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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1909
Page
4
Miss Lila Roberta hosted a small gathering for her Texas cousin Miss Mat tle Roberts. Several locals travel for events with plans to attend Montevallo commencement and a Birmingham preacher conference.
Ivan Vor ter son of W H Porter president of the Alabama Bank and Trust Co died after an operation performed by Dr W T Brophy of Chicago. Surgeons failed to save him as the illness was a diseased jawbone not a broken artery. Other doctors including Dr Young of Anniston and specialists from Birmingham Atlanta and Kentucky attended.
This newspaper snippet touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, with a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure. It urges readers to send for testimonials and lists J Cheney & Co of Toledo as the makers, with distribution by druggists. It also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A fragmentary note attributes a saying about dining cheer to a Clarendon crowd, emphasizing mood over amount in feasting observations.
The Parisian offers half price on trimmed data from top New York makers and in-house trims. Shop early for elegant data at season lows before Saturday. Ladies urged to visit for selections at this time.
Howard and Monroe Clark were arrested in Jacksonville by Deputy Sheriff John Rowland on warrants charging assault with intent to murder. A preliminary hearing is set before Judge Crook next Friday afternoon.
Merchants press for arbitration as the Philadelphia street car strike paralyses business. Chief Ball of the strikers says he has been offered 25 000 dollars to end the strike. Car service remains very poor.
Chairman Knapp and Commissioner Neill report from Atlanta that the firemen's strike is absolutely over. They return to Washington with confirmation from the interstate commerce commission.
A sportsman on a New York shore helps himself to a perch caught by a colored boy who stops his line to fetch cornmeal for his mother. The boy explains the perch come from the creek and seem to untangle themselves, as breakfast.
In a slow afternoon contest, the Donehue team lost to Bake 14 to 4. Slattery of Saks pitched until a foul ball injured him, forcing retirement. Jones closed for Saks, while Burt pitched for Donehues amid poor team support. Next up Pelham Guards visit, with a double header Saturday featuring Donehue vs Net and Twine and Saks vs Pelham Guards. The top two clubs are 1,000 percent in the standings.
Pass and Heard faces the Printers in a City league game this afternoon weather permitting. Both teams hover near third place with uncertain odds as the contest looms with a chance to gain or lose ground.
Capudine claims to cure sick headaches and nervous headaches and travel headaches. It also treats grip aches stomach troubles and female troubles. Sold by druggists with liquid effects advertised.
The report lists final scores for eight games across metropolitan teams: Atlanta 2 Memphis 0, Mobile 3 Birmingham 1, New Orleans 6 Nashville 3, Montgomery 4 Little Rock 2.
The schedule lists Memphis at Atlanta, Mobile at Birmingham, Little Rock at Montgomery, and New Orleans at Nashville for today’s games.
Marshal Henkel opened the government auction of seized dresses at the customs house in New York. Today’s sale offered one trunk’s contents including 2 princess robes 67 fine shirt waists and various fabrics and garments in colors such as alice blue blue voile magenta satin and rose veiling with lace and embroidery materials.
Anniston reader Mrs. John Rouse credits Doan’s Kidney Pills with easing persistent backache weakness and headaches caused by kidney trouble. She says relief followed after using the pills bought at J L Wikle’s drug store, price 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY distributes as the sole US agents. Remember the name Doan’s.
The note explains that a first insertion of a want ad does not always yield results and a second insertion or second phone call may be needed. It advises readers to try again if necessary, noting the chances of a second insertion or a second call are about equal.
Early, kept on a government reservation near Washington since last August as a leper, is said by Dr. Bulkley to be free of leprosy. Danish and French medical experts, however, insist he has the disease, prompting debate among officials and specialists.
Stomach troubles cured by Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. One man spent over two thousand dollars on medicines yet was cured by a few boxes. Price 25 cents. Samples free at Elam, Ordway & Houser's drug store.
BR. O. Watson advertises Teleplone No. 72 promising high grade coal. The notice appears in a 19th or early 20th century classified style with brief product listing and pricing cues.
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