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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1901
Page
6
Anniston celebrated Labor Day with a large turnout and a well organized parade. The event highlighted the city’s industrial strength and the earnest workmen who power local factories, reflecting pride and orderly conduct throughout the day.
The Age-Herald dedicates a full page to Anniston highlighting its rapid growth near Birmingham. The city sits on table land in a mountainous district with capital and energy driving new life, railroad prospects, and expanding manufacturing industry. It is praised as an emerging Southern industrial center with ties to Birmingham.
A vintage ad emphasizes the light blue metal box marked C.C.C. with a tail, trade mark for Cascarets Candy Cathartic. It notes each tablet stamped C.C.C. and warns against bulk sales, available at all druggists for 100.
Minnie Maddern argues American theater must shed artificiality and mercantile theater trends. She says the true stage presents life as it is with truth, simplicity, and progress toward genuine art, despite managerial misjudgments and transitional industry conditions.
The first bale of cotton arrives in Oxford from Boiling Spring farm bought by Draper & Co. at 109 cents. Oxford College opens with 125 pupils and growing. John Hand dies at Haywood’s saw mill near Chula when a log crushes him. Mrs Hand in Boaz awaiting word. Hand was a mill owner and well regarded.
A revival era advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as the busiest wonder product. It claims to transform weakness into strength and listlessness into energy, promising health gains and mental vigor. Sold by Elam Deng Co for 25e per box.
Mr A Pilkington died yesterday afternoon at five o’clock at his son Meo FL Pilkington’s home at Fourteenth and Glen Adibe streets. He was eighty five years old and death attributed to old age. He was highly esteemed and his long life filled with usefulness. The funeral was held this morning with interment in Hillside cemetery.
The Aniston Evening Star and Birmingham Age-Herald laud Aniston for civic progress and its loyal readers. The Hot Blast, Aniston’s morning paper, is noted for energetic support of local development and telegraphic dispatches reaching the important point.
A damaged letter from C Unger of 212 Maple St Champaige Li describes long illness from consumption. The note mentions Fley's Honey and Tar as a treatment and says doctors cared for months. The text is garbled but centers on health and home remedies.
An advertisement fragment suggests Ken Mutts Chocolates Laxative Quinine as a home remedy for cold symptoms. It includes a misspelled product name and unclear branding, reflecting early 20th century patent medicine language.
Mr G A Stuilmas of Tampico Illinois lauds Foley's Kidney Care claiming it cured cases doctors had deemed incurable and that his health has markedly improved, calling his face a living picture of health. The testimonial appears in a McBlreath Drug Co. notice.
The Johnston and Son store announces relocation to 1106 Noble Street and commitment to cash sales with savings of ten to twenty five percent versus credit houses. They will focus on dry goods clothing shoes hats and notions and highlight a new line of shoes made for them including school shoes for boys and girls.
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