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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1903
Page
5
The message encourages buying now to avoid the holiday crowds and be well dressed for the Christmas season, highlighting suits overcoats shoes and hats as priority purchases. It stresses timely shopping to ensure readiness for holiday events and celebrations.
Rain and warmer tonight then clearing and colder Wednesday. Local items include real estate for sale, rental listings, a bazaar for Free Kindergarten, hotel dining and entertainment plans, a box supper for Glen Addie church, employment changes, a lost gold watch, and community announcements from Anniston and surrounding areas. Major entities: Anniston Rifles, Anniston Art Studio, Victoria Hotel, Glen Addie Baptist church, Fern Dell, Comer Maddox Co, West End Drug Co, Miller Drug Co, Edison records, Florence Times, Rev. S. E. Wasson.
The city health officer quarantines Mr. Wasson's family and restricts visitors. The source notes it is unclear how or where the five year old boy contracted the illness and identifies him as the son of Mr. Avernathy.
A nearby city seized a batch of cheap baking powders exposing brands sold countrywide. Lab analysis found alum powders containing alum, sulfuric acid and rock filler making them dangerous. Physicians warn against such products. high quality cream of tartar powders are cheaper in the long run and healthier.
Early signs of croup include hoarseness and a day or two before the attack. If the child becomes hoarse or develops a rough cough, give Chamberlains Cough Remedy promptly. Used by thousands of mothers, it is said to dispel all symptoms and avoid danger, sold by J. L. Wikle, druggist.
Captain Joe H Francis of New York City is visiting relatives in the county. He formerly lived in Calhoun and has many friends here.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills claiming to restore hearing by treating inflammation of the mucous lining of the Eustachian tube. Offers one hundred dollars for any deafness case caused by catarrh that cannot be cured, with circulars available from F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo, Ohio.
A historic ad extols calm reception of beef bills noting cheerful payment and satisfaction with quality. It claims all meats are deliciously tasty tender and juicy and invites readers to call telephone 107 for meat needs.
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