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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1901
Page
2
The giant negro driver Boom Shell’s hack burned in a luggage room incident near the Armstrong hotel as he slept on a lamp exploded. The horse attached to the hack escaped unharmed and the driver awoke to find the blaze.
The Southern Pacific Sun Set Route sells one way colonist tickets from Alabama points to California at 50.55. Tickets on sale Tuesdays through April 30 with through car service via New Orleans. For details write to Gro W. Ely, Montgomery Alabama. Also includes an anecdote praising Electric Bitters for indigestion and nervous debility and its benefits for a woman, sold by Elam.
Teachers and aspiring teachers are invited to prepare for the State Examination at the State Normal School in Jacksonville Alabama. Classes review subjects for all three grades. The term runs until July. Board eight dollars monthly. Tuition free. For details contact G. W. Davercerr, President.
Real estate transfers list several deeds with parcels and values including R and Garner to Hodser for lots 5 and 6 in block 117 and Turner to White and Smith for lot 4 in block 6 plus lot 3 in block 116. Other notices advertise Dr King New Discovery cough remedy and Southern Railway ticket sales for New Orleans 1901. Local anecdotes and jokes close the page.
Quotations compare Dickens and Thackeray in a domestic scene as Mrs Mudrox questions a husband about his library. A line from the Chicago Times-Herald notes Dickens cost two dollars more than Thackeray at a shop. A hornet sting fact and a quip about diamonds in the rough appear as aphorisms in the piece.
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