The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-12

Montgomery Times: Birmingham dray- men must feel elated at being classed with the instruments of interstate com
 merce.
 Columbus Ledger: Birmingham has a new railroad 700 miles in length and is as proud of 1t as a boy with a pair of red-top boots.
 Leighton News: Birmingham folks are rejoicing over the ending of the strike. Maybe now we can get our winter sup ply of fuel before the cold weather sets in.
 Mobile Herald: Eleven hundred and ten pounds of bad meat condemned in Birmingham during August! How many pounds of this same meat graced Mobile tables?
 Arkansas Gazette:
 Come one, come all, this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as l. Birmingham's defiance to the Southern league.
 Gadsden Times News: Birmingham now has 742 soft drink stands, whereas there were only S4 before prohibition came. Which reminds us that all is not soft that Is so-called and soft drink may develop a hard thinker. Gadsden Journal: Birmingham has just gotten new railroad and now an- nounces a new skyscraper hotel and the final steps in the organization of a new bank with a paid-up capital of 100000. The Magic City hasn't quit growing yet.
 Florence Times It will be welcome tidings to every citizen of Alabama to know that the strike of the miners has been called off. It will give an impetus to business in the Birmingham district that will favorably affect every business interest in the state.
 Annlston Star: Birmingham gave the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic rail way royal welcome No doubt the keys of the city and plenty of near beer" was presented to all the visitors upon the suspicious occasion of the for nal welcoming of the new road.
 Rome Tribune: The Atlanta, Birming ham and Atlantic ran its first regular train into Birmingham on Monday aft ernoon. This marks the completion of another great connecting link between the east and west, and the occasion was fittingly observed in Birmingham by a great celebration.
 Mobile Herald: Birmingham has meat inspection; Montgomery has meat in spection; even Ensley is to have meat inspection In Mobile though, it would be detrimental to the interests of a few vested interests, so the people must con tent themselves with the semblance of inspection. Will they though? Even Mo bile people sometimes turn.
 Franklin Times The whole state or Alabama is proud that the strike of the coal miners has been called off We hope that the day is not far distant when all disagreements between capital and labor can be adjusted without strikes. One is always dependent upon the other, and both have rights that should be re- spected. No good citizen can countenance lawlessness.
 Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette: The coming into Birmingham of the Atlanta, Bir-' mingham and Atlantic is great thing for the whole state. Traversing the counties of Randolph, Clay, Talladega, St. Clair and Jefferson, it opens up virgin territory in many sections and at the same time gives another highway to the sea for the mineral district. Birming- ham welcomed the new road with flt- ting ceremonies and showed how glad it was to see the completion of the big enterprise. Birmingham has reason to be glad, for the new road will bring it much revenue.
 Twin City Herald The Herald wishes to congratulate Birmingham on the en- trance of the Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic road and along with Birming- ham truly welcomes the multitude who accepted the hospitality of the road and Alabama's wonderful city. This splen- did new system of road that opens up a new and direct line to the Atlantic i seaboard passing through some of the best portions of Georgia and Alabama pushed it's way into Birmingham from LaGrange, Ga, notwithstanding the Alabama legislature through Governor Conner, did all in its power to discour- age and retard railroad building in the state the past two years. Railroads open up new territory and make it pos sible for the country which they traverse to expand and grow. Little two-by-four politicians should in future bear in mind that it takes money to build and oper- ate railroads and proceed to Ego way back and sit down. and keep their silly ideas to themselves. Progress of the 2Oth century and the welfare of the whole people demand this.
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