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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1914
Page
5
John M Crook who has been ill with typhoid fever at St Luke's hospital for several weeks is recovering rapidly. The notice also invites readers to order lunch from the provider, promising suitable goods and satisfaction with quality and prices.
Martin James, a Black man, paid a $100 fine and costs after Judge Creen found him guilty of a prohibition offense. He was found with four quarts of whisky and twelve bottles of beer after being pulled from a streetcar yesterday. He said the alcohol was for a glorious Fourth. The case was appealed. Silver Moon Cafe fire reportedly did not interrupt business. UNITED TAYLORS 29-21.
G. E. W. Robertson a former resident and Third ward councilman was in the city today visiting relatives. He has been in Birmingham for some time and is en route back to Atlanta. Mr Robertson has many friends here who are glad to see him.
The Calhoun Grocery Company, at considerable expense, aims to furnish every boy and girl in Anniston with a Silk Flag. See your grocer about how it is done.
Joe Jones, husband of the Jones women convicted earlier for beating Eva Serm an, appeared in police court this morning to answer the charge of running an enemy house. Recorder Creech reserved his decision. Annual company holiday on July 4 noted. Model Laundry will close Saturday and stay open until 9 Friday night.
Frank Embry a prominent young attorney from Pell City is in the city today on business.
The notice promotes Orange Pekoe tea as the most refreshing option for iced tea emphasizing superior purity flavor and strength with a price of sixty cents per pound from Sterne's.
Philadelphia's three day celebration began with exercises at League Island naval yard this afternoon. The scene included patriotic displays and local commerce notes mentioning Lookout Cakes and Orris flour as part of the event context.
The paper recalls the untimely death of Harry Stubbins of Orford last night. Described as quiet and polite, he rose from delivery boy to sales staff, earning praise for his diligence and conscientious approach to work. A local businessman notes such workers are rare and worthy of emulation.
The remains of Harry Stubbins nine teen year old son of Mrs George Stubbins were laid to rest at Oxford cemetery after funeral services at the Methodist church conducted by Rev I M Harris. He died yesterday after noon following several days of illness. He is survived by a mother two brothers and four sisters. Pallbearers named Burton Farmer Fred Fitzgerald Tom Whiteside Lew Draper Chester Farmer and Figa Tattrell. A separate item notes a Children s Party hosted by Mrs Ross Davenport for Esther Louise Whiteside and other relatives with refreshments.
Children celebrate Independence Day at a community event and share excitement over a silk flag prominently displayed. Local grocers advertise patriotic items and flag sales as families plan meals and activities for the holiday.
BRED gifts and mature sows available with one fresh milk cow in prime condition yielding four gallons of milk daily. Price fifty dollars for immediate pickup. Borders Choccoloeco Alabama. Date 13th.
PAT ALLEN announces the exclusive sale of the Lookout cake wrapped and ready in cartons. The nine variety cake, priced at 10 cents, will be demonstrated at the store for the entire week starting Monday July 6, inviting ladies to sample.
The Confederate Veterans of Calhoun Cleburne and Etowah counties will meet August 5-6 at Schenck's Sulphur Springs for their eighteenth annual reunion. The event runs Wednesday and Thursday before the Second Sunday in August with arrangements underway for a large turnout. Secretary B G McClellan notes the camp will be named Camp Wil ler HM Porney and Frank Dominick of Birmingham is slated as a chief speaker.
Soldiers replace civil government as martial law spreads through Bosnia and Herzegovina amid riots. Serbian churches are attacked, mobs threaten Serbs, several hundred additional troops are deployed, and churches and residences are burned or destroyed. Austria prepares to prevent a two province rebellion.
Albany July 2 A new witness bolsters the defense of Malcolm Gifford Jr in the Clute murder case arguing Gifford was not in the automobile with Clute when the chauffeur was killed. Mrs Nina Gibson testified she and her husband were near the scene and that Gifford was absent from the car. Prosecutor William Travers Jerome challenged the testimony but failed to discredit it.
Health officials persist in eradicating bubonic plague in New Orleans. Six thousand baited rat traps were set in the infected zone and the watch area was enlarged, focusing on the Volunteers of America warehouse where W. W. Wilkinson reported prior flea bites before the illness developed.
An officer chased three itinerant Black men in West Anniston this morning and captured two. One escaped, while the other climbed into a furnace boiler and refused to emerge. They used paper and sulphur to smoke him out, but he stayed hidden.
The report notes an exclusive 1c deal covering nine plant varieties. PAT ALLEN is mentioned during the demonstration as part of the event.
A man named Johnson from Dallas collapsed unconscious on Meridian street and is in serious condition at the hospital after the extreme heat hit Huntsville on July 2. This is the first heat prostration reported here in many years.
Merchants will observe the Fourth of July by closing their stores in the morning. The holiday falls on Saturday, so doors cannot be closed all day.
It is understood all pipe shops foundries and mills will close all day Saturday and reopen Monday. Some mills have already shut down. The Anniston Gadeden game is the only morning event here Saturday. Citizens expect a safe and sane Fourth.
The annual meeting of the Aniston Country Club will be held at the offices of the Anniston City National Bank Monday evening at eight thirty July 6 1914 for electing officers and other business. H B Dent secretary.
Mrs. Rosa Wilson and her sister Ruth are visiting Mrs. J. H. Bridges in Bynum Mississippi today.
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