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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1902
Page
8
Ad shows W. J. Douglas Union Made footwear with price points 3.00 and 1.25 for multiple pairs. Mentions quality and value across styles. Includes "Quality at one based" and multiple per-pair amounts.
In Birmingham a story about Anniston Mayor Z. Henderson and a messenger boy unfolds in the hotel lobby. The mayor offered 75 cents for the man he sought, with 60 cents for finding him. The boy’s quick wit led to the man being located, who had just finished a meal unseen by others.
A Bransford Mills notice in Owensboro Kentucky explains that every forty eight pound sack labeled Chifton four, when packed, yields two good towels. Grocers are urged to supply these sacks.
For good coal at reasonable prices and prompt delivery call 120 or visit Berey Coal and Wood Co at Eleventh and Moore streets. 23 of
Mr Paul Roberts is in the city today. Hon John B Knox is on business in Birmingham. General Manager T K Scott of the Georgia Railroad spent yesterday in the city. Mr Harry Miller a Greenwood Mississippi druggist was in town en route to Talladega to visit his parents. J W Sproull has returned from Piedmont. Scott Roberts is in the city. Hon J J Willett is in Gadsden today on business.
A delightful pink and white buffet luncheon was held at Capt. A. W. Bell home Tuesday night hosted by Miss Kate Bell for her guest Miss Willie Russell Lin of Atlanta. Attendees included Misses Mary Huger Ida Crook Mary Boggs Mary Kline Fannie Lee Davis Laura Brown Hazel Dimmick Jessie Goodwin Otis Green Rosa Lela Weller Miss Kilby Minna Bell and Nuen- 868.
Prof Wiley from Washington's Agricultural Department notes flour nutrition hinges on milling quality. He cites Clifton flour milled at Bransford Mills Owensboro Kentucky as the finest. Insist your grocer send it.
Advertises Foley's Honey and Tar as a safe remedy for throat and lung troubles in children. Claims no opiates or poisons and promotes household use. Sold by Miller Drug Co.
Rev Powers of Anniston preached a strong sermon in Bynum on Sunday. A local report says a negro who robbed Mr Horn’s home last week is hiding in a nearby swamp. John K Harrison arrived from Selma to visit relatives, and T W Bynum also spent Sunday at home. Claude Hughes visits Mamie Bagley near Coldwater. Some youths plan a possum hunt if weather allows. Jon P Self visited friends in Bynum Sunday.
A vivid slice of Brittany life shows market scenes with peasants in embroidered attire, women in red skirts and coifs, children gazing curiously, and barter in gutters. Fishermen bring in boats, taverns buzz with accordion music, and preparations rise for departure to a new country as the sea and village smoke mingle.
A notice claims Warter's Hand Made cigars stay fresh by wrapping in tin foil. The brief emphasizes packaging method and product quality.
Impounded stock taken for running at large will be sold at the city hall on Friday November 21 1902 at noon to cover pound fees unless claimed. Items include multiple black pigs two with injuries and a red and white spotted cow with crop missing. Chief Police F J Bryan notes the action.
The piece notes how Carlyle was once treated with reverent delight in drawing rooms but later faced impatience from a new generation. It recalls a bishop introducing Freeman as the savagery describer of ancestors. Practical medical guidance warns to use cold water for acid burns and to dilute acids on the skin, sometimes making the water alkaline to counteract acid burping.
A Lancashire man asks about finding a Yorkshire man's lost fingers. The Yorkshire foreman tosses a shilling into sawdust, and two fingers pop up. The anecdote ends with the foreman declaring that was the way to recover a Yorkshire man’s fingers.
The article notes that a fern in a jardiniere grants a woman the right to call it a fernery while comparing some men to telescopes who reveal things then conceal them. The tone satirizes ownership of terms and perception.
A runaway bicycle caused an ugly leg ulcer on J B Orner of Franklin Grove. Doctors offered no relief for four years until Bucklen's Arica Salve cured it. The remedy also treats burns scalds skin eruptions and piles and costs 25 cents at Miller Drug Co and West End Drug Co.
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