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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1909
Page
5
City news notes J M Yarbrough and Miss Alma Caldwell of Chattanooga will marry in Chattanooga on Wednesday the 22nd. Yarbrough is known in Anniston where he has visited. he is a nephew of M W Woodruff who will travel to Chattanooga at 6 45 tomorrow to attend the nuptials.
One of the city's attractive Christmas windows is at the Frank Mel Intyre store. The interior features festive decorations and a tasteful Christmas display.
ANNISTON WOOD COAL CO offers coal and wood at low prices from Seventh and Glen Addie. Cater Grocery Company promotes a fine lot of white Holland turkeys raised in Calhoun county, ideal for Christmas. Decliff
The quarterly conference of First Methodist Church is delayed to the 17th or next month. Presiding Elder G L Jenkins was in the city and left with the arrangement in doubt.
An advertisement urging readers to secure life insurance with National Best Company, Best Policies. It highlights ensuring the widow and orphans are cared for before Christmas and cites Jno L Yeatman at the Columbian Building as the contact.
A morning session saw many cases dismissed by the recorder including five underage defendants charged with larceny of metal and money. The passage hints at using advertising space to attract more buyers to a store.
Local cotton market daily update by W. L. Jones records pricing across grades. Strict good middling and good middling quotes appear with various figures and day-to-day adjustments.
G. C. Adkins arrived on the advance to 31 and paid 3.50 for a Sunday intoxication offense. The recorder ruled the fine must stand despite a high rate for Sunday drinking.
TO SAVE TROUBLE CHRISTMAS Give your Christmas order to Sterne's. You can get everything you want at one store, everything fresh and of best quality. Orders filled correctly and goods delivered on time. STERNE'S. Don't forget Dobbins about that store. He buys, sells, swaps and re pairs. 26 W. Eleventh St. ,Phone 60. Dee18-eod-tf.
A telephone company cable on Tyler Hill was burned by an electric wire at about 11 a m today. The incident disrupted 50 to 75 phones. Repairs are expected to be completed by 8 o clock tonight.
The note emphasizes the importance of want ads when deciding to sell a house. It highlights that advertising the listing on the right day can influence buyer interest and speed up the sale. Real estate dynamics and timing are implied as key factors.
C B E Conner of Ocala is visiting Anniston today. Fred Billings and R E Wilson of Birmingham are in Anniston today. W F Clayton of Jacksonville, and B McClannock with J T Johnson of Atlanta are in Anniston this morning. Miss Belinda Sharpe and Violet Herndon of Jacksonville were in the city today. Miss Lessie Bentley plans to visit DeArmanville tomorrow. Dr C L Harkins, recently back from an extended trip to Oklahoma, returns home. Dec 20th. Enjoy the holidays, Ride on the Queen and Crescent Route.
A distressed observer from Anniston describes children driven to steal coal to survive amid deep poverty. He recalls their destitution and the broader suffering, saying the world feels frozen while youngsters wade through hardship to survive. He was left shaken and sleepless by the tale.
Born to Mr and Mrs C W Sanders a girl J T Wheeler Jr of Oxford student at University of Georgia Athens spending holidays The peculiar properties of Chamberlain s Cough Remedy have been thoroughly tested during epidemics of influenza and when it was taken in time we have not heard of a single case of pneumonia 19
In Columbus Indiana the Bartholemew circuit court opens the second trial of Jacob Kirk and David Fox both of Smithville Monroe county charged with whitecapping Thomas Vanest a former Blacksmith of South Bethany. The June 1907 attack led to eight arrests, two convictions and a prior new trial granted nearly two years ago after repeated postponements.
A light day for want ads leaves room to skip the usual listings though caution advised. Readers may still find essential notices and opportunities if they browse selectively.
In Chicago on December 20, three children of John Krodick died when a kerosene lamp exploded shortly after midnight while their parents were elsewhere in the building.
A historical note describes an Austrian idea from almost a century ago to steer balloons by trained eagles guiding their flight paths.
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