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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1902
Page
2
There is One Store promoting a long experience in the fancy and staple grocery business. It claims groceries are the best money can buy, with prompt delivery and courteous attentive service in every detail.
In Montevallo on December 24 a run away marriage between Henry Chapman aged 19 and Mica Lida Latham aged 15 caused excitement. They met at the depot Sunday evening, boarded a train for Home Georgia, and evaded telegrams seeking their arrest. Miss Latham is the daughter of S Latham, a prominent local figure. The groom works as a barber in Columbiana Alabama.
I R Beall of Beall Mississippi recounts his wife’s fall illness with consumption. After other remedies failed, she used Dr King s New Discovery and improved rapidly, with four bottles curing her entirely. Guaranteed by Miller Drug Co and West End Drug Co.
The tale notes Lord Charles Russell recalling an actor from twenty years earlier. It then promotes Lippman’s Great Remedy for rheumatism P P P as a superior blood purifier, boasting testimonials from James Newton and W Y Timmons, with distribution by Bell Weatherly Co. and J L Wikle.
The exchange highlights Mrs Chateau as a brilliant conversationalist praised for expressing more with fewer words, sparking light banter about wit and communication. The remark underscores her deft dialogue style in a social moment.
Washington Tinien notes the ambiguous phrasing showing language flexibility. The text discusses a brute possibly being a thoroughbred St. Bernard or a foreign fortune seeker, illustrating confusion in translation.
The notice warns that many cough remedies besides Foley's Slowey and Tar may contain opiates causing constipation and safety issues, especially for children. Foley's Honey and Tar is claimed to contain no opiates and to be safe, advertised by Miller Drug Co.
The proclamation by Mayor O. Z. Henderson allows fireworks discharge outside the Anniston city fire limits from now through January 1, 1903. The limits span area around the Southern Railway tracks, Wilmer, Quintard, and Wilmer streets, with enforcement by police and fines in police court.
An advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm as a cure for blood poisons eczema scrofula and ulcers. It cites testimonials from Geo A Williams of Roxbury and Robert Ward of Maxeyville Georgia claiming relief from pimples sores and bone pains. The copy offers a free sample and mailed medical guidance from the Blood Balm Co Atlanta Georgia.
Advice on countering cold feet with proper clothing and daily foot and ankle exercises. Recommends toe pointing, ankle stretches, and rapid foot movements to stimulate blood flow, with benefits for resting in bed and during long rides.
An advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a cure for nervousness sleeplessness and stomach upsets. It claims the tonic tones the stomach kidneys and bowels stimulates the liver and purifies the blood with broad benefits, offered at 60 cents and guaranteed by Miller DrugCo and West End Drug Co.
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