The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-12
The Value of An Ad

| The day after our advertisement to i automobilists, which apeared in the
 Age Herald, we had one automobile &C., Brabston, transportation manager of ! the Birmingham Railway Light and Power company, land this would have | been avoided if the driver of the car | had followed the instructions in our ad. | Collisions with automobiles have been | averaging from three to five a day | heretofore. but we have reason to be- lieve that our ad has been carefully l read and will have the effect intended.
 It is possible we may revise it some
 what and print 1t in a leaflet for dis
 tribution through the automobile club. Fond of Home Town
 Time passes mighty rapidly after ! one reaches manhood said J. Leavell Moore as he stood in the hotel lobby
 with some of his old Birrnin gham I friends, "It seems strange that a quart
 CT of century has slipped by since l L was engaged in the retail grocery l business on Fifth avenue and 24th | street. I was considered to be almost
 Fifth avenue has a future as retail
 street. I can easily believe this with | such institutions on 1t as the Age- Herald, the Tutwiler, and the new post I office. It will be only a question of
 time when more stores and places of a nt vxrfn kz -
 am now living at Middlesboro, Ky,
 but am always interested in the 1 growth of my old home town and | never miss a chance to speak a good word for Birmingham"
 Given Cordial Welcome
 X am glad to hear that pr. Frank G. Grace has returned to Birmingham
 to resume the practice of his profes- sion,' said John H. Kennebrook. "Dr. Grace was one of the first Birming- ham doctors to enter the army. He
 was commissioned a first lieutenant
 and saw active service in France. "Dr. Grace was stationed at the Bor- deaux base hospital and as this was | one of the largest hospitals in France. have no doubt that he had come very interesting and valuable experiences. 1 It is certain that he worked with some Of the most expert army surgeons and it is a compliment to him that he was attached to one of the famous war l hospitals. Before volunteering to serve his country Dr. Grace had practiced medi- cine in Birmingham for a number of years and was deservedly popular. He is being given a cordial welcome home. " Promising Career
 T predict successful business car
 ger for Phillip Jackson, the young son of Fred M. Jackson, who has just gone with the Alabama Christian Advocat te as advertising manager" said John
 Sparrow. When he was student at Owenton he took charge of the college
 paper, which had been losing venture,
 and made a financial success of it.. From Owenton young MT. Jackson went into the officers training camp at the University of Alabama and was one of the carefully selected quota sent thence to Camp Taylor, near Louisville, for the finishing course. He enterse l upon his new duties with a god record of achievement behind him."
 Prohibition In Louisville
 T spent a few days in Louisville last
 week and found the prohibition law
 strictly observed--more so I am told than in Birmingham" said P. w. Hall Every whisky saloon in the Ken lucky metropolis has been converted into a soft drink par1or. But learned