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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1903
Page
4
The Evening Star urges a public subscription to raise 10,000 for a new industry in Anniston. Readers join daily, driven by a belief in local industrial growth and the paper’s plan to add two small industries by January 1. The effort aims to turn talk into action and expand manufacturing.
The expanding subscription drive for the $10,000 Anniston industry adds Leon Ullman of Ullman Bronc and others to the list. Subscriptions listed include Globe Clothing Co, Ro Hertz, Jom Saka, Fred L. Blackmon, W. L. McCan, and many more up to noon today.
A historical piece discusses transatlantic mail times and the feasibility of reducing the New York to London voyage to under two days. It cites speeds of 24.5 mph on the Deutschland and outlines turbine steamers as a path to 25 knot service, aiming to bridge Europe and North America via Newfoundland.
A proponent argues telegraphy is the best training for young businesspeople. He claims 85 percent of U.S. railway managers started as telegraph operators and many leaders across industries credit their keying apprenticeship. He adds that success requires good listening, learned by eight years listening to Morse signals.
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