Society News Includes Engagements and Club Meetings
The society page notes Carrie Lizzie Comer and Edward Comer Guilmartin announce their engagement with a late November wedding planned in Anniston. Also listed are upcoming Young Matron’s Club and Daughters of the Revolution meetings, social visits in Montgomery and Attalla, and a social note on Mrs. Orrison’s reception on St. Charles Street.
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John Wetehoer Comer
Midway
Ala
Carrie Lizzie
Edward Comer Guilmartin
Anniston
Guiltvartia
William Orrison
Attalla
Sunday Age
Pepperman
St. Charles Street
WCTU Meeting Planned at Mrs Crook's Thursday
By Mrs D B Walsh the Woman's Christian Temperance Union will meet with Mrs F Crook Thursday afternoon at 3 oclock. The Union will be present and the Christian women of Atmiston are cordial invited to join for God and home and every land. The Lord is our judge and king. He will save us.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
F. Crook
Atmiston
Brute Husband Uses Saving for Car to Fund House
A Kansas City Journal quotation reveals a husband exploiting his wife by convincing her to save for a car and then diverting the funds into a house, highlighting a claim of abusive financial control.
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Kansas City Journal
Hall's Catarrh Cure Offers Internal Remedy
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications. cure requires internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and claims to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Describes the product as not a quack medicine, prescribed by a top physician, a mix of tonics and blood purifiers, with testimonials available, price 75 cents, sold by druggists. touts Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Chypney & CO
Yrops
Oledo
Proving Luck and its Role in Success Across Times
A discussion notes luck's influence on achievement with examples of chance aiding a man, plus a claim about a banker’s daughter aiding him. It cites a Chicago Record Herald piece on no hereditary leprosy proof and The London Lancet reporting thousand children educated by a mission showing no leprosy signs.
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Agehaw
Eave
Chicago Record Herald
London Lancet
New and Strange Affliction in Workers Prompts Caution
A new occupational ailment called Cementanakers' itch causes intense itching on the skin. It is not parasitic but linked to chemical or mechanical action of work, with mechanisms not yet understood.
Health officers meet in Des Moines discuss white slave traffic
Des Moines Iowa October 26 The annual Iowa health officers conference in Des Moines drew about four hundred attendees. Topics included the white slave traffic its suppression methods milk supply sanitation tuberculosis treatment and quarantine laws.
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State and Flocal Health Officers
Iowa
Court of inquiry to visit Brownsville riot scene
The Brownsville court of inquiry plans a trip to Brownsville Texas in late November to study the site of the 1906 shooting incident involving African American troops. The visit aims to review the riot scene and assess historical context.
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Washington, ID. C
Brownsville
Texas
Bargain Hunter Seeks Two Spoons Amid Clerk’s Rush
A brief exchange shows a bargain hunter seeking two spoons while a busy clerk resists selling. A sharp comment from Bargeta Miniss questions the clerk’s mood.
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Cohen
Bargeta Miniss
Road Makers Hold Sixth Annual Convention in Columbus
Several thousand delegates from across the United States gathered in Columbus for the sixth annual American Roadmakers Association convention. The three day program features practical roadmaking demonstrations at the State Fair grounds and an exhibit of roadmaking machinery. Noted speakers include Governor Harmon of Ohio and highway officials from multiple states.
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Columbus
Ohio
American Roadmakers’ Association
State Fair Grounds
United States
America
Governor Harmon
Samuel Fill
Seattle
N. J. Jachelder
National Grange
James CC. Wonders
Logan Waller Page
Office
Public Roads
Department of Agriculture
Percy Hooker
Department of Highways
State of New York
Walter W. Crosby
Maryland Geological Survey
A. H. Johnson
Ilinois
Joseph W.hunter
Pennsytvania
James HH. MacDonald
Connecticut
P. St. Julien Wilson
Virginia
Ada Responders Turn Knowledge Into Quick Money
A compact note suggests that knowing a dozen people yields leads to earnings through quick opportunities. It hints at a mindset of leveraging networks to profit from occasional gains and calls for practical action.
A Tenderfoot Ad Mocks Buffalo Claim On Land
A Hiutchiesen man advertises land with a quip to not judge by price. He notes the tract belongs to an eastern party who believes buffalo graze there. The remark plays on outdated land and wildlife assertions.
Queer New York Street Signs Reported
A brief New York Sun item notes a Bronx barber from Italy using the sign Barbitonsorial Parlor on his window. Nearby a Bronx road hotel advertises Automobile and Funeral Parties Cheerfully Accommodated.
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New York
Bronx
Italy
New York Sun
Wet kitchen tips from Chinese households in old report
A fragment from the Indianapolis News describes post-eating care in Chinese households with hot water rinses and facial wiping. It notes women in proper cook roles and prefers steam bread over baked bread, highlighting household practices and affordable dining.
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China
Walter
Indianapolis News
Beasts and Jungle Spark Praises For Judge Lindsey
The review calls The Beast and the Jungle a work that stirs fighting blood and indignation at harsh conditions while praising Judge Lindsey for a single handed fight and magnificent public service he performs through his actions.
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Lindsey
Price War at the Diners Stirring Anger in Boston
A diner's complaint in the Boston Citizen laments high prices and scarce menu choices. The quarrel highlights service strains as the patron questions ethics while the waiter notes shortages.
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Boston
Wife Remembrance Sparks Mild Wife Protest
In a Birmingham Age-Herald note a man fondly recalls his life with his first wife in the presence of his second. When his wife protests mildly he retorts that there is no use in anger, and she answers she misses him at his best.
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Birmingham
Birmingham Age-Herald
Life's Ups and Downs Confident Quote Dialogue
A pithy exchange frames life as a balance of reputation. The Wise Guy cites the world’s ups and downs while the Simple Mug agrees, noting people strive to live up to good names or down bad ones.
Hallowe'en party plans and local notes in Oxford
News from Oxford lists Senior League Hallowe'en preparations at the Davis home on Gray Street and the Europa Club gathering at Miss Nettie Cooper's residence. Other items mention local purchases, visits, musical and social events, illness and travel, with several names across Oxford and nearby towns.
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Oxford
Senior League
Hallowe'en
Davis
Gray Street
Hallowe’en
Parody on moral law and the ten commandments
A parishioner asks if "save one another" binds all moral law and a reverend replies that it is like the first amendment to the ten commandments, framing a humorous legalistic reading of scripture. The Chicago Tribune is cited.
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Chicago
Connecticut man slaps wife over souvenir postcards
A Connecticut man slapped his wife after she sent souvenir postal cards to him. She may seek revenge by sending telegrams collect when she leaves home again.
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Connecticut
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Christ
Henry van Dyke
Timartin
Miss Comer
J. W. Comer
Young Matrona’ Club
H. D. McCarty
Morse
Abbeville
William Frederick Gray
The
Daughters of the Revolution
Richard Miller
Noble Street
Katherine Bell
Rome
W. W. Stringfellow
Robert Stringfellow
Montgomery
Atvertiser
Atto Babies
Maude Redford Warren
Peter, Peter,” Chsarpers
Mrs
D. B. Walsh
Ada
Stradley & CO
Everybody's
Jos, Eros, Robinson's Book Store
News of Oxford
Miss Mac Grogan
Tron City
Humphries and Company
A.ophries
Draper & Co
the Baptist Young Ciety
A. O. Humphries
Nove
Pelham McWibbon
Talladega
Europa Club
Nettie Cooper
Carrie Grogan
Mae Grogs
Treadwell & Warnock
Henry McDowell
W. ©. Gray
John Borders
Chocco
Dewlar
G. Christian
Kate Brown
Will
J. H. Wilson
Herbert Prater
Piedmont
Ita
H. Burton
Springfield, Ohio
Nelle Allen
Fannie Avery Best
Edwardsville
Mrs. Burell
Hicks
Harvey Emerson of
Coldwater
R. E. D. Trevin
John Irvin
Athens
Lege
Linda Pace
Liamson
Sil
Tasoe
Mane
H. N. Wheeler
Tenth & Noble
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