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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1902
Page
3
Delegate Julius Lehman, convicted of perjury and indicted for bribery, was captured by a deputy sheriff at his home as he entered. He faces an appeal seeking reversal of the 17 May verdict tied to a bribery and birthday party scheme that allegedly distributed 847,500 among House of Delegates members. he was sentenced to two years.
The column promotes Southern railway round trip tickets to Birmingham at low first class plus fifty cents from Alabama points with travel dates October 20 to November 1 and limited to November 4. It also notes outfits and samples from The Bell-Weatherly Co. and J N Boyer & Co. offerings for ladies and children, along with a push for cheap California and Northwest tickets via Union Pacific and Southern Pacific with F Van Rensselaer in Atlanta.
Dyer Finley a Black man from Montevallo was arrested after resisting City Marshal Patton in Calera. White residents then abducted Finley from jail, chained him, and shot him six times leaving him for dead. His wife rushed him to hospital in an unconscious state. no arrests have been made.
J F Hughes once deemed unlikely to live six months due to a lung ailment received a dramatic turn after using Dr King s New Discovery for consumption. Despite three years of distress his health improved and the prediction of certain death was overturned. Miller Drug Co West End Drug Co advertise the remedy priced 50 cents and one dollar with a free trial bottle.
A Detroit Free Press quote recalls a book lover who buys rare family marked Bibles and hymnals from secondhand shops. He explains his motive to preserve memory by removing inscriptions, even as such religious volumes are often unsold as relics.
In Cavendish Vermont Le Quinn suffered chronic constipation until Dr. King's New Life Pills were used to treat him after an invasion of the ailment. The pills claim a guaranteed cure and cost 25 cents at Miller Drug Co. and West End Drug Co. drug stores.
A dated October list enumerates uncalled for letters at the Anniston post office. The Gentlemen and Ladies lists name numerous individuals alphabetically, including Jas P Adama and Miss Mary Bate dy, with one illegible entry noted in Miscellaneous. Parties may claim by mentioning advertised status.
O R Larson of Bay Villa Sun days River Cape Colony runs a broad store nine miles from the railway and twenty five miles from town. He notes farmers within thirty miles buy Chamberlain's remedies and reports twelve local cures in twelve months, praising the cough remedy as a household staple. For sale by J L Wikle.
Wanted for U S Army able bodied unmarried men aged 21 to 35 who are U S citizens of good character and temperate habits and can speak read and write English for information apply to Recruiting Officer 927 Noble St Anniston Ala October 13 MS
Friends of G Wright announce his candidacy for commissioner from the First District. The notice identifies Wright as the candidate and signals his campaign in this district.
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