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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1901
Page
3
Night entertainment at Oxford Lake Park features free swings and food stalls with a full range of attractions. Visitors can enjoy boating bathing bowling electric merry-go-round dancing and a new Mysterious Swing also known as The Haunted Swing at park prices. Refreshment stands offer sandwiches crackers cakes candy ice cream soda water lemonade and milk shakes.
A special term of the circuit court begins in Ashville on Saturday for the trial of Jim Brown a Springville Black charged with a criminal incident. The regular term is set for October after authorities requested the special term. The edition also features a medicinal blurb for Dr King’s New Life Pills and a public health discussion on typhoid fever and prevention emphasizing clean water, milk hygiene, proper cooking, and boiling foods.
June 27 Bruner notes warm weather and active farming with corn delayed by rains. Local visits include Creswell Dulaney at Middleton and Whiteside relatives in Francis. Oscar McDill dies, buried at Vinson cemetery. family left with a widow and two children.
Bold advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm as a universal cure for cancers, blood poison, ulcers, and skin diseases. Claims the remedy drains poison, heals sores, builds strength, and has 30 years of testing with over 3000 testimonials. Sold for $1 per bottle with free trial and medical advice offers.
Keep comfortable during the hot weather with Duck and Linen samples. Cool comfortable and perfect fitting suits made to order at $7.50 up. Julius Levy on Noble Street.
A retired navy officer discusses seasickness among seafaring men. He recalls brief bouts lasting hours to a day, often recurring after port calls, and notes humiliation and avoidance of fishing. He cites no sure cure and says forewarning is best via avoiding eating or drinking on sailing day.
Jules Janin, famed drama critic, slept through three acts of a disastrous new play. When the playwright challenged him, Janin replied that sleep is an opinion, a blunt rebuke to the critic’s harsh roast and final judgment.
Mr H E B Swift of J N Murdoch Wholesale Druggists Parkersburg West Virginia says he was laid up with Cholera Morbus and cured by one dose of Kermott’s Ext Blackberry. He would not be without it even if it cost $500 a bottle and calls it the best remedy for Summer Complaint and Cholera morbus.
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