The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-20
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ABOUT BIRMINGHAM
 Talladega Reporter: Birmingham has again undertaken the job of reforming itself.
 Marion Standard: Birmingham will build a s5O,OOO cotton mill It will be Jim Dandy.
 Sylacauga Advance: The Birmingham police force now makes the street corner "hangers-on' retire early.
 Lineville Headlight: Birmingham seems to need a general house cleaning 50 far as her City Council is concerned.
 Gadsden Times Jews: Louisiana got 5000 out of those Birmingham hunters and hopes they will return real often.
 Hattiesburg News: A Birmingham man Is a grandfather at 32, but Birmingham is a hustling town any way you take it.
 Franklin Times: The commission plan for city government is live wire in Bir- mingham, with majority favoring it, 1t is said.
 Florence Times: Birmingham is build ing several skyscrapers, and all its stores in the business center are occupied. Evil dently prohibition has not hurt the Magic City.
 Double Springs New Era: Birmingham wants to depose of her Board of Alder but who will keep the commission straight2
 Bessemer workman: VIII Birmingham have Taft democrat for postmaster is a question that Is disturbing some of the faithful, but while such a thing might occur in Montgomery, It's hardly probable in Birmingham
 Gadsden Journal: Birmingham wants . visit from President-elect Taft The Con- mercial club Is urging him to come to the Magic City some time between now and his inauguration.
 Montgomery Times: Birmingham would move up a long advance on her projected line of crime punishment If she could get incongruous officials now at deadly outs to kiss and make up.
 Ens1ey Sun: The Port Au Prince revo- lution has created about the same amount of stir in the world as the muddle of the Birmingham Board of Aldermen or the municipal election of Atlanta
 Opelika Post. If Birmingham cannot find the proper material in her limits to manage her municipal affairs. she certain ly ought not to have candidates for every state office in every campaign we have.
 Eutaw Whig and Observer: Birming- ham is having quite little trouble in her city government department. we see from the papers. Hope they will soon get things in better shape in the Magic City.
 Mobile Herald: The mayor of Birming- ham is in the lower part of our county with a party of friends on a hunting ex- petition. Unlike the party which recently visited Louisiana. they ''are prepared" 
 Montgomery Times: Memphis appears to be engaged in game of rivalry with Birmingham, with a settlement of the question, which city can boast of the larger record for homicides, involved. From recent accounts 1t appears nip and tuck between them.
 Bessemer workman: The Birmingham hunters who ran against the game laws in Louisiana are at home wiser and poor CT for their experience. It would be well for them in future to buy a copy of the Worlds Almanac and famliarize them selves as to the game season in the dif- ferent states.
 Florence Times: Notwithstanding the unusually large number of homicides in the Birmingham district last month. the record of all cases that reached the jail shows a great improvement. During No- vember, 1907, there were arrested and placed in jail $40 persons; during Novem- Der, 1908, 424.
 Florence Times: The shortcomings of the City Council of Birmingham are so fragrant that the people there are de- manding a government by commission. It Is said the city Is ruled by silent boss" who formerly kept disgraceful. "pilfer- Ing gambling hel'' in the heart of the city. It is around this party and his fac- ton that the nti-prohibitionists are cen tering their hopes. Is it any wonder the people are clamoring for statewide prohi- bition?