Portraits of Kruger and temperance pleas blaze across letters
A collection of letters describes President Paul Kruger and his wife with warmth, praising their simplicity and kindness. It praises Kruger's efforts to avert war and shares a humorous tale about Mrs Kruger. The text then shifts to Pratt City temperance concerns, urging unity and action, and closes with notices about a poultry show and association activities.
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Paul Kruger
South Africa
Transvaal
Whotver
Believ
Krager
Boston Herald
Herality
Pratt City
Temperance
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
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Poultry Show Dates Set After Alabama Fair Aborts
The Poultry Show linked to the Alabama Fair Association was canceled for lack of provisions. The Alabama Poultry and Pet Stock Association will hold its annual show December 27 to January 3, aligning with holiday attendance. Catalogues remain valid with regular premiums unchanged at 100 dollars for first prize and 50 cents for second.
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Alabama Fair Association
Alabama Poultry and Pet Stock Association
The
Fair Association
Fourth Annual Meeting Promotes Field Trials and Sportsman Ethics
The Youth Avast Memary of Alabama hosts the fourth annual meeting at Creesville Feber ry with contests for pointer and setter breeds to test field qualities and foster sportmenship. Ladies are welcome on the trial grounds as the group emphasizes laws for protection and preservation of time trials and better enforcement. The article also notes railroads as vital to national development and unity, contrasting progress with demagogic rhetoric.
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Alabama
Creesville
Alba
Poiter
Fish and Gordon Setters
Elf
Cainyehne
Chile
Unsettled nerves and a typist’s idle toiling day
The piece depicts a young woman typist as innocent and cheerful while detailing a chaotic dictation about Mutimons bile and rising accident risks from electric vehicles. It notes the editor’s portrayal, the typist’s slow prep, and ends with a plug for Birmingham Business College and Lovelady’s holiday goods.
Royal Meetings Mark Tense, Historic Sovereign Encounters
Royal gatherings amid shifting alliances draw unprecedented attention as German Emperor meets with European monarchs at critical stages. Reports hint at clandestine assurances between Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburg to stand united against common threats, while infectious fears and distant conflicts loom over delicate diplomacy.
A Sure Cure for Croup and Humorous Telegraph Bits
A mixed column blends a mock telephone sketch featuring Watt and Jones with medical notices touting Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and other patent medicines. The piece weaves letters, testimonials, and local ad blurbs, listing Lovelady and Churchill as sellers and mentioning a Montreal variety of elixirs and cures.
Western train from Birmingham to Kansas City advertised
The notice promotes a fast train from Birmingham at noon arriving Kansas City next morning with first class coaches and sleeping cars. It highlights connections to Memphis via Cotton Belt and Iron Mountain lines and to Fort Smith and Fayetteville through Nichols Missouri, urging travelers west to visit the Kansas City Memphis and Birmingham Railroad office for arrangements. A second item promotes Dr Nicholson's Bar Drums and a Deaf Institute gift, and advertise Herbine medicine and Bullard's Snow Liniment with local dealer R F Lovelady.
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Arkansas
Texas
Missouri
Kansas
Colorado
California
Western Points
Birmingham
Kansas City
Tarminghan Co
Wagner Buller
Memphis
Cotton Belt and
Iron Mountain
Pexas
Jose
Nichols
Fort Smith
Fayetteville
Remarkable Cure Claims From Dr Rings New Discovery
The notice proclaims a dramatic relief from consumption and stomach, liver, and kidney troubles via Dr Rings New Discovery. It asserts instant relief and a permanent cure after two years of worsening illness. Testimonials from W Gardner of Lovelady and other towns praise restored strength, appetite, and energy, with every bottle guaranteed by Lovelady Drug Store.
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Charlee Davis
Bowerstan
Anil
Baekaebe
Neevousnessy
W. Gardner
Imuville
Truk
Dean
Cures and tonics advertised in a 1900s puzzle of patent medicines
In Thackersville Texas Blanton paid over 300 dollars in two years to doctors for a leg sore but was cured with Bucklen’s Arm Salve. An ad touts piles cure in a 250 box, and Kodol Dyspepsia Cure guarantees relief for indigestion. Worm expellers White’s Cream Verminlage priced at 25 cents, sold by R. Lovelady apothecary.
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Blanton
Thackersville
Tex
Lovelady
Ri’, Lovelady
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Birmingham Business College
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Taber
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Richmond
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R. F. Lovelady
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