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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1901
Page
2
Three more members of Joseph Martin’s family in New Baltimore were poisoned after eating toad stools they believed were mushrooms. Martin his wife and several children face critical condition as the eight person family fights for life amid fears the entire household may perish from the poison.
Alexandrians formed a fishing party to Tallalahassie creek last Thursday with over twenty participants including B T Clark T L Harvey E Irwin A V Mathis John and Tom Williams EB J Sheid J F Whisenant Fred and Charlie Martin plus many ladies. About thirty pounds of fish were caught and a lavish dinner followed. The Calhoun County Baptist Sunday School convention adjourned after a profitable three day session at Mt Zion Baptist church with plans to continue several days.
From Cairo word arrives that Charles Morning a mining engineer and former Newport Ky boy has purchased the Mount Sinai between the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. Morning seeks contact with Mia Morning his mother who believes he is the missing son and has spent winter in Cairo prospecting nearby Arabia. Mining machinery now sounds as Morning treads a biblical site once linked to divine thunder.
A sales blurb promises liver regulation and purified blood by Dr King’s New Life Pills. It claims clearer skin and rosy cheeks for 25 cents at Elam Drug Co.’s drug store.
The Southern railway offers round trip summer tickets from June 1 to Sept 30 with final return by Oct 31 at reduced rates to many resorts. Notable destinations include Asheville and Black Mountain in North Carolina, Blowing Rock, Brevard, Flat Rock, Hot Springs, Morehead City, Lithia Springs in Georgia, Cumberland Island, Simons Island, Isle of Palms, Lookout Mountain, Tate Springs, Buffalo Lithia Springs in Virginia, Charlottesville and Old Point Comfort, Virginia Beach, Warrenton. Inquiries to C B Jackson in Birmingham or A Benseoter in Chattanooga. Also included is an unrelated ad for Hobbs Proregas Pills for kidney relief.
Effective October 7 the Choctaw Route will run three trains daily between Memphis Tennessee and Hot Springs Arkansas. The schedule adds double daily service to India and Oklahoma Territories with connections to points in Southwest Missouri Kansas Texas and the West.
Mr bh. Swift representing J N Murdoch Wholesale Druggist of Parkersburg West Virginia reports a cholera morbus illness cured by one bottle of Kermett’s Ext Blackberry. He says he would pay any price for it and endorses it as the best remedy for summer complaints including cholera morbus.
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