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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1906
Page
8
An afternoon Christmas entertainment at the Fifth ward school featured rooms with Christmas trees and a Santa Claus who handed out gifts after programs of songs recitations and drills. The scene contrasted holly mistletoe and ivy with happy children marking the fall term’s end.
A timeline notes Plymouth founded in 1620, the 1807 embargo on American ships, and births of Higginson and Alverstone. It tallies Doniphan’s 1846 Missouri volunteers victory at Braceli and Abd el Kaders surrender to France in 1847 alongside de Reszke’s 1853 birth.
Justice and Mrs Harlan marked the 50th wedding anniversary with a large reception in Washington. Three bridesmaids from the 1856 ceremony attended: Mrs James M. Shanklin, Mrs Samuel Baylard, and Mrs Ella Wymond.
The advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for all stages of catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims the medicine works through the blood and mucous surfaces builds up the constitution and offers one hundred dollars for any failure to cure with testimonials available. It also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Gadsden December 22 The steel structural work for the Weller rolling mill has arrived and is being placed on site as rapidly as possible. The plant will be ready for operation in the early part of the coming year. All of the heavier machinery has been placed in position.
Washington Dee 22 The post office department receives many annual requests from philanthropic groups with letters to Santa or Kris Kringle addressed to children. Thousands of letters each year end up in the dead letter office awaiting response.
A period newspaper ad urges readers to give useful gifts this Christmas and mentions neckties silk suspenders hose handkerchiefs gloves mufflers slippers and ready to wear items for men women and children plus furniture. It touts easy weekly or monthly payments at low cash prices.
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