Mayor Vetoes Beer Saloon and Pool Hall Measure
Mayor Senderson vetoed the beer saloon ordinance for Market avenue noting concerns about back street saloons and morals. He also vetoed the pool room closing rule, saying it unfairly targeted non hotel owners and was class legislation. the veto on pool rooms was sustained. The beer saloon veto failed to pass over veto by seven votes, leaving the ordinance defeated. The council plans an adjourned session to consider industry tax exemptions and changes to meeting times.
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Market Avenue
Senderson
Anniston
Henderson
McKeroy
Ritch
Robertson
Sproul
Lewis
Powell
House
Wetzell
Stickney
Wabash-Vanished Game Due to Colored Player Ban
Wabash coach Eller received a letter from Rose Polytechnic League manager H. T. Watson rejecting a game if Gordon, a colored player, participated. The football match is cancelled as a matter of principle.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Eller
Wabash
H. T. Watson
Rose Polytechnic League Today
Gordon
General Gordon to Speak at Anniston Lyceum Series
General John B. Gordon, former commander of the United Confederate Veterans, will headline the Anniston Lyceum season with the lecture The Last Days of the Confederacy at Noble Street Theater on Wednesday evening October 21. Professor Owens promotes a strong season lineup and will canvass the city tomorrow.
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Clarence J. Owens
Anniston College
Anniston
John B. Gordon
Confederacy
General Gordon
South
United Confederate Veterans
Noble Street Theater
Prof
Owen
Lyceum
Crazy Man on Train Tragedy Sparks Assault and Flight
Wesley Hedges traveling with his wife and three children on a Big Four train from Jacksonville to La Harpe Ill became violent on board. He hurled a child from a moving car, jumped through a window, and after being recovered in this city fled from police, throwing stones to deter pursuers before being captured and jailed.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Wesley Hedges
Jacksonville
la Harpe
Ill
Hodges
Hedges
Forty Pound Gain in Thirty Days from Stomach Tablets
A family report from Long Branch Missouri praises Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for curing long indigestion. After months of discomfort the younger brother started the tablets and gained forty pounds in thirty days. Sold locally by J. L. Witke, druggist.
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Chamberlain
Horiey Bros
Long Branch
J. L. Witke
North Alabama Presbytery splits into new division
The North Alabama presbytery has divided after speeches by more than a dozen members. The division passed with four votes against. The new territory will be named North Alabama Presbytery, comprising Lauderdale Colbert Franklin Lawrence Limestone Morgan Madison Marshall and Jackson counties. The old presbytery includes Jefferson Shelby Coosa Talladega Clay Cleburne Calhoun Cherokee DeKalb Etowah St. Clair Blount Cullman Winston Walker Marion Lamar Fayette.
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Goopwater
Ala
North Alabama
Lauderdale
Colbert
Franklin
Lawrence Limestone
Morgan
Madison
Marshall
Jackson
Old Presbytery
Jefferson
Shelby
Coosa
Talladega
Clay
Cleburne
Calhoun
Cherokee
DeKalb
Etowah
St. Clair
Blount
Cullman
Winston
Walker
Marion
Lamar
Fayette
Swindle Unearthed in Alabama City Store Goods Seized
Police and U S Commissioner Pinkard seized at the R L Price store in Alabama City a batch of merchandise tied to alleged swindles by a branch operation. Special agent Bennerman recovered an oil tank and other goods, later moved to the Gadsden post office, with theory that items were bought under a false firm name to obtain credit and moved to Alabama City for disposal.
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Gadsden
R. L. Price
Alabama City
L. ©. Price
United States
Edward 8. Pinkard
RC. Bennerman
Benerman
Bennerman
Alabama Cty
Price
Engagement Near Gumenjo Reports Heavy Turkish Losses
A battle on October 6 near Gumenjo, 35 miles from Salonica, left about 300 Turks killed or wounded. Ibrahim Bey leads the Turkish forces seeking two mountain guns. none are available. Simultaneously 10,000 Albanians threaten cross-border raids while a Servian advance party readies near Numanovo, five miles north of Uskub.
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Gumenjo
Ibrahim Bey
Salonica
Numanovo
Uskub
Resignation of Lancaster Railroad Chief Amid Discrepancies
Lancaster Pennsylvania October 9 Rumors about William B Given president of the Lancaster County Railroad and Light Company culminated in his resignation and disclosures of accounting discrepancies said to exceed 100000 dollars Given long regarded as wealthy and a large stock market operator
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Lancaster
William B. Given
Lancaster County Railroad and Light Company
Death in a Bath Tub
Albany news reports Thomsa Brewer a 17 year old who died at Albany hospital from a small rifle bullet wound suffered in May 1902 by a playmate. The bullet lodged in his spine keeping him in a water bath and suspended by elastic bands for seventeen months as he slowly wasted away.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomsa Brewer
Albany Hospital
Fictitious Ed Walls Arrested For Check Fraud
A man giving the name Ed Walls was jailed on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses after posing as an employee of Woodstock Tron Works to obtain a check from A. W. Bellingrath. The real Ed Walls later identified the fraud, and the impostor was arrested again this morning and slated for trial before Recorder McGhee.
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Ed Walls
West An niston Four Room House Destroyed By Fire
A four room dwelling in West Anniston burned this afternoon. The old timber burned quickly and the house, near the railroad and L N shops, was reduced to ashes before the fire was checked. It was unoccupied at the time. the Perryman property owner had recently bought the two houses for about $500, with $150 insured.
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West Anniston
A. H. Perryman
Tuscaloosa Elas Home Contract Awarded
The Tuscaloosas awarded a contract to W. T. McCormick for a three story brick home at Twenty second Avenue and Sixth Street. Construction starts immediately and should finish by April at a cost of $12,000.
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TuscaLoosa
Tuscaloosas
W. T. McCormick
Twenty-second Avenue
Sixth Street
Treaty Between China and United States Signed in Shanghai
Reports state a treaty signed in Shanghai ends the anti foreign unrest and focuses on expanding commercial ties. Articles cover diplomat and citizen rights, with Article 4 promising abolition of transit duties and internal tax barriers to facilitate free trade after ratification.
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Washington
China
United States
Shanghai
Pekin
Jto
Alabama Elk draft edition to feature state lodges
Mr. A G Conklin of the Alabama Elk presides in Birmingham collecting material for a forthcoming state edition. The handsome volume will include lodge views and member names with a history of Alabama Elk lodges since formation. The Anniston lodge writeup and material gathering continue in the city.
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A. G. Conklin
The
Alabama Elk
Birmingsham
Conklin
Anniston Lodge
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