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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1900
Page
3
A narrator and his daughter Sweetheart rise before dawn for a quiet trek to watch the sunrise from a hill. They share a pantry raid for breakfast, hear birds, and watch the sun crest the horizon as Sweetheart recites songs and prayers in a playful, reflective moment.
Glen Addie correspondent Arthur V. New notes a five cent club gathering at J. G. Tyson home at Third and Chestnut streets Friday at seven. The purpose is to raise funds to buy a new bell for the Baptist church. Tyson has returned to Arbaccoochee to finish plans to work gold ore.
A smallpox outbreak spreads across Alabama with both black and white patients. In Avondale a white man, Jeff Lanier, died on Saturday, and Sumter Long of Bessemer, linked to the Bessemer Cornice Works, also died after contracting the disease at a Negro worker’s home. A classified notice offers property on Noble Street and a coal ad from Montevallo.
The narrator and Sweetheart share drinks then aid a starving tramp family on a road trip. Sweetheart offers food from a pantry, gifts ham bone and bread to the child, and donates her savings, hoping to buy Isobel a dolly bonnet, while the tramp’s gratitude and fear mingle with conscience.
Mrs W B Arberry and daughter Miss Gertrude Arberry of Jacksonville visited An niston yesterday. The Anniston improvement society will meet Friday at 10 30 in Hotel Calhoun parlor. Misses Minnie Allen Mary Woodruff and Crosby visited Jacksonville yesterday. Parisian milliner trends feature pastel tints with five to six color mixes and use of straws and flowers. Ethel Randolph to entertain Young Ladies Whist club tomorrow at 3. Missionary tea for foreign missions raised 21 dollars. Mrs H B Radisill hosts Calura club tomorrow 3 5 at her home. Mrs W K Piner of Hopkinsville Ky visiting the Cole man family, leaving tonight.
Ullman Bros introduces The Gotham spring hats in cream pearl pecan hazel otter acrow and black across small medium and large sizes. All hats carry a 12 month guarantee.
Will N Perkins announces he has taken charge of the Empire steam laundry on West Tenth street and will give it close personal attention. He seeks the continuation of current patrons and hopes to add new ones while promising perfect service.
William Bi. Cole, a printer at 515 West 159th Street, climbed from the cellar to the fifth floor using a dumbwaiter shaft and a guyrope after his latch key was left upstairs. He pounded on the kitchen door but neighbors feared burglars and did not check the shaft. He fell five floors when the rope gave way, breaking his right thigh. the dumbwaiter was wrecked. He was found by the janitor and taken to J Hood Wright hospital.
Morrisville news reports the sudden death of Mrs. Elizabeth Reid wife of W A Reid of Zulu who collapsed while seated by a fire. She had a long paralysis illness and was buried at Oak Bowery cemetery. The item notes sympathy from the settlement and lists local social and agricultural updates.
The sale continues this week on black and fancy worsted trousers at Ullman Bros with savings stated as 334 percent per dollar. High quality garments are promoted in a brisk local advertisement.
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