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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1902
Page
8
Immense crowds attended the Forepaugh Sell Circus yesterday with afternoon and evening performances. Features included Dia volo looping the loop on a bicycle and Minting riding a spiral tower. The Astora Zouaves, a well drilled menagerie, and skilled performing animals delighted patrons.
Product promises to cure coughs and colds and prevent illnesses. Miller Drug Co advertises Foley's Honey and Tar as a remedy with no substitutes offered.
General Manager T. K. Scott of the Georgia railroad and former superintendent of the Alabama Mineral division of the Louisville and Nashville railroad visited Anniston yesterday. He praised the city’s continued improvement and expressed confidence in its ongoing prosperity, noting that Anniston must be seen to be fully appreciated.
Health advisory warns against catarrh ointments containing mercury as dangerous to smell and overall health. Promoted remedy Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo is promoted as mercury free and taken internally.
Registrars for Calhoun County sit at the courthouse in Anniston on October 31 and November 1 1902 for voter registration. They continue in session the entire third week in November 1902 and for the six working days before December 20 1902. L. W. Grant signs as County Registrars.
Montgomery, Oct 9 The jubilation of Montgomery’s colored Republicans over the appointment of Judge Thomas Roulhac to the northern district attorneyship of Alabama is reported in a telegram to the President. The message expresses gratitude for the appointment over a lily white Republican candidate and is signed by N H Alexander and other leading black figures.
A vintage advertisement touts Herbine as a cure for malaria chills fever headaches and biliousness. J A Hopkins of Manchester Kansas says it works at any stage and praises its blood purifying tonic benefits. Mentions price 50 cents at J L Wikle Anniston and J B Privett Oxford.
Colonel T. K Scott General Manager of Georgia Railroad company is in the city today. Mr J A Caldwell popular knight of the grip is in Birmingham today. Mr B W Crook is in Gadsden. Tom Scott Roberts returned to Trewn ton today. Lon Baker of Birmingham is visiting his parents. Senator W C Tunstall arrived from Birmingham today.
An odd medical note cites Dr Abernathy on kidneys and life danger from kidney ailment. It mentions Foley's Kidney Care and Mier Drug Co as sources or sponsors of treatment.
Text fragment mentions Bloeton and Donahoo & Co with a coal purchase query and a telephone contact. No clear event, date, or place beyond the names and brief prompt.
Mr W B Wellborn of Aniston attends the diocesan council as Gravechurch delegate with Mrs E J Wellborn visiting her daughter Mrs Warren Dent. Pearl Hammond returns to Talladega after visiting Mrs F K R Gordon on Tyler Hill. A Great Sells Brothers show party chaperoned by Mr and Mrs J W McElreath and Mr and Mrs Kidd attends. The group includes Miss Crook Ida Crook Mary Jordan Rosa Lela Weller Lula Couch Bessie Sproul Maggie Lea Ottis Green and others. Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is recommended and sold by J L Wikle.
Impounded stock taken for running at large will be sold at the city hall Friday Oct 10 1902 at noon for pound fees unless claimed. Descriptions include one red beifer, one listed sow, two red hogs, two black hogs, two spotted hogs and a black barrow with various crop offs. Chief Bryan.
The notice claims all flour is not equal and urges selecting Clifton flour for purity whiteness and quality. It asserts Clifton offers the best flour at the lowest price, contrasting with higher priced rivals, and endorses Bransford Millis of Owensboro Kentucky.
Statistics show 147000 ordered out including miners laborers and breaker boys while about 3000 were at work per operators estimates. Strikers demand include eight hour day with pay for ten, 5 percent contract increase, ton weight 2240 pounds with weight checks, and laborer scales aligned to bituminous fields. Also notice a patent medicine ad for Physic-Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets sold by J. L. Wikle.
Very low rates offered on a round trip ticket from all Alabama points to Birmingham plus attached routes to Atlanta Rome Columbus and Meridian. Tickets valid Oct 20 to Nov 1 with limit Nov 4. For details contact district agents in Birmingham or see the nearest agent. Also U S Army recruiting seeks unmarried men ages 21 to 35 who can read write and speak English. Apply at 927 Noble St Anniston Ala. Smoke Water’s hand made cigars.
A wife, enraged by insults from her spouse, delves into letters from their year of marriage as she contemplates threats of violence. One note proclaims eternal devotion and threatens self harm if not possessed, before the scene shifts to him presenting a box of Nunnelly's Candies.
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