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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1909
Page
4
Oxford notes an ice cream social and candy sale at the Union chapel that netted funds for a church belfry. Local residents and visitors are listed with travels and visits, including moves between Heflin Center Gadsden and Anniston, plus society meetings and upcoming gatherings at the Baptist church groups.
The Chaloner case, involving John Armstrong Chaloner and his bid to recover an estate claimed to be wrongfully taken, opened in Charlottesville Virginia. The proceedings highlight links to New York society, including the Chanler family and Amelie Rives.
Catarrh is described as a blood or constitutional disease and only internal remedies can reach the disease. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and claimed to act on blood and mucous surfaces. The preparation, labeled not a quack medicine, is said to be a physician approved prescription with tonics and blood purifiers. Testimonials available, F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, price 75 cents. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The President crosses the river to East St. Louis for a government building dedication and to meet Governor Deneen and other Illinois leaders. State executives, U S senators, representatives, and other officials join the Mississippi river journey aboard chartered steamboats and torpedo boats.
A Kansas City Star excerpt argues cleanliness is feasible with available water and affordable soap. The piece praises effort to keep things tidy, pure, and undefiled, noting dirt’s conquest requires labor but staying clean is possible and worthwhile.
Motivational line urging use of conscience as personal compass for a fulfilling life. No names, places, or dates provided. The fragment emphasizes honesty, self guidance, and service to others without additional context.
A fragmentary excerpt discusses fate, control over a woman, and the idea of posterity. It includes a senator's remark on prohibition and a mashup of phrases about restraint and admiration. The text mixes moral exhortation with political language and archaic spellings.
In Billings Montana the Fourth Dry Farming Congress opens this week with a large international attendance. Delegates arrive from nearly every state and territory Canada Mexico and several South American and European countries. Officials agriculturists governors and experts will discuss non irrigated land cultivation legislation and cooperation between government and state dry farming programs.
The sudden death in Rome last Friday of Arthur R. Sullivan Sr. saddened many friends and relatives in this city where he often visited. He was closely related to J. C. and Drayton Sproull, known for his prominent business role and a large estate valued around a quarter million.
In Columbia South Carolina on Saturday and Sunday a dozen large cotton mills halted operations. The closures affect thousands of workers with around 150000 unemployed. Plans for free house rent during idleness are being arranged for the affected employees.
The Civil Service Commission will hold exams today and tomorrow to fill about 500 ranger vacancies across 149 national forest reserves in 21 states and Alaska. Applicants must be 21 to 40, in good health, with salaries starting at 900 dollars yearly for beginners and higher pay for supervisors.
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