The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-18
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ABOUT BIRMINGHAM
 Guntersvile Democrat: Brmingham'3 ] papers would rather have a brick shied at their city than have it unnoticed
 Guntersville Democrat: They are still killing snakes in Birmingham, notwith- standing the strenuous war on the Social club.
 Atlanta Journal: The Birmingham player named Robatill ought to draw , some of the epithet fire away from the umps.
 Washington Herald: A member of the Birmingham baseball team is named 1 Robatill. We suppose he is a 'crack' player.
 Pell City Progress: Thirty minutes i from Broadway is said to be very i good location, but We prefer 30 miles from i Birmingham.
 i Sylacauga Advance: Birmingham is to 1 have six conventions during the month. 1 She has become the greatest convention city in the. state.
 l Washington Herald: A Birmingham 1 man imbibed too freely the other night and painted himself green. This is d bad "ads for Chattanooga.
 Marion County News: The club busi- ness in Birmingham will get lot of fel- lows in trouble. The prohibition laws will DC enforced, and it is useless to try | to nullify them.
 l Sylacauga Advance: Birmingham had 71S5 people to attend Sunday school last Sunday That is pretty good number, but still quite small for the number of inhabitants she claims.
 l Houston Post: By investing it's Geor- 1 gia and Alabama earnings in a million- dollar hotel, Chattanooga gives Atlanta l and Birmingham notice that 1t intends to hold on to it's winnings.
 Florence Times: In Birmingham the anti-saloon people are driving the blind tigers to the wall with a vengeance. Judge i Samuel D. Weakey, as general attorney for the AntiSaloon league, is doing a most aggressive and excellent work. 1 Russell Register In Birmingham the l locker club members seems to have gone up against a tough propostion-there we're i 50 of them arrested and many of them have been fined It Is a dangerous thing to wilfully violate the law, or even at tempt to evade it.
 Montgomery Times: The killing of the street car motorman near Birmingham the other night is about as diabolical thing as any of which very recent crime annals tell. It is atrocities like this that. l frequently lend responsibility if not of- fording justification to the triumph of mob 1 violence among us.
 Opelika News: Birmingham proposes 1 to present a silver service to the new war ship named after the Magic City. i We hope the Birminghambletonians will not experience as much difficulty in ras- ing the cash for this purpose as they had | in making, showing and afterwards talk l ing care of Vulcan
 l Montgomery Times It is to be regret ted that Birmingham's gracious treat ment of MT. William E. Corey was 1 marred by the arrest of the chauffeur who managed the motor car that bore the citys honored guest to and from the scenes of his triumphs. The Birmingham police must be an uncouth and boorsh set | Anniston Star: A Birmingham man l is resting under the serious charge of | being a regular reader of the editorial l page of the Charleston News and Courier | Doubtless the News and Courier was afraid to prefer the charge against man living in Charleston, but it might have 1 selected a Georgian for the purpose. l Gadsden Journal At last Birmingham l has awakened to the necessity of tunnel l ing Red mountain to connect the city with Shades valley, which lies immediate | ly beyond. Shades valley contains some | of the most productive lands in that part of the state and if an easy access were | afforded to the city, which is in fact only 1 a few miles away, great quantities of foodstuffs could be delivered on the city market and thousands of people who toll | in the city could fndn convenient and | comfortable home sites within easy trolley distance of their work. The only wonder is that the Magic City has not appreciated the possibilities of this improvement long ago and carried it into execution.
  HAIR CUTTER ALARMS BOLOGNA.
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