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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1901
Page
7
D. R. Gaines offers stone and marble work at savings of 20 to 30 percent. Buy from us for best material and work. Visit Twenty-West Fourteenth Street Anniston Alabama or contact via post office.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat report quotes a well known physician praising partridge eggs as highly nutritious. He notes they are rarely eaten, often obtained by local families during laying season, and would feed many households if more widely used, while condemning nest robbing.
The army worm is a grass eating insect preferring oats to corn. The malaptocurus, a fish eight inches long, can generate 200 volts of electricity in a tenth of a second. Paris pigeons raise young in nests made of hairpins found on the Luxembourg paths. The mound bird of Australia builds mounds up to 150 feet in circumference and buries eggs five feet deep. The great bustard is the heaviest bird that can fly, with old males around 35 pounds and up to 40 pounds in abundance. Once common in western Europe, they are now rare.
The article recounts St Christopher as protector against evil death when viewing his image, notes the colossal depictions in Spanish cathedrals, and describes a Notre Dame statue removed in 1785. It also covers the legend of bearing the Christ child and the globe, and mentions a 1425 wood engraving as an early typographic example.
National Geographic Magazine notes that Canada’s total area reaches 8,450,257 square miles and one third remains undiscovered. Excluding arctic regions, about 54,000 square miles are largely unknown, concentrated in western blocks from 25,000 to 100,000 square miles, as large as Ohio or Kansas, still a mystery to white explorers.
The Rippenbangers employ a new coachman following an escape of the family horses. Mamie Rippenbanger and the coachman are still missing, prompting questions about the incident and its fallout in the Rippenbanger household.
Foley’s Honey and Tar for children is described as a nonopiate remedy option for coughs. The note emphasizes safety for kids and avoids opiate-based ingredients while suggesting accessible use for relief.
The Southern railway offers round trip tickets from June 1 to September 30 with return by October 31 1901 at reduced rates to popular summer resorts in North and South Carolina Georgia and Virginia including Asheville Black Mountain Blowing Rock Brevard Flat Rock Hot Springs Morehead City Lithia Springs Isle of Palms Lookout Mountain Oliver Springs Tate Springs Buffalo Lithia Springs Charlottesville Old Point Comfort Virginia Beach and Warrenton Rates and schedules available from R E Jackson T P A Birmingham C A Benseoter AG P.A. Chattanooga Tenn.
S S S, a mix of roots and herbs, purifies blood and builds strength. It claims to cure cancer, scrofula, rheumatism, chronic sores, eczema, psoriasis, salt rheum, herpes, and contagious blood poison. A long record of cures and a large medical correspondence network back its claims.
Notice of attachment against SL Arnold in T A Stewart v SL Arnold. Justice of the Peace A F McGuee orders weekly publication for three weeks in Evening Star and mailing of a copy to the defendant at his residence, returnable Sept 21 1901. Arnold is a non resident of Alabama.
By order of Judge Emmett F. Crook the probate court approves the public sale of estate property of B. D. Sawyer deceased. I. M. L. Sawyer administratrix will offer cash bids from the probate office on Monday Oct 7 1901 at 12 noon comprising Southwest quarter of Southwest quarter section 11 township 16 south range east with a one acre triangular carveout plus lots 1 block 190 and lot 12 block 262 in Anniston including street frontages and alley reach.
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