butter in stock. Three stores Glen Addie South Noble and Tenth street invite orders by phone.
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F. M. Nixon
van Camp
Swift
Libby
McNeil & Libby
H. J
Mussels moor a bridge: a curious tidal repair
A Devonshire bridge on the Torridge near Biddeford, with twenty arches, is kept in repair by mussels. Boats bring the shellfish to fill gaps as the tide erodes mortar, the silk-like byssus anchoring the structure. Removal requires corporate consent.
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Biddeford
Devonshire
Torridge
Corporation
It Is as You Please A Wise Riddle Tale
The tale speaks of a clever riddle master who face a man holding a captive bird. The man asks if the bird in the hand will live or die, planning either outcome. The sage answers that it is as you please, leaving life or death in the holder's choice.
Mourning on the Rialto A Leading Man Shares Grief
A juvenile actor encounters a leading man in black with crepe on his hat and muted shoes. The man reveals his father has died and that the funeral drew a large crowd, as he recalls the day of burial with a grim but hopeful grin.
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Rialto
Deka
Gotes
Jnvoetille exPresser
New York News
English Court Trials Echoed In Death Penalty History
The court sentenced a mute Englishwoman to imprisonment in a trial. Historically, the penalty for mute defiance was pressing to death, with a brutal sentence detailing confinement naked in a dark chamber, limbs chained, iron and stone piled on the body until death, followed by bread shortages and water deprivation.
Morgan's Lunch Stand Offers Weinerwursts at Five Cents
Hamburger and pork chops are advertised as clean appetizing and wholesome at Morgan's Lunch Stand located at Tenth and Noble behind Markstein Leading place. Weinerwursts priced at five cents for a two week period.
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Morgan
Markstein
Outgoing sale of coffee tea and pantry items
A list announces 25 to 50 percent reductions to close out goods including Aragon Blend Coffee Golden Santos Paragon Ground Coffee Bulk Green Tea Bulk Black Tea Monsoon Blend and canned peas at discounted prices. Also featured are baking powders Au-To-Date Red Star and others with several items marked down per can or pound.
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Aragon
Golden Santos
Teva Ferndell
Red Star
Voice ranges by race and age in early Europe
The article claims primitive Europeans were all tenors while descendants are baritones and future generations will be semibass. It asserts tones deepen with age and links voice types to race and skin tone, stating whites and blacks have differing vocal ranges and that certain temperaments align with social class and diet.
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Europe
Skinner
Oro Tener
Rodwon Te
Art Co
Clay as a famed yet unsuccessful presidential aspirant
The Indianapolis Journal recalls Henry Clay as a dominant political figure with a strong personal following and soaring influence who sought the presidency from 1824 to 1848 but never won. He earned 87 electoral votes in 1824, 40 in 1832, and 105 in 1844 while serving as Speaker of the House and twice as a U S senator.
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Clay
House of Representative
United States
Indianapolis Journal
Ancient Plane Tree of Cos and its Historic Seat
On the island of Cos a colossal plane tree stands nearly eight yards in circumference enclosed by a raised platform built to support the hollow trunk. Its lower branches are preserved and shored by antique columns, and nearby is a solid chair said to be Hippocrates seat for teaching medicine born on Cos in 460 B C, suggesting the tree is over two millennia old.
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Cas
Hippocrates
Meddicine
Cos
Beepooper Announces Candidacy for First Ward Councilman
Friends announce BEEPooper will run again for councilman in the First ward praising his service and predicting election without opposition.
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Beepooper
Cooper
Wrenshall Nominated For City Council From First Ward
Business leaders in the Piret war endorse Wrenshall as a candidate to councilman from the First Ward despite Democratic primary opposition. They praise his able leadership and contributions to local prosperity and urge voters citywide to support him.
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Piret
Wrenshall
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J. L. M. Curry Council No. 9
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Kelley
Jackson III
J. O. Kelley
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W. W. Jackson
Mr. Jackson
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Church of Christ
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Anniston Trading Company
Noble Street
W. T. Owen
Sternde’s
Barnum
Houston Mercantile Company
Garfield Wilson
Children’s Rubens
Allman Bros
Annisto
N Trading Co.,, Oelts
Black Cat
Baracas
Baraca
B. M. Stradley
J. W. Mallory
Ullman Bros
Printzess
NEW Store
County Board of Education
L. & N. Railroad Company
Mr, Heflin
J. Thomas Heflin
Down In
Dixie
Opera House
Rev
W. W. Heflin
ALL Man Bros
Keith Conway
Ials
Danlaps
Carre-Field Shoe CO
Johnston’s
Tudiana
A* Niton
Ferndell
Sterne’s Grocery
F. C. Leyden
Smith Blg
Abner C. Thomas Jeweler
L. W. Thomas
Mgr. Anniston Stere
Donahoo & Co
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