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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1901
Page
3
Prizes for sports in the morning and dancing in the Pavilion in the afternoon and evening. Fireworks at night free to all. First regular Vaudeville show in the new amusement building that night along with boating bathing bowling and electric merry go round. The Mysterious Swing also offered at regular low park prices with refreshment stands stocked with sandwiches crackers and sweets.
The Montgomery Advertiser reports Wade Allen will leave his post as General Agent of the Seaboard Air Line in Montgomery on July 1 to take charge of accounting at Woodstock Iron Company in Anniston. A noted iron manufacturer, he previously worked with the North Alabama furnace at Florence and is a son of the late General W. W. Allen.
A Boston man who recently married a ill wealthy young woman is now content after using Dr King’s New Life Pill. The pill is advertised as infallible for jaundice biliousness malaria fever ague and all liver and stomach troubles. It is sold for 25 cents at Elam Drug Co.
Mrs. J J Canada died on the sixth after a year of illness and was buried at New Bethel on the nineteenth. Rev Noah Stephens led the funeral. Mrs J E Canada has been sick. she is thought to be improving with rheumatism. Corn and cotton are moving upward. J W Ray to start threshing soon. Ira D Reckard of Duncombe Iowa reports his boy’s leg scald healed by Banner Salve in three weeks and recommends it for burns or sores. McElreath Drug Co.
Keep comfortable during the hot weather with Duck and Linen samples. Cool, comfortable suits made to order and priced from seven dollars fifty cents. Julius Levy on Noble Street offers the line for summer wear.
Reduced round trip fares offered by Southern railway and Alabama Great Southern railroad for Blue Mountain Chautauqua in Anniston Alabama from June 20 to July 14 1901. One fare on select sale dates and one and one third fare on June 19 to July 3 with final limits. Contact ticket agents for details.
A traveler recounts paying a Guayane commissary to recover a stolen silver saddle. After a staged search and extra fees, the thief is fined and released, with funds skimmed by the official. The man later rises in the army, illustrating systemic abuse and inflated justice costs.
The Philadelphia Record notes the correct spelling wistaria for the flowering shrub, not wisteria. It traces the name to Dr Caspar Wistar of the University of Pennsylvania, born 1761 died 1818, and explains regional variations and family spelling splits between er and ar.
In 1818 French chemists Pelletier and Caventon found strychnine and named it vauqueline after their mentor Vauquelin. He urged them to dissociate his name from the poison after witnessing animal sufferings, leaving the substance known as strychnine.
An advertisement asserts kidney disorder causes tiredness backache and general weakness. It promotes Woley's Kidney Cure from McElreath Drug Co as restoring strength and vigor by making the kidneys well, advising to take no substitute.
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