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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1903
Page
4
The fragment lists staff roles at the Evening Star Publishing Co including proprietor editor and general manager with blurred text and possible names, indicating a masthead line from a historical newspaper page segment.
Miss Katie Sooper and Mrs. M B Long among residents seen about town. Thad M. Gwins Co milliner Katie Sooper departs for Baltimore. Several residents, including Miss Mattie Long and Mrs. Lizzie Morgan, were seen in Oxford with travel and visits planned or completed.
Readers leaving the city for the summer can have The Evening Star mailed to them at no extra cost. The mail price matches the carrier rate, and residents may telephone 68 or write a note to The Star to arrange regular delivery while away.
A blend of humorous lines about tips and servants contrasts with a Kansas magazine note on scarce hired girls and a Philadelphia Ledger memory of Bunker Hill Day. A London museum visit yields a witty exchange where a British officer shows a captured cannon and a American woman retorts we’ve got the hill.
Mr Walter Jones has returned from Cireensboro Georgia. Mrs Jones will remain several days longer in Cireensboro visiting relatives. Mr Gus Woodmill left today for Birmingham where he will be with the Armour Packing Co.
A 19th century advertisement offers one hundred dollars for an uncured catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It features endorsements from West Truax Walpina Kinnan Mangry and explains the remedy is taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Price is 75 cents per bottle with testimonials available.
Will Bealle convicted of forgery at Anviston city court, sentenced to two years, granted a new trial after Supreme Court reversal. Calhoun county cases reviewed by high court affirmed or reversed. Royal Oak lodge officers elected for six months include E L Field Noble Grand and T C Yancey Vice Grand. Installation to follow with appointive officers named.
C W Bellamy, a Burlington locomotive fireman, describes severe pain and weakness before taking Electric Bitters. After use, he recovers to full health. The ad claims the remedy renews life and vigor for weak, sickly people and offers a 50 cent bottle via West End Drug Store and Miller Drug Co.
A mob of about seventy five masked men took Andy Diggs from Scottsboro County Jail and hanged him from a telegraph pole near town between midnight and dawn after his arrest for allegedly assaulting Alma Swith, a 19 year old girl from Larkinaville.
Bargerton Tenn family saw Mrs M L Bobbitt near death from consumption. Doctors and remedies failed until Dr King’s New Discovery brought relief and cure. First bottle gave relief and continued use cured her. Guaranteed bottles 50c and 1.00, trial bottles free at West End Drug Store and Miller Drug Co.
The Star reports Mr. John Ellis of St. Paul's church elected by the congregation to be a lay delegate to the M E general conference meeting in Los Angeles in May 1904. Rev. J G Johnson, Anniston district presiding elder, likely to represent ministers.
Public auction of diverse Anniston real estate owned by R B Perkins estate under Judge Crook with Ross Blackmon as administrator. Properties include two Walnut street lots, a ten acre block near Loyd map area, and multiple described parcels with six to seven figure dimensions and a three part payment plan over one and two years at 8 percent. Sale set for July 6 1905 in front of the Calhoun county courthouse with terms: one third cash, one third in one year, one third in two years.
Parker Co announces the buying and selling of DeSoto Gold Mining stock. The note highlights Parker Co as broker and mentions contracts with builders and contractors, referencing Louisville as their base. The period tone underscores regional commerce in lime and mining interests.
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