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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1902
Page
8
Hancock Maryland correspondent reports a Fulton County Pennsylvania fire at Andrew Hemphill’s large corn drying shed. Fifty barrels of popcorn thawed and burst the roof as heat caused popping, with the fire smothered after hours and leaving a mass of popped corn.
In Santiago de Cuba a large demonstration marked ceremonies for patriots General Jose Maceo Moncada Crombet Sanchez Colonels Garzon Silva and Captain Bergues killed in the fight for independence. About forty thousand citizens marched in the procession, which stretched for miles.
Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs and colds and prevents pneumonia. Take up substitutes Miller Drug Co.
ToLepo, Ohio, Oct 10. Geo G Lewis reports a mistaken death notice led West Unity residents to ready a funeral for George Allen but he arrived alive. Hospital mix up sent a corpse to Chicago. telegrams misled four states to attend the supposed funeral, then everyone gathered for a family reunion. George had been away 12 years.
Advert describes Foley's Kidney Cure as healing sound kidneys. Quoted doctor Dr Abernathy calls kidney impairment dangerous. Product attribution to Miller Drag Co.
In Mario Indiana on October 10 retired couple Enoch Storey aged about sixty approached by news of his wife’s divorce while visiting from the country home. He collapsed after learning of the divorce and died in a City Waterworks prison cell later that night. Coroner to hold an inquest as authorities investigate. Also in court, Circuit Clerk Watson sues to regain control of an office room in the courthouse previously occupied by county commissioners. The case stems from a prior cave ruling appealed to the city court.
T. C. Crawford of this city has received notice from the Southern Co-Operative Home Purchasing Co of Birmingham that his contract has matured and the company is ready to pay for his property or allow him to buy or build. The firm cites a 60 days to 6 months maturity window but notes contracts mature sooner in practice. Interested parties may interview J. E. McErwwwoop vice president H. A. Bixby general superintendent of agencies at Wilmer Hotel or R. F. Watson district agent.
Warns against mercury containing diet mats for catarrh and urges prescriptions from reputable physicians. Promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free and effective, with testimonials, sold by druggists at 75 cents per bottle.
In Gravette Arkansas a blast among workers on the Kansas City Southern line ignited twenty kegs of powder. The blast killed Elias Stokes Walter Hollie and William Fudge all Gravette residents. Six others were badly burned and not expected to survive.
Oxford updates list visitors from Bastaboga Jacksonville and Piedmont, a returning pastor to the First Presbyterian Church, a typhoid patient improving, a night watchman, a death and burial, a social at the Young Peoples Christian Endeavor, and the Oxford 611 Company resuming. Also Calhoun Rifles call to monthly drill and local advertising for Clifton flour from Bransford Mills Owensboro Ky.
A tense marital scene unfolds as a wife, furious at a husband who insulted her, retrieves a year-old letters from her escritoire and reads a threatening note promising devotion and possession, then reaches for a two pound box of NUNNELLY'S Candies.
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