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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1917
Page
3
Miss Margaret Carter sang a beautiful solo at the First Methodist Church yesterday. The arrangement of the hymn Lead Kindly Light provided inspirational music to the service.
A 1910s style column opens with a militant call to action against stagnation, urging bold progress. It then lists events: United Daughters of the Confederacy plan a palace soda-fountain sale for Red Cross funds tomorrow, plus notices of visits by Mrs. Rountree to Anniston and various social updates, travels, and engagements among local families and dignitaries.
Montgomery reports the state auditor will issue a warrant for the state's $100 portion of funds to advance boys corn club work. An attorney general opinion Saturday reversed a prior belief that counties must appropriate four years before state aid becomes available.
New York July 9 The war reshapes women’s roles in business with Columbia University offering new summer courses for women in banking higher economics advanced secretarial studies and corporation finance even as teaching and practical arts remain.
Bemidji Minn July 9 The Minnesota Chippewas council opens with more than 100 delegates from Red Lake Leach Lake White Earth Fond du Lac and other reservations to press lands and timber payment claims against the federal government totaling about 10 million dollars.
Mrs Milford T. of 22 Harmony St Penns Grove testifies Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved her irregular cycle and pain from inflammation. She says the remedy restored her health and urges other women to try it for displacements ulceration backache and nervousness.
Tick eradication efforts in Alabama show a large drop in infested cattle. In June 41,810 of 397,12 cattle in eleven counties were found infested, down from 88,665 the previous month. Jefferson county inspected 35,063 cattle with 183 infested. A total of 616,632 cattle were dipped statewide in June as 117 new vats were added across multiple counties.
Bessemer Birmingham Anniston and Gadsden pipe makers share in government awards for cantonment water gas and sanitary pipe. Shipments go to Louisville Fort Sam Houston Columbia Chattanooga and other posts. Prices run 63 for 4 inch and 60 for 6 inch plus gas pipe and extra lengths.
The Weather Bureau in Anniston Alabama forecasts generally fair conditions tonight and Tuesday with little temperature change. Recorded highs reached 92 and lows 68, with precipitation totaling 5.39 inches since January 1 and 0.00 inches in the past 24 hours.
An Atlanta resident M. M. Stockton endorses Granger Liver Regulator, claiming quick relief for congested liver and constipation without calomel or alcohol. The ad touts its dry form preserving herbal essence and urges keeping a large box on hand.
Col. J D Hammond recalls Alabama politics after the Civil War under General Pope. He discusses provisional governors, Lewis Parsons, Johnson Lincoln policies, the 13th and 14th amendments, reconstruction, and Calhoun county figures like Thomas D. Fister who profited in the turmoil and left Jacksonville for Pennsylvania.
Mrs. G. H. Schill of Texas City reports three years of headache agony and nervous distress ending after using Cardui. She credits three bottles with permanent relief and urges others to try the medicine endorsed by medical books and four decades of use.
A vintage ad promises relief from rheumatism using S. S. S. It claims the drug purifies blood by removing rheumatic germs and strengthens the weakened body. Readers are directed to write to the Specific Co. department in Atlanta, Ga for advice.
A historical note characterizes a man nicknamed "Fist" as a well liked Jacksonville figure who chose bank ownership over selling goods in a bankrupt country. It asserts he grew rich from the people while serving in Alabama's legislature during Reconstruction.
The narrative follows 5 C Simpson once a Anniston house painter who moved eleven years ago to Macon’s Quarter land at Cane Creek and Coosa River. He now owns 240 acres, a fine home, a top barn, and town property in Bowdon. He survived last year’s flood loss and rebuilt with a strong outlook as his farm prospers. Simons son Grady, a Vanderbilt dental graduate, will practice in Lincoln. Visitors exceed one thousand as the 32nd annual convention opens at the West hotel with editors focusing on wartime newspaper policy.
Minneapolis hosts National Editorial Association and affiliated editors with a royal reception as the gathering opens in the Twin Cities. Delegates and local citizens mingle in a festive start to the meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
J C Mendenhall of Evansville Indiana spent forty years in the drug business and filled about ten thousand prescriptions from European and American educated doctors before Number 40 For The Blood was found. The preparation claimed to cure blood diseases, glandular disorders, blood poisoning, rheumatism, catarrh, dyspepsia and related ailments. Sold by Scarbrough Drug Co.
Anniston resident St F L Bridges, machinist, describes years of backache and kidney issues relieved by two boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills. He reports improved sleep and energy since treatment. Ad cites 5 cents at drug stores and Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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