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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1902
Page
6
Tax assessors schedule appointments across Calhoun County Alabama for 1903 including many beats and towns such as White Plains Cahoccolocco DeArmanville Alexandria Oxford Anniston Piedmont Jacksonville and Four Mile. Taxpayers urged to bring real estate and itemized values. assessments delinquent after January 1 1903.
Delinquent tax collection details list weekly Beat locations and dates from October to December. Appointments cover Alexandria Chococolocco Boozer Burns X Roads Four Mile Piedmont Oxford Anniston and others with dates through November and December 1902.
The buyer holds a key role in the stockyards community, usually mid aged and educated in packing houses and ranches. He earns 4000 to 5000 dollars yearly, judges cattle by sight, distinguishes grass from corn fed, and classifies animals as fancy, good, or common. Purchases are made on the hoof at the day’s market price, completing the transaction swiftly as described in Leslie's Monthly.
The Duke of Saxe Weimar invited Johann Sebastian Bach to a palace dinner. Bach refused to improvise, played at the harpsichord until interrupted for soup. He then explained his return to finish a series of chords resolving to the tonic, likening it to quenching a thirst with water.
Ancient daimyo sports recount falconry as noble pastime with tame birds taking on cranes and other birds. The handler grips the falcon on a finger and releases it to strike, then retrieves both birds, praising the falcon’s strength and bravery while noting careful feeding and training.
Rylands had bought a Norse horse and buggy claiming quiet temperament and speed. On a trial, the horse bolted, colliding with roadside stones and dumping both men into the road. They found the horse gone, the buggy wrecked, and Rylands mad at the situation while his friend asked what provoked the laughter. The ally quipped that the seller lent him the buggy.
Frederick Goodall recounts Wellington buying Wilkie’s "Chef Pension rs" for 600 guineas, counting the cash aloud. The artist jokes about checks and the duke declares he won’t let his bankers know what a blank fool he has been to spend 600 guineas for a picture.
A historic reflection on the idea that greatness stems from acquired merit rather than lineage. It cites Tiberius praising Curtius Rufus and argues for blood earned through effort over inherited status. The passage emphasizes self-made credentials and the value of personal achievement.
A columnist recalls a dispute over the reported length of the largest snake in a state fair exhibit. The editor explains space constraints led to trimmed copy and a correction might be needed. The exchange captures newspaper limits and backstage edits at the Indianapolis News.
A reflective note on love describing a man who feels unworthy at first for no clear reason and later discovers a reason and forgets to feel unworthy. The quote contrasts early doubt with later self-acceptance in romantic awakening.
The article recalls Xavier Biehat the renowned physician and anatomist who opened 625 bodies in a winter and avoided vivisection. On his deathbed he expressed regret that he could not dissect his own body, saying he would have liked to make discoveries. He died peacefully after a life of scientific work.
The article muses on birds nests from Aristotle to modern times, noting nests' beauty and romantic speculation. It contrasts ancient halcyon legends with factual kingfisher behavior, pointing out that most kingfishers dig holes for nests rather than making floating sea nests.
A compiled list of cautions offered by experts and medical authorities includes avoiding elevator hatchways when cars are absent, not stepping into streetcar or train paths, preventing bricks from falling on the head, avoiding places struck by lightning, not falling from tall buildings, and steering clear of live electric wires as both person and wire cannot survive.
The time has come to master any line requires long training and careful preparation. Opportunities for youth are greater, yet qualifications for success are higher than ever. Artisans, farmers, merchants, clergy, physicians, lawyers, scientists must rise to enlarging ideals to reach their full height.
The piece reports a pupil’s description of the negro as having kicking hair and producing lips after a geography lesson. It contrasts this with a quip about a sister, noting the insensitive tone and mock hospital remark cited from the New York Herald.
In a New York Weekly excerpt Mrs Scale Downie contemplates staffing needs and a thrift project. She hopes to save money by making a hanging cabinet herself at a cost of two dollars while Mr Scale Downie suggests a three dollar weekly board increase to cover extra help.
A Washington Star quote argues that a novelist should not marry, claiming a female writer’s ideal of manly perfection in fiction would drive a husband to despair and abandon home to seek work as a truck driver.
A quote notes time as paradoxical and that modern courting often faces rejection as the present becomes past. The statement implies a man’s attempt to propose depends on the woman’s interest, hinting at social expectations in dating.
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