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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1906
Page
4
The Evening Star reports the Civic Improvement Association’s meeting last Wednesday and announces their platform to fight uncleanness in Mod City Anniston. They seek council and citizen cooperation to beautify and sanitize the city, urging men to join and children’s help to boost health and progress.
A clipped exchange recounts a visit to town by Sandy Cashbugs who paid two guineas for a corn extraction. The speaker jokes about medical care noting an amputation as a reaction to the cost.
A judge taunts a prisoner asking why he took only money and left the silver basket. The prisoner replies it was too heavy. The judge then calls the man lazy and ashamed of himself in a terse, theatrical exchange.
Edith compliments Miss Brown and Green returns the praise. Green realizes Edith leaves suddenly after their exchange and ponders the reason behind her departure.
Cholly Braneless declares he will work and forces a reaction from Miss Peppery in a scene described in the Catholic Standard and Times. The dialogue hints at a delicate operation and a turning point in the plot with tense exchanges.
Four of eight naptha launch occupants were drowned when it collided with a scow in lower New York bay. The remaining four, three men and a woman, clung to the overturned craft all night and were rescued by a steamer. They were taken to Staten Island hospital where the woman is not expected to recover. Names could not be obtained.
Mrs. M. Summers offers a non punitive home treatment for children who wet themselves. She states spanking does not cure bedwetting and that many cases are not the child’s fault. She provides the method by mail from Notre Dame Indiana and asks for no money.
Notice to Watch and Jewelry Buyers announces removal to 1126 Noble Street with larger quarters and stocked lines in diamonds watches clocks jewelry silverware cut glass and gift goods. R Steele & Son Jewelers invite inspections and emphasize prompt repairs and a hearty welcome.
In Yonkers an editorial notes a former lawbreaker now living within the law and in jail, prompting readers to question whether his change is genuine and lasting. The piece contrasts Bill’s past with Jill’s lawful stance and asks for ongoing scrutiny.
Mr Heath responds to Mayor Kilby stating the water sample is above average for large U.S. cities. He notes aluminoid ammonia levels up to .10 parts per million pose no danger and that a bacteriological test is needed to confirm typhoid bacteria, but chemical analysis suggests water is perfectly safe.
Pratt Laboratory results show ammonia and nitrite levels with albuminoid ammonia at .0836 and total solids around 116.4 percent. Oxygen absorbed readings indicate .0508 over 155 minutes and .116 over four hours. Chlorine as chlorides listed at 3.300. Prepared by W. P. Heath.
A Midland Michigan mother reports her two year old son suffered a severe bowel complaint but recovered after using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The ad claims it cures even cholera infantum and urges following directions for a certain cure with local sale by J L Wikle.
Judge James T. Greene appoints Miss Willie Forbes as Sponsor for the Northeast Alabama Confederate Veterans Association and Misses Pearl DeArman and Cora Stokes as Maids of Honor. Date noted September 15, 1906.
The advertisement claims Smith's Sure Kidney Cure is the only guaranteed remedy. It states the druggist will refund the purchase price after one bottle if the user is not satisfied, with a 50 cent offer via Scar through Drug Co.
President Diaz marked his seventy six birthday with a general holiday in the capital. The government claims no alarm but preparations are in place nationwide to suppress any revolutionary displays on the independence fiesta tomorrow. Special precautions are reported in San Luis Potosí Nuevo León Aguascalientes and Chihuahua amid unrest and anti foreign sentiment.
The laxative effect of Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets is so agreeable and so natural you can hardly realize that it is produced by a medicine. These tablets also cure indigestion and biliousness. Price 25 cents. Samples free at J L Wikle's drug store.
An advertorial urges readers to fight constipation with Dr King’s New Life Pills. It claims the remedy regulates the stomach liver and bowels painlessly and lists West End Drug Co Elam Ordway and Houser as vendors at 25 cents per bottle.
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