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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1906
Page
5
A busy Anniston page highlights watches from Elgin and Howard at top prices, a county bar association meeting on court amendments, Chase and Sanborn coffee value, local business moves, a barn fire, new fashion arrivals, and notices of court sessions and a funeral.
Police court, presided by Mayor pro tem Wikle, disposed of thirteen cases with outcomes including six dismissals and continuations, one suspended sentence, and eight convictions. Fines and costs totaled $61.60. new Walk Over and American Girl shoe lines advertised. Sheriff Woodruff to Mount Vernon asylum with Mattie Rowe. Minor fire in Constantine building third floor caused $200 damage to Magic theater.
A brief notice highlights concerns over honest weights and measures amid calls for fair pricing. Authorities promise inspection campaigns to ensure accurate weights and honest advertising.
A man named John Jordon, described as white and a stranger to the city, was picked up in Oxford Saturday afternoon and turned over to the sheriff. An application will be made to admit him to the asylum for the insane in Tuscaloosa. He cannot provide any origin details.
A doctor known for frugality wrote prescriptions on old letters and circulars. A nervous patient turned the page and read a grim funeral time noting the upcoming service at 4:30 on Wednesday. Fish and oysters, phone 523.
The Trigg Furniture Company will become the Trigg Steele Company on January 1. J Prank Steele and Milledge Rudisill will run the business, expanding to cabinet making, repairs, framing, and enlarged undertaker services with M P Crow of Montgomery joining the undertaking division, aiming to create a leading state good in both furniture and funeral services.
An advertising curio touts Dean's Reg ula ta as a cure for constipation and stomach tone. The claim links a weaker bowels reaction to chronic constipation, but the text offers no medical evidence or verifiable details.
Anniston firm promotes cleanest cheapest fuel for grates and base burners. Price listed as 450 per ton delivered by Electric & Gas Co with telephone contact 109.
I bring good luck to whatever I am attached. The fresher I am the more often I am stuck on you. Get into a brush with me and I will show you a smearing good time. Heath & Milligan's best pre pared paint arrives as we stock another carload to meet holiday decoration needs at ELAM ORDWAY HOUSER, Phone 103.
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