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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1909
Page
7
Plainfield hosts a three day New Jersey Christian Endeavor Union convention with delegates from across the state. The event opens with remarks and features a keynote address by Dr. Advertising in the Semi-Weekly Republic.
The weekly Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index surveys vast activity from Brunswick to Selma. It notes celery farming near Brunswick, 100000 strawberry plants shipped from Tifton, decatur acreage for strawberries, county farm sales, land sales at 80 dollars per acre, and a high Atlanta building sale to a Boston investor. New factories and expansions appear in Covington, Summerville, Rome, and Birmingham. Atlanta bond plans, road improvements, paving bids, wharf work, passenger station contracts, new banks, streetcar extension, and timber deals are reported, with 17 new corporations that week. Legal actions over liquor seizures and injunctions against a Mobile brewery are scheduled for hearings.
A historical notice quotes John L. Dodson affirming support for prohibition and the Eighteenth Amendment. The speaker defends standing firm against whisky and its evils, urging continued prohibition as a civic duty.
Attorneys for local liquor interests in Mobile announce plans to file a motion to cite Sheriff Drago, challenging his authority to retain control of liquor assets amid ongoing dispute. The action highlights legal battles over enforcement and property rights in Mobile.
In Houma Louisiana on October 6 relief supplies including rations blankets and tents are being distributed under the supervision of Colonel Foote and Congressman Broussard. About two thousand homeless are being cared for and a temporary hospital houses three hundred sick and starving victims.
N. I. Brown of Pittsfield Vermont endorses Dr. King's New White Pills as essential family medicine. The ad asserts relief for chills constipation biliousness and sick headache and lists local outlets West End Drug Co Elam Ordway Houser and Scarbrough Drag Co. as sellers.
A promotional note invites readers to watch the editors for a chance to purchase sought after goods. The message suggests these items have been hard to afford and frames the opportunity as timely and special.
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