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FORM PLAYER NOW.
Reformer's Luck at Races Causes His
 Change of Front.

From the Washington Post.
 For a time last season." said the old poolrom operator, .'I thought I could make more money by journeying to the track and getting near view of the ponies than I could by being employed in a room. I had system of my own which was working out with a fair degree of success.
 "One day while on the train on the way down l noticed young man, attired in neat black clothes. who seemed to be somewhat out of hls element. From ap- pearance he was connected with the clergy in some capacity
 The young man had the seat opposite me. I was pretty busily engaged with the past performances of the entry list for the day IS disturbed in my sound ings by touch on the shoulder from the young man in black.
 Pardon me- he said, but would you mind giving me little information as to the noble animals. Yo seem to be well posted on the different horses
 'Youll have to excuse me, friend, answered. T never make 1t point to advise one about the horses. It saves hard feelings. you know
 Oh said he I merely want to know what horse you think has the least chance to win today
 We'll I said. if you are going to
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Bell phone.
NOTICE,

R. Mcconnell & Go. have just established themselves in their new quarters at 2l07 Third avenue, opposite court house, in tending to conduct general Real Es- tate, Rental. Fire Insurance and Loan Business, where they will be pleased to meet their friends and customers. They offer for sale the following: sl350-House and lot, 26th st., bet. H and I. S42O0-Ave, D, 18th and 20th sts. pays s550. $6SO0-Ave. K house; lot 24O deep. $6000-Handsome res, near Glen Iris. $50o0-Lovely So. Higld home, barn, etc. $3500-1O0x200; Anderson Place. s3750-Niee broom So. Higld cottage. $275O-Large lot. half blk So. 20th st. $4500-Good home. 25th st.. near 18th ave. s2500- Norwood corner lot. $65O0--Pretty Norwood home; furnace $lO.000-First ave, 22d & 2Sd sts., 25xlS21s. si5. .000--3d ave, 3-story brick s9500--W. 20th st., bargain. S550O- Ensley brick store, pays over 12 per cent.
 $l25-Zion Heights lots, sl0 down and s5 month.
 $1500--10 acres and good house, Lewisburg.
 R. MCCONNELL 6 CO.,, Both phones S10 2l07 Third Avenue.
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play 'em hind end foremost. I think Dopey Charley in the fourth race might win if the rest of 'em ran backward His price will be about 50 to 1 or thereabouts.'
 .The young man thanked me and for got all about the incident and plunged into my system again. However, when Dopey Charley came in winner in the fourth race l was quite taken aback and wondered if my young and inexperienced friend had put his money down.
 T was quite disgrunted on the home- ward trip, as my system had gone very much to the bad on the days play. About the first person met on the train was my friend of the somber gard He eyed me with an offended look
 Friend said he, that information you gave me was not altogether correct
 . Did you play the dog2' I asked him
 Yes, he said. and this is the result, gngerly handling a roll of bills.
 You might get it vaccinated if you're afraid of catching something from it.. I said, testify.
 "The next day the train I met the same young man. and once more he asked me for some back-hand dope. I gave him another horse which had as much cnanee as a snoWball in the torrid zone, and IF be jiggered if he didn't romp home a via ner at the remunerative odds of 75 to 1.
 I met the young man on the train on the homeward trip, and this time his face was flushed as if overcome with some emotion.
 "Young man. he said, as soon as he had settled himself in the seat beside he I've a confession to make. My first trip down here was as the agent of the Society for the Vivisection of Vice. My object was to lose money gaming on the races and use the evidence in a suit against the racing association. But my two days of success have naade me ashamed to use the money against them. I think there's no money in this reform business, and I guess l can do better by visiting the tracks daily and trying my luck
 "Well, sir I was surprised, but my roll being shot to pieces by long and short shots, was compelled to seek employ ment in the blackboard emporiums once more.
 'One day this season l went down to the track and on my way I saw vocif erously dressed person cycling me intcntly. Pretty soon he came and shook me by the hand, and recognized him as the whilom reformer.
 "'Well. pard, I suppose you're making wads and wads of money now said.
 "'Not so it's perceptible to the un- draped eye he said. I'm a form player now Maybe I'd better stuck to my last as a reformer.'
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BoilInq Water Kills If.

From the Washington Post.
 Charles H. Mason of Saratoga, discuss ing the typhoid fever situation in this city. at the Arlington, opposed the boiling of Potomac water as a preventive of the spread of this disease. To boil the water, he contends. Is to take from 1t all its life giving qualities. "It appears that prior to the installation of your filtration plant" said MT. Mason 1t was claimed by the authorities that filtration would reduce the danger of the fever to a minimum and guarantee to the people of Washington a clear and wholesome water at all times. The question of pure water and how to maintain it is a serious one for any city, and 1t probably is natural for the authori- ties to assert the belief that infection comes from some other source than the water now provided Whatever may be the cause. it is a well-known fact that all water loses two-thirds or more of it's life giving properties when 1t is boiled: still the authorities here are advocating the boiling of the water. Those who urge this remedy lose sight of the fact that water has life-giving well life-destroying germs. When you boil 1t you kill both germs and have dead water. This ap- plies to all bottled waters, mineral or oth- erwise, as every chemist knows the min ute water Is separated from the earth 1t becomes stale. We drink water in bottles that has been corked up for months at a time, and those who buy and use it think they are bettering themselves. But not one of them would think of drinking a glass of Potomac water that had stood over night. Yet the one is as good as the other. so far as any giving property Is concerned. These bottled waters are charged with gas to make them sparkle, but nothing that can be done to them can keep them alive The typhoid fever germ may be in the Potomac water, and if it Is boiled the germ probably will be killed, but drinking boiled water does the system absolutely no good, and what the system wants and craves is water that refreshes and revives."
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DOWIE GIVES UP
 MEXICAN PROJECT
HAS VISION LASTING FIVE HOURS AND IS COMMANDED TO RAISE $1,ooo,ooo TO RESTORE HIS OWN PRESTIGE.

Chicago, October 7.-John Alexander Dowie's plan for a Mexican colony was abandoned in obedience to command to Dowie in vision that came to nm last Friday night and lasted five hours according to an announcement made TO- day by Deacon Arlington, one of Dowie followers. who has remained loyal to the deposed prophet.
 The scheme, Deacon Arlington says was relinquished in favor of another that contemplates the raising of $lOOO,OoO Tn Chicago for the purpose of restoring Dowie's power and prestige. The an nouncement was made in small church in Chicago.
 All preparation for Dowie's departure for Mexico had been completed, said the deacon when in a vision, accompanied by a binding white light the glory or which could not be described, the apostle declares he saw the Master and heard His voice. He was commanded he sald' to give up the Mexican project and seek the glory of Zion elsewhere.
 Dowie then commissioned Deacon Ar rington to come to Chicago and raise $1 ,000, GOO for God and Zion."
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MORAN OF BOSTON.
Personality of District Attorney Who
 Is Worrying Democrats.

MT. Moran is an interesting figure, says the Washington Star. He is combina- ton of William Trayers Jerome and Will liam R. Hearst, with a large modicum of Moran, and the Moran element is dis tinctive. He Is a reformer, a St. George and a St. Patrick. He is after all kinds of dragons and driving out all kinds or snakes He Is a bad man from Bitter creek in a fight, and when he goes into the scrap it is to clean out the other fel- low. strangle-hold. collar and hip-hold, tooth and nail, bite and gouge.
 He has been prominent in local politics for ten years, and at present is district attorney of Boston. When he took that office he announced to his friends that ne intended to make record in It which would put him in line for the governor ship. He said he would fight evil wher- ever he found It. and would just as soon indict his grandmother as anyone else if that estimable person were found dere- lict. He has done a good deal of indict- ing.
 He brought the ice trust officials to the bar. He closed up the big Boston hotels supposed to be immune from prosecution for violating the liquor law. He went af- ter law-breakers wherever he smelled them out, and has lnstilled a wholesome dread in many quarters. He is mighty handy man with the indictment. His platform Is to make Massachusetts hon. est and pursue graft. In his campaigns in the past he delighted in personalities and did not hesitate to use them He did not maunder over bales of wool stacks of rawhides or tons of coal, but got out and hollered fire, called his opponents black mailers. scoundrels and other terms which the newspapers could not print for fear of libel
 Next night he would call attention to the omission, and say the papers were controlled by the corporations because they would not publish his infammatory talk. He Is as antl-plutocrat as Hearst and anti-graft as Jerome with more per sonal force and daredevil courage than either or both put together. Hearsts pa- pers at one time supported him, and t has been charged that Hearst is now backing him, but he denies this, and peo- pie who know him well say they believe him.
 His enemies call him a fakir, but his friends believe in him thoroughly, and that he has friends is shown by the fact that he has practically won far In ad- vance of the convention, the delegation, and controls the Boston machine He IS now going after the state machine. to which wobbly and creaky institution Jo- siah Quincy and his group of old conser- vatives are clinging with desperation and shrieking for help against this wiry young Irishman.
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LEGAL NOTICES.
Stockholders, Meeting.

A meeting of the stockholders of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad com pany will be held at the principal office of the company at Tracy City, state of Tennessee, on the 16th day of October. 1906, at 12 o'clock, noon ito vote upon resolution to increase the capital stock of the company to fifty million dollars by the issuance of new common stock, to au- thorize the disposition of the new stock, to direct the legal steps to amend the charter of the company accordingly, and to take such further action as may be proper in the premises.
 September 20, 1906
 BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF
 DIRECTORS. L. HOOVER 9-24-2t-mo. Secretary
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 Cherokees. notice. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Ar fairs Washinsto ton D. C., August 20 l9o6-Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of the Interior has been di- rected by the court of claims in the de- crees of May lS 1905, and May 2s, 1906. in the case of the Eastern Cherokees and others, against the United States. to ascertain the individual eastern Cher okee Indians entitled to share in the fund awarded by the court of claims in said decrees for which appropria tion was made by the act of Congress of June 30, 1906. The decree of the court of claims of May 2S. 1906, provides that said fund described in item two of the decree of May IS. 1905. shall be dis tributed to the Eastern Cherokees. as individuals, whether east or west of the Mississippi river parties to the treaties of 1sS5-36 and 1S46, exclusive of the old settlers, and that in the preparation of the rolls of all persons entitled to share in said fund. the rolls of 1851 upon which the per capita payment to the Eastern Cherokees was made shall be accented as the basis, and the fund shall be distributed to the individuals named in said rolls of 1S5l or to their legal rem resentatives. Therefore, all persons now living. who were enrolled for the per VI okees either east or west. and all the legal representatives of persons so en- rolled, who have died, should make an plication to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C.. to be en- rolled for participation m the fund aris- ing from the decrees of the court of claims above referred to. Applications for minors and persons of unsound mind should be executed by their guardians or persons having their care and custody. All applications must be made upon the blank forms prescribed which may be obtained by applying to the Commission CT of Indian Affairs or to the Superin- tendent of Indian Schools. Cherokse N. C., or to the United States Indian Agent. Union Agency. Muskogee, I. T. Applications not on the prescribed forms will not be considered. All applications must be filed by January 31, 1907. F. E. Leupp, Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
 S-20-to-9-3-mon-fri-12t
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY co.

Schedule in Effect April 29, 1908, N. B.-toHowins schedule figures pub lished only as information and are no. guaranteed.
 $40 a.m.-No. SS. for Atlanta, Wa,bin1. ton. Baltimore. Philadelphi, New York and the East. Pull man Drawing Room Sleeping Car, Birmingham to New York. Dining Car. Birminx- ham to Atlanta 500 a.m.-No. 19, for MontevaIlo. Ma plesville, Selma and way sta, tions.
 12:4 p. .m.-No. S5. for Columbus, Wese Point. Winnna. Greenwood and Greenvi1le; also Sheffield and Florence and North Ala bama points.
 $40 p.m.-No. 15, for Cordova, Oakman. Corona and way stations; als.p Blossburg.
 6:45 a-m.-No 22. for Anniston. Hefiin ana way stations: also Rome, Ga. 6:t0 p.m.-No. 3G. for Atlanta, Charlo.te. Richmond, Washington New York and the East. Pullmau Sleeping Car Birmingham ts Richmond. Va t:05 p.m.-No. 2A Anniston. Atlanta --d way stations: also for Jack sonvillo and all Florida points. also Tailadega. Ala. Pullman Sleeping Car Birmingham to Brunswick. Io:20 p.m.-No. 37. for Columbus. West Point. Winona. Greenwood and Greenville. Pullman Draw ing Room Sleeping Car Bir- mingham to Greenville. i0:35 p.m.-No 21. for Selma, Mobile ana way stations. Pullman Drav,- ing Room Sleeping Car Bir- mingham to Mobile. Il 30 p.m.-No 9s. for Atlanta, Annlston and way stations. Pullman Sleeping Car, Birmingham to Atlanta. Sleeping Car can bs occupied at Union station s:sa D m.
 For detailed information and sleeping car reservations apply passenger office, Morris Hotel Building. Telephone 3O0 Rell and 617 Peoples.
 N H. BONE, D. P. A.
 M. CORNELL. c. P. A.
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WANTED-To ouy interest in retail store
 in small town Address G. G., care Age
 Herald. O-5-3t
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Exchange will Pay All Losses.

Atlanta, October 7-Manager T. A. Rich ardson of the Atlanta Stock and Cotton exchange. which suspended yesterday,
 announced tonight that the firm would pay all debts in full, which amount to about $4O0O, and will reopen for business Tuesday morning. It is further stated that the mother of M. T. Pope, the tele- graph operator. arrested on a charge of swindlins and later released has agreed
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Birmingham & Atlantic R. B
 Schedule Effective June 10, 1906

No. 1 (daily) leaves Talladega at
 7:45 a. m.. arrives Birmingham
 (Southern Railway 1O:15 am No. (daily) leaves Talladega at
 APO p. m.. arrives Birmingham
 (Southern Railway. 7:30 pm Leave Birmingham (Southern or
 Seaboard) at 6:45 a. m., arrive Leave Birmingham Southern or Seaboard) at 4:05 D. m., arrive
 Talladega at. t................. T .0S pm For further information apply to O. F. PATTBERG. G. P. A.. w. M TARP- LEY. A. G. P. A.. Talladega. Ala
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Citizens Savings Bank, Real Estate and Rental Department.
FOR RENT.

Store in business section. steam heat, moderate rent. Rooms for offices; rooms to rent to men. All classes of property for rent vacant and improved. also have for sale at a bargain suburb an lots. l want to rent your property, because that is my business; l make 1t my speciality, and consequently can give you better results.
 GEORGE BiLBE. Ball phone 1131A 21st strAet
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s2,712,2e7.42
S9,6S0,054.5s

OFFICERS-W. P. G. Harding, PresI H. Barr, Vice President and cashier; Foster, Assistant Cashier; Thomas Bow
 DIRECTORS-W. S. Brown, T. H. M Jemison, E. M Tutwiier, Ersltine Ram Walker Percy J. H. Barr. J. H. Woody w. H. Woodward, M. V. Joseph. John L
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FOR RENT.
FOR RENT

office Building. 1920 First Ave. s25 per month each-Four stores, 18th st., between Ayes. A and E. s175.OO per month-Three story busi- ness block No 1720 Second Avenue. Second and third floor rented for six months at good figure.
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CARROLLTON SHORT LINE RAIL.
 WAY COMPANY.
SCHEDULE. Effective July 16, 190

Effective July 16. 1906.
 No. 1. No. 3:4S p.m. .Lv. Reform, Ala. Ar. .12 10 pm. 4:0o pm .Lv.... Stansel ....Ly. Il :50 m 4:2S p.m... Ar. Carrollton ..Lv. :2o a. m. 4:D pm...Lv.. Carrollton ..Ar. Ill 20 a. m. 5:05 p.m.. .Lv.... Dillburg ...Lv.. .11:0O a. m. 5:23 pm. Ar. Aliceville ...Lv. .10:ts a. m. For further information apply to John T. Cochrane, Prest-. City Bank Building. Mobile. Ala; Alex Jacksons supt.. Avoes
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RAILWAY SCHEDULES

Showing the arrival and departure oa passenger trains at the Union station, Birmingham: ]
 (Effective August 19. 1906)
 Louisville and Nashville Railroad
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RESOURCES

Loans and Discounts ..... s, 5,15:.i4 Overdrafts. ... .... .. 1,O55.O5 U. s. Bonds and Premiums. 1,O7s, ,50O.OO Other Stocks and Bonds =. 264,6I7. 30 Alabama Bonds. ... .. .... 4SO,4Z4.2S
 CASH
 In Vaults s SO7 ,054.07 With Banks.... 1,763,954.35 With U. s.
 Treasurer =. 50,350.OO
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BUSINESS CHANGES.

WILL trade acreage property In SuDurDs of Birmingham for merchandise. Ad- dress r. o. Box S47. 1O-5-7t IF you wish to engage in a good going business in any line, invest in real es- tate, secure a home, rent or lease store in the best. healthiest and most progressive city of 2O00O population in the country. Call on or confer with w. T. Owen, Real Estate and General Sales Agent, 1902 Noble St., Anniston, Ala.
 9-30-4t-su-mo IF you want to make money or are seek ing information regarding Nevada min. ing stocks, write us for our market let ter. Sent free on request. Patrick, FL liott & Camp, Bakners and Brokers, Goldheld, Nevada 9-30-eod-St IF you wish to engage in a good going business in any line, invest in real es- tate, secure a home, rent or lase store in the best, healthiest and most progressive city of 20.00O population in the country Call on or confer with w. T. Owen. Real Estate and General Sales Agent, 19O2 Noble St., Anniston, Ala.
 10-3-10t WANTED-To ouy interest in retail store in small town Address G. G., care Age Herald. 1O-5-3t
 ROOMS FOR RENT. FOR RENTING or three furnished rooms for light housekeeping; South Highlands, near 11th avenue; private family; modern conveniences; refer ences. Peoples phone 1554 10-S-5t-th-su FOR RENT--Front room, 20SO 9th avenue
 S-26-su-mo- wed-tf FOR RENT-Desirable front room, fur nished. PITY Sth ave- 10-5-3t FOR RENT-Niceiy furnished large front room in South Highland home to one opI oil ences required. Call Peoples phone 1904
 10-1-tf FOR RENT-Nicely furnished room; bath convenient. 2420 5th avenue. 9-2S-1Ot FOR RENT-To young men, ? newly fur nished upstairs front rooms; both phones; hot water and electric lights 7sO 21st street north. 1O-7-3t FOR RENT-Furnished room, private family. GA 23d st. north. 1O-7-3t FOR RENT-Two desirable furnished rooms, with bath attached; TAG West 2Oth street to gentlemen references.
 1O-7-3t FOR RENT-One large and one small room connecting, to moral, high class young gentlemen. Very reasonable to right parties, South Highland home Peoples phone 1886. Small family.
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 REAL ESTATE.
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 FOR SALE
 S775-Iot, corner on 18th avenue, north, between 14th and 10th streets; terms extra easy.
 Second ave. bet. 14th and 18th sts; 25Xl4O; rents for $40 per month; bargain can be had
 Lots in Wares Grove at reasonable prices and easy terms.
 40 acres near Cahaba river for $500 cash; or 80 acres for $950 cash; surface right 50 acres in original timber Il miles from city
 L. G. PETTYJoHN. Phones 465 and 1161 1S26h 3d Ave. FOR RENT.
 We have several stores on the corner Of Avenue "B' and Fist street that we will rent cheap This place is thoroughly modern and up-to-date in every re- spect; the streets have recently been paved with bithulthic pavement and the locality is surely conner. See them before you rent.
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HELP WANTED-FEMALE.

WANTED-A woman for general house work; $15 per month"; German preferred.
 Apply Mrs. H. M Ramsen, 8 Berry street. Cleveland 10-7-5t
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The best balf-tone cuts are made by tho oawk Engraving eomnanx. Age Hersld RulIdIna.
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ONE GENT A WORD

RATES-One cent n word a dayy no nd. taken for less than 25 cents for first insertion. Cash must accompany every order.
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LIABILITIES.

s7,O2s,s0O.es

lent; J. H. Woodward, Vice President; J.
 R. Forsyth, Assistant Cashier; F. & -on, Assistant Cashier. olton, F. D. Nabers, B. F. Moore. Robert Jay, w. P. G. Harding, W. H. Hassinger, lrd, William M. Walker, Culpepper Exum.
 Raul.
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WANTED-For U. s. army. Able-bodied unmarried men between ages of 21 and 35; citizens of United States of good character and temperate habits. who can speak, read and write English Apply to recruiting officer, 71A N. 2Oth St,
 Birmingham, Ala. 7-1-1y
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(Organized July 1900. SOUTHERN AUDIT co.

Expert accounting in all its branches. Periodical examinations made. New systems installed.
 210 First Nat. Bank Bell phone 630.
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HELP WANTED-MALE.

WlANTED-At once, a first-class office stenographer man), Must be rapid and accurate; no boys nor beginners; good pay and may be permanent. Address Stallings X Montgomery, Official and General Stenographers 43S First Nation- al Bank Building Bell phone 2575.
 WANTED-Men to take names for Bir- mingham city directory. Address in own handwriting. R. L. Polk & Co.,. box 5ll city. l0-6-2t
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WANTED-By reliable locomotive engi- neer desirous of leaving the road, posi- tion as stationary engineer; no obJee- ton leaving the city. Address Engineer.
 eara Aea-Herald 10-7-2t
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SITUATIONS WANTED.

WANTED-A position in commissary or general store by a cmpetent and ex- perienced young man: best references from former employers Address Clerk, Blount Springs Ala lo-i-zt
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MONEY TO LEND,
MISCELLANEOUS.

ANY poor girl needing friendship help,
 advice, etc, will find ready and willing assistance by applying to the matron of Salvation Army Rescue Home, 33d st.
 and Ave. E., Birmingham, Ala. 6-f4-tf
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FOR RENT-Modern new S-room flat, South Highlands Hardwood floors De corated; steam heat; all conven.ences
 Will sell all or part of furniture Rent $60. Call at 1922 Ave l. 10-7-2l