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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1906
Page
8
Fragmentary marketing text extols Perfection Canopies as the peak of comfort and compactness, but repetition and truncation obscure full meaning and product details.
A Tuesday 5 pm concert in Anniston features two young artists Miss Mary Roberta Conrey of Ohio and pianist Will J. Stone Jr. to benefit the Free Kindergarten. Conrey, guest of Mrs. Edwin Houston, is billed as a rising vocalist. Stone has gained praise in Towle's Magazine and Greater West.
Chas. W. Moore of Ford City Pa burned his hand in an electrical furnace. He treated with Bucklen's Arnica Salve, claiming quick and perfect cure. Ad touts the product as the greatest healer on earth for burns wounds sores eczema and piles, 25 cents at local druggists West End Drag Co Elam Ordway Houser's.
Ladies fine shoes and ox fords in all the new styles and sizes at less than present factory cost. Store announces going out of business.
The article notes Mr. Stone draws many friends in Anniston and plans a September Handel Hall concert featuring Moskowski Polonaise. It invites locals to attend next Tuesday. It also lists social notes with families and guests visiting from Birmingham, Lincoln, Bluffton, Piedmont Springs, Scottsboro, and Birmingham social circles.
In a discussion with a top agent, the reporter visits Hobson City to view a valley town expanding with a 15 acre park, a sizeable auditorium, and graded baseball grounds. Six cottages are finished and three more under contract as development accelerates.
A general sales agent noted many lots sold with purchasers from southern Alabama earning good wages in car works and other trades. He said Hobson City offers employment, a 15 minute transit, 5 cent fares, electric lights, and water from Anniston providers. The town runs its own government and a strong push to aid Negro citizens in home ownership.
An old newspaper item touts the discovery of the yellow fever germ and likens it to malaria. It promotes Pr King New Life Pills as the remedy to purge malaria poison and constipation, priced 25 cents at Elam Otway & Houser and West End Drug Co.
Ludlow Allen and his wife Mae Kenna, former Anniston resident, return to the Oxford Lake theater next week. Allen, known for his blackface coon songs, is praised for his versatility. With strong supporting cast, the week aims to be record breaking as the Anniston Electric & Gas Co prepares to handle crowds smoothly.
Dean Swift forecast the death of Partridge, chief of the astrological almanac makers, for a specific date and announced his demise. Partridge protested he was alive, but Swift insisted, using his claimed science, that he must have died on that date.
Eastern Division of the Northern District of Alabama announces the first meeting of creditors for the bankrupt Mitcheell & Owens. It will be held in Anniston, Alabama, on August 13, 1906 at 10 a.m. Creditors may appear to prove claims and take action as required by the bankrupt act. Anniston, Ala., August 3, 1906. H. D. McCarty, Referee in Bankruptcy.
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