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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1906
Page
7
A brisk promotion describes new leather bags and gloves with modern trims and colors. It highlights low prices from 1 to 3 dollars, promises old-quality value at current costs, and notes extensive Centemeri lines with guaranteed gloves.
Style minded shoppers invited to view a new fall 1906 line featuring Broadcloth at one dollar, black goods at one dollar, checks and stripes in vivid color schemes, and a range from plain weaves to novelties priced at fifty cents. The ad promises rich cloth, excellent wear, and appealing appearances for the season.
A sales note touts artistic work in art squares with vamp and quarter details. It highlights solid leather soles and counters and prices listed at $1.25 and $1.40 per pair. The advertisement promises satisfaction in every purchase.
Dampness spotted kid gloves go to two lots 25 and 50 cents per pair. Children's school wear includes knitted bodies and waists. Special this week pants skirts in black Heather Bloom cotton imitate silk feel at two dollars each?
Real down quilts advertised with sateen covers in artistic colorings. Original price ten dollars now eight dollars, promising warmth without the pinched feel of feather fillings.
The Robinson Bros. cotton firm in Anniston is described as a leading and highly reputable buyer for twenty years. It offers fair, liberal dealings and top market prices, with offices on South Noble Street near Eighth Street and nearby warehouses. The firm has helped make Anniston a major cotton market in northeast Alabama.
In the twelfth century a Tours council decree separated surgery from medicine and forbade clergy to practice it. Clergy instead relied on barbers who applied edge tools, cupping and bleeding evolving into tooth drawing and other procedures. The era's lack of anatomy knowledge earned it a somber label as a dark period for medicine.
The text notes Og of Bashan and his bedstead claimed at nine cubits long, questions whether Og matched the bed’s length, and discusses giants’ bones found worldwide. It argues many giant bones belong to prehistoric megafauna rather than humans, debunking tall-height myths.
The passage notes a rise in poetry and drama study due to extended education and wider access to reading materials. It cites K Edward Markham in Success Magazine asserting poetry is an eternal soul need that grows with intellectual light.
An advertising promotion claims Mother's Friend reduces pain and danger during childbirth. It asserts the product makes the period painless, eases nervous distress, and prepares the system for delivery. The copy cites testimonials and offers bottles at $1.00 and a free information book from Radfield Regulator Co. in Atlanta.
An appeal urges immediate action to memorialize the dead with suitable markers and monuments, arguing grief fades but remembrance endures when graves are cared for and monuments are provided within reasonable means. It stresses that even strangers notice neglected tombs and urges timely action.
Johnston's millinery offers fashionable hats while R O Watson's coal house provides winter supplies. Phone 72 to place orders and stock up ahead of the cold season.
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