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Newspaper

Anniston Evening Star

Location

Anniston, Alabama, United States of America

Date

May 24, 1901

Page

7

Picnic Season Opens At Oxford Lake Park

Picnic season is underway with free admission for small parties and advance booking for large excursions. The park offers shade water seats swings and lunch tables plus new buildings and indoor amusements including bowling alleys an electric merry go round and a bathing pool. A 15¢ coupon with round trip tickets can be used for games boat hire and rides. McElreath Drug Co. and conductors sell tickets. J M Ragan offers Oxford tickets with 10¢ privilege coupons.

McElreath Drug Co Oxford J. M. Ragan

Sale Postponed to Tuesday June 1901 by Church Board

The sale has been postponed until Tuesday June 1901. Board of Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia and the state of Pennsylvania.

Board of Church Extension Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia State of Pennsylvania

Line of Goods Mentioned at East Tenth Street Store

The speaker warns that upon a visit to shop No 25 East Tenth Street they will display a line of items. The phrase suggests a sales offer or display method connected to that address.

East Tenth Street

Two Chicago Boys Start Basement Mushroom Farm

Albert and Wilbur Smith, two brothers aged 16 and 14, living at 6618 Ellis Avenue on Chicago's South Side, built a four tier basement mushroom farm in their four story flat. They began last fall, watered daily, and now report their first mushrooms appearing, proving the venture viable.

Chicago Ellis Avenue Albert Wilbur Smith Babylon Chicago Record-Herald

Remarkable Child Vice President of Atlanta Railway

In Atlanta Cornelius J Simmons, just past his thirteenth birthday, was elected vice president of the Collins Park Railway. He serves as motor man and conductor, works in the shop, and knows the plant’s machinery, while his father heads the company.

Atlanta Cornelius J. Simmons Collins Park Railway Company

Mortgage Sale of Church Property in Anniston Alabama

Mortgage sale by the Board of Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania on May 1901 in Anniston Calhoun County Alabama. The property is a 140 by 190 foot lot at Leighton Avenue and Fourteenth Street described by boundaries. Sale to be held at the city courtroom door during legal hours to the highest cash bidder.

St. Paul Methodist Episcopal’church Anniston al A Calhoun County Ala City Court Room Leighton Avenue Fourteenth Street 14Th Street Board of Church Extension The Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia State of Pennsylvania

Foamy Ducks and a Child Poet Reminisce

A fragment from Felicia Hemans recalls a child poet with a debut at thirteen and a poem about ducks. The text shifts to praise mothers and maternal love, contrasting innocence with enduring devotion in a moral, nostalgic tone.

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