FRE ADVERTISER Thursday issue pricing note
The FRE ADVERTISER records a publication cadence on Thursdays and sets subscription terms at two dollars per year in advance with ministers offered at half price.
05 Feb 1891
Page 1
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Newspaper
Moulton Advertiser
Location
Moulton, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1891
Page
1
The FRE ADVERTISER records a publication cadence on Thursdays and sets subscription terms at two dollars per year in advance with ministers offered at half price.
Rates listed: $1.00 per inch for first insertion, 50 cents per inch for each subsequent insertion under three months. Three, six, twelve month rates available on application. Obituaries tributes 10 cents per line. Local items and notices 19 cents per line. Announcing candidates: State and District $10. County offices $5. Accounts due after first insertion. Personal communications charged double rates where admissible.
Chancellor Thomas Dobbs and Circuit Judge Henry Speake lead the county judiciary with Probate Judge James Kumpe and County Solicitor D. C. Almon. Other offices include Clerk James Doss, Register C. M. Sherrod, Sheriff W. R. Roberts, Tax Collector W. F. Roberson, Tax Assessor W. Simmons, Treasurer P. O. Watson, Education Superintendent M. M. Summers, commissioners R. C. Montgomery J. G. Roberson J. W. Terry O. A. Bynum, surveyors W. E. Hotchkiss R. H. Coleman, and Health Officer Dr. W. J. McMahon.
The circuit court convenes on the 4th Monday in April and October. Chancery Court sits on the Thursday after the 4th Monday in February and August. County Court meets on the 3rd Monday of each month. Probate Court holds the 2nd Monday in Commissioners' Court and the second Mondays in February, May, August, and November.
Methodist Church led by Rev G E Boyd holds services on the first and third Sundays at 11 AM with Sunday school at 9 AM and prayer meeting on Tuesdays. Baptist Church with Elder J R Bragg offers services on the fourth Sunday and Saturday before at 11 AM, Sunday school at 9 AM, and Wednesday prayer meeting. Cumberland Presbyterian led by Rev J W Gorman conducts services on the second Sunday at 11 AM in the Methodist Church. Christian Church hosts Sunday school each Sunday at 9 AM.
Mail schedule shows Moulton as central with daily departures at 8:00 A M except Sundays and same day arrivals at 5:00 PM. Routes include Moulton and Russeville at 1:00 PM and 12:00 PM arrivals, Moulton and Hartsell at 1:00 PM and 12:00 PM, and Moulton and Double Springs with Monday Wednesday and Friday departures at 12:00 PM and arrivals at 11:20 AM.
Local freemason bodies list their regular communications for Moulton Leighton Town Creek Courtland Hillsboro Danville Trinity and Mt Hope Lodges. Meetings occur on various days tied to lunar cycles or monthly fourth Saturdays with officers named for each lodge.
A Confederate veteran recounts the death and burial of Elias Grimes of Company A Ninth Alabama Regiment. The piece laments the lone grave in Western Virginia, telling of a mother and wife awaiting return and the hardships endured by those left behind after the Civil War.
Godeys Lady's Book advertises December or January issues offering a Rochester Brass Piano Lamp for 15 cents and a sample copy. It touts varied departments including literature fashion flowers home culture music recipes and engravings with new serials by ADMA H LIGHTNER and others and notes patterns and fashion guidance with prices for club subscriptions and combined offers with Moulton Advertiser.
A devotional poem urges patient waiting for God with imagery of morning light and celestial chimes. It promises fulfillment of the heart's desire, guidance to align voice with angels, and the Lord's rise to answer faithful petitions.
In Birmingham Connecticut, women employed at Radcliff's woolen mills protested a fifteen percent wage reduction. The World notes mills benefited from duty protection rising to 45 or 51 percent under McKinley, while owners seek to cut labor costs further, asking where laborers share in U S protection.
Pittsburg Dispatch interview with Kennedy Marshall recounts a media and political uproar around McDowell’s July 1861 campaign. The piece describes Richmond as a summer resort, Northern politicians and business figures flocking to the capital of the Confederacy, and a grand, costly military picnic turned military operation.
A vintage ad touts Dr Bull’s Worm Destroyers as a tasty candy child friendly worm medicine, claiming the choice flavor makes medicine easy for mothers to give and kids to accept.
Geo W Irwin of Irwin PA recounts lifelong battle with eczema. After consulting many physicians and trying Clifton Springs NY and Hot Springs AR without relief, he used S S S and was cured in four months. He praises the remedy for skin eruptions and health overall and offers a free treatise from Swift Specific Co Atlanta GA.
A nostalgic reflection on the yellow pumpkin as a cherished heart of autumn, praised when orchards fail and berries wane. The speaker recalls how children grow to dislike the mud covered, large bellied pumpkin yet acknowledge its value for pies and home flavor.
A Louisville woman describes severe head pain and near paralysis while reading, and blindness on standing, crediting Bull's Sarsaparilia with complete relief. She notes restored appetite and enjoyment of meals after treatment.
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