The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-19

Montgomery Advertiser: Neh' III NV
first place Birmingham ought never 10
have started in the last place.
Wire Grass siftinss: The Birmingham
strike is over and the people in that dis
trict can now sleep with the windows
open.
Walker County News: The birmingham
ministers are fighting the blind tigers
| but that only makes the striped devils
wink the other eye.
Pensacola Journal: There is little doubt
as to the guilt of the Birmingham miner,
| Wasilije Wainovitch. Anybody with q
name like that is liable to do anything.
Washington Herald: New Orleans re-
Gently took Is out of % baseball games
from Birmingham. Here's our sympathy,
Birmingham. We know just how you
feel
Nashville American: Three hundred
paid admissions witnessed the rtle-Bar-
ON game at Birmingham Friday, and the
Memphis boys all went and bought fam
mel shirts.
|
not afford a very swift ball team, but
100000 worth of new buildings in that
town this year have sufficed to make
| the wellxin ring.
Dothan Eagle: The Atlanta and Bir-
mingham papers have had enough to say
about the Atlanta, Birmingham and At
lantic road to make it popular, and it
evidently will be.
Talladega Mountain Home: Birmingham
was reported as next to the warmest
| place in the United States Sunday.
| Strange to say, the warmest place was
! Phoenix, Arz. and not Atlanta.
Montgomery Times: Birmingham's dog
catcher captured 1868 stray CANNES up to
September this year. Montgomery may
never hope to equal this record. Just give
| it up and leave the poor "mutts" alone.
| Wire Grass Siftings A Birmingham
minister has offered 10 DUCKS for some
one to show him where he can buy
| drink of booze
Shake, brother, this burg is dry also!
Marion Standard: Now that the strike
| is off in the mineral district business is
already looking up. Birmingham certain
" Yields a strong influence throughout
the state in business as well as poll
tics.
MONTGOMERY Times: Will the bankers
| decide at Birmingham to stand behind the
| farmers and save the flooding of the cot
ton market and loss of millions of dollars
to Alabama? II they DO not IL Will De
strange indeed.
Houston Post: st. Louis. Washington,
Birmingham, Brooklyn, Charleston ana
| other towns with tail-end aspirations, are
| overlooking great opportunities by is-
noring the members of the disbanded
| Houston ball team.
Talladega Reporter; The meanest man
has turned up in Birmingham he stoio
the baptismal fount of the First Metho-
dis+ church Those at the Baptist churches
are reported safe, SO far, but you know
| birmingham is dry town:
Nashville American: Two years ago
| birmingham won the pennant and mas
been the tip of the tail end ever since.
Last year Atlanta captured 1t and is now
! crowding the Barons for the otner ex-
| IRENE. Nashville QOeSH Ndie 'ho ei">-
rag at such price
JIuntsville Banner: The independence
rally at Birmingham was the biggest
| thing Birmingham has had IN many
T months. More than 5000 people witnessed
the launching of the new party's cam
naipn in the south and heard addresses
| nv William r. Hearst Thomas H. HIS
gen. John Temple Graves and others.
can+-ay;,le Press. The city of Birming-
ham has decided to take a little hand in
the nroposed amendment to the constitu-
a., &, refererce to the new county. She
has not vet fully decided whether she
| uonts the county of JEFFERSON severed IN
twain IT makes little difference one way
~ the other. as Birmingham will always
be the hub.
Florence Times: Birmingham is in great
luck lust now. The big strike Is over
and 10. 900 men have gone to work In the
mines, and seo.oOo,0Oo railroad has Just
ra an entrance into the city--the At
lanta Birmingham and Atlantic. an air
line from Birmingham via Atlanta to
brunswick on the Atlantic ocean.
Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette: The indie
nendence party meeting in Birmingham
| Monday night seems TO nave Deen grdceu
with the authoritative presence of a good
many republicans. 1t is amusing to see
these sometime democrats playing so
beautifully into the hands of the repIb-
licans. All the latter want is to get the
southern states divided on candidates ard
then 1t will step in and profit by the dis
sension. There are not enough malcon-
tents in Alabama, however to moFe the
movement worth anything to anybody.
Roanoke Leader: Birmingham senti-
ment received great impetus at the At.
lanta. Birmingham and Atlantic welcom-
ing into the Magic City East week. Many
east Alabama business men and farmers
got better acquainted with Birmingham
upon that occasion and came away sing
ing her praises enthusiastically Hereto
fore this section has naturally done Its
trading in Atlanta, but the necessity for
this no longer exists. Birmingham can
now be reached from Roanoke and Ran
dolph county without change OF cars.
, person can make the round trio IN one
day and spend four hours In the cstN. Biz
mingham is an Alabama town. fun CT
Alabama people--our kn-people-and 1t
behooves us to get on more intimate terms
of friendship with them. il Is to the IN