The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05
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Mobile Herald: Birmingham promises that Mobile and Montgomery will know more about the blind tigers they criticise after January 1.
 Jackson News: Atlanta and Birming- ham are having a hot argument concern ing which is entitled to bottom place in the Southern league.
 Troy Messenger: The small crowd at the miners convention at Birmingham, 200 out or 1S000, shows that the miners are tired of the strike and ready for work.
 Talladega Mountain Home: Talladega, on the Atlanta, Birmingham and At lantie, between Birmingham and Atlanta should feel the breeze when these towns blow.
 Houston Post: Fifteen thousand dol lars worth of captured liquor was poured out in the streets of Birmingham the other day, but nobody is dying of thirst there.
 Shreveport Times: A Baltimore poet sent to his home paper from the Libyan desert "A Plaint of Dry Places Wonder why that fellow didn't pick out Atlanta or Birmingham?
 Gadsden Times-News: Birmingham and Atlanta are doing the Alfonse-Gaston po- lite vaudeville act for bottom place in the Southern league, but it looks like Atlanta will be the politest.
 Mobile Herald: The tallest man in Flor ida is said to be John c. King of Fort Lauderdale. He is feet s1s inches in height and wasn't born in Atlanta, Hous- ton or Birmingham.
 Natchez Democrat: Birmingham has very large number of the Chain brand of prohibitionists who votes the ticket, but takes his oil of joy straight or with some thing else, according to his taste.
 West Alabamian: The big strike in the Birmingham mining district has been called off and the miners appear to have lost all they were striving for They go back to work without recognition of their union. a,
 Pensacola Journal: The termination of
 
 the labor troubles in the Birmingham district will cause early starting up on full time of all the mines, furnaces and mills, giving an impetus to business that will be felt throughout Alabama and to some extent even in Pensacola.
 Sylacauga Advance Birmingham is pre- pairing to give the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic a cordial welcome when its first passenger train is run into the city next Sunday. The road will give Bir- mingham another outlet to the sea and open up more territory to her wholesale trade.
 Anniston Star: With the coal mining strike ended, visions of renewed business activity and the return of prosperity are quite common in the Birmingham district. The expectations of the people are go- ing to be realized too, as all the indus- tries and business enterprises of the dis trct will be humming soon.
 Mobile Herald: According to the report of the city health officer of Birmingham, the violent deaths in that city have de- creased 60 per cent since prohibition went into effect. Dr. Hardness, the health of ficer, expresses his opinion that this grat- flying result can be credited chiefly to the fact that the saloons have gone out of business in Birmingham. Gadsden Journal: The ending of the coal strike has put Birmingham in mood of ic predicted on all sides for the entire dis trict. This is good augury as this at- titude will go a long way toward realiz- ing a return to better times. If once the people will again believe thoroughly in themselves real prosperity and progress is not far away.
 Montgomery Journal: They are looking on the bright side in the strike district, and the industrial clouds have melted away with the settlement of the long struggle. The whole state rejoices and business men are most optimistic. The cloud having lifted, business will soon get down to normal again and the idle will soon be at work. Let all rejoice that the trouble is over.
 Montgomery Times: The decision of Judge Feagin of the Birmingham inferior court that transfer companies cannot de- liver to its consignees liquor shipped into the city, on the ground that interstate commerce ends at the railroad depot, is an interesting one and we are anxious to know whether federal authorities are go- ing to butt in. But do not the Birming- hamites get their whisky from other points in Alabama?
 Clayton Record: The Birmingham strike is 8 thing of the past, peace reigns su- preme the people of the state of Ala bama are happy, business will resume it's normal condition, lawlessness has passed away, and altogether the situation in and around Birmingham is as it should be. When the strike first started, Governor l Conner went to the scene and in a con servative and positive way upheld the dignity of the state and ceased not his efforts till the strikers agreed to call off the strike and go to work To B. B. Co., mer the people of Alabama owe a great deal for this one act
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