Special seasonal sale with limited week of reduced prices
A local retailer announces a special sale to start the season with clearly real bargains. Prices are reduced for one week to encourage customers to buy new goods at the season’s start.
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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1903
Page
8
A local retailer announces a special sale to start the season with clearly real bargains. Prices are reduced for one week to encourage customers to buy new goods at the season’s start.
Black blue brown green red and castor cloths sold worldwide at 1.25 per yard with 96c sale. One piece black Voile 40 inches wide at 1.09 yard. All wool novelty suiting 46 inches blue brown black red 89c. Wool flannels undergarments 15c to 60c. Fleeced cotton flannels 64 to 124c. Imitation Torchon Laces 5c. Trunks priced to please. Black cat hose 10c. Linen handkerchiefs 5c plain 10c fancy.
Miss Madge Cheatham returns home from Helena. J W McElreath back from Ingram's Wells with Mrs McElreath staying at the Wells for weeks. Prof and Mrs ER Smith arrive to visit Anniston friends before moving to Tallahassee Fla. Mrs W G Scott and daughter visit Bar Harbor. Miss Maydelle Robinson and Mrs James Sproul after Lithia Springs week. Kiddoo of Washington DC visits sister Mrs Eugene Lloyd. Mr and Mrs W H Jackson of Ingram Wells in the city today.
Mrs W Watkins of Pleasant City Ohio reports her child nearly died from pneumonia and a severe cough but recovered after using Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption. The ad claims it cures coughs colds and lung diseases and is sold by West End Drug Store and Miller Drug Co with trial bottles free.
Ornamental foliage stock shows very large ferns exhibited at the greenhouse and marked down due to size and quality. Limited quantity implies first come first served at the location on 19th Street and Blue Mountain Avenue. F JULLBRICHT signs the notice.
Readers submit rapid guesses for a prize tied to the World’s Fair feature in The Star. Entries hinge on event timing, venue details, and expected exhibits, with a focus on accuracy and pacing.
B L Byer a cooper in this town credits Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with saving his life last summer after a month long bilious dysentery baffled doctors. BK E Little of Hancock MD reports similar relief and recommends the remedy sold by J L Wikle druggist.
The Cotton Belt Route promotes Southeast Missouri Arkansas Northwest Louisiana and Texas as ideal for homeseekers with mild climate good water cheap building materials abundant fuel and soil that can cover its cost in one season Land prices range from 2.50 per acre for prairie land up to 10 15 per acre for improved partly cleared land Colonies of 2000 to 8000 acres priced 4 to 10 per acre are proposed Fruit and truck lands in East Texas sell for 10 to 20 per acre Contact K W Labau me G P and T A Cotton Belt Route St Louis MO for information and excursion dates
One fare plus two dollars to Hot Springs Arkansas and return via Iron Mountain Route. Tickets on sale Wednesdays and Saturdays through September 30th with final limit sixty days from date of sale. Write for books describing hotels and attractions.
The Springfield Massachusetts Republican notes a Valentine style verse from Alice J Murphy praising love and devotion. The reader is invited to read a single daisy as a token symbolizing everlasting ties, with imagery of petals dew and a chained heart.
Edmund Russell laments the Indian student who, despite English instruction and higher education, is expelled from both Hindu and English society. He abandons family ties, faces social ostracism at home, and finds hope fading as spiritual bonds break and prospects dim in the wake of Western schooling.
The theatrical manager asks how the play stays true to life and the playwright answers that a week passes between acts and a new cook appears in every scene, highlighting rapid social shifts and evolving domestic routines.
A newspaper note states that every promise listed on page 7 will be fulfilled. The pledge underscores accountability and the expectation of follow through by the responsible office.
Numerous entrants compete in the Star's World's Fair contest with four winners announced as standout participants.
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