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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1901
Page
7
The Southern Pacific Co Sun Set Route offers one way colonist tickets from Alabama points to California at 830.35 with sale Tuesdays through April 30. Travel by through car via New Orleans. Write 525 Gro W Ely Montgomery Alabama for details.
Sheriff I M W Woodruff of Calhoun County Alabama declares an April 23 1901 election to decide on calling a constitutional convention and selecting delegates four statewide two from the congressional district one from the senatorial district and two from the county with appointed election officials and watchers to enforce polling distance. Election board names inspectors and returning officers for beats 1 through 6 are listed with their respective duties and duties on voting day.
Train timetable notes multiple routes and connections among Mobile Selma Chattanooga Knoxville Bristol Lynchburg Washington New York Atlanta Cincinnati Louisville and Birmingham. Details include Pullman sleeping cars between Mobile, Birmingham, New York, and Atlanta Brunswick, with dining and drawing room services. Daily and Sunday operations listed with station stops and times.
Polling beat assignments show inspectors and returning officers for multiple beats led by Evert F. Crook as judge of probate. Vacancies to be filled by inspectors present on election day. L. E. Watson listed as additional official.
The Queen and Crescent system inaugurated a Meridian to Shreveport fast service on October 28, linking with Texas lines to cut travel time to Texas to 7 to 12 hours. Train No. 37 of the Southern Railway connects this route. Ticket agents offer details on the new service.
The Southern Railway announces a through sleeping car service from Birmingham to Jacksonville via Atlanta starting November 27. Train No. 36 departs Birmingham at 4 40 p m and arrives in Jacksonville at 8 30 a m, offering first class accommodations. For details contact the ticket agent or C E B Jackson T P A Birmingham Alabama.
Fragmentary OCR mentions a cold remedy labeled Gnoe Day Cold Cure with unclear reference to ingredients and claims. No verifiable details on efficacy or sourcing are readable.
A scene at a Farnam street drug store in which a buyer challenges a 25 cent cough medicine guarantee. The clerk offers refunds, but the skeptic narrator refuses to pay up front or deposit funds, suspecting a bunko game and warns the clerk off with a sharp, cautious exit.
A Chicago Tribune anecdote recalls a man in a mackintosh boasting he cured his wife’s habit of disposing his old clothes by a ruse. He claimed she sold a coat and he tricked her by threatening a letter inside it to mail, a claim he says was true.
A playful exchange where Miss Coy doubts a girl can learn her future husband from a fortune teller. Miss Wise replies that she learned who her husband would not be via Bradstreet's in Philadelphia, prompting curiosity about the method.
A humorous exchange shows a husband and boys debating malapropisms about penalties and punishment. The Baltimore American quips about henpeeked and henbusheled while a Family Herald joke recounts a teacher delivering repeated light blows.
Theatrical Pack Pal notes Strutter mishap during a signing on stage as the ink in the quill pen faltered, leading him to grab a fountain pen in a humorous incident reported by the Detroit Free Press.
A terse exchange recalls Willie asking mercy for his brother as a whipping ends with the speaker being struck in turn, illustrating a harsh family dynamic noted by the Indianapolis Press.
A brief Ohio State Journal item reports a woman kissing a dog on a street car this morning. The exchange is playfully described with misheard phrases and humorous asides about the scene.
In a vivid Chicago News passage two aquatic figures trade taunts about dinner though the exact scene reads as surreal mischief. The devilfish proclaims a dinner invitation while the shark boasts a man eater reputation amid the nautical oddity.
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