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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1906
Page
2
The Cotton weighing service at Old Reliable Alliance Warehouse offers accurate scales and guaranteed satisfaction. Located at the corner of Main and Snow streets in Oxford Alabama, it invites farmers to bring cotton for precise measurement.
Rev and Mrs W R Ivey and son William travel to Montgomery and on to Maysville Ky for a new home. Other items include James Whitley selling cotton in Delta, T A Howle Co. business trip, James Warnock’s White Plains visit, home improvements at L B Miller place, improving health of John Privett, and stronger cotton trade with prices 9 16 to 9 16 cents. Oxford oil mill to resume next week, cemetery fence removal, and planned fall plantings. Rev Joseph Whiteside to lecture on Shanghai at Odd Fellows hall to benefit Oxford Library. Marriage of Blanche Edmondson to Charles Rainwater draws local interest. she is famed for negro dialect recital.
In Oxford the mayor heard three cases this morning. one was dismissed while two added to the city treasury. Miss Brooksie Macon visits the Turner sisters on Main street as the community notes a young teacher and the upcoming nuptials of Mr Rainwester and his fair bride.
Sufferers urged to try Dean's Ointment for obstinate skin conditions including hives and salt rheum. It claims relief easy with general druggist availability.
A terse dialogue shows Righee accused of threatening suit over a $100 debt. The speaker claims Righee asked them to sue for $2,000 and to return a favor, suggesting a coercive motive behind the legal threat.
A Lavater quotation asserts that true enemies arise from those who have harmed you rather than those you harmed, and true friends are those who have benefited you rather than those you helped.
Maggie Hickox of Midland Michigan says her two year old recovered from a severe bowel complaint using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The ad claims it cures even cholera infantum if directions are followed and notes J L Wikle sells the remedy.
A youthful orator ends his speech and thanks a lingering auditor whose upturned face inspired him. The auditor explains his polite attention was due to a stiff neck, not agreement with the lecture.
An old advertisement touts Dr. R V Pierce Golden Medical Discovery as a blood purifier and tonic for stomach and liver ailments. It cites natural roots with glycerine extraction, claims three products including All Healing Salve and Pleasant Pellets, and urges sending stamps to Buffalo New York for samples and remedies.
The Fourth district convention meets at the Baptist church in Piedmont next Sunday with devotional by P. Wood. Welcome by Prof. Langston. Addresses by Miss Minnie Kennedy and R. L. Cater. Sermon at 11 p.m. prayer and talks at 2 p.m. by Thomas Howell with songs. Miss Kennelly address. Various delegates speak. Officers elected. 7:30 p.m. address by Rev. J. C. Jenkins on Our International Work.
The shah of Persia in the seventeenth century ordered corporal punishment for soldiers found with tobacco. In the same era Massachusetts banned public tobacco use and imposed a penny fine for each offense.
A. J. Nausbaum of Batesville Indiana reports a three month summer cold with hay fever symptoms that resisted a physician prescription but improved quickly after using Poley’s Honey and Tar in the yellow package. His wife also had success with Foley’s Honey and Tar, per Elam Ordway & Houser.
On a visit to Ireland the explorer Livingstone was greeted warmly in Dublin. At a dinner he sat beside a literary woman who pressed him about the language of savage cannibals. He uttered a sample sentence and she asked its meaning. He answered that it signified great danger or injury to him.
A historical note records the 1777 British under Lord Howe entering Philadelphia. It contrasts later events including 1799 French capture of Zurich and the 1810 Battle of Busaco with a misstatement about a Pacific railway issuing alongside Morocco diplomacy in 1905.
A Mississippi-era ad touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a scientific wonder. It cites E. R. Mulford of Waynesboro Pennsylvania as cured of piles and lists its claimed healing powers for burns, sores, boils, ulcers, cuts, wounds, chilblains and salt rheum. Sold for 25 cents at West End Drug Co and Elam Ordway Houser.
The passage traces how English speakers increasingly aspirate the initial h in humble herb hospital and humor, noting a historical shift with Dickens era usage in Uriah Heap’s humble and earlier medieval speech patterns and spellings. It contrasts pre nineteenth century silence with modern practice.
Citing the claim that appendicitis victims are often constipated the ad promotes Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup as a cure for chronic constipation. It states the product stimulates the liver and bowels and restores natural action without nausea or griping.
A humorous exchange shows Haw ley declaring a fiction project while confessing he plans to pay a tailor with a delayed check next week. The banter reveals a quirky slice of everyday life and a playful view of writing at work.
In a light home joke Mrs Timid asks about a man under the bed. Mrs Bluff recalls a night of suspected burglars when she discovered her husband hiding there.
A terse quotation highlights belief in inner strength over physical force, framing victory as a consequence of the soul rather than mere body power. It reflects a motto-like sentiment attributed to an unnamed source.
An advertisement warns that kidney trouble is insidious and may be fatal before symptoms appear. It urges taking Foley's Kidney Cure at first signs to correct irregularities and prevent Bright's disease diabetes. Elam, Ordway & Houser.
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