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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1901
Page
7
A New York Sun report on an all around artist who runs a business sorting and cataloging tourist photographs. He notes tourists rush through Europe and bring back unidentifiable pictures, sometimes to bolster false claims. His staff classify regular sights and chase down obscure scenes to restore order and boost income.
The Oxford Lake Park in Anniston shows ongoing improvements, with an increasingly attractive and well arranged entertain ment hall. The Street Railway Co plans to expand attractions, offering free access for well behaved county visitors, and will run open cars when weather permits. A 14 mile round trip ride is offered to those who pay the 10 cent fare and notify the conductor. Conductors offer 20 cent round trip tickets with a 5 cent boat hire coupon.
The Southern Railway and Alabama Great Southern Railroad announce one fare round trip tickets to New Orleans for the Southern Baptist Association meeting May 9–16, 1901. Tickets on May 7 8 9, return by May 20 with option to extend to June 5 for 50 cents if deposited by May 16.
A dense listing of train routes and station stops from Birmingham to New York with connections to Atlanta and Knoxville. It notes Pullman sleeping cars from Birmingham to New York and through services via Chattanooga to Salisbury and New York, plus dining car details and key officials in Birmingham Selma and Washington.
The note promises a demonstration if visitors come to a shop at 25 East Tenth Street. The terse message implies a sales invitation and potential bargaining or showing of goods to potential customers.
The Board of Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania will sell at public outcry on May 5 1901 in front of the city court room door Anniston Alabama the real estate of St Paul Methodist Episcopal Church trustees. The parcel bounds Leighton Avenue and Fourteenth Street forming a 140 by 190 foot parallelogram. Sale conducted under a 1848 mortgage recorded in Calhoun County Book 10 page 175 with highest cash bidder to prevail.
Postponement announced for a sale by the Board of Cnorca Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church Philadelphia and State of Penn. Notice signed by A. P. Ace Attorney dated May 1.
A Washington Star quote explains how one legged customers buy only a single shoe from mainstream stores. Shoes are matched to the remaining shoe, numbered, and traced to stock. The cost for a single shoe is about half the pair price plus a small return fee, as the factory adjusts the partner shoe.
In a British town a charitable mayor granted a loan to a local character known as Talking Tim who planned to buy a donkey and cart to start a rag and bone business. Tim proposed naming the donkey after the mayor to repay the loan if kindness was shown. The piece also notes the origin of calico from Calicut where the first cotton goods entered England.
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