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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1906
Page
2
Clark Morgan of White Plains visits Oxford for a few days while Mrs R C Manin returns from Maplesville with Miss Lillie Borders for a brief Atlanta trip. Frank Evans, Delta region merchant farmer, trades with locals as Thad M Gwin Co ad circulates in praise. Pearle Miller arrives from Marion to recover at home. Ss P Gaston from Oakfuskee brings cotton to town as Presbyterian interior work nears completion.
Local notices urge readers to buy Gwins raincoats fast selling in stylish weather protection. Community updates include visits, travels, and plans as Oxford residents discuss pastor search and church activities.
Special to the Star reports the Brotherhood of St Andrew, an Episcopal male group, has reached its majority and gathers in Memphis for the twenty-first annual convention with eminent churchmen and laymen from across America.
London Tit-Bits summarizes Moore as Ireland’s leading poet in popularity and market value, earning £500 a year from Ushers and securing Longman’s £1,000 guineas for Lalla Rookh. It contrasts Moore’s lyrical mastery with Goldsmith’s different path, noting Moore’s music in poetry and predicting lasting fame for Goldsmith’s The Traveller and The Deserted Village.
The London Globe reports sand reveals the remains of an ancient church at Godrevy near St Ives bay in Cornwall. The site holds oratory marks of SS Gwithian and Saintly descent in the fifth and sixth centuries. A storm in 1828 shifted sands exposing a roughly forty eight by twelve foot plan with a doorway, a window, and evidence of altar benches before the structure was repurposed as a cowshed.
A provocative claim about the moon having an atmosphere enabling life, followed by an 19th century style medicinal advertisement for Electric Bitters. It touts curing headaches biliousness malaria chills fever jaundice dyspepsia dizziness torpid liver kidney complaints general debility and female weaknesses. The drug is sold by West End Drug Co. and Elam Ordway Houser at 50 cents with a guarantee.
A humorous mock dialogue imagines a physician asked to treat a patient with uncontrollable laughter. The professor jokes about amputating the funny bone, delivering a satirical bite on medical overreach.
A Baltimore American quip questions a daughter's piano execution, calling it a fierce murder of the time with a wry tone about musical display and timing. The line frames a playful critique from a 19th or early 20th century newspaper voice.
Doctors condemn long daytime naps as disrupting natural cycle and harming organs. Scientists note peak vitality 10 am to 2 pm and lowest between 2 am and 6 am, while a forty-wink nap often refreshes without causing harm.
A witty parlour quip from a 19th century exchange features a woman asking if she is the speaker’s first and only love and the drug clerk replying that she is "something just as good" in a playful moment.
A sharp quip from Puck mocks Jenkins as the ultimate pessimist. The speaker imagines his heaven as a gold brick paved paradise, reflecting sly satire of the era’s outlook.
A Cary Me postmistress named Mrs Alexander says Dr King s New Life Pills are the best remedy she ever tried for keeping the stomach liver and bowels in perfect order. These painless purifiers are guaranteed by West End Drug Co and Elam Ord way Houser druggists at 25 cents.
A veteran warns a junior actor about mispronouncing a line in the coffin scene of Richard III. He recalls the common gag where beginners say parson cough instead of let the coffin pass, and notes how the mistake tends to survive to opening night.
Dr R V Pierce of Buffalo N Y ends secrecy of his remedies by publishing complete ingredient lists for his medicines including Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription He mails a small book with extracts from medical works endorsing each ingredient and confirms no alcohol narcotics minerals or poisonous agents in the formulas
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