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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1902
Page
5
Holiday goods highlight the largest stock in the state offering diamonds watches jewelry and silverware at Noble St. Jeweler and Optician opposite Ulimans. Engraving free for items bought in store during holidays though engraving others is not offered.
A collage of notices includes frost affecting crops, prison fencing, and local business promotions. Advertisers tout coal, jewelry, hardware, and new store fixtures as well as upcoming property loans and rental offers. Congressman Bowie returns home for holidays amid festive commerce.
Local candy shop advertises home made horehound tablets as a cold remedy. The brief note highlights Dowe's Candy Kitchen as the source of the product.
Local ad column highlights chocolate and bon bons fresh made, featuring Xmas meats and turkeys at Injury and Health policy notices. Names such as OColumbus Smith, Fidelity and Casualty Co., and R M Ingram appear in insurance settlement context, with weekly benefit figures and disability policy details. A tomato growing champion from Oxford, C Smith, is noted as last summer’s standout plant-er.
Travel by personally conducted weekly excursion tourist cars from Memphis through Rock Island System Choctaw Oklahoma and Gulf R R and So Pac Route to Union. Travel option emphasizes direct service without change and a comfortable ride to the coast.
The Southern railway offers round trip tickets at one and one third fares to points east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers. Sale dates include December 23 24 25 30 and January 1 with final limit January 5 1903. Teachers and students may buy Dec 19 to 22 with final limit January 8 1903 upon certification.
Rock Island System Choctaw Oklahoma and Gulf Railway announce through tourist sleeping car service from Memphis to California and Portland. The California car departs Memphis Tuesdays at 9 00 a m and stops at Little Rock South McAlester Oklahoma City El Reno and arrives El Paso Thursday morning Los Angeles Friday morning and San Francisco Saturday morning. The Portland car leaves Memphis Thursdays on the same schedule arriving Denver Ogden and Portland.
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