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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1901
Page
6
An advert promises high quality pianos or organs with fair prices and risk free purchase through monthly or yearly payments. It touts a personal letter with lowest prices and says buyers nationwide can order even from remote towns. Overstocked and eager to move stock.
Special inducements to reduce stock offering piano purchases with guaranteed satisfaction. If not satisfied the instrument may be returned at our expense for rail freights both ways. Your old piano accepted as payment if desired. Let us explain.
A young enslaved boy warnings and tireless effort helped avert a levee breach on the plantation. He pressed earth into the widening crack while water rose, guided by Tom Aiken and Morton’s boat rescue crew saving the embankment and securing the plantation. The boy’s courage earned him tasks with the family thereafter.
Scotland Yard notes about 20 000 people of all classes vanish in London each year. About 3 000 are confirmed by bodies found or records of those "wanted." Yet 17 000 remain, many living under aliases and disguises, cut off from relatives and former lives, effectively forming a vast unseen population in the heart of the city.
A fragmentary verse piece recalls longing for Skye while a speaker dreams of a truer land and the homeland Dunvegan, with winds and seas shaping a weary heart. The text blends Scots dialect lines with refrains of return and yearning.
By order of the city court of Anniston Alabama a sale is set for July 29 1901 at the front door of the Anniston courthouse during legal hours to satisfy a judgment held by Tredegar National Bank against J A Cresswell. Property includes described land parcels in sections townships ranges and a black horse buggy black cow and a yearling. Sheriff M W Wooprrrr Calhoun County issued the sale notice dated June 27 1901.
Southern Railway offers round trip tickets from June 1 to September with final return by October 31 1901 at reduced prices to summer resorts. Major destinations include Asheboro North Carolina Black Mountain Brevard Lookout Mountain Virginia Beach Virginia and more. For routes and schedules contact C E Jackson Birmingham PA Chattanooga Tenn.
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