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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1906
Page
7
An Irish witness testifies in a damage action over a death described as at the hands of a bull. The prosecutor asks if the deceased Patrick Flannigan was the witness's father. the reply is that he was until the bull killed him, illustrating literal mindedness in legal practice.
After the siege a quarrel over captives erupted in Du Guesclin’s army. He ordered all English prisoners slaughtered, and the order was carried out amid rising ill feeling among the French forces.
T M Henderson located at 18 Noble Street advertises cash for second-hand furniture and stoves, inviting sellers to bring used furnishings for quick payment and removal.
J T Hodge at 923 Noble Street offers high grade furniture and New Home sewing machines. Stoves available with prices stated as reasonable.
Sun baths cost nothing and refresh health for both sick and well. The piece urges regular sun exposure after rain or absence of sun, noting sunlight, fresh air, and water are free gifts from God and essential to health. It recommends ample pure air, sun exposure for an hour, and drinking plenty of clean water.
City repairs Noble street with galvanized pipes under Cooper ordinance. Theater block repaint completed improving appearance. Cotton picking hindered by local showers. Cheney family forms Cheney Marble and White Lime Company with Chepultepec mines. Retailers meet in county courthouse at 3:30. Donahoo Co promotes winter rigs. F M Nixon to open McFall store. Donnelly and Hatfield minstrels hold matinee for ladies and children. Odd Fellows lodges announce tonight meetings. Marsh’s Big Drag Store relocates to Automobile block.
The National Geographic Magazine piece details Bolivian Indian women’s petticoats as dowry wealth and personal pride. It describes vibrant colors from purple and red to saffron and blue, and notes women display multiple layers, sometimes revealing undergarments to impress others, observed in Tupiza.
The Tacon Theater in Havana traces its origins to 1885 when pirate chief Francisco Marty, facing execution, impressed Governor General Tacon and earned a two week parole by denouncing his band. Pardoned for this service, Marty later built the theater on Parque Central with convicts’ help. The white stone venue, facing Central Park, seats over 3,000 and witnessed insurrectionary sieges and dramatic escapes in Cuba’s history.
Devil's Island Torture comparable to old piles afflictions. User L. Napier of Ruggles Kentucky reports complete cure after using Bucklen's Arnica Salve, purchased locally. Salve advertised as effective for wounds burns and sores at 25 cents.
The article notes prolonged slavery in England with bondage terms in Northumberland for female farm servants and East Lothian salt miners staying enslaved until 1775. Penalties afflicted those who sheltered deserters, and the last English slave was freed in 1769 while a 1842 reference mentions a Mussellurg cooly king and three generations of slaves.
Advertises Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a strength restoring remedy for nursing and expectant mothers and women with various gynecological complaints. Claims no alcohol, full ingredient disclosure on wrapper, invites readers to request a booklet from Dr. R V Pierce in New York for more details.
London Standard recounts Rawlinson an English bibliomaniac who bought books beyond need and lived amid dust and cobwebbed piles. It also cites Heber and Antonio Magliabecchi famed for hoarding titles, indices, and libraries while neglecting ordinary life.
The article traces how apples name many fruits and vegetables across eras. It cites Dr Murray on terms like Jew’s apple and devil’s apple, plus seventeenth and fourteenth century references to palm fruit and nutlike earth apples. It notes centuries of fruit naming and a citron as Eve’s apple.
London Standard notes Shakespeare signed as Shakspere in a Blackfriars conveyance and mortgage deed, with Shakspeare and Shakspere rendered elsewhere. The Stratford council books record sixteen spellings for his father’s name, while the 1593 Venus and Adonis and 1594 Lucrece use the Shakespeare form.
A New York Mail excerpt praises the Spanish woman of the south as radiant and pure, petite and poised with raven hair and almond eyes. It lauds her simplicity and passion, claiming she would die for love yet slay with a glance, embodying coquettish sincerity.
An antiseptic dressing rapidly heals wounds bruises and burns reducing inflammation and healing time. Chamberlian's Pain Balm acts on the same principle and allays pain while preventing blood poisoning. Keep a bottle at home to save time money and suffering. For sale by J L Wikle.
A London Saturday Review reflection contrasts human vanity with a spider’s blunt truth telling. It notes Karr’sVoyage autour de mon Jardin as claiming the spider exposes the grim honesty of love and mortal risk.
A Cleveland Leader snippet notes a person named Skrawler visiting a studio daily for a week. The exchange reveals the visitor is not sitting for the studio, but is described as laying for the speaker.
A playful Chicago Tribune line notes So little Flutterby and the strongminder Miss Darling in a rumored match. The speaker suggests his own intentions were not toward that union, while the intention is said to have originated with her.
A Cleveland Leader editorial questions crime and poverty under harsh punishment, asking if poverty is a crime and arguing about its relation to hard labor. The piece frames poverty as a societal issue rather than a criminal fault.
A humorous remark contrasts financial need with a vacation plan. The speaker questions necessity while insisting on a getaway next month. The exchange hints at social tensions around money and leisure in a light, satirical tone.
Distillery founded over eighty years ago by Dan'l Boone descendants in Kentucky now owned by Thixton Millett and Co. in Louisville markets Old Boone bottled in bond. The product is on sale at Chamblee's Palace saloon.
The notice lists Southern Railway trains from Birmingham to New York and other connections with Pullman sleeping and dining cars, detailing routes to Washington Raleigh Richmond Atlanta Louisville Cincinnati Salisbury and Asheville. It names multiple train numbers 36 38 46 9 and 6, with daily operation, and officers G M Spencer H Hardwick W H Taylor C A Benscoter J N Harrison and Creagh.
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