The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-24
LINDSAY'S LIFE INTERESTING
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Lindsay Pork Products com pany' is the style of the firm that has succeeded the Legg Sausage and Provision company, 10S-110 Twenty second street, north, and beginning with Friday that will be it's Official title, for William M Lindsay, one of Birmin gham's pioneers, who has been making the sat sages all the time, has bought out the business and will be president from now on, instead of general manager, his former title.
 Mr. Lindsay has unique record in Alabama He brought the first typewriter ever used in Alabama to the state. was the first official court stenographer in Alabama, was the first man in in the south to use the photograph for dictating and intro duced Anniston to the furniture business It was in 1919 that he in troduced Birmingham and a lot of other towns to the sort of pork sausages he thought people should eat and his business has been grow ing ever since
 MT Lindsay is g product of Ma con Ga, but came to Alabama in the spring of lS17, the first stenog rapher of recognized ability in the state, and. for that matter, regarded, he says. as more or less of a curios- ity. lie engineered tue passage of the bll creating the first court position in Alabama. in 1879, and was sworn in as stenog1apher of the Mobile county circuit court in the spring of 1SS0, some A years ago He did special work for The Mobile Register from 1879 to 1884.
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 First Typewriter Agent.
 Prior to that he got the agency for the Remington typewriter in Alabama and bought the first ma chine himself, a Remington No. 7, the serial number of which was G.. He used it in his court work for years
 While in Mobile group of busi- ness men persuaded him to go to Anniston, then in it's infancy, where he bought out the Woodstock Iron companNs commissarys stock of furniture and china and opened the first furniture store in Anniston.
 iIe came to Birmingham in Au- gust, 1885 and opened a furniture business here. An illness lasting nine months put him out Of busi- ness When he recovered he took up stenography again. becoming the first court reporter in Birmingham, not attached to a court. but doing court work.
 In 1889 MT Lindsay started the first gTeenhoI Sc and flower store Birmingham had seen and in the fall of 1890 he put over Birmingham s first flower show.
 Mir. Lindsay was using the phono- graph commercially in 1893 in Bir- mngham. having his patrons dic- tate their communications on a phonograph and afterward con- Nerting the matter into writing at his leisure Walter Hawley. at that time managing editor of The Age Herald, dictated his book. "Rube Burroughs on this machine, MT. Lindsay afterward typing it. MT. IIawley later became managing edi- tor of the New York Evening Sun.
 Later MT. Lindsay went back to court reporting, doing such work in several cases of nationwide inter est, among them being the Hawes murder case; U. $. vs. Paul Strobeal, and in 1910. he die the court steno- graphic work in the Knight Yancey cotton case.
 h August, 1919. he took his ideas and expei imentS up with a group ot Birmingham business Ihen and the Legs sausage business was estab- lished. This business he has taken over ps pres dslt.