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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1906
Page
7
In a London garret a wealthy antiquities patron, Hon. Charles Bingham, is lured by Explorer Blake into a staged kidnapping to force a 5000 pound ransom. The captive, guarded by loyal servant Thomas, delays payment while weighing whether to fund the caper, hoping for a safe end.
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions begins its 96th annual meeting in North Adams and Williamstown with 200 to 800 corporate members attending. Receipts for the year total $918,169, the largest in the board’s history, while debt falls from $176,527 to $85,407. President George A Gates to deliver the sermon, with educators divines and returning foreign missionaries from China, Japan, Ceylon, Turkey, Africa and Mexico taking part.
An advertisement promotes Dr. Shoop's Twenty Minute Headache Cure as instantly relieving headaches by redistributing congested blood away from the frontal region. It claims a pleasant tab form suitable for all temperaments and promises to calm nerves without failure.
A captured old man lies in a dim cell when a young orphaned girl from below asks if he is rich or poor. She demands a young rich husband and offers £57 to free him, then signals a sudden escape plan through a skylight as the scene shifts to a chaotic conclusion.
The piece describes English bridegrooms’ friends drenching the doorstep with boiling water to hasten marriages and Icelandic rites where the bride hosts a dinner, prepares all food, and by pleasing guests boosts her sisters’ chances of quick marriage.
A native narrator describes a large man known as Mr. Pompous whose bearing resembles a major general while also seeming like a young lieutenant. The Philadelphia Ledger quotes the exchange highlighting the man’s imposing demeanor.
L. S. Napier of Ruggles Kentucky says tortures from piles and Terrine case were milder than Devil's Island torture until Bucklen's Arnica Balm was applied. He reports a box cured him permanently. Sold at West End Drug Co. and Elam, Oriway & Houser druggists.
Rock Island Oct 9 delegates from every state gathered for the twenty sixth annual session of the Farmers National congress in the large auditorium. The gathering included leading experts in scientific farming dairying forestry inflation stock raising and related soil tilting pursuits.
A 50 cent advertised remedy titled Smith's Sure Kidney Cure from Searbroug Drug Co promises a guaranteed kidney cure with a no risk trial but the ad states it costs nothing and fails.
The firm of Box & Ellis dissolved by mutual consent. All accounts and debts will be paid to W. E. Bay, who assumes all liabilities of Box & Ellis, formerly doing business as Anniston Marble Works. Witnessed this day of October, 1906.
The notice outlines Southern Railway condensed schedule effective June 10 006 with several Pullman services. It lists routes Atlanta to New York Birmingham to Atlanta Richmond to New York and Savannah to Salisbury connections. Names include H W Spencer G M Washington DC SH Hardwick P TM and others.
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