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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1906
Page
8
Fragmentary text appears to describe a station or timing situation with unclear names or events. The readable portion hints at a discussion of twenty minutes and a station context, but lacks coherent persons, places, or actions to form a complete news item.
The passage assigns symbolic meanings to colors in marriage and faith. White and red roses embody love and wisdom, blue expresses heaven and fidelity, yellow signals faithfulness, green anchors hope and immortality, violet links love to truth, purple and scarlet denote goodness from a celestial origin, and black or dark tones signify despair and death.
Special to the Star from Berlin recounts Duke George II of Saxe- Meiningen observing his 80th birthday and the 40th anniversary of his secession to the throne. He is praised for learning, bravery, and patriotism as a German commander who aided victories in the Franco Prussian era and helped seize French flags.
Robert Bennett Bean argues in Century that the negro brain is smaller than the Caucasian, affecting potential mental development. He claims historical contact with civilizations but notes limited rise, suggesting crossing with other races as a factor in any change.
An elderly woman from Alain visits Portarouth to see her son, a sailor. She is taken to sea aboard the Victory by a boatman and asks loudly for her Bill, learning the vessel is a navy ship and the sailor replies with an apology.
A Blackpool Times notice offers a dark complected young man to visit houses at midnight on New Year’s, charging 2 shillings without refreshments. The ad is tied to a local superstition that the first visitor of the year brings good luck.
A business leader urges retirees to close the business brain each night. He advises turning thoughts to family, reading uplifting material, walking or enjoying a hobby, and using a bedside motto No Thinking Here to sleep peacefully. He warns against bringing work home and damaging family life.
W M Sherman of Cushing Maine recalls three months of kidney inflammation endured amid savage torture. He credits Electric Bitters, taken in three doses, with curing his liver complaint dyspepsia blood disorders and malaria. Sold by West End Drug Co and Elam Ordway Houser for ten cents.
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.
Advertises coal sale listing R O Watson as the supplier with a phone number 72 and a prompt to lay in a winter supply.
A wealthy Baltimore belle and a penniless clubman nearly broke off their winter engagement after a florist's assistant mixed up two cards. One card ordered roses for the young lady, the other bore the note Do the best you can for $3.
A man who travels widely reveals to the Chronicle his method for top service. Upon arriving at a hotel he splits a two dollar bill, gives half to the waiter and keeps the other half, promising the remainder if service is satisfactory. He says this yields the best attention and consistent favorable treatment.
The advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a scientific wonder for cures including a case by E. R. Mulford in Waynesboro Pennsylvania. It claims relief for piles burns sores boils ulcers cuts wounds chilblains and salt rheum. Available for 25 cents at West End Drug Co and Elam Ordway Houser.
A spoof exchange notes a country doctor urging caution and a London figure named Lady Cushbags paying two guineas for a coin extraction. The quip mocks medical haste and urban pretensions in a witty, concise barbs-filled item.
The judge confronts the prisoner asking why he took only the money and left the silver basket. The prisoner replies the basket was too heavy. The judge exclaims in disbelief at the laziness shown.
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