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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1901
Page
3
A brief notice describes teas packaged in Mercantile vial vessels offered for sale. Readable lines indicate commerce involving labeled vials and packaged tea goods for market distribution. The item hints at a catalog or advertisement noting sale terms and availability.
A Chicago man carries a title claiming he is the greatest beggar, with local reaction highlighting curiosity and sympathy from bystanders and community members.
Chicago Loter Ocean profiles Edward Kimball who for over 30 years raised church debts across the nation by convincing businessmen to contribute. He reportedly collected fifteen million dollars for church debt relief, doing so with no oratory but sharp appeal to private interests. He died in a Chicago suburb on Wednesday, leaving a legacy judged as supreme in benevolent begging.
Mrs S Pease of Lawrence Kansas says three bottles of Electric Bitters let her walk after seven years bedridden by kidney liver and general debility. Women with headaches backaches nervousness sleeplessness melancholy fainting or dizzy spells are urged to try it with satisfaction guaranteed at Elam Drug Co. Memphis to Atlanta parlor cars offer evening through service with meals and observation rooms on a new upgraded route. 5-31-bf.
Mrs. W. K. Haviland of Armonk New York reports a fatal outcome was prevented by Dr King s New Discovery after whooping cough and bronchitis attacked her daughter and a niece with advanced consumption. Trial bottles free. bottles 50 cents and 1.00 guaranteed by Elam Drug Co.
The Board of Pension Examiners of Calhoun county will convene in Anniston at Wikle's Drug Store on the first Monday in July 1901 for a ten day session to consider applications. Under the amended law an honorable discharge or parole suffices as proof of service, replacing two witness affidavits. Reapplications are allowed for those previously rejected, with grounds of prior refusal provided. Widows on the roll at the veteran's death need only two witnesses proof of widowhood and still not remarried. All applicants must appear for examination unless travel is impossible. Signed J F Walker and M T Ledbetter, Pension Examiners, May 21, 1901.
The Choctaw Route increases passenger service effective October 7th with three trains daily between Memphis and Hot Springs Arkansas. It offers double daily service to Indian and Oklahoma Territories and connections to points in southwest Missouri Kansas Texas and the West.
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