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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1906
Page
6
In 1863 the discovery of at least 110 bodies tied to road agents spurred frontier residents to fear and demand justice. Miners vanished with fortunes as Alder Gulch yielded wealth, while vigilante courts failed amid intimidation. The Dilli murder case showed similar caution and fear.
Miss Phoebe Washington returns in wedding finery to the house where she served as cook for years and laments that the number thirteen proved unlucky. She says fourteen would have married the man she expected, claiming the misshapen guest list ruined her plans.
On this date in history Pope Innocent IV dies in 1254 and Scottish king John Balliol is crowned in 1292, marking pivotal medieval milestones.
A fragmented recap lists Fort Orange surrender to England in 1664, Black Friday of 1860, McKinley murder conviction, the 1904 Southern Railway collision, 1871 San Francisco fire, Hell Gate explosions, Eliza Cook death in Tennessee, and the anarchist act of Czolgosz with brief health and patent medicine claims.
A veteran claims waking at 6 instead of 8 adds ten years to life. He calculates forty years of 2 hours earlier rises equals 29 200 hours or about 3 1/2 years, equating eight hours daily for six years. The listener proposes staying up two hours later instead.
Maggie Hickox of Midland Michigan says her two year old had a severe bowel attack but recovered using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. She asserts it can handle even cholera infantum and urges following printed directions for a certain cure, sold by J L Wikle.
A twelve year old girl, known to a Washington Post writer, plans to give her bank funds to a club for poor girls. She intends to place money in the treasury to inspire others to contribute, then take it back after encouraging donations.
A furious woman enters a crowded car and refuses a seat offered by a tall, pleasant man. She is jolted into his lap as the vehicle lurches, blushing and struggling to rise while he calmly repeats the offer.
Kenneth Melver of Vanceboro Me credits Dr King’s New Discovery with saving his life after doctors abandoned him. The remedy is sold by West End Drug Co Elam Ordway and Howser with 50c and 1.00 prices and a trial bottle free for coughs colds bronchitis tonsillitis and la grippe.
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