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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23
Third Avenue Improvements.

"One of the best evidences of the pro-
 gressveness of Birmingham is the won
 derful development of Third avenue as a
 shopping district" said business man
 as he pushed through the crowds of holi-
 day shoppers on that thoroughfare yes-
 terday afternoon.
 Less than a year ago the section be- tween, Nineteenth and Twentieth streets was one of the most uninviting of any in the business district of the city. To- day 1t is one of the most popular shop ping sections in Birmingham, and every week some new improvement is made. There Is not a buster street in Bir-
 mingham than this, and less than two years ago it was almost deserted except for negroes Within the year some of
 the most progressive mercantile firms of
 the city have located here and others are
 coming, it is understood.
 This expansion in the business dis trict indicates the growth of the city
 more than anything else, In the im- provement of this street and section none
 of the other business streets are being neglected or are becoming less important. Birmingham Is too great to allow US
 business to be congested on one street. We have passed the stage where the busi-
 ness men seek to locate close to the depot l the postoffice or the county court house ''The business section of Birmingham must expand and Is expanding, and within
 the next twelve months l look for Fourth 1 avenue to become as important in busi-
 ness way as First and Second and Third l avenues"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23
pr. Nathan Bozeman.

"A picturesque and interesting career was brought to an end by the recent death of Dr. Nathan Bozeman in New York, :" said relative who resides in Birming- ham. "Dr. Bozeman was Si years old. He had a long and honorable career in the practice of his profession and his life was crowned with more than the average pro- fessiona mans success. He was actively engaged in his work until about five years ago, when he retired.
 pr. Bozeman was born in Butler coun- ty, Alabama. in 1924. He was an alumnus of the University of Alabama, and held the degree of ILL. D. from that institu- ton. Before the war he practiced medicine in Montgomery and went from there to Nsw Orleans, where he had charge of one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23
TENN ESSEE COAL,
Hanover National Bank Holdings Not
 Purchased at Private Sale.

From the Wall Street Journal.
 The so-caled Hanover National bank holdings in Tennessee Coal and Iron were not purchased at private sale as supposed. This stock was sold in the open market and the Gates-Guthrie-S -Schley interests purchased 1t at much lower prices than now prevail. The transfer of the George Kessler holdings of Tennessee Coal and Iron, which was made several weeks ago, completed control.
 When this transfer was made the stock was selling in the neighborhood of no. If would appear from this that the Re- public Iron and Steel interests secured the stock at much lower price than indi- cated by sharp advance in the shares. Mir. Kessler had been accumulati ting the stock for two years. and is understood 10 have held at the time of the sale about 15,0o0 shares
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23
Statement on Merger With Other South.
 ern Iron Companies.

From the Wall Street Journal
 The following statement is from an of ficlal of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company "l do not see how out side interests could secure control of the Sloss-Sheffield company without our knowledge However, people closely iden- tifed with the Republic Iron and Steel company and the Tennessee Coal and Iron company have been buyers of the stock. but so far as know they have not secured d majority. We have not been ap- preached by anyone on the question of merger"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23
Christmas shopping.

"The amount of business being done in Birmingham today,''F said well known travelling man of New York last night al the Hillman, reminds me of Chicago The streets are crowded with people and the entire city has a metropolitan ap- pearance. l was standing in front Of one of the largest stores in Birmingham yes terday and saw the women come and go I can say that 1 have travelled all over the United States, but have never seen anything to equal the Christmas rush in this city The people of Birmingham should feel proud of their city, as 1t is the best in the south. The. prosperous condi- ton of the country is being felt in all the southern cities, but not as much as in Birmingham. The travelling men are al ways glad to reach the metropolis Of Alabama The retail merchants are hay ing an immense trade and judging from the remarks which have been made In the last few days they are perfectly sat isfed. Birmingham is fine city and am glad to see the people spend their money. It means everything for the city, and l will venture to say that the business for Christmas this year will far surpass the business of any previous year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23
MISS ALICE ON VIEW.

Special to the New York Times.
 Washington-M Alice Roosevelt and Representative Nicholas Longworth went to the Senate today and sat in the execu- tive gallery. During the time they were there the most eloquent efforts of sen ators were utterly powerless to attract any attention from the galleries. Nobody therein heard word that was said on the floor. The only senator who distin- guished himself in the eyes of the spec tators was Senator Warren of Wyoming wo went up in the gallery and sat with them. When MT. Warren took them out to luncheon he made the hit of his life with the galleries
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 What woman doesn't like about whist is that there is no feather-stitchng to it.
 A square meal, drink, and a good cigar answer most of the social problems that otherwise would worry a man to death.
 If there weren't any Christmas presents and summer vacations in hotels there wouldn't be such an awful lot of trouble in the world,
 The world Is divided into two kinds of financiers-those who earn money to give others and those wno take what the others earn
 A girl would much rather have pneu- monia than be seen by the fellow she is trying to have engage himself to her wearing an old pair of rubbers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Chicago wants s31,OOOOOO from Uncle Sam for the purpose of dredging ship canal to the Mississippi river. Modesty is not thing that that town suffers from.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

James Hazen Hyde has decided to expatriate himself and he has selected Paris as the place he will honor in his declining years, which he hopes will be less tumultuous and trooly social.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

NJ. de Max. a member of Sarah Bern hardt's company, says that he never heard of the Astors. There is no req son why he should feel that he has missed the best part of life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

The prisoner of Tsar Koe Selo Is GU off by ice on the sea side, and by strik CTS on the land side. He is strictly is plated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Depew and Platt are so hard of hear ing they do not hear, or at any rate heed, the hints of resignation showered upon them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

John Sharp Williams consulted the returns of last months elections when he said the country had become tired of the republican party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

The theatrical trust says that it re fused to book Mrs. Carter because she was "too cold" but she has made il hot for the octopus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

The Czar has put his money in the bank of England, and he keeps ship near his palace prison to slip away on when things get too squally for en- durance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Tony Hamilton took $239,0O0 of the money of the policy holders of the New York Life, and now he is taking the waters at Bad Nanheim. He seems to be ready to take anything in sight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

The second Elijah steps down and out in the most prosaic and human manner The First Elijah adopted the pyrotechnic plan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

The Americans on the Isle of Pines are Iowans, and they are not, there fore, afraid of Uncle Joe Cannon or Old Nick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Russia is booming the powder and bomb business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Russia is afflicted with Red Rev.
 outionists, the Black Hundred, and the White Terror
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

New York imported $37,000,000 worth of diamonds this year and Santa Claus is attending to the distribution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Togo and Oyama have put off their fighting clothes. but Rojestvensky and Kuropatkin are still wearing court plaster.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Mrs. Mark Hanna was made i'll by the arrest of her chauffeur, thereby showing that she is different from most owners of automobiles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Mime. Bernhardt will do her stunt in a tent in Texas, but she has cut out the street parade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

It appears that Thomas W. Lawson s ability as a talker has not protected him from the Standard oil crowd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Santa Claus is always twelve days late in Russia, and he may not come at all this year unless the country re- forms itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Fitzsimmons has been styled the grand old man of the prize ring, but MT. O'Brien had little respect for his age
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

The batter of shingles on the back parts of trousers might prove effective in stopping college hazing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

ExPress Agent Bishop did not mould public opinion sufficiently re- garding the salary question.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

John R. Walsh sees now that three banks are not equal for promotion pur- poses to one life insurance company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

It appears that William Sunday, the former baseball player and present evangelist, is not dead after all He is to be congratulated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

The Christmas shopping will go out in blaze of glory today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

marry has been revived. George can afford it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

The Car needs an army and navy lhat does not need to be fenced in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

MT. Carnegie gives away money as freely as some people would like to spend it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Frenzied shopping will outrank for one day only frenzied finance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Dr. Dowie's health Is about as bad as Zion City's finances used to be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Santa Claus does not need a $1O 900 press agent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

sold for sSS, GOO. Shearing time must be near at hand.
 Andalusia News: Alabama republicans are in a squabble over the division of federal pie. Whats the use auarrelng over a job that may not last over night?
 Mobile Item: Thirty feet of water in the Mobile ship cannsl means not only great things for Mobile, but for the en- tire state of Alabama, and we now have the thirty feet.
 Marion County News: Governor Jelks has made good chief executive, and If he engages in the newspaper business will publish first-class sheet. We wei come him back in the newspaper har- ness.
 Montgomery Advertiser: The famous Web Davis says President Roosevelt op- ened the doors of the republican party for his return. He will hardly accuse Roosevelt of anticipating what would come in when he left the door open.
 Selma Journal: Representative Henin has introduced a resolution which sounds very much like there is a big speech somewhere back of it. The genial con- gressman has not yet really showed his metal on the floor of the House. and his friends in the state will read with much interest the result of regular Tom Hefin speech on the solons of tho na- ton.
 Wilcox Progressive Ere: Alabama can well be proud of her daily press. Mobile, Montgomery, Selma and Birmingham are giving the public both morning and even ing papers that are 8 credit to the state. So many parade in extra dresses in the Christmas issues that we have not the space to write them up in our humble country organ, even had we capacity to do them justice. Long live the state press of Alabama, to continue giant service to their state,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Another million-dollar baby has been born. It Is Senator Clark's grandchild.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Ella Wheeler Wilcox will write Sunday on why Pretty, Face Makes Fool of a Millionaire" While we would prefer to hear from the pretty face" or the millionaire" Ella will turn out some good stuff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

That we received last year.
 It may or may not have been a coinci- dence that a sprinkling cart was wrecked on Second avenue Thursday night, just three days before Christmas. There was only one man on the water wagon at the time.
 It is to be regretted that some new greeting can not be devised for,this season of the year. Merry Christmas!' some- how, makes us feel tired. It has been
 used up.
 The divorced wife of Philadelphia mill
 lonaire practiced for months on a punch ing bag and when she had the desired
 proficiency she placed her right fist against his face in such manner that 1t , was fully ten second before he woke up. If more wives of milionaires would learn to punch a bag there would be less | indiscretion in high life. ALL SORTS NEEDED. At this season Aint 1t funny? Not a word of Tainted money William Theotokis. M. Skouzes, M. Kalo-
 gerapoulos, M Botoyopoylos. NJ. Steppan-
 opoulos, M. Tricoupis and M. Simopoulos
 compose the new Grecian cabinet. It is largely an affair of syllables. Most people began to be blase the night | they discovered that Santa Claus does
 not come in a sleigh and climb down the chimney.
 A student at the Michigan Military
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

The man who got out an injunction ask ing that his wife be restrained from call. ing him up over the telephone did not stop to consider that it would be much safer for her to use the telephone than it would be to drop in on him" unex- pectedly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Ozark Southern Star: A few days ago a seat on the New York cotton exchange sold for 5000. Shearing time must be near at hand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

The new mayor of Boston says that his town needs more snap. More snaps would prove injurious to civic morals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23
THEY CAN BE USED.

IT JAIN BF OSED. With Christmas day approaching, We would fare hard, we fear, Were 1t not for the presents That we received last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23
About Persons.

Horace Looney Is visiting relatives in Birmingham. MT. Looney Is well known here and has a number of friends who are welcoming him back. He has been in Colorado for his health and is greatly im- proved. After spending few days In Birmingham he Will go to Mexico, where he hopes that tile climate will prove even more beneficial than that of the west.
 B.. B. Barnes of Eutaw is registered at the St. Nicholas.
 J. c. Kulett of Abbeville is a guest at the St. Nicholas.
 D. J. Johnson of Cincinnati is stopping at the Hillman.
 H. B. Gibson, a prominent resident of Corona, is spending a few days at the Hotel Hillman
 B. G. Rhoades, merchant Of Pell City, is registered at the Hilman.
 c. J. Watson of Bell Ellen is a guest at the St. Nicholas.
 Charles Dalrymple, a well known travel ing salesman of Knoxville, is registered at the St. Nicholas.
 R. P. Fair of Decatur Is at the St. Nicholas.
 Charles Creelman will leave this morn ing for Chattanooga, where he will spend the holidays.
 w. r. Brown of Rayland spent yester- day in the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23
WOULD BE HARD LINES.

WOULD BE HARD LINES. If heart didn't rhyme with part, And true didn't rhyme with you. It would be hard to say just what A lot of poets would do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Vl gently granted divorce In or
 der to celebrate the suspicious event, he invited a large concourse of friends to his home. The festivities were immense. brass band furnished music, and decorations were profuse. As q crowning feature of the entertainment health was drunk to the woman who was divorced and the man who had become her second husband. There were no tears, no sighs and no broken hearts; one matri- monial partnership had been dissolved and a new one had been formed. The cheerfulness of all those concerned should be commended, but the idea of celebrat- ing divorce in such d public manner is still repugnant to some people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

man was arrested on charge of safe blowing in Indiana because he looked seedy. He was formerly politician and that may be the real reason why he was held as a suspect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Andalusia News: Alabama republicans are in a suuabble over the division of federal pie. Whats the use auarreling over a job that may not last over night?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23
ALABAMA PRESS

Talladega Mountain Home: July or Au. gust is early enough for the state primary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

The Pittsburgth) millionaires seem to be the musical comedy end of the CLASS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

lot of poets would do.
 Charity covers multitude of sins but 1t is poor cloak when an investigation is started by a man like Attorney Hughes. Representative Watkins of Louisiana says that President Roosevelt possesses the convictions of Bryan, the frmness of Andrew Jackson, the popularity of Witte and the patriotism of the Jap anese" Another admirer lined tip the three greatest Americans as Booker T. Washington. Jacob Riis and Theodore Roosevelt, in the order named. While Nicholas Longworth may be willing to endorse the first, he may cavil at the second compliment.
 REAL ART.
 On fine and costly pictures
 A load of moneys spent;
 But best of all the lot Is A picture of content Special note: MT. Frank Fivecoat and Miss Lou Lively were married Wednes- day in St. Louis. No jokes. A Kentucky legislator is walking from his home to the state capital. It is not so much a. matter of conscience as one would think. He made bet. A Connecticut man wanted to marry his mother-in-law. Everybody was willing but the law.
 The man who thought that the Styx was river in Georgia was not much worse than the chap who said that David Copperfield was noted English politician. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23
sLoss-sHEFFIELD STEEL 6 IRON

Football dies hard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

academy has been expelled because he playfully burned the letters of his fra ternty on the neck of fellow student In these piping times of peace college hazer cannot understand why he is pun ished for. committing any crime less than murder
 ARNICA AND LINT.
 Boom, Boom!
 Bangl Bang
 Fireworks,
 Kids mang-
 Led Up
 And dead
 Small boys
 In bed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Marshall Banner: We welcome the Con gressonal Record to our exchange table. It makes bully singlewraps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Charity covers a multitude of sins but 1t is poor cloak when an investigation is started by man like Attorney Hughes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Entered at the Birmingham Ala, post | office as second-class matter under act of Congress March 8, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23
REAL ART,
REAL ART. On fine and costly pictures A load of moneys spent; But best of all the lot Is A picture of content.

Special note: MT. Frank Ffvecoat and Miss Lou Lively were married Wednes- day in St. Louis. No jokes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

A Kentucky legislator is walking from his home to the state capital. It is not so much matter of conscience as one would think. He made bet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23
PENNSYLVANIA man was

gently granted divorce. In or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-23

Connecticut man wanted to marry his mother-in-law. Everybody was willing but the law.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-05-18
Discriminatory Contest at
plattSNillS.

Platteville Witness: The judges,
Miss Jones OF Mineral Point, Prof,
Dickinson and City Supt. ,Dudgeou of
Madison gave third place to Goodsell
Billings Of Cobb; second place to Miss
Paris OF Prairie du Chen; and first
place to Mr., Charles Pearce of Dodge
willie. During the latter part of May ,
Mr., Peerce will represent this normal
district in the state declamatory con.
test which is to be held at Madison
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-05-18

nomination in the city was represented.
In his address Rev Brown spared no
one who INDUCED, whether the one
who speculated on the board of trade.
involving thousands of dollars, or the
one who played the slot machines for
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was the game and a trihing prize was
given to the winner. 1t was all gamb-
ling and as such should be condemned
ard suppressed The sermon has set
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