Community notices and ads from a Southern paper
Local church fundraiser ice cream and box supper at West Anniston Hose hall to aid the parsonage fund. J B McCverkin wood yard sale offers prompt delivery. Parker & Co advertise furnished and unfurnished dwellings. Osceola Evans suit vs Bryan McNamara Glasson verdict for defendants. W S B R seeks secondhand bicycle. W M Lawson leaves for Mobile to lead Kahiman distillery. Donasco & Co. advertise livery and Peerless meal appeal. Audi torium fire forces tour cancellation of Georgeawcett show.
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Ladies Aid Society of the
West Anniston Methodist Church
Hall of the
West Anniston Hose Company
Help Wanted in Local Store and Office
Classified ad seeking a young man aged 15 to 15 for store work and an office boy aged 12 to 17 or a young lady starting stenography. Good chance to gain experience. Apply with own handwriting to P. J. Box 216 An niston.
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Star Office
P. J. Box
Anniston
Eod
Lost pocket memorandum book on West Side
Reward of two dollars offered for return of a black pocket memorandum book containing notes. Please return to Star office.
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Star Office
Twenty Foot Saurian Rumor on Penobscot Banks
A debate in a Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt centers on a claim of finding the remains of a twenty foot sardine or saurian on the Penobscot river banks. Skeptics doubt the tale while a skeptic quips about buyers for such a monster, prompting a back and forth about plausibility.
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Penobscot River
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Colonel Declares Last Night at Club
A musical humor piece quotes the Colonel announcing his final evening at the club. He says he must become a hermit after years of knowing every local family history, while the Chorus questions the plan as he admits habits of thinking aloud.
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New York Times
Wisdom and Folly Labeled by Scripture and Sages
The piece notes that fools are denounced by religious and ancient thinkers. It cites Seneca who says a fool is found in a mirror. Emperor Maximilian called his dullest counselor the king of fools and a prosy adviser wished to be king of fools with the emperor as a subject.
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Seneca
Maximilian
U. S
Whiskey Trust
Combine
Mo Trust
North Carolina
Bixby Consolidated CO
BIXBY
Davie County
Situations Wanted: Stenographer Seeks Work With References
Wanted notice from a stenographer with three years of experience seeks employment. References available on request. Address listed as Moderats care Evening Brar.
Highlands Front Partor and Bedroom Rates Today
Listings describe room types with bath privileges and weekly or daily rates. Rates include larger suites and smaller parlor bedroom options, meals option, and access to depots theatres and shops within 15 minutes by trolleys, with private roof garden and summer comforts.
Rooms Wanted by Couple Seeking Unfurnished Space
A couple with no children seeks two or three unfurnished rooms in a nice neighborhood east of Noble and north of Ninth Street. Owners preferred, permanent residence, contact J. care Star. 29-36.
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Noble
Ninth Street
J. Care Star
Could Keep a Secret and a Grave Silence
A private exchange reveals a plan to borrow money with assurances of secrecy. One party asks to keep the matter quiet while the other promises absolute discretion and confidentiality.
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Smith
Jones
Twain Finds Cheer In Dan Beard Studio Visit
Mark Twain, troubled by financial worries, finds solace with friend Dan Beard. Beard shows Twain a copy of his book as a tonic, claiming the humorist needs no medicine after a cheerful discussion and dinner. Twain jokes he won’t imbibe the medicine again after a year of its effects.
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Mark Twain
Dan Beard
Twain
Bey
Mark
Beard
His Theiftry Way. Much money. Dinner by the card.
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune card features a witty line about ordering dinner by price and payment method. It pairs a pun with a Confucius quote on learning and thought, reflecting a light, reflective newspaper moment.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Old World Domestics and Napkin Mishap in India
A narrator notes that strict servant obedience can yield comic mishaps. An American host in India lashed napkin etiquette to fruit and cake, but a tureen of vegetable soup revealed a raglike napkin in the first plate. The overcautious butler explains the host’s prior napkin placement and the puzzling lapse.
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India
Mem Sahib
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Pma AO
Noble and Eleventh Sts
J.T. Chrisman
Secretary OF Agriculture
Washington
Atlanta Constitution
Robinson’s
J. B. MceCverkin
O. H. Parker & Co
Evans
Osceola Evans
Bryan
McNamara and
Glasson
B. R
Star
Oscar Lee
Alabama Synod of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Montgomery
Blocton
Donanco & Co
Henry Clay
Comer-Maddox Co
W. M. Lawson
Mobile
Kahiman & Co
Auditorium
Ashville
N. C
George “Awcett
Percy Haswell
Donasco & Co
Evening Star
W.K. Yeatman Printing CO
Noble Street
Sesetseesee
The
Highlands
Wist St
Lexington Avenue
New York
Confucius
Anniston Steam Laundry
Lynch-Adams Lumber Co
Gurnee Streets
BIC
Eas Rn Ae
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