Oxford Lake Park Improvement Boosts Local Attraction
The Oxford Lake Park project in Anniston is nearing completion with an attractive, well arranged entertainment hall. The Street Railway Co. aims to draw regional visitors by expanding attractions, offering open cars when weather permits, and providing round trip rides of fourteen miles for 10-cent fares, plus 90-cent round-trip tickets with a 15-cent boat-hire coupon.
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Oxford Lake
Street Railway Co
Anniston
Oxford
Oxford Lake Park
Southern Railway Schedule Change January 27 180
Condensed timetable details for Mobile Selma Birmingham and New York routes. Notes No 36 and No 1/2/4/6 trains with Pullman cars dining service and sleeping cars Birmingham Atlanta Chattanooga Salisbury New York. Includes stations Birmingham Anniston Atlanta Macon Jacksonville Brunswick and Washington. Authorities listed for Passenger traffic and Pullman cars.
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Southern Railway
Mobile
Ar Soen
Selma cv
Iran
Brfoxville
Bristo Ly
York
Antler
Birmingham
New York
Ucdloosn
Lipm
Akron
Marion
Selmi
Sadam
Meridian
Diopolis
Antoni
Kaspin
Selma
Montevallo
Calera
Columbiana
Childersbore
Sescoep
Talladega
Anniston
Jacksonville
Piedmont
Cave Springs
Pell City
Seve
Anniaton
Rawardsville
Pruithurst
Wallapoosa
Ni -Bremen
Oumlasville
bin Springs
Atlanta
Eccess
Grspin
Macon
Jesup
Eos
aOem
Brunswick
Pullman
Ashevill
Hare
Salisbury
Greensboro
Washington
Rome
Chattanooga
Cincinnati
Cohevecscesss
Louisville
Cornnith
Kirmisgham Hooum
Chanly
Oceana
Lynere
Danville
Charlotte
C. &. Jackson
Ala
A. B. Freeman
Gannon
V.P
D.C
Mortgage Sale Notice for Anniston Church Property
The trustees of St Paul Methodist Episcopal Church in Anniston Alabama face a mortgage sale under a 1888 agreement. The property at Leighton avenue and Fourteenth street, measuring 140 by 190 feet, was set for May 4 1901 but postponed to June 4 1901 by the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania church extension boards.
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St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church
Anniston
al A
Calhoun County
Ala
Towit
Leighton Avenue
Fourteenth Street
14Th Street
Board of Church Extension
The
Methodist Episcopal Church of
Philadelphia
State of
Pennsylvania
State of Pennsylvania
Line of goods at my store on East Tenth Street
The speaker warns that a customer arriving at No 25 East Tenth Street will be shown an extensive line of merchandise. The remark suggests a boastful sales pitch or promotional call framed as a challenge to visit the shop.
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East Tenth Street
Libel Tales From England and Courtroom Ironies
A London playwright’s unpaid royalty check becomes a joke of libel laws as the manager demands action. Railway placards name offenders, later reduced to “A passenger.” A novel’s villain shares a real officer’s name and faces a damages verdict. A Birmingham lawyer sues for omission of his name from reports, discovering the limits of reputational harm.
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Pnngland
London
England
Africa
Birmingham
Indians Pay for Donkey Kill in Tennessee Tale
In Reminiscences of Old Times in Tennessee a Chickasaw hunting party mistakes a donkey for a wild animal. They admit the error, pay for the animal, and settle the loss by giving ponies to the white owners. The story contrasts Native integrity with a joking Spanish bullfight taunt about Manila.
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Tennessee
John Barnes
Lipton
Barnes
Spain
Manila
Madrid
The Only Thing Pasteboard Snippet
A humorous exchange about debt and attachment ends with a lawyer noting the debtor’s death and a widow as the survivor. A quip questions a widow’s claim to an inheriting library while contrasting Dickens and Thackeray. Joshua spends $2.40 more on Dickens than Thackeray in the same shop.
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Ann
Ousvand
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Texas
VIA
M. E. & T. Railway
Katy Flyer
JNO
Daly
P. A
Atlanta, Ga
Anniston Elecperice Gas
Noble Street
Epmerth League
San Francis
Alabama
San Francisco
New Orleans
Southern Pacific
Montgomery
Geo. W. Ely
Tray. Pass
Tutt
A. P. Acre
E. E.forbes
Tenth Street
R. J. Miles
China
John Wilson & Co
Gaeme
Dickens
Brokers
Chicago
First National Bank
G. B. Flint
ANE
Thomas’ Drug Store
West Tenth Street
Anniston, Alabama
Murray Hil
M. Markstein
Opera House
Alabama General Agency
Futual Life Insurance Company
Richard M McCurdy
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Columbus Smith
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