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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1906
Page
3
Local program promises ready supplies for students with wearing clothing shoes dress materials hats and caps. Officials urge families to prepare children for the upcoming school season by securing essential items from community partners.
Mesdames Barry Bel plan Lincoln trip and Mrs Bullard's improved health noted. Fay Gladden visits Oxford before Plantersville school year. Local girls expected to study at Plantersville college. Thad M. Gwin & Company advertises 4000 samples of early fall fabrics Brickner and Kantmark mixtures featured. orders welcome.
Of Monroe Texas en route to Clay County to visit friends they were guests at the hospitable home of T M Draper and a family last night. Mrs M Edwards left today for
An advertising notice promotes a large shipment of early fall goods Domestics Ginghams Pereales Outings and Prints urging customers to buy before the fall rush begins.
A crowd at Oxford Lake enjoyed the stage showing with Mr Pest the book agent and Mr and Mrs Rogers in comedy. Apples from Rockland growers T A Rich and J C Jones were praised. Charles Alexander and mother plan a Talladega move. Mrs Berkstresser family to follow. Rebecca Hollingsworth and Jim Hollingsworth visit Munford. Annie Howie to return from Cincinnati after a music course.
The column lists Bagley-Howle wedding attendants and visitors to Oxford. Ernest Humphries of A Ticks plans to relocate with family to Snow Street. Ada V Williams guests with cousin Jean Williams on Main Street. Emma Elliot and Mildred White stay with Rev. and Mrs T K Roberts on Snow Street. Miss Ruby Buckalew visits College Hill. Charles Mims plans a New York City trip. Ruby Bentley goes to Eastern markets for RE A Walker & Co. millinery stock. infant son of Mr and Mrs Joel Eason ill at McPherson Avenue. Rev W R Ivey to Jacksonville for Sunday duties. T A Gannaway of Silver Run among visitors. W W Leslie of Birmingham due in Oxford.
An ad touts Smith's Sure Kidney Cure promising a money back guarantee after one bottle. The Scarborough Drug Co. offers the product for 50 cents.
Anniston Bass and Heard advertises 60 to 2001 barrels of white rock plastering or cement at 1.50 per barrel, limited time offer. Customers urged to hurry as sale ends soon.
1305 Sir William Wallace executed at Smithfield. 1532 William Warham archbishop of Canterbury died. 1630 Court of Assistants first held at Charlestown Massachusetts. 1764 Louis XVI of France born. 1883 Northern Pacific Railroad completed to the Pacific coast. 1886 President Cleveland opened the Minneapolis Industrial Exposition.
A telegraph summary notes 1890 remains of Ericsson removed from New York to Sweden with honors. It records 1892 death of Marshal D. de Fonseca as Brail’s first president. 1894 assassination of Japan’s minister to Corea. 1895 launch of British battleship Prince George.
In a London Answers style scene two men discuss old man Meddergrass and his son Samuel who left farming to study art. Samuel returns, paints views of the old farm and earns £150 for a field painting his father might sell for five pounds.
The renowned store at Eleventh and Mobb streets advertises a full range of men and boys apparel and accessories. It highlights ready to wear and tailored options, inviting shoppers to visit for seasonal selections.
High grade furniture of all kinds and New Home sewing machines are offered by J. T. Hodge at 923 Noble Street. Stoves and other household goods are advertised with reasonable prices.
Anniston City Furniture advertises the largest stock and greatest variety at the lowest prices, urging shoppers to visit Noble Street and Twelfth Avenue for deals.
A garbled line lists a bargain involving barrels of refined product at 73 percent per barrel. The fragment mentions price terms and potential buyer activity but lacks complete details or context.
Atlanta prepares for the seventh annual session drawing 4 000 to 5 000 delegates from over twenty states. Booker Washington, president of the league, will deliver the principal address as the convention opens.
A humorous puzzle anecdote describes a pitman testing his son Billy with gender questions. The boy answers with playful accents, guessing gender terms for objects like maskeline feminin and newtor for teapot. The father corrects him, noting it as a small but real blunder.
A hospital surgeon visits a groaning Irish patient in bed and urges him to bear his pain. The patient replies with a stronger echo that pain is the fate of a mule, delivering a witty Seán O’Neill style retort about suffering.
Magistrate questions Mrs. Nalone about her black eyes. She replies they come and go like a toothache, implying they may be self-inflicted or exaggerated. The policeman asserts her husband caused them. The exchange highlights a humorous, deflective defense in a short vignette.
The Rev J C Warren pastor of Sharon Baptist Church Belair Ga endorses Electric Bitters as a miracle cure for back pain stiff joints and overall collapse. He notes two bottles restored strength enabling a three mile walk in 50 minutes and claims it renews him. Sold at West End Drug Co Elam Ordway Houser for 50 cents.
A dialogue questions Brown about years without lying. It recalls his decade of supposed truthfulness and a plan to appear honest by placing property in his wife's name and letting her file tax statements.
Luckiest man in Arkansas H L Stanley of Bruno proclaims the restoration of his wife’s health after five years of coughing and lung bleeding. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption with curing consumption if started early. Wife improved after one bottle and fully cured after twelve. trial bottles offered.
Surplus stock includes ten kinds of ferns in all sizes offered at half price. Large plants priced down to make room for smaller sizes. Ships at about 10 percent extra. shipping paid on orders of five dollars or more. Contact F J Ulbricht by visit, phone, or mail.
The piece argues the stomach is the most vulnerable organ, not the jaw or head, citing Dr. Pierce’s claim that the stomach is key in both health and boxing. It touts Golden Medical Discovery for indigestion liver catarrh and other digestion related diseases and offers a free booklet detailing ingredients and no alcohol.
Tuition free enrollment lists 524 students total with 382 in four classes of the Normal School from 68 Alabama counties. 800 boarders, 135 teachers, strong professional courses, manual training, and state exam preparation. Board ten dollars monthly, expenses 75 to 125 per session. Open Sept 18, 1906. For catalogue address.
Fragments note a Phone Model Ice Co reference and a price mention Evening Star 25 cents monthly in advance amid a brief catalog-like item. The readable text is limited but suggests an ad or notice involving a phone model and a periodical pricing detail.
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