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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1906
Page
8
Anniston shoppers are urged to visit the store for the final three days of a giant sale. The ad promises unprecedented money saving opportunities and urges readers not to miss the event or the history making values of recent weeks.
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The Star reports five drownings in and around Chicago over the past three months. Included are Charles Heppel, 16, and brothers from Ross Station, Charles Sisson who saved one boy and failed to save another, Emil, 11, and others aged 18 Thomas Johnson, 30 Otto Roettzer, and 60 William Joab. Bodies recovered, victims from Calumet River, Taylor Lake, and Chicago River.
Col Jos Saks will depart this afternoon for New York to buy fall and winter goods for the Saks store in Anniston. He will also purchase for the Gadsden store he established last year. The Saks stores are known for buying well in large quantities and selecting with care to ensure popular, quality goods.
A quirky column notes a closing business sale at the Anniston Cash Store with six typewritten items, including a bargain on drop head sewing machines for twenty four dollars and eighty seven cents. The piece blends humor on famous wits with brief anecdotal vignettes from courtrooms and travelers. In one tale a thief is acquitted though he stayed until witnesses left, claiming he did not wish to move off with trousers he had stolen.
Advertising line notes coal quality at R. O. Watsons with a phone contact for ordering and urges readers to lay in a winter supply.
Miss Emily Gray of Mobile and Miss Mary and Miss Sarah Oliver of Talladega left for the latter place today after visiting Miss Laura Kennedy. Miss Pearl Garrett has shown slight improvement after ten days of illness. Mr. Richard Allen of Birmingham is in the city. Mrs. Jos Saks and her little son and Mrs. Saks mother will go to Birmingham this afternoon to remain until Mr Saks returns from the eastern markets. During summer kidney irregularities are often caused by excessive drinking or overheating. Use Foley's Kidney Cure. Elam Ordway Houser.
A nostalgic advertisement from City Hardware Co promotes continued trade, boasting large fall stock in Anniston and Oxford. It underscores durable wares from wagons and harness to stoves, paints and doors, promising best prices and inviting readers to await a full page fall display ad.
The friends of Hon. Wm. B. Craig of Dallas County announce his candidacy for Congress from the Fourth Congressional District subject to the action of the Democratic primary.
Round trip tickets and reserve tickets to the Lake Theater were sold at the office of Anniston Electric & Gas Co. on Tenth Street. The brief notice indicates availability through the office, with prices and seating details not disclosed in full.
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