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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1901
Page
2
A program grants a state life certificate diploma as demand for graduates exceeds supply. Board is $8 monthly with tuition free. The eighteenth session begins September 11, 1900. Catalogs available from W. Daugette, President.
The Board of Pension Examiners for Calhoun County will convene at Wikle’s Drug Store in Anniston on the first Monday in July 1901 for ten days to review applications. Under the amended law, honorable discharge or parole suffices as proof of service, with no witness affidavits required. Widows with a deceased pensioner on the roll need only prove widowhood with two witnesses. All applicants must appear for examination unless travel is impossible.
Fragmentary OCR shows a sequence of years 1896 to 1900 with large numbers like 1,020,107 and 864,022. No coherent event or context is readable. records appear as stray digits and punctuation without identifiable people or organizations.
Five soldiers riding through Cincinnati last night after a beer filled spree at a tailor shop stole a pair of shears. They settled the theft by trading their blue flannel shirts to the tailor as the depot train approached. The shirts cost about one dollar each and the men faced a cold Texas wind shirtless until they can draw on commissary rations.
Mrs Pease of Lawrence Kansas recounts seven years of bed rest due to kidney and liver trouble and debility. After three bottles of Electric Bitters she could walk again and felt renewed. The ad claims relief from headache backache nervousness sleeplessness melancholia fainting and dizzy spells. Available for 50 cents at Elam Drug Co.
Cneap Rate yialb and N RR announce special fares for the Anniston Chau tauqua event from June 20 to July 4. Round trip at one and one third fare, tickets valid until July 6. Special rates on June 20, 25, 29 and July 1 with one fare round trip and three day validity. An oratorical contest is set for June 29 at 10 a.m. with How ard College University of Ala bama Polytechnic Institute and Southern University. Contact W B Knox Superintendent Anniston Ala or L Stone G P A Louisville Ky.
A Boston Transcript piece notes Manning advised a pitcher to write about famous men he met and Manning replies the man wrote an autobiography. A chance customer yields a permanent result for us. The Model Laundry uses clear water and soap only for washing clothes at 12th and Noble.
An advertisement promotes B B B Botanic Blood Balm as a universal cure for blood and skin ailments. It offers 10 000 free treatments through the Blood Balm Co Atlanta Ga with free medical advice until cured and claims superiority over patent medicines.
Parlor observation and cafe dining cars operate between Memphis and Atlanta with through service leaving Memphis 8 15 p m via K C M and B R R to Atlanta arriving 10 15 p m via Birmingham and Southern Railway train No 36 Returning Atlanta 6 a m arriving Memphis 8 05 p m via Southern Railway No 35 to Birmingham and K M B R R to Memphis Observation smoking rooms rear of cars at moderate cost Includes through service with Pullman sleeping cars between Atlanta and Memphis leaving Memphis 9 10 p m arriving Atlanta 11 30 a m 5 31-tf.
Reduced rail fares announced by Southern Railway and Alabama Great Southern to Anniston Alabama for the Low Rates Chautauqua with round trip one fare on select dates June 20 to July 14 1901 final limits three days from sale and a one plus third fare option June 19 to July 3 1901 final limit July 6 1901. Tickets available from agent offices of the two lines.
Advertises Chanutauqua tickets through MecElreath Wikle or Dove. Tickets cost 83.00 for fifteen days, much cheaper than paying over 1.00 per day without one.
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