Earlier this year I began a blog series intending to share some of the odd materials I've saved over the years that relate to Alabama in some way. As brother Richard and I cleaned out mom and dad's house in Huntsville from January 2023 until March 2025, we waded through many items saved by our parents and paternal grandparents. We also found a good many pieces that were not really family memorabilia.
This post examines two of those, both small cards the size of standard business cards. I discuss them below each card. Lots of history can be learned from just two pieces of ephemera.
Expect more randomness in the near future!
I found a merchant/store owner Frank Augustus Duncan [1884-1943] in Gadsden in the 1930 census. He owned the Popular Price Store in that city; see below for a photo. He may have passed out these tickets as a promotion, although odd the store name wasn't on it if that's the case. The "war tax" noted could be the War Revenue Act passed by the U.S. Congress in October 1917 six months after the U.S. entered World War I.
Was this ticket number 1039 that he had passed out to customers? I could find no information on "I.C. Holloway"; perhaps he was a customer.
The Princess Theatre originally opened in 1924 as the Imperial Theater at 503 Broad Street in Gadsden. The venue became the Princess Theater on September 11, 1926. The Princess Theater was destroyed by fire on November 4, 1963 and not rebuilt. You can see photos via Alabama Mosaic.
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