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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1901
Page
6
In Jacksonville Alabama a school to prepare teachers reports strong demand for graduates, with board eight dollars per month and tuition free. It is in its nineteenth year, seeking a catalogue address from CW Daugette, the President, as of 1901.5.
Abstract of publication for the Alabama Calhoun County Court of Anniston equity case 1901. Complainant Margaret Fulton sues nonresident defendant J Lawrence Fulton. Publication in Evening Star required by October 8, 1901, to plead or face decree pro confesso. Clerk Aw He Suerrino seals the notice. Caldwell & Coefitors, solicitors.
A New York Sun piece notes how delivery wagons began bearing painted signs on their roofs as flats multiply. Signs were arranged in vertical spine lines or along edges so readers from above street level could easily view them, with some vans featuring roof posters spanning the full width.
Dr Nachtigal, famed African explorer, visits a wealthy auburn merchant whose son longs to ride a desert camel He is told how to gain a rough idea by riding an improvised chair in a hot rough wagon after fasting for a day The tale frames the poetic image with a blunt practical joke by Nachtigal about desert travel.
Saturday Review notes Pagagiolo’s famed bass once played a king in Stamlet and resisted fear on stage claiming regal dignity. The piece argues many opera singers lack character interpretation, leaving audiences confused about plots despite frequent attendance.
The article explains perpetual motion as a device moving by its own output without external power. It states tides, magnets, wind, atmospheric changes, sun heat, or outside electricity do not create true perpetual motion. It notes many claimed machines relied on uneven weight, but such designs fail when materials wear.
A microscope reveals the fly foot as two pad-like structures with short hairs and curved hooks. Behind each pad is a tiny liquid bag. the hollow hairs and sticky liquid enable the fly to cling to walls and ceilings, defying gravity in everyday movement.
A poetic fable portrays a parasitic vine clinging to a tree and urging a nobler soul to act. It warns that clinging to vitality from the host risks both plant and host, while striking downward may forge new strength from the earth with Mother Earth as a source of renewal.
An old friend recalls Eugene Field famed for improvidence and humor. At a semipublic saloon gathering a hanger on offers ten to Field, who refuses and jokes to raise it to fifteen before forgetting the offer, as reported by the New York Times.
A Yorkshire belief holds a newborn must be held by a maiden before anyone else touches it and sometimes the right hand is bound to bring future riches. Similar customs appear in the United States and Europe, urging the child to "go up" before it goes down in the world, with carriers up stairs or onto heights to lift the infant.
General John H. Littlefield recalls Abraham Lincoln as a lawyer who would win cases if fair and warns clients not to pursue equity when justice fails. Lincoln supposedly muttered while addressing a client that he could not win certain cases and whispered to himself, Lincoln, you’re a liar, in the presence of the jury.
The Shanakans of British Columbia share beliefs with ancient Israelites about a double or shadow that follows a person. After death this pale figure descends to an underworld, a somber realm beneath the earth, akin to the biblical sheol but called eotea by the Shanakans.
A thirteenth century Flemish architect Honecourt drew a wheel he claimed could turn by perpetual motion using an uneven number of makers or quicksilver. Yet he did not supply the completed device, leaving future seekers numerous.
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