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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1901
Page
3
Citizens of Anniston are informed that a new high class tailor firm has secured local agency for a premier house. A full Fall 1901 02 samples line with 500 styles in varied fabrics weights and colors is now available for inspection. The firm guarantees best fit best goods for the money and savings of five to eight dollars on any suit.
Womack reports a healthy community with doctors busy farmers finishing harvests though crops are short in Egypt Master Wilmer Franklin Womack remains well while papa BEA Womack is less robust Rev Nean Stephens preached at Bailey Spring and has been named pastor for the coming year A pro tracted meeting led by Rev O Neal is at Shady Glenn this week P J Stovall has left Cedar Grove school to ginning cotton grinding corn and occasionally selling goals and buying a chicken
Eulaton on last Wednesday mourns the death of twelve year old Mamie Taylor buried Thursday evening. Condolences flow to bereaved parents. Coldwater debating society discussed secession with negative victory. Local visits include Helton family and Bettie Johnson from Bastoboga. Rev John Harden preached at Congregational church. Local news notes builders and retailers.
A widow of General Barn ham of Machias, Me., faced death from pneumonia before morning. Mrs. Lincoln reports she pleaded for Dr King’s New Discovery, which she had used to treat consumption. After taking it she slept all night and fully recovered. The ad touts the medicine as a cure for throat chest and lung diseases, priced 50 cents and 1.00 with trial bottles free at Elam Drug Co.
In Edwardsville the recent municipal election produced a mayoral winner J B Stephene and councilmen J T Bennett Gibbs Lt Foater W B Merrill and J D Ried. Dr A Kellett of Wil liford Ark notes Bucklen’s Arnica Salve healed a railroad worker’s crushed foot, praising it as a universal healer, 25 cents at Elam Drug Co.
Railroads Southern Railway and Alabama Great Southern sell first class round trips from Georgia to Atlanta for the Southern Inter-State Fair with 50 cent extra admission. Tickets on select dates October 8 26 from Georgia and October 11 24 from Alabama and Tennessee, final return October 29 1901. Apply via ticket agents or passenger departments.
A brief item notes Foley's Honey cures colds and proposes tar as a remedy, reflecting early healthcare notions. It mentions prever's aneumoni as a term seen in the text. The report treats these remedies as reported ideas from the period without endorsement.
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