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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1906
Page
4
Alabama shows growth in farming and stock raising including thoroughbred horses cattle hogs and poultry. Immigrants pursue fruit growing and poultry farming as the state promotes advertising to attract industrious farmers to Anniston Calhoun County and other regions.
Merchants in Anniston buy goods in New York and straight from manufacturers in large quantities. Better buying power allows lower prices than other cities. Anniston stores offer full season stock and a strong case for buying locally, drawing trade from the Eastern Alabama district.
The piece lauds Anniston for taking the first action against bucket shop gambling, credits Aldermen Cooper Lewis Higgins and Wikle for leading the drive, and compares unfavorably to Birmingham though noting its council acted well. Anniston claims full credit for initiating reform.
Editor Evening Star publishes letters from Nathan L Miller and George F Cater advocating local option and law and order on temperance issues. Miller denounces concealed weapons and urges voters to back representatives who will uphold strong state laws. A reader condemns bucket shops and gambling, warning that card rooms and dice games trigger wider gambling mania.
Birmingham dated August 15 1906 reports Mr Gee E Cater of Anniston Alabama receives a letter praising the writer’s stance against bucket shops describing them as seducive gambling that drains state wealth to New York as locals bet on cotton prices and lose profits to distant centers.
The Lake program tonight will outdo last week with Miss Deweese’s clever musical numbers and Harris’s top notch dancing. Mr and Mrs Harris perform a new duo act while Mr and Mrs Rogers add musical comedy. The moving pictures include the surrender of Port Arthur.
A Boston Transcript writer notes Susan B Anthony once answered Horace Greeley with the famous line about bullets and ballots. Anthony recalled addressing the 1867 New York constitutional convention in Albany and offering to answer questions.
Mr Jos Saks proprietor of the Famous returns from New York with a full stock for his Anniston and Gadsden stores. He states the Famous will offer Hart Schaffner Marx Hamburger Bros Stein Bloch and Saks lines along with underwear furnishings and more. He reports a pleasant trip and good health.
Anniston cash store Bass & Heard goes out of business offering 60 barrels white rock plastering or cement at 1.50 per barrel, 73 percent per barrel for buyers who act quickly.
For sale a fresh milch cow. Apply to Mrs. R. T. Pinson in Oxford. The entry notes the high temperature at 2 p.m. as 88 degrees.
Lay in your winter's supply with the best coal offered by R. O. Watson. Phone 72.
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