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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1900
Page
3
A Chicago crowd at the auditorium mobbed pianist Paderewski after a concert. Despite lights off and fire screens lowered, women stayed and filled the aisles as he played encore after encore, until exhausted, amid waving handkerchiefs and cheers. The scene ended with stagebands rushing to carry the piano off.
Women rushed the player as his enthusiastic admirers surged forward. stage hands intervened to hold back the crowd while he was escorted through a dark hall to the Auditorium Hotel.
A special posse of deputies led by Wallace left Florence for Rogersville to pursue John Legg the Bedingfields killer. They aim to capture him dead or alive, amid fear he may retaliate against locals. Legg was sighted near Rodgersville Saturday night.
The Calhoun Steam laundry is merged with Empire Steam laundry on West Tenth Street. Mr Perkins and I vow renewed efforts to please our many patrons and thank friends for past favors while soliciting a continuance of support as the new firm.
Special correspondence reports John Gilmore, about 20, died in Bera, Alabama, from excessive cigarette smoking. Also noted are the deaths of Mrs. G. W. Peterson after a two week illness and Dora Defrees’s pneumonia illness. The piece mentions a warmed political scene without local candidates and cites Amos Cummings as a suggested running mate for Bryan.
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