Picnic Season Opens at Oxford Lake Park Site
Oxford Lake Park promotes picnic season with shade water seats swings and lunch tables. Two years of stone gutters and terraces have improved the park. Indoor amusements bowling alleys merry go round row boats and a bathing pool are ready for visitors. 15c coupon rounds with tickets up to 20c cover boat hire and rides. McElreath Drug Co and conductors sell tickets with 10c privilege coupons for family recreation and park maintenance.
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McElreath Drug Co
Oxford
J. M. Ragan
Passage on a shopfront line leading customers to 25 East Tenth
A speaker declares that if a customer calls at the store numbered 25 East Tenth Street they will be shown a notable line. The remark emphasizes a draw or demonstration connected to the address and shop.
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East Tenth Street
Mortgage Sale of Church Property in Anniston
The Board of Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia announces a mortgage sale of church property in Anniston Calhoun County Alabama. The sale will occur Monday May 5 1901 at public outcry to the highest cash bidder in front of the city court room door during legal hours. The property is described as a parallelogram lot 140 by 190 feet bounded by Leighton avenue and Fourteenth street beginning at the southeast corner.
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St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church
Anniston
Ala
Calhoun County
Leighton Avenue
Fourteenth Street
14Th Street
Board of Church Extension
The
Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia
State of
Pennsylvania
Sale Postponed to June 4 1901 by Philadelphia Church Board
The sale has been postponed to Tuesday June 4 1901 by the Board of Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. Attorney A P Acre notes the notice dated May 1 to May 4.
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Board OF Church Extension
Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia
State of Pennsylvania
New Woman Grips Reserved Bootclean Chair
A New York Sun item notes a west side bootblack’s “This Chair Reserved For Ladies” sign draws attention. Patrons, especially matinee girls, climb to the elevated chair to have boots cleaned while crowds stare, challenging the era’s womanly resolve and the boss bootblack’s patience.
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Bootblack
Times
the Bootblack
David Harum
New York Sun
Tim Murphy Seeks Fresh Stories in Washington
Actor Tim Murphy and editor Ten ry Watterson exchange views in Washington on the fate of news. Watterson vents that no story stays new as telegraph operators spread it coast to coast, noting Chauncey Deven and the spreading wire service culture behind the “new story.”
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Tim Murphy
Tenry Watterson
Washington
Watterson
Chauncey Deven
New York
San Francisco
Denver
Timbuktu
New York World
Private kitchen of the sultan guards health of Abdul Hamid
The sultan's private kitchen sits in a guarded chamber near the main entry, sealed with red wax by the kelardjhi bachi to ensure the ruler's life. Abdul Hamid, after 25 years on the throne, appears prematurely aged with a very thin, skeletal physique despite precautions.
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Turkey
Kelardshi Bachi
Yildiz Palace
Constantinople
Abdul Hamid
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VIA
M. E. & T. Railway
JNO
P. Daly
Atlanta, Ga
FORD
Oxford Lake
Anniston Electric & Gas Co
Noble Street
Cyworth League
Dan Frameset
Alabama
New Orleans
Cific
Mobile
Montgomery
Birmingham
GEO
Montgomery, Ala
E.E. Forbes
Tenth Street
R. J. Miles
New Lot of
China
John Wilson & Co
Tutt
A. P. Acre
Ameer
Afghanistan
Abdur Rahman
Woman and the Bootblack
Sultan
Murray Hill
M. Markstein
Opera House
Brokers
Chicago
First National Bank
G. B. Flint
Nish
Im AE Paints
Thomas’ Drug Store
West Tenth Street
Alabasmw
Et Mills
PS Arte Co
Alabama General Agency
Plutual Life Insurance Compans
Richard A .McCurdy
Mutual Life Insuance Company OF
Columbus Smith
Anniston, Alabamne
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