Anniston Businesses and Local Changes Reported
News notes from Anniston include Easter merchandise and spring wear displays, Good Friday bank closures, a staff change at E. E. Forbes Company with A. H. Warner resigning and J. T. Perry succeeding him, and a 507 West Fifteenth Street sales listing. Also mentions early cotton planting by J. H. Dale, bacon slicing quality, and remodeling at Scarborough Drug Company with prescription department expansion.
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Warner
A. H. Warner
E. E. Forbes Company
Anniston
Montgomery
J.T. Perry
Exoneration in Larceny Case. Nelson Fined $44.50
The charge of larceny of $7.20 lodged by George Haynes against Mack Nelson and Jim Siskey ended with Siskey exonerated and Nelson fined $44.50. Nelson appealed to the City court. Also notes include Miss Bever idge's offer to supply a gas range with gas, corrections to yesterday's obituary error naming Joe Bradley, a warning about a match and valve causing fire, and West Fifteenth Street sidewalks being paved on both sides from Glen Addie to Pine streets.
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George Haynes
Mack Nelson
Jim Siskey
Siskey
Nelson
West Fifteenth Street
Glen Addie
Pine Streets
Cotton Prices And Miscellaneous Local Prices
Anniston today reports spot cotton prices and varied merchandise rates. Merchants list chickens at 25 to 35 cents, eggs and potatoes per bushel, white and speckled peas, corn at 66 to 68 cents. A light joke notes a Irish photographer seeking a bottle to mix solutions with the chemist offering a cork in the bottle if needed.
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Pat
London
City court tries suit over railroad killing of Jim King
The City court has been in session since yesterday morning hearing a damage suit against the Southern railroad for the killing of Jim King. The suit, brought by his wife, had not concluded by 3 pm.
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The
Southern Railroad
Jim King
Daguerre’s Process Described For Early Photograph Making
Daguerre’s method uses a copper silver-plated plate treated with iodine vapors to form silver iodide, then exposed in a camera for eight to ten minutes. After exposure the plate is developed with mercury vapor and heat, fixed in hyposulfite of soda, washed, dried, and sealed under glass to prevent fading.
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Daguerre
Belgium Shopkeepers and a Glare of Lights
The narrator notes Belgian traders selling varied goods from beer to stamps and fruit. He recalls a bright light seen at night, mistaken for a music hall advertisement, only to discover it signaled that sardines were sold on the premises.
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Belgium
Trigg-Steele Co Announces New Undertaking Parlor
Announcement invites public inspection of a new undertaking parlor led by Milton P. Crowe, praised as Alabama’s most competent embalmer for over twenty years. Crowe offers day or night service with a female attendant if desired, contact numbers provided.
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Milton P. Crowe
Crowe
Alabama
Trigg-Steele CO
All kinds of hauling prompt prompt prompt
Model Ice Co advertises hauling services with prompt prompt service and telephone contact 59. Mb2-tf.
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Ice Co
Model Ice Co
Coal Trade Briefs Highlight Empire Montrvallo Jellico
Telephone E M Lewis seeks buyers for Empire Montrvallo or Jellico coal. Marketing note praises coal as best in the Bout and urges contact for arrangements.
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E. M. Lewis
Empire
Montrvallo
Jellico Coal
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Saks
O. H. Parker & CO
City News
W. F. van Arsdel
Jaweler and
Optician
J. T. Chrisman
Bass
Heard & Howle
M. F. Doering
J. H. Dale
Norwood
Col
W. H. McKleroy
Dale
Sterne’s
Olice Court
Greene
Scarbrough Drug Company
Carre-Field Shoe CO
Anniston Electric and Gasco
MR. Hampson
Edgemont
Tom Hampson
Joe Bradley
Fifteenth Street
Anniston Markets
Otton
Mer
J. L. Carr
Oxanna
Mr. Carr
Mr. Nixon
B. O
Watson
Jimmie Patterson
Pell City
Dill
Elam, Ordway & Houser
Montevallo
RB. O. Watson
For
J. W. Fore
White House
Stepound
Whetstone & CO
Incram & CO
Hicks
Capu
Aidred Stacue
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