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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1901
Page
4
The Evensow Star tomorrow will include twelve pages with a four page magazine and a color comic section. Comics in color feature Up-to-Date Method of Playing Football and Johnnie Certainly was on the Hog. The magazine offers four complete stories, fashions, and quality reading for the fair sex. News and religious coverage will be up to its usual high standard.
The Chattanooga News contrasts northern and southern attitudes toward Black workers and living standards. It cites Cardinal Gibbons urging wage-earners to live within means, warning that excessive spending leads to debt and insecurity.
The Evening Star launches a friendly vote contest to win theater boxes for Vanity Fair next Thursday. Anniston and Oxford readers submit votes by coupon from regular papers to Chrisman’s jewelry store by 6 pm Wednesday. top voter wins a box with two guests, second place gets an upper box, with standings printed Monday. Also note local ad for Banner Salve claims relief from salt rheum after two applications.
Coal at RO Watson's on Tenth Street offered in all grades and qualities with prices described as low. Call or telephone to arrange purchase or delivery.
Miss Carrie Keith plans a Montgomery visit with Miss Daisy Brown while Miss Ross departs for Selma. Local Miss Kova Wilson visits Oxford. Mr D W Shutford injures his foot in a depot incident. Annie Starke Gardner recital at Oxford College hall benefits the Oxford library with admission two and twelve cents for children. A West Virginia Reform School report endorses Polys Honey and Tar. drug ads promote kidney remedies from Sterling Remedy Co.
Porter King dies in Atlanta after a day of seeming recovery. Born in Marion Alabama about 44 years ago, he came from a notable Perry county family. A funeral is planned for tomorrow at 2:30 PM at the Second Baptist Church with burial at Westview. He leaves two brothers, Joseph H. King and Thomas King, notified of his death.
S A Ingalls of Crown Point New York reports his wife suffered kidney trouble for years and says she took Poles Kidsey Cure and recovered within a week after using it. The note appears to be an advertisement claim from a local drug company.
Miss Callahan is requested for dress making at 13th and Wilmer streets. Details indicate a call for service or appointment on the specified date. No further context available from the fragment.
A sheriff's sale notice for J A Gaboury lists extensive property in Calhoun County Alabama including sections 26 cosa and many Jackson ville areas the Alfred Forney place and several Jacksonville Mine lands. The sale is ordered by Crow Bros based on an execution from Anniston city court and will occur Monday November 11 1901 at the city court room door during legal hours in Anniston.
The Anniston Evening Star bought two Noble Street Theatre boxes for Thursday night October 31 as Miss Gertrude Coghlan appears as Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair. The two most popular salesladies in Anniston or Oxford will vote by coupon for first and second choice of boxes. The motive is to popularize Thackeray and his Vanity Fair.
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