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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1906
Page
2
Telegraph from Montgomery reports state primary preparations on August 27 are complete. Voters show strong interest and candidates await results as county delegations handle tickets while barbecues draw crowds in Lauderdale Ozark and Clio, with several thousand expected at each event.
Calhoun County Good Roads Committee invites all residents to a convention at the County Court House on Saturday August 11 at 10 am. The group seeks legislative changes to enhance public roads and requires at least four delegates from each beat. Attendees urged to bring neighbors.
Summer diarrhoea in children requires prompt home treatment. A few doses of Chamberlains Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy followed by castor oil can cleanse the system and prevent serious illness. Rev M O Stockland of Little Falls Minnesota endorses the remedy for summer disorders in children. Sold by J L Wikle.
A fashionable lady asks the butcher to buy a concert ticket. He declines saying he would see many townspeople who owe him money, which would spoil his enjoyment. The cartoonish exchange highlights social dinner talk and local color.
H. L. Stanley of Bruno credits Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption with curing his wife after five years of coughing and lung bleeding. He reports improvement after one bottle and full cure after twelve. The product, claimed to cure worst coughs, offers money back. Available at West End Drug Co and Blam Ordway and Houser with trial bottles free at 50 cents and 1.00.
A brief notice from Model Ice Co invites customers to lay in their winter coal supply. The ad lists phone contact as 59 for order inquiries and delivery arrangements.
A compelling appeal extols Mrs Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts as a trusted confidante for women with private illnesses. A Manning Iowa woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with saving her life after two years of ineffective medical care and debilitating symptoms. Mountains of testimonials claim the remedy restores health for countless women.
The writer argues grief at separations fades when one recognizes the living spirit behind people. Presence is not only physical but can be felt as a lasting communion through memory and essence. True association transcends the flesh as Carlyle questions the primacy of words and physical closeness.
Acute attacks of colic and diarrhoea come on without warning and prompt relief must be obtained. There is no necessity of incurring the expense of a physician's service if Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is at hand. A dose will relieve the patient before a doctor could arrive. It has never failed, even in severe cases. For sale by J. L. Wikle.
Lord Cromer's Egypt and the Sudan report notes Bedouin practices for murder in peacetime. Relatives may seek vengeance or pardon through blood money set at forty-one camels. If killer and victim share a tribe the killer must marry a victim's relative. the wife may leave after childbirth, with renewal of the marriage and dowry, or five camels may substitute the wife.
Mrs Whiteacre of Buffalo endorses Dr Thomas Eelectric Oil as the best remedy for the deadly disease croup. She reports it has been used successfully in her family for eight years.
Round trip tickets and reserve seats to the lake theater are sold at the office of Anniston Electric and Gas Company located at Tenth and Noble streets from 7 to 8 30.
This item notes Philadelphia born jurist Joseph McKenna born August 10 1843 in Philadelphia later moving to California. It traces his legal career from admission to the bar in 1865 district attorney service in California, legislative terms, Congress service, attorney general appointment in 1897 and eventual Supreme Court tenure, with mention of a Washington home and his wife's social prominence.
An Englishman tries to show American superiority to his American cousin. After tours of ingenuity and progress fail, the pair visit Mount Vesuvius. The American replies that America has Niagara Falls that could extinguish it, delivering a humorous contrast from Ladies' Home Journal.
M T Lynch editor of Phillipsburg Daily Post writes that he has used many medicines for coughs but never anything as good as Oleys Honey and Tar. Elam Ordway and Houser.
James Bruce, the eighteenth century traveler, owed his discovery of the Blue Nile source to his ability to amaze Abyssinians. He gained fame as a healer and miracle worker after curing smallpox and performing other feats, including firing a candle through a table.
A wife reads a telegram from Douglas with concern as her mother asks if he’s hurt. The message states he is well and will return tomorrow, but uses only seven words where more were possible, hinting at strained affection.
An old newspaper ad claims the Yellow Fever germ resembles malaria and promotes J King s New Life Pills as a universal cure for malaria poison and constipation. The sale is advertised at Elam Otway Homuser s and West End Drug Co for 25 cents.
Ferns of ten kinds in all sizes offered at half their value with larger plants heavily discounted to make room for smaller stock. Plants ship at about 10 percent extra. shipping paid on orders of five dollars or more. Contact F J Ulbricht, Lock Box 675, Anniston, Alabama. Phone 503.
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