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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1901
Page
2
Calhoun Transfer Company run by Sm. Smith offers baggage handling to all city parts. Advance orders from one to twenty four hours before train arrival or departure advised. Leave orders at Calhoun Hotel or call No. 25. Baggage promptly delivered by M. Smith.
The tax collector and assistant will attend court-house appointments from October 1 to October 26 1901 to collect state and county taxes for 1901. Delinquent taxes accrue interest and costs after December 1901. Appointments span Beats Burns Roads Polkville Chatchee Peek s Hill Alexandria Dukes Reads Mill Hollingsworth Grange Hall Green s Schoolhouse DeArmanville Tron City Choccolocco White Plains Jenkins Four Mile Jacksonville Greenwood Piedmont Oxtord Oxanna Anniston.
Reads a sequence of named rounds and dates listing locations such as Boozer Duke Grange Hill Keens School House Iron City Oxford Anniston and Jacksonville with multiple November days and numbers indicating scores or counts in a historical event schedule. The fragmentary list assigns venues and dates across November through December.
Tax assessor schedules listing multiple appointment dates in Calhoun County Alabama for 1902. The text enumerates sessions across October with several specific days including weekends and holidays. The OCR shows repeated and garbled dates needing consolidation.
Regraded Wilmer street now topped with white chert for beauty and smoother wear. K Camp's restaurant on Noble street offers fresh Coosa river fish and oysters on Wednesdays and Saturdays with imported beer. Knights of Pythias honor RK. B. Beeser at Anniston lodge No. 91. Carter's barber shop advertises quick messenger service. Levi's markets Kenesaw cigars. L T Smith and Arch Henderson tied in a weekly Highland Golf Club event with Edith McMillian scoring 58 and 58 for Smiths? 56. John T. Bell’s Noble street cottage near Twenty Fourth nearing completion. S I Swavot’s next door under way. Vernon Hill Club and Hunter cigars sold at Levi's. Lt. Richard Going of Birmingham passes through enroute from Washington after officer exam. Anniston boys recall Dick Going from Spanish–American War days. The Model Laundry highlights clean, chemical-free washing at 12th and Noble.
A Cherokee Iowa man, C. F. Collier, suffered a severe kidney based attack that left him unable to stoop or sit without pain. After trying Electric Bitters he reports a remarkable recovery, praising the medicine for backache kidney trouble and overall health. Blam Drug Store sells bottles for 50 cents.
W H Eads of Jonesville Virginia recalls a severe foot burn in childhood that caused lasting leg sores for thirty years until Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured him. The salve is advertised as infallible for burns scalds cuts sores bruises and piles and is sold by Elam Drug Co.
Southern Railway and Alabama Great Southern Railroad offer round trip first class fare plus fifty cents to Atlanta for the Southern Inter State Fair. Tickets issued Oct 8–26 from Georgia. Oct 11, 15, 17, 22, 24 from Alabama and Tennessee with final return by Oct 29, 1901. Admission to fair grounds included. Inquiries to ticket agents or passenger departments.
The Queen and Crescent System south of Meridian opens October 28 with a fast Meridian to Shreveport schedule linking to Texas lines. Train No. 37 of Southern Railway connects for the quickest routes to western Texas, offering shorter travel times. Inquire at local ticket agents for details.
An advertisement promotes Cas carets Candy Cathartic tablets stamped C C C. Claims include digestion, liver, and bowel repair while you rest. Sold in druggists and toc. Not offered in bulk.
A short dental era remedy note suggests using Ken mutt s Chocolate Lavetive Quirie the Ow Day Cok for cold and sore throat relief. The text is fragmentary with unlikely product names and unclear instructions.
Under a probate decree Judge Emmett F. Crook I M L Sawyer Administratrix will sell at public auction for cash in Anniston Alabama the estate of S. D. Sawyer deceased. The property includes a SW of SW in section IL Township 16 south range 8 east with a one acre northwest triangle, Lot 1 Block 190 fronting 70 feet on Glen Addie street and back 70 feet plus a four foot strip to an alley. Sale Monday Oct 28 1901 at 12 oclock noon in front of the Probate Judge’s office Calhoun County.
The State of Alabama Calhoun County Mary Lou Phinizy as complainant vs T M Gamble and Thos O A Gamble defendants City Court of Anniston In Equity to be sold for cash at public auction at the front door of Court Hours in Anniston on October 28 1901 under a decree from Sept term 1901 Lots 8 9 10 11 2 and 18 in block 2 McMillian Tract Hight McCoy addition between 28rd and 24th streets on east side of Noble street. A H Shepperd Clerk 23-8w
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