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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1909
Page
15
Western Union Telegraph Company launches a day-letter service to complement the night-letter option. The rate is one and a half times the night rate for fifty words, with an additional ten words costing one fifth of the initial charge. Day letters may be filed for daytime transmission but the system favors morning processing.
Salt fish and canned provisions advertised for Lent with mackerel codfish herring and other items. Anniston Council Ba and Jr C A ML hold regular weekly meeting in Royal Oak hall at 7 30. Five month old Clara Bowles dies. funeral at Oxanna Baptist church. Funeral of John H Kelly draws large crowd. remembered as model and cheery worker at Central pipe shops. Forecast notes frost risk Friday. Moore to attend Alabama farmers demon ion meeting in Montgomery March 2 3 4. RUM MAJOR PEAS 1 35 per dozen cans advertised.
Co W T Williams formerly with the Union Ticket Office in Anniston has joined H Clay Davis to form Davis Williams Life Health and Accident Insurance. The partners announce policies offering real protection at non discounted prices and invite business from the public and local agencies.
A Boston women’s club debates who spoke first Eve or Adam with Eve possibly uttering the first language. In Washington the question of the first tongue among humans is discussed by metaphysicians and noted in Dante’s essays, highlighting suffragist implications.
A western woman reports that taking a spoonful of cream before and after swallowing nauseous medicine makes the bitter taste tolerable. She claims this method helps with the worst medicines, though long term effects on habitual takers remain uncertain. The note adds a skeptical line about advertising promises.
Classified advertising will boost your business enterprise if it is one that ought to be made. This bold message suggests ads can drive growth and visibility for suitable ventures.
The Alabama Senate approved an appellate court bill 22 to six, adding three judges at 5000 dollars each, a clerk at 2500, and a secretary at 1600. The house tabled the Hollis substitute on the county superintendents election and several new bills were introduced as minor measures advance. Speaker Almon resumed duties this morning.
The Message of the Owls proclaims good will and progress as a universal call from the hearts of thousands. It emphasizes joy, harmony, and the power of a smile to lift spirits and aid strangers, while describing the Owl Order as a society of friends devoted to happiness and the Kingdom of Heaven ON FARTH. Notable names include F H Carthell and Colonel William T McKleroy, with mentions of Wa tertown, Tenn, and cities like Cincinnati and Indianapolis.
Several travelers stopped at the Alabama Hotel in Anniston and nearby cities. Cedartown’s John H H Storrell and Talladega’s M Jemason were noted guests along with Florence’s J Jackson and Athens’ Walker. Others from Greenville Rome Birmingham Heflin Memphis Petersburg and Atlanta were listed as visitors today.
A note urging readers to advertise in the Star Want Ad section. It claims advertising finds interested people automatically and suggests trying a week of buying only advertised items, noting some ads may be omitted from today’s paper.
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