Picnic Season Opens at Oxford Lake Park
Picnic season begins with shade water seats swings and lunch tables at Oxford Lake Park. The park offers new buildings two years of work enhanced terraces and gutters plus indoor amusements and a bathing pool. 14¢ coupons redeemable for games and rides included with round trip tickets sold by McElreath Drug Co and conductors. Oxford tickets by J M Ragan.
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McElreath Drug Co
Oxford
J. M. Ragan
San Francisco
New Orleans
Sale Postponed to June 4 1901 by Philadelphia Church
The sale has been postponed until Tuesday June 4 1901. Board of Curren Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania.
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Board of Curren Extension
The
Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia
State of
Pennsylvania
Line to Show at Store No 25 East Tenth Street
A shopkeeper warns that if you call at his store at No 25 East Tenth Street he will present a notable line. The remark suggests a sales pitch or public display associated with that location and moment.
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East
Tenth Street
Mortgage Slave Auction of Anniston Church Property
By power of sale in a mortgage dated January 18 1858 trustees of St Paul Methodist Episcopal church Anniston Alabama will sell May 1901 at public auction to highest cash bidder in front of city court room door Anniston Alabama the described parcel bounded Leighton Avenue Fourteenth Street 140 by 190 feet parallelogram in Calhoun County. This 30th day of March 1901. Board of Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania 40-51-w.
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St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church
Anniston
Ala
Calhoun County
Leighton Avenue
Fourteenth Street
14Th Street
Board of Church Extension
The
Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia
State of
Pennsylvania
Timing Your Train From Mile Posts And Rails
A Washington Sear article conveys rail method for measuring train speed. It notes observing mile posts and watching a watch, or counting telegraph poles varying 33 to 40 per mile, and counting wheel clicks across rail joints, to estimate speed with limited accuracy.
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Washington
Three Simple Questions at the Library Exhibit
A reading room episode shows two well dressed young men and a woman asking three literary questions. The librarian explains Kipling’s favorite author, Thackeray’s top income book, and a green covered anecdote volume, but cannot answer any directly. The incident fuels debate about library exams and knowledge.
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Rudyard Kipling
Thackeray
Ounce
Bessie Cummock
Manchester
Savings Journal
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Texas
Katy Flyer
Memphis
Shreveport Denison
Greenville
Dallas
FT. Worth
Waco
Temple
Belton
Taylor
Waxahachie
Adam Ead
Oxford Lake
Anniston Electric & Gas Co
Noble Street
Comworth League
Alabama
Cific
Mobile
Montgomery
Birmingham
AW. Ely
Trav
Pass
A. P.sagre
Montgomery, Ala
E. E. Forbes
R. J. Miles
New Lot of
China
John Wilson & Co
Tutt
New York Sun
Philadelphia Record
Atchison Globe
Chicago Newa
Murray Hill
M. Markstein
Opera House
Brokers
New York
Chicago
First National Bank
G. B. Flint
Nish
Thomas’ Drug Store
West Tenth Street
Atthe Ae
Alabama General Agency
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Richard A [eCurdy
Mutual Life Insurance Company OF
Columbus Smith
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