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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1903
Page
5
Weather forecast issued by authority of the Secretary of Agriculture notes fair weather tonight and Thursday with warmer conditions in the north. The page also lists local notices including business trips, electric plant shutdown for steam pipe connections, and several short items about residents, employment changes, court cases, ads for coal and masonry services, and a spike mill land subscription.
The item reports Mr. E L Turner confined to his home with illness described as not serious. It also notes Donahoo & Co and coal orders, along with W. E. Knox returning from Birmingham after attending a meeting of the Alabama Car Service Association. It mentions new seven room houses at St Michael's and furniture sale plans by J L Murphy.
Classified listing policy announces ten cents per line for first insertion and five cents per line for each subsequent insertion in the Evening Star Want Ads column.
Oct 21 brief from Brera notes good health with no sickness in the area. Farmers pick cotton and gather corn while some prepare to sow wheat. Egyptian correspondent passes through town en route to Anniston, playing a harp and joking about supper.
Classified rental notes show several properties: houses with 3 to 8 rooms, three stores on Noble Street advertised by R. M. Ingram & Co. at 10th and Noble. a ten room boarding house on West Anniston offered furnished or unfurnished via T. R. J. Box 385. and an 11 room house close to town with car line, furnished or unfurnished, via P. A. Box No. 5.
Wanted a good middle size store safe in AJ order, must be cheap. Also seeking mocking bird cage in good size, perfect order and cheap. Please address or call Room 4 Constantine building.
A Winchester man named M. M. Austin advised Dr King s New Life Pills for his wife s severe stomach and liver trouble. Physicians could not help until the pills provided relief and eventual cure. Only 25 cents at West End Drug Store and Miller Drug Co Druggista.
Caution against using ointments for catarrh that contain mercury as they damage the sense of smell and disrupt the system. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co Toledo is claimed mercury free and acts internally on blood and mucous surfaces. Pure testimonials and price are noted. available through Druggists.
Poetry fragment asks for work and peace in a life of honest labor. It reflects a shift from idealistic dreams to valuing practical tasks and lasting, small joys. The lines praise steady effort, friendship, and a world built by honest hands rather than grand gain.
A reported testimonial from Hommy Bros. of Long Branch claiming their Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets cured indigestion in a young man within thirty days, resulting in a forty pound weight gain and full recovery. Sold locally by J. J. Witke, druggist.
Card from Armiston Alabama dated October 20 1993 acknowledges receipt of a $1000 full payment under policy No 321718 held by the late Ira A Wigley from Metropolitan Life Insurance Company New York. The letter praises prompt settlement and notes proofs of death completed October 15 and check dated October 17.
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