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Newspaper
Pratt City Herald
Location
Pratt City, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1901
Page
8
A collage of dialogue snippets and humorous vignettes from a newspaper page. Excerpts include flirtatious chat about an uncle’s will, a cashier’s joke about pennies, a laundry room remark, church lodging for hoboes, actor egotism, and a quip about a lobbyist father. The tone shifts among social humor, business satire, and sentimental quips.
New sewing machine offered for sale by Mes C Henrye at Ubird Street. Buyer inquiry indicates available for purchase locally with immediate consideration.
An advertisement page touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve for eruptions and sores and lists DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve and White's Cream Vermifuge as cures for skin, worms, and digestion. It promotes Little Early Risers as gentle laxatives and notes prices and suppliers Lovelady's and J. W. Brown & Co.
Sunday school times and preaching hours listed for multiple churches including Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal South, Presbyterian, Baptist, and St Catherine Catholic. Details cover service times, prayer meetings, Epworth Leagues, missionary societies, and special monthly observances.
Guardian Mary V Copeland announces public sale of Leola Fike Mellie Fike and Eveline Fike minors estate in Jefferson county Alabama. The property includes multiple parcels in sections 29 and 30 township 17 range 3 west plus a hay field interest and a 24 foot portion of lot 14 in McCary Howell survey. Sale is August 12 1901 in Pratt City at the post office door between 11 and midnight, for cash to the highest bidder. Probate judge J P Stiles authorized this sale.
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