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The Nome nugget., 1924-02-23

The city council at Anchorage re gently increased the tax rate from 1 to l ! mills. It is stated that the in crease was necessary so that addi tional funds will be available to en able the city to acquire the tele phone and electric light systems from the Alaska Railroad.
The Nome nugget., 1924-02-23

A bridge with a 250 foot span will be constructed on the Gulkana river on the valdez-Falrbanks road dur ing the present winter by the Alaska Road Commission. Several 60-foot span bridges will also be built across the Miller Glacier stream. at Mile 22O, on the Richardson road.
The Nome nugget., 1924-02-23

John W. Frame recently rendered his resignation as United States Commissioner at Hyder to Judge T. M Reed, and was succeeded by Charles F. Sanford, editor and man ager of the Hyder Weekly Miner, The change in officers took place on Novemb ber l.
The Nome nugget., 1924-02-23

Charles L. Mason for number years chief clerk of the Alaska Raj road, has rendered his resignation [ General Manager Landis and expec 10 leave soon for Santa Anna, Califc mia, where he will embark in the il vestment business.
The Nome nugget., 1924-02-23

A quest for diamonds in Britt Guinea is the quest of Walter Fish a well known Dawson and Tana, operator who recently left for t outside. Mr. Fisher has sold out Panama interests and Will seek ne fields.
The Nome nugget., 1924-02-23
ALASKA NEWSY
 ITEMS

Quite considerable portion of the population of Anchorage is consider ing running for the Territorial Leg islsture in the spring primaries that is. great many Anchorage peo- pie are in the hands of their friends. Weekly.
The Nome nugget., 1924-02-23
fAtif T h R !

latter. We draw the line at thresholds of our homes, why extend it to include our spoi mixing of the races in sports ha had effect on both-and especi; are the effects deleterious to the ferior race.
The Nome nugget., 1924-02-23

TYPEWRITER RIBBONS on sale at the Nugget office, also a supply of typewSter paper.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
scout WINNERS
ARE ANNOUNCED
Given Prizes In Tusca-
loosa For Aiding Clean
Up Drive
lTuscaloosa Bureaul

: TUSCALOOSA, Ala, :. May 28.--
Winners in the Boy Scout Clean up
campaign in Tuscaloosa last week ago
were announced Tuesday. The cam
paign was taken part.sin by III Boy
Scouts who put in 731 hours in pick
ing up tin cans, old papers and other
rubbish from alleys and vacant, lots
visiting homes and asking the oecu:
pants to cooperate. in making the city
clean. Hartman Butler and, Billie Ma.
lone Of Troop No.. 2 Of, the First Pres.
byterianS church tied for first prize.
Norville Chatfield and Dexter Hui.
sart of Troop No. 8 of the First Meth.
odist church tied for second honors
and they also were awarded second
prizes each. All of the these prizes are
French field glasses. The following boys
won compasses: Leon Simpson, james
Waddell, Thomas Simpson, James Null.
lin, Winston Carpenter, and Clarence
Persons. Troop No. won the, sweep
stakes SIS worth of scout equipment.
The prizes will be given at the next
meeting of the Junior Chamber of Com.
merce which sponsored the campaign.
Publish Autobiography The auto
biography of the late Dr. George Little
of this city will soon be ready and
many requests have been received by
the Chamber of Commerce which il
publishing it for, copies. Oply 400 copies
will be printed. 4. NJ
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
CANDIDATE FAILS
TO FILE EXPENSES
Technically Causes Trouble In
Pike. Primary

TROY. Ala. May 27.-(Special
Leased Wire. )-Bibb Folmar, nominee
Of the recent democratic primary, failed
to file his post-election expenditure ac-
count to John II. Wilkerson, chairman
of the democratic executive committee
and cannot be certified to the probate
Judge us nominee; it is said.
The corrupt practice act requires
every candidate to file an itemized ex-
pense account within ten days after
any election. As Mr.. FOlmar failed
to do so. Mr.. Wilkerson states that it
is not now his power to issue the proper
certificate to the probate judge and in
order that Mr.. Folmar's name may be
printed on the regular ticket for the
November election. In that event the
ticket will be blank in the voting place
for commissioner The name of the
nominee can, however, be written.
Mr.. Wilkerson states that this neg
lect on the part of Mr.. Folmar does
not qualify his nearest competitor, J.
7. Davis, as the regular democratic
nominee %
Go To Auburn-Four members of the
Girls Home Demonstrat ton club of Pike
county will leave Saturday morning,
May 81, for Auburn to attend the state
short course for girls in home economics.
The winners of this trip are: Mary
Lizzie Carter, of the Rodgers club ;
Oliver Young. of the Shady Grove club :
Verbie Fowler of the Sessions club and
Esther Boutwell, CO the Spring Hill
club.
Court ostponed-Judge, John G.
Key has decided not to hold SEES
sion of the probate court of Pike
county until July owing to the fact
that the farmers are SO badly. behind
with their work and need the time on
their crops.
To Set Primary city democrat.
ic executive committee was called to
meet Tuesday afternoon at 6 o'clock to
set date for the holding of the munich
pal primary. Key Murphree is chair
man of the committee and the follow
ing are members: w. r. Sellers, s,
w. Gellerstdt, j.. A.! Hyman and R. o.
Lawrence. - -''r.'s' s
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
SWITCHlNAN IS HURT
IN RAILWAY WRECK
Car Splintered And Trains Are
Blocked In Tuesday Collision

When a switch engine of the South
ern railway eollided head-on with a
string of freight cars of the Frisco sys-
TEN about 2 80 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing, George Hendrix, 2314 Twenty
avenue, north, Frisco switchman, was
seriously injured, his leg being SO bad
ly crushed that physicians at st. Vim
cents hospital, found it necessary to
amputate it little below the knee.
The wreck occurred at crossing
of the Frisco and Southern lines at
Thirty-second street and Railroad ave-
nue. One freight car was thrown COM
pletely off the track and splintered and
two others were partially derailed and
slightly damaged. Trains on both lines
were blocked for two hours Tuesday
morning.
The Southern switch engine No. 622.
engineered by Frank Craven, was only
slightly damaged, while the Frisco en-
CINE, handled by, Jim Byrd escaped
altogether, it being in the rear of the
freight cars pushing them.
Hendrix was descending one of the
Frisco cars, when it was struck BY the
Southern engine, and was the only ter-
son injured. He was reported resting
well at the hospital, where he had been
carried by Johns ambulance, late Tues
day night. He had been employed BY
the railroad only short time, having
formerly been motorcycle scout of the
city of Birmingham,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
WOMAN TO HANG
FOR AK MURDER,
A JURY'S VERDICT
Pearl Jackson, Negress,
Found Guilty After
Hour DeliberatiOn

Pearl jackson, negro woman, was con-
viinted of first degree murder in Judge
H. p. Heflin's court in a jury verdict
returned. at. 8 AS o'clock Tuesday night,
which fixed her penalty at death, follow
iri9 an, all-day trial on a charge of par
ticipating in; the murder with an ak of
young John Turner more than a year
aeb. -. .t.E
Court officials said this was the first
time in the history of Jefferson county
that a jury had ever recommended the
death penalty for a woman. She prob
ably will be formally sentenced Satur-
day.
The jackson woman is the second al
legged as murderer to receive the death
sentence for participation in the murder
oETurner. Peyton johnson, negro, was
cdhvicted of the same offense several
wkeks ago and sentenced by Judge Hef-
LID to be hung April %. The sentence
WAS suspended pending appeal to the su-
pHeme court after new trial had been
refused in the local courts.
NO verdict had been returned late
Tuesday night in the trial of Fred
Clover, negro, charged with attacking
and robbing Mrs. Sophie Ziedeman.
THE two alleged ak wielders went on
tidal in the criminal division of circuit
cdhrt Tuesday and both cases were
pIAced in the hands of juries at about
z o'clock in the evening.
Pearl jackson was tried before Judge
FL p. Helm on a charge of being a
m1mber of an ax-murder gang that kill
ed and robbed young John Robert Iur-
n@ more than a year ago in dark
aIYky in North Birmingham. She was
placed on the witness stand in her own
defense and stoutly denied having had
any part in the murder, adding that she
din not remember anything that hap
paned on the night the young man was
fo5lnd dead with an ak wound in his
fFehead.
Woman On Stand
MARY Frances Saunders, star witness
fd& the prosecution in the trial and con-
wilton of Peyton Johnson in connec-
tien with the same murder, was placed
on the stand Tuesday morning and tes-
tiled that she and the defendant had
served terms on the county roads to-
gdther for vagrancy and that she had
tlSeatened to expose her at that time.
IA the trial of johnson, she testified
that she had overheard Pearl and Odell
Jackson describe the "skulling party
that resulted in Turner's death.
Fred Glover was tried before Judge
William E. Fort on a charge of as
sanIting and robbing' Mrs. Sophie Ziede-
tifed the defendant from thesieforrujf,
mAn in her store. Mrs. Ziedeman iden-
tiled the defendant from the witness
sthnd and described the attack. She
WAS followed by Mrs. Hazel Barney, a
n&ghbor, who testified that she found
Mrs. Ziedeman in an unconscious con-
dillon. She said she also found a ham
mer on the counter and the cash regis
ter open, after it had been robbed.
aOdell jackson, the third alleged par
cipitant in the murder ow young Rob
eh Turner, was to have been tried
Tuesday, but the case was postponed
uAtil after the trial of pearl jackson.
fR is expected to begin Wednesday
morning. - "
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WOMEN REQUEST
VOTING MACHINES
Resolutions Ask Action By New
Board Of Revenue

The League of Women Voters, at a
meeting held Tuesday afternoon at the
Municipal market adopted resolutions
requesting the newly elected Jefferson
county board of revenue to install vot-
ing machines throughout the city of
Birmingham, and, if possible, the en-.
tire county. 1t was pointed out that
voting is especially heavy in the city
boxes, and that officials at these places
invariably are kept at their posts until
taxing hours and election results are
always unusually long being tabulated.
Arrangements for the baby show to
be held at East Lake park June IL,
Is and ii were also discussed, and the
women were addressed by L. NJ. Rich
of New York, specialist who will have
charge of the exhibition. 1t was an
nOunced that children from two to
eight years of age will be admitted to
the show, and that there will be no
admission charged
Reports were made by delegates who
attended the national and state con-
ventiOns of the League of Women VOt-
ers -'~'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
|QUARTER MILLION
is REPRESENTED
IN REALTY DEALS
Enslen Company, Announ-
ces Development OF
Valuable Property

Real estate developments involving
more than quarter of a million dol.
lars were ;nnounced Tuesday by the
Enslen Realty and Insurance company
Largest of these is a project for the
erection of three modern brick apart.
ment buildings, each to contain four
seven-room flats, on the southeast cor.
ner of Highland avenue and Oak street
This property was recently purchased
by the Lakeview Realty company from
A. V. Mayfield at an approximate fig.
ure of $4,000, the deal being negotiat.
ed by S. Carl Enslen. With an ada.
cent piece of property already held by
the Lakeview interests the site meas.
ures 1856 by 300 feet.
1t is planned to expend $4,000
in the construction of the apartments
which will be ready for occupancy by
October.
Matte K. Stovert will erect a $685..
600 store building on site, 100 by 100
feet, OH the coutheast corner of Tween.
ty-third street and Avenue @. The
new owner purchased this property
from Eva NJ. Caldwell also through s.
Carl Enslen at a reported figure Of
$4,000.
Ed S. Moore has bought, through
the Enslen concern, property at 1903
Fourth avenue, north, for a sum around
$4,000. The site, having a 50-foot
frontage was purchased from Ernes-
tine Bernheim and immediate construc-
ton of store to cost $4,000 is an
nounced.
The Enslen company will act as the
rental agents for these buildings, it is
stated, entering a new field in the ac-
tivity of the firm. Previously the Ems
len developments has been handled
throukh an independent agency.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
MUNICIPAL BAND
WILL OPEN SEASON
First Concert At AvOndale Park
Sunday Afternoon

The first concert of the municipal
band for the summer season will be
given at Avondale park at 80 o'clock
Sunday afternoon. it was announced
Tuesday by o. Gordon Erickson, di-
rector.
The band this year is composed of q
men, some of whom were with the or
ganization last season, and some of
whom are new to the musical public of
Birmingham. An unusually attractive
program has been arranged for the
opening concert, according to Mr.. Erick-
son, and hundreds of additional seats
have been provided in the large open
space surrounding the central stage.
Two concerts will be given each week
throughout the summer months on Sun
day afternoons and Thursday nights.
The programs are given under the aus
pieces of the park board, of the music
committee of which. Mrs. Charles j.
Sharpe is chairman:
Avondale park is conveniently Access
sible by highway and by street cars, and
since there are ample parking space and
good seating arrangements, together
with cool breezes, it is expected that
large crowds will be present for the
concerts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
SPRINCTIME IS
! TONIC time
Now Is the Time to Set Your
System in Order -, Most Ev-
seryone Needs a Good Tonic
Laxative to Restore Lost
sVigOr and Vitality.
HERB JUICE, NATURES
MEDICINE PROVIDES THE
WAY

Now, during the Spring months is the
tirAe your system requires a thorough
cleaning and invigorating tonic-laxa-
tvs. II you are to have good health
It lis necessary that you eliminate all
uoasons that have accumulated during
the Winter months, and don't overlook
the fact that Nature has provided the
relhedy. Herb Juice, the great nature
medicine, is true to name, 1t Is made
from healing juices of natures herbs
a .scientific discovery made by emil
nent chemists whereby herbs, roots,
leaves and bark are properly blended
into liquid form, mild and pleasant to
take and which produces the very best
oftresults. Since this new process Of
connpounding nature ingredients into
HGklid form, thousands of people have
BEEN restored to health according to
their own testimony now being pub
I4shed in this and other papers through
OUT the country.
Herb Juice, Natures wonderful cura-
tive, acts on the organs of elimination,
claanses and revitalizes the entire sys-
TEN. puts into weakened and impov
erished systems herb essences and
foaces that are essential to robust
health. Many germs and disorders of
the system are quickly and permanent
" banished by the use of this new
hefbal medicine. Those who are in
rundown condition will find Herb Juice
IL needed, especially beneficial in such
cakes as constipation, gassy stomach,
INDIGESTION, inactive liver and kidney
troubles. Many who believed them
seives beyond earthly aid are being re-
stored to health by natures supreme
toAic-laxative, Herb Juice. 1t would
betwelI for you to keep bottle in your
home all the time, as many others are
doing nowadays, that you may be pre-
pared to offset the very first symp-
tom Of the ills that befall us from day
to sday. Herb Juice is said to be the
mdgt effective tonic-laxative ever
pl4ced on the market.
fTr. Magda, of the Herb juice LabOra-
to1fes, is now at EUGENE JACOBS
nRUG STORE. Birmingham, Ala, and
WI gladly tell you without any cost
just what benefit you can expect from
Heb Juice.
herb Juice sold at Bessemer by Pc
Erbm-PattOn; Ensley, Berney's Phar-
Enacy; Tuscaloosa, Ward Drug CO.;
Pthtt city, Gale Drug Co.; Admission,
scarborough Drug Co.; North BlrminE-
hasn, walker Drug Co.; Fairfield, Halls
PtNrnnacy No; q; W yIHnr, w yIam Phar-
m6cy Tarrant eitys Tarrant City Drug
co<-Ady.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
OWEN TRIAL SET
FOR WEDNESDAY
Alleged AK Man To Get
An Immediate
Hearing

Frank Owens, negro, charged with
attacking and robbing two white men
Saturday night, will go on trial at 2
o'clock Wednesday afternoon follow
ing his indictment Monday for robbery.
The trial was set for Tuesday after
noon, but when the negro was ar
raigned before Judge William E. Fort,
the judge ruled that he should not he
tried before the expiration of of 81
hours after his indictments He entered
plea of not guilty, although he is said
to have confessed freely to the two
attacks.
Owens alleged victims, L. NJ. Wat
kins, 1912 Twenty-sixth street, Ens-
ley, and Richard Warner, 414 Six
teenth street, north, were reported MS
still being in a critical condition at the
Hilman hospital Tuesday night. They
were struck over the heads with an axe,
which was later found and Used as a
part of the testimony presented to the
grand Jury
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
NEW COAL7COMPANY
TO BEGIN DRILLING
Musgrove Concern To Work
Black Creek Seam First
(Jasper Bureau

JASPER, Ala, May 27.-According
to information in Jasper today the Deep
Water Coal and Iron corporation which
has recently been incorporated in Ala
bama will begin in few days on a
drilling campaign. l.. B. Musgrove is
chairman OF the board Of officers. The
Black Creek seam of coal is regarded
as one of the best seams of coal in
the state and is said to be the first
seam that the Deep Water company
will open, up. Several thousand men
will be put to work at an early date
and a village will be built on the
banks of the Warrior river,
Youth Crushed-John Black, age 10,
youth who resides Mt Adamsville,
Ala, was crushed between two box
cars in Cordova early today. He was
rushed to no itpsla ehwrcywfmea.( q
rushed to a hospital where it is stated
he Is in critical condition. II
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
DIR. GUY SNAVELY
TO TOUR EUROPE
WIN axe Study OF Existing
European Conditions

DR.. Guy E. Snavely, president of Biz
mingham-Southern college, has been
granted leave of absence from bis execu-
tive duties during the summer months,
to conduct a tour of western European
countries where he will make a study
of prevailing conditions. President
Snavely and family will probably leave
within the next two weeks for New
York from whence they viii sail on
June 81.
Among other Birmingham-Southern
faculty members who will travel abroad
during the summer months. will he
Prof. Allen G. Loehr, who will study
conditions existing in the Near Eastern
countries.
Many of the faculty will study and
teach in northern schools this summer,
among these being DIR. Harrison A.
Trexler, who will be at the head of the
history department at the Johns .HopN
kins summer school.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
CARL WILLIAMSON
!DELIVERS LECTURE
Technical Accusation Addressed
by Panama Canal Engineer

AN illustrated lecture on South
America, with reference to the engi-
nekring possibilities of the country was
given Tuesday evening " Col. S. B.
Williamson at the regular meeting of
the Alabama Technical association at
the Chamber of Commerce auditorium.
Colonel Williamson is one of the engi-
neers who aided in the construction of
the Panama canal, and he referred to
this engineering feat during the course
ofshis address. A series of stereoptican
views was shown.
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table Compound. She had never used
it herself, but she said one of her
neighbors suffered just like did, and
it cured her. After | had taken four
bottles the pain left my side. had a
fine appetite to eat anything that was
put before me, and l began to do all
my work and my washing, something
l hadn't done for years. am dress
maker, and this last fall 1 began suf-
ering with my side again, so / began
takingthe Vegetable Compound again,
IamOn my fourth bottle, which makes
eight in all have taken. feel SO
much better when take it and every.
body tells me l look better. My appe.
tite improves and I feel stronger in
every way. l am a very nervous wo-
man and it seems to help my nerves
SO much. - Mrs. MAGGIE WALLER;
Glasgow, Kentucky. :
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.ELVIRA TONNES
FUNERAL TODAY
Little School Girl Was
Stricken VILE At
Pi.. no

Funeral services for Elyira TONNES,
12-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Mcclellan TONNES. who died suddenly
of heart failure while playing a piano
at the South Highlands school Tuesday
morning, will be held at the residence,
1912 Seventeenth street, south, at
o'clock Wednesday afternoon, with DIR.
j. e. billiard, pastor of the Southside
Baptist church, officiating.
The little girl was stricken while GO
ing through musical exercises at the
piano and died before physicians could
reach her. A gloom was cast over the
school throughout the day. She would
have graduated from the grammar
school next week and received a certifi-
cate of entrance into the Phillips High
school.
Parents of the stricken child were
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Shelley S. Sansbury, Montgomery :
Eugene Robins, Selma Sam Silver
man, Talladega ; Eugene L. Sykes, Jr.,
Aberdeen, Miss; William B. Sowell,
Brewton Bernice E. Compton, Green's
boro; Horace C. Martin, Selma Clyde
u. Mckee, Notasulga; Charles w.
Neal, Cullman Manchester G. Pagett.
Ell Passo, Tex; Julius s. Pinkstone,
Louisville.
Coast Artillery, William Tandy Bar
'rett, Tuscaloosa James NJ. Bell, An
niston; Rails NJ. Coston. birmingham /;
George P. Harrison, Opelika; George
" Irons, Tuscaloosa Robinson Brown,
Jr., Tuscaloosa Alton B. Burdick,
Double Springs; Preston C. Clayton,
Eufaula.
Engineers, Charles A. Soule, Pensa-
cola; James J. Ashton, Birmingham {;
Arthur l.. Lilley, Whistler; George
r. Shelton, Lime Rock; James A.
ZeobIe. Roanoke,
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WOMEN no SERVE
VIII Have Charge OF Nunnally's
Store i

Women of the Independent Presby-
terrain church viii have charge Of Nun
nally's Twentieth street store Thurs
day, when one-third Of the total receipts
win be given to the church building
fund.
An intensive campaign has been ufi-
der way for some time to raise funds
for the new building, including the
serving Of popular priced luncheon at
Twenty-frst street and Second avenue,
which was discontinued just few
weeks ago.
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SlO0 naQ given me
trouble for five or
six years. Attimes
twas allIcould do
to live, and the doc
tor said l couldn't
live but a short
time longer with
out an operation.
TIL t W as two
years ago. My sis
ter-in-law recon-
mended Lydia E.
Pinkham'S Vepe-
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afraid She
COULD NOT LIVE
Operation Advised, but Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Made 1t Unnecessary

Glasgow, Kentucky.-"I was run
down, nervous, with no appetite. My
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CHILD browns IN RIVER

JACKSON, Miss, May 27.--(Spe-
cial. CHARLES Gadmer, aged IA, eldest
son of Arthur F.. Gadmer, city edieor
of the Clarion Ledger, was drowned in
Pearl river this afternoon and search
ers are still looking for the body.
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notified immediately and rushed to the
school. but only the father arrived be.
fore the end came. The mother was
Frustrated with grief later..in the day.
The body was taken to Johns, where
it rested Tuesday. Burial will be in
Elmwood cemetery. Johns in charge.