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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1902
Page
7
The notice lists the first and second rounds of tax assessment appointments across Calhoun County Alabama with Beat numbers and dates from Oct 1 to Dec 24 1902. Taxpayers must bring correct real estate numbers and itemized valuations. Assessments become delinquent after January 1 1903. D. B. Barnes Tax Assessor.
In a gym scene a man demonstrates breathing exercises to improve thorax development and abdominal strength. He explains deep lung expansion, posture correction, and health benefits, urging men women and children to practice these movements under proper instruction.
A Leesville Indiana man, W H Brown, endured asthma agony as his family feared death. He hiked 18 miles to obtain Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption and Coughs and Colds. He reports immediate relief and eventual cure, praising the medicine’s throat and lung benefits. Trial bottles offered free at Miller Drug Co.
A London Tit-Bits puzzle asks how two men born simultaneously in Dublin can die at fifty yet differ by 100 days of life. One sails west yearly losing a day, the other travels east gaining a day, so after fifty years they each reach death together, yet the westbound man has logged 100 more days than his companion.
A noted medical tip describes croup starting with cold symptoms and advises frequent small doses of Ballard's Horehound syrup for relief and to apply Ballard's Snow Liniment to the throat at the first cough. Names J L Wikles and J B Privett are associated with the claim.
Cesar refuses senatorial order and enters Rome with a Gaul captive at his side. Brutus admires the nerve, Caesar jokes about having his Gaul with him, and Brutus ponders the ides of March thereafter.
An advertisement touts Foley's Honey and Tar as peculiarly adapted to chronic throat troubles and promises a positive cure for bronchitis hoarseness and bronchial diseases with a note to refuse substitutes Miller Drug Co.
A Georgetown family preserves rare heirlooms of early coal oil lamps. The article notes two of the earliest lamp designs, one brass imitating a candle and the other glass resembling a large candlestick, among the first brought to America.
A. M. Ake of Wood Indiana recounts years of lung hemorrhages and ineffective medical care before using Foley's Honey and Tar. He reports his lungs are now sound and urges its use in advanced stages of lung trouble.
A beadle in a parish near Dumfries digs a grave when a stranger asks if people die often there. The beadle replies solemnly that death comes “generally just once.”
A brief testimonial from W. H. Brockman of Bagnell Missouri praising Chamberlain's Remedy for three years of bronchitis. He credits the medicine with soothing sleepless nights after trying multiple doctors and patent medicines. Sold by J L Wikle.
A young woman named Miss Jennie teaches a group of dusky pupils in reading and writing three times weekly. One student, moved by admiration, privately expresses the pupils’ sentiments: “as we see you sitting here reading to us dere’s just one ting… a fair white rose bud in the middle ob a bowl ob lasses.”
Parents report children crying from hunger despite abundant feeding due to intestinal worms. A few doses of White's Cream Vermifuge are claimed to stop crying and restore thriving, sold for 25c at J. L. Wikles and J. B. Privett in Oxford, Alabama.
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