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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-27
and band concerts and speeches will be q part of each nights program.
 To Explain Progress

and band concerts and speeches will be part of each nights program.
 To Explain Progress
 Among the speakers of the week are a number of Birmingham's most prom inent manufacturers and wholesalers who will explain to visitors the yari- ous processes employed at local plants, tell how Birmingham ranks as a manufacturing center and set forth the advantages of buying home made pro- ducts.
 The Boys Industrial school band and the Avondale Mills band will play at intervals during the night program, and number of valuable prizes will be distributed to visitors.
 The hours for the exhibit will be from II o'clock every morning until 9 80 o'clock every night. One of the features will be daily cooking school conducted by Miss Annie l.. Sale, head of the department of home economies of Alabama college. This innovation will be under the auspices, of the Wof- ford Oil company. Classes will be held from 2:30 to 3 80 o'clock every after noon. They will be free to the public.
 This IS the third exhibit sponsored by the league of women voters and committees of the league are receiving the hearty cooperation of local manu- lecturers, the chamber of commerce, the Junior chamber of commerce and the associated industries of Alabama.
 Teachers Invited
 Special invitations are being extend ed to both teachers and children of the public schools so that they may gain first hand knowledge of the remarkable scope and quality of the finished goods daily Icing turned out in great volume by factories in the Birmingham district.
 Mrs J. M. Hankins, president of the League of Women Voters is in general charge of arrangements, working at the head of a number of special commit tees.
 'We can be justly proud of all Bir-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-27
MCULLA AND TYLER
 TO SHOW PRODUCTS.
Quality And Home Made
 Brands We'll Known Here

The McCulla & Tyler Bakery will stage very artistic as well as elabo- rate display of their products at the annual Manufacturers and Housewives exhibit.
 This bakery has attained much popu- larity in this territory for their pro- ducts, because the management has al- ways made it a practice to use the very best materials, including highest priced flour in its plant.
 The McCulla & Tyler Bakery will demonstrate their Quality" and "Home Made" breads. In addition they will show the nationally sold "Grennan" cake line. The exhibit will include ev- cry variety on the market, including ten kinds of cakes. Samples will be generously distributed.
 The McCulla & Tyler Bakery started business in Birmingham in a modest way. Today their products are not only widely known but they have a reputa- tion hard to beat. Members of the com pany include J. H. McCulla, A. W. Tyler and R. Fl. Golf.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-27
SPECIAL EVENTS FOR EACH NIGHT
 ARE ANNOUNCED
Sell Birmingham To Bir- mingham' Is Slogan
 Of Show

The curtain will be rung up Monday night on the 1924 edition of the Bir- mingham Housewive'A exhibit when members of the city commission headed by D. D. McLendon will officially open the show with short talks explaining is purposes.
 The exhibit this year will be the most elaborate and complete ever held in Birmingham, according to announce ment. Practically every article manu- factured in Birmingham will be shown and the various processes of manufac- ture explained by attendants at each of the booths.
 "Sell Birmingham to Birmingham" is the slogan adopted for the exhibit, the idea being to impress upon the people of the district and the entire state the merit of Birmingham made goods as compared with articles of foreign manufacture.
 The display will extend over the en- tire week and each night will be feature night when some special pro- gram will be rendered.
 The new municipal auditorium will be decorated especially for the occasion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-27
EAGLE MACARONI
 AN OLD FAVORITE
Doors Of Factory Always Open
 To Visitors

Birmingham has a very forishing industry in the Birmingham Macaroni company. It has been operating in the local field for 19 years. Every one of the years of its existence has marked stepping stone towards greater success in the field of intense competition. The reason for the success of the Birming- ham Macaroni company will be found by visitors at the annual Manufac- turers and Housewives exhibit. No per son should miss the opportunity of viewing the local industry's booth.
 The Eagle" brands of macaroni and spaghetti elbows, noodles and vermicelli are put out by the Birmingham Macar- oni company. An experienced person will be at the booth for the purpose of welcoming visitors and explaining to them the process of careful and sanitary manufacture as well as the superiority of the Birmingham product over competing lines.
 The company brides itself on the fact that the doors of its factory are al- ways open to visitors who wish to see the interesting process of manufacture. An officer of the company told a rep resentative of The Age-Herald that his factory was the only one in the United States that invites public inspection of the manufacture of macaroni products.
 ''Visitors are welcome to go from the top to the bottom of our plant" he said. 'They are not only welcome, but close scrutiny of manufacture is ap- preciated by the Birmingham Macaroni company"
 The factory is modern in every par ticular. It is a closed corporation, con sisting of Walter Moore, T. M. McClel- Ian, R. c. McCarty and J. W. Black ford. The factory is housed in a mod ern three-story structure which was erected in 1913. It is located at Ave nue D and Fourteenth street, south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-27
WOOD LUMBER co.
 TO HAVE DISPLAY
Miniature Homes Will Be Shown
 At Exhibit

Two distinctive, attractive and ideally constructed miniature homes will be on display at the Manufacturers and Housewives annual exhibit.
 The W. D. Wood Lumber company will make the display and persons call ing there will be sure to get not only some very valuable knowledge about the building of home in the sense of eco- nomical construction, but they will also be benefited in various other ways.
 A feature of the display will be the artistic arrangement of the miniature homes, thus imparting that idea to those persons in Birmingham who hope to soon own home of their own. And today is the era of home building in Birmingham. Never before has the Magic City done so much construction work than is being done at this time. Building of homes is going on all over the city and suburban points.
 One house will show the modern bung allow of one and half stories, the other home will be a two story structure of the Dutch colonial type.
 The homes will be attractively set amid miniature shrubbery, beautiful walks and curbing, miniature street lights, porch lighting, porch furniture, grass plots, shrubbery, etc. In fact, there will be shown everything that goes to make homes in high class resi- dential sections appear attractive, cosy and comfortable. The Wood Lumber company will carry out the idea of better building service the company renders.
 Some one will be in charge of the display who is familiar with the sub ject exhibited and able to answer any question.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-27

mingham industries" Mrs. Hankins said Sunday. 'sThe fortune of the peo- pie of Birmingham is closely linked up with the manufacturing develop ment of the district and it is up to all of us to, promote that development in everyway that we can. We can do that by buying Birmingham made pro- ducts, thinking Birmingham, talking Bir mingham and finding out at the forth coming exhibit exactly what the city has to offer from her own plants"
 Admission will be free to all corners.
 The Program
 Monday 8 p. in., Commissioners Night. Grand Opening. Talks by the five city commissioners, and by L.. Sevier of the Associated Industries of Alabama; O. l.. Bum of the chamber of commerce, A. N. Chappell and J. c. Hodges of the Manufacturers com clans Federation.
 Tuesday. Open from Il a. m., till 9 80 p, m., except from z to 8. Gala Mapufac acturers' Night Tuesday, with music by the band of the Alabama Boys Industrial school. All the exhibit ing manufacturers will sit on the stage and be introduced. A group of Scotch men in kits, will furnish special enter tainment under direction of James Stuart. All Scotch specially invited.
 Wednesday. Open from Il to 9:30 The night feature will be religious services under direction of Dr. Henry D. Edmonds, with singing by Phil Mcguire. Walter Brewer will give a five minute talk on Birmingham manu- factures.
 Thursday, hours Il to 9 80. Thurs day afternoon reserved for negroes from 2 to 5 80. Tuggle Institute Chorus will sing, and E. A. Brown will give a five minute talk.
 The feature for Thursday evening will be singing by the choir of the Sixteenth Street Baptist church, and showing of movie pictures of manufac- lures.
 Friday, hours Il to g: 80 D. m., in the evening, Owen Gillespy will sing and the Avondale mills band will play.
 Saturday, hours II to 8 80, Saturday evening will be grand prizes night, and music will be furnished by the Phil lips High school band.
 The Exhibitors
 The following manufacturers will ex- hibit:
 Alabama Association for the Blind. Alabama Bedding corporation, Ala bama Power company, American Bak- cries company, American Legion auxili- ary, Anc-co Preserving company, Avon dale Mills, Banher Baking company, Batterton Coffee company, Beck Candy and Grocery company, Benson Paint and Varnish company, S. M. Bernheim Electric company, Birmingham Awning and Tent Works, Birmingham Casket company, Birmingham Electric com pany, Birmingham Macaroni company, Birmingham Memorial company, Bir- mingham Rubber Tire company, Bir- mingham Slag company, Birmingham Stove and Range company, Birmingham Water Works company, City Ice De livery company, City Ice Delivery com pany, W. M. Cosby Flour and Grain company, Days Fireproof Garage com pany, Dewberry and Montgomery Stationery company, Dixie Coffee com pany, Dixie Metal Products company. Drennen Motor company, Eureka Broom and Mop Manufacturing com pany, Fraser Nurseries, Inc, Jefferson Dairy company, Magic City Food Pro- ducts company, Mills Coffee company, McCulla-Tyler Bakery, Natinonal Dry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-27

Cleaning company, Perfection Laundry, Perfection Mattress company, Phillips Lester Manufacturing company, Ph- oenix Portland Cement company, Piggly- Wiggly company, Louis Pizitz Elec- trical department, Pratt Consolidated Coal company, Roberts and Son, Sta tioners, Printers, Photographers, Sigsby Furniture Manufacturing company, Slater Coal company, Sloss-Sheffitld Steel and Iron company, Zac Smith Stationery company, Southern Steam Carpet Cleaning company, Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company. Thesco Markets, Tyler Grocery com pany, Western Grain company, Wolf ford Oil company, Women Manufactur- CTS, Mrs. J. H. Wideman, chairman ]; Wood and Crabbe Grain company, w. D. Wood Lumber company, DeBardele- ben Coal corporation, Birmingham Building and Manufacturing company, Pan American Coal company, Alabama Trunk and Luggage company, Birming ham View company, Hill Grocery com pany, Elk Macaroni company, Health Department, Public Library.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-27

J. J. Morris. The company has suc- cessfully operated in Birmingham for IS years. Until q year ago the com pany confined it's attention particu- larly to cleaning and renovating mat tresses, rugs, pillows and cushions. It began the manufacture of mattresses about year ago.
 The company operates direct to the consumer, thus effecting a big saving to the public.
 The shampoo method of cleaning is employed by the Southern Steam Carpet and Mattress Cleaning company. It is the very latest method. The company uses and manufactures its own cleaning fluid.
 The plant is located at 1431 Third avenue, north.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-27
Rinqs Tonight Exhibit

who call during the exhibit.
 The Home Paint company distributes the Benson Paint and Varnish company's products which have been conspicuous on the local market since organization. c R. Barratt is president of the Home Paint company, and H. c. Benson is vice president and general manager.
 The factory of the Benson Paint and Varnish company is located at 2317 First avenue, north, and the Home Paint company's establishment is located at 2015 Fourth avenue, north.
 During the exhibit visitors will be given every opportunity of seeing the excellent brands of paints, varnishes, etc., put out or retailed by these two Birmingham establishments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-27
MORRIS MATTRESS
 MAKING PROGRESS
Manufacturer To Show Its Mer.
 it's At Exhibition

The Southern Steam Carpet and Mat tress Cleaning Go. will show the cele- brated "Morris-Made Mattress" at the annual Manufacturers and Housewives exhibit in Birmingham. This mattress is hand made and was put on the mar ket with every confidence in it's ability to compete with outside mattresses, and it has done so.
 The Morris-made mattress is a pure Birmingham product. It is manufac- tured in all grades and qualities, from the cheapest to the most expensive. The mattress has achieved remarkable suc- cess, and daily it makes new friends. Every one will have a splendid oppor- tunity to personally inspect it's merits during the exhibit.
 The Southern Steam Carpet and Mat tress Cleaning company is owned by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-27
MAGIC PAINTS TO
 ATTRACT VISITORS
Home Company Arranges Dem-
 onstratiOn Of Its Lines

Among attractive exhibits at the an nual Manufacturers and Housewives ex- hibit of Birmingham made goods will be that of the Home Paint company. The company will have ladies demonstrate the famous brands of Magic paints, in cluding polishes and varnishes of all kinds. Attractive souvenirs will be dis tributed, and there will be some one in charge of the Home Paint company's booth to accord courteous attention as we'll as a cordial welcome to all persons
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-04
Steel PRODUCTION
DECLINES FURTHER
Possibility OF labor Troubles Is
Disturbing Factor

NEW YORK. May "a further
curtailment of production to conform
with the less active demand charae-
terized the steel market during the past
week and while producers were inclined
to oppose any radical downward read
justment of prices, the undertone of the
market was easy. The possibility Of
labor troubles added another disturbing
factor to the situation, but failed to
create any noticeable improvement in
the demand as buyers were not disposed
to stock up. In the pig iron market
more furnaces were shut down and the
drastic curtailment of output seemed
to check the downward trend of prices.
The feature in copper was the re-
ported purchases by wire drawers and
electrical equipment manufacturers es-
timated at between 100000 and TO-
100000 pounds during the middle of
the week. This was said to have been
closed on basis of 71z cents for cleo
trolytic. No improvement was report
ed in export demand.
Tin was slightly lower but showed a
rallying trend at the close on better
consuming demand Supplies in sight
are rather light.
Lead was in better inquiry for near
by delivery, but futures were freely Of
fered at concessions as prospective sup
plies are liberal. ~
Owing to poor consuming demand
zinc was easier, with some pressure of
prompt metal noted. g
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-04
THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HRRALD SUNDAY, MAY a. 1924

the wheat market, but with the season
for crop damage reports near at hand
and with the McNary- Haugcn bill con-
tinuing to attract. sharp attention, it
was noticeable that speculative selling
appeared to be reduced to minimum.
Private crop estimates indicated that
the domestic spring wheat acreage had
been reduced to the smallest total since
1897, and that the 1924 winter wheat
yield would be .12.000,000 bushels less
than was harvested in 1928.
Planting delays north of the Ohio
river had considerable affect in lifting
the corn market. Oats were in good
demand on setbacks.
Prorisiosn responded to lessened ar
rival of hogs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-04
TRADE STILL QUIET
IN COTTON GOODS.
Absence OF Business Forces
Further Mill Curtailment

NEW YORK, May 3,-Trade has
continued very quiet in primary cot
ton markets and unfinished lines have
eased little in price. The absence of
new business is forcing curtailment of
production very rapidly in mill centers
and New England is now reported to
be only about 20 per cent employed.
Southern mills have been curtailing
more freely and are believed to be rum
ming about 20 per cent under capacity.
Print cloths have eased in price and
are again quoted at about the low
levels OF the year. Sheetings have ruled
very quiet. Fine combed goods are
dull and imported fabrics in larger
quantities that usual are supplanting
domestic cloths. Ginghams have been
shade more active but precales are.
still being bought in small lots.
Bleached cottons are being sold at low
figures in small lots. Business in wash
fabrics is better in the jobbing and re-
tail houses. but Is quiet in most mill
agencies. Denims, tickings and other
heavy colored yarn fabrics are quiet
with prices irregular. The chief COM
plant made by mill men is that prices
0btainable. even for small lots of goods,
are far below the parity of cotton values,
and the instability of cotton makes
buyers timid. Yarns have been quiet.
Knit goods of cotton show little inn
provemept. More activity Is reported
in seasonable cotton goods apparel.
Prices current in primary markets for
fabrics are as follows: Print cloths,
IS inches 64x64,s, cents; 64x6Q's,
6% cents; 3S1a inch 64x64's, 8 cents ;
brown sheetings, southern standards,
15A cents; denims, ZOOS, 24h cents ;
tickens, 26 cents; prints, 9% cents ;
staple ginghams, is cents; dress ging-
hams, 1917 cents and Fl cents.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-04
INVESTMENTS


Power vi Compound interest
Has you church, your lodge, your club,
your labor union, or your alma mater
any invested funds? What kind Of
securities make up their investments?
Have you life insurance? Ask your life
insurance company what kind of in
vestment securities it holds. None Of
these, you will find, are at all likely
to be wildcat stocks or fake oil Sc
curities. They may contain oil stocks,
but they will be the stocks OF reputable,
established oil companies, with fine
earning record. Most Of these invest
ments will be in sound bonds and,
seasoned stocks or good mortgages.
They viii have been selected mostly by
reputable, Investment experts and will
be sound and desirable.
II you find It puzzling to select the
right kind of investments, consider .the
foregoing as guide. 1t is practical
for most every man and woman. A
oncc-poor preacher in Kentucky city
church followed such guide and now
has a substantial fund that yields
enough for all his needs. At recent
meeting Of the elders of his church he
announced that the church owes him
nothing for his services so long as he
lives and that at his death his invest
More than 20 years ago, when this
ments are to. be made an endowment
fund in memory of his wife,.
minister was just beginning to save a
little money from his salary, his wife
died. That left, as his only immediate
responsibility, his church work, to
which he devoted more attention than
his congregation ever required. ALI
though his salary was not large and
although he gave literally to charity,
the minister found his savings growing.
He consulted the church officers who
invested the;church's funds. With their
advice he made similar Investments of
his small savings. His average annual
return from his increasing investments
has been only per cent, yet this re-
turn, added to the modestly increasing
principal, has built a substantial fund
sufficient now to pay the minister's
salary.
Compound interest is one of the
greatest inventions in the world. 1t is
sure device for creating competence,
fund for "a comfortable old age, or
large or small fortunes. 1t was the
device this minister used. He put small
savings into safe investments. The in
terest the investment securities yielded
was put back into sound securities.
Thousands Of wealthy men have done
and are doing the same thing. There
is no patent on compound interest, any
one can use it. 1t works with the same
efficiency for the poor as for the rich.
Yet compound interest has accumulated
more fortunes than have patent rights,
oil wells or steel mills. If you have
difficulty in getting ahead, get ac-
quainted with the power of compound
interest to accumulate money.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-04
EUROPEAN BUYING
, LIFTS WHEAT PRICE
All Grains Higher Than Week
Ago In Chicago Pit

CHICAGO. May Big European
buying Of Canadian wheat has been a
decided factor in bringing about high
er. prices here for grain this week
Compared with week ago. wheat in
Chicago this morning was rs TO 21s
cents up, corn at ia@ss to 1ls-cent
advance. oats a shade to A@% cent
improved and provisions varying from
unchanged figures to rise of II
cents.
Some broadening in the volume of
wheat dealing here accompanied the
upward trend of the values. The fact
that great quantities Of wheat from
Canada were finding an outlet across
the Atlantic instead of pressing on mar
kets in the United States encouraged
many traders to act on the assumption
that bear news had been fully discount
ed and that an advance in prices could
be looked for. Buyers generally con-
strued Dawes plan developments as
helpful toward a larger European de-
mand for wheat. Better credit facili-
ties which Germany had obtained in
this country were also regarded as
distinct aid in this respect.
Month-end fiquidating sales tempo
rarily hindered the upward course of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-04

modating fishes. Here's the secret !:
When a mother mussel has her gill
pouch filled with baby mussels, she
pushes them out into the water to
make their way as best they can. Long
before the button industry was ever
heard of the infant mussels had their
own way of making their way in the
world-or rather the water. They lie
in wait for certain kind of fish
nearly any game fish will do-and.
then they hop aboard, just as a SUI
burbanite grabs street car. They
seize the fish's gills, and there they
stick, getting nourishment from the
fish until they are ready to begin life
on their own account.
If no fish is passing when the baby
mussel is thrown out by it's mother,
it drops to the bottom and dies as ma
ture seems to have arranged this fish
ride as its one long chance of survival.
However, it is said that. the mother
mussels show great care and sagacity
in arranging the eviction in accord
ance with established fish schedules.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-04
INDLfSTRLALS GAIN
IN CURB PAST WEEK

NEW YORK, May S.-Strength in
industrial issues made those stocks the
chief features in the curb market the
past week. Several moved to new high
records and a large number were in
brisk demand at vigorous advances.
Public utilities demanded special at
tention because of the resumption of
accumulation similar to that of short
time ago. Lehigh Power and Tennessee
Electric second preferred each rose three
points and gain Of two points was
made in American Gas and Electric.
The radio group reflected the high
degree Of expansion. Hazeltine and
Dubilier moved three points each to
new highs. Coal stocks were irregular.
There was fair demand for foreign
tobaccos, Imperial tobacco of Canada
and British American tobacco both
making fractional gains.
Petroleum stocks varied between
strength and weakness and showed lit
tie net change after wide movements.
A few of the Standard Oil issues in
which trading was on a large scale,
were in supply, however, and showed
losses. Swan and Finch was
one of the weakest features, falling Z
points. M