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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1900
Page
5
Fragments show a jumble of numbers and words possibly from a price catalog or ad. No coherent event, names, or locations are readable to establish a news item or subject.
Sale features graded dress sacks cut to discounted prices from 75e to 69e and up. Includes boys pants and waists with 110 pairs offered in small sizes 4 and 5 years, priced per pair in 10c to 5c lots. Also six gold plated dresser mirrors reduced to 1.00.
The Barber Memorial seminary, an industrial school for negro girls, held commencement exercises last night with Dr. J. H. Blacklock delivering the address. Mrs. Barber awarded diplomas to seventeen graduates and presented each with a gold badge featuring a diamond.
Chas Replogle of Atwater Ohio was unable to work due to kidney trouble. After using Poleys Kidney Cure four days he was cured. Sold by Elam Drug Co.
Captain W. Giles Burdette was seriously injured in a fall in Gadsden two weeks ago and has been bedridden at his Glen Addie home. Today he is reported considerably improved and may sit up in a few days, drawing encouragement from his many friends who hope for his early recovery.
An advert for Banner Salve sold by Elam Drug Co promotes a skin treatment touted as effective for cuts wounds sores piles and all skin diseases with a guarantee and urging customers to take no substitute.
Local society notes list residents and visitors from Grayton Jacksonville Birmingham Selma Heflin Talladega and Birmingham. Names include Mr Ts Cray Mr W Goza Capt Jas Crook and Capt T G Parsons with brief mentions of travel, visits, and social ties.
Hobson City near Oxford will gain a post office after Congressman Aldrich wired Postmaster L. T. Smith confirming the office is to be established. The opening date is not yet known. Mead post office will be discontinued after June 15.
On Thursday morning ULLMAN Bros offers 15 dozen men’s knit drawers at 374 regular 50c 60c and 75c quality. Sizes 32 to 44 waist. Special values.
A major blaze in Birmingham Alabama on Twentieth Street between First and Second Avenues gutted a wholesale and retail druggist building owned by Nabers Morrow & Sinnige. The cellar and first floor were wrecked with losses around 850000, largely uninsured. Origin of the fire is unknown.
Henry Coe alias Henry Shirley, a well dressed white man, was arrested on Noble street by Chief Prather and Policeman Hays at Deputy Sheriff Middleton of Talladega’s request. He is accused of obtaining money under fake pretenses by posing as a deputy of Sheriff O Brien of Birmingham. He allegedly victimized Montgomery, Birmingham, Wetumpka and others, and a stolen witness T from Bessemer was recovered. Shirley will be taken to Talladega this afternoon.
Mr H E B Swift of Parkersburg West Virginia, a wholesale druggist for J N Murdoch, reports he was laid up with cholera morbus and was cured with one dose of Kermott’s Ext Blackberry. He would not be without it even at high cost and endorses it as the best remedy for summer complaint, diarrhoea, and cholera morbus.
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