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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1907
Page
8
Advancing trunk sales and fall fashion items fill a Yard sale list. Prominent offers include 25 percent discounts on trunks and steamer sizes, half price parasols, ginghams and dresses with washable fabrics, Jap silks, black taffeta waists, and assorted hair combs and shell goods.
Piedmont Springs enjoys peak crowds as guests from multiple states arrive. Notable attendees include Mr. C. Whitson and wife with children, Dr. George P. Reid from Marion, Mrs. Mary Wood of Anniston, Miss Grace Berryman, Mr. Julian Slayton of Atlanta, and many others from Birmingham, Talladega, Cartersville, and beyond. A social season features receptions hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Carlton and Mrs. L. H. McKibbon with extensive decorations, punch, and flowers. sponsors from Huntsville travel to Camp Pratt events with Gov. Comer visiting Pelham Guards.
Autumn invitation to send daughters for music education at the Ohio Conservatory of Music Cincinnati. Highlights include national reputation faculty in instrumental vocal and dramatic arts, safe home life in a cultured city, and a new liberal tuition proposition for preparatory and artists departments. Address Mrs BE. C. Graninger for full particulars.
A funeral procession moves toward the cemetery as a cabman in the lead shows restraint then breaks his silence with a toast about the hearse and the rider. The scene captures courtesy and humor amid solemnity, reflecting street humor from the event.
A quirky etymology note from the New York Post recounts how the fish known as porgies has inspired varied regional names. It traces a chain from souppangs to seup then paugies as Americans shorten and reshape the term in New Jersey Rhode Island New York and Connecticut markets.
Special to the Star Fort Riley Kansas July 20 The first squadron of the Thirteenth cavalry starts today on its long overland march to Fort Sheridan Illinois The distance to be traversed by the troops is 650 miles The schedule allows forty four days for the trip thirty four days of which will be marching days
Barometer 30.09 at 7 a m. Temperature 74. Precipitation .04. Wind NW at 5 mph. Highest 89 at 12 m. Lowest 67 at 5 a m. Weather partly cloudy. Forecast generally fair tonight and Sunday.
Three high‑repute couples dined at a New York hotel and were served coffee in rooms. Three spoons disappeared and were later found under a table. The hotel manager insisted on return and the owner replied they would rather guests leave than criticize him, citing annual losses of about $25,000 from stolen items.
John Kemp of East Otisfield Maine reports relief from chilblains using Bucklen's Arnica Salve and also notes it treats salt rheum with excellent results. Product advertised as guaranteed for fever sores ulcers piles burns wounds frost bites and skin diseases sold for 25 cents at local drugstores Elam Ordway Houser Scarbrough Drug Co.
A famed Pinellian library once among the world’s largest was bought in 1600 by a London bookseller who sent three ships to London. Corsairs captured one vessel and cast its books and manuscripts overboard, destroying the cargo.
Trimmed hats two dollars forty eight cents. Children’s low shoes forty nine cents a pair with many sizes. Ladies’ vests five cents a pair. Ladies waists from 1 25 up to 10 dollars. Silk tissues and lace pieces offered with discounts. Dress fabrics and silk tissues reduced as well.
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