Neither Side Yields In The Great Steel Strike
Pictssura Aug 8 So the big We have made our last prope steel strike honors are easy in this section today. The Amalgamated Association succeeded in closing down the big steel plant at New castle and the manufacturers partially broke the strike at the Clark mill in this city. The United States Steel corporation will proceed to start closed sheet mills and train strike breakers in the Kiskiminetas valley. President Schwab says no overtures will be made to workers. The next proposition must come from US Steel officials. The stronghold mills include Vandegrift Leechburg Apollo and Scottdale.
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Amalgamated Association
Newcastle
C. M. Schwab
Pittsburg
New York
Vandegrift
Leechburg
Apollo
Scottdale
Bell Weatherly Co plans wholesale drug department expansion
The Bell-Weatherly Company, a large wholesale grocer in Birmingham, will add a wholesale drug department following the Elaw Drug Co. decision to locate in the city. A full line of drugs in case lots will be offered, serving grocers who previously sourced drugs from Anniston.
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Bell-Weatherly Coo
Bell-Weatherly Company
Birmingham
Bell- Weatherly Company
Anniston
Fort Scott crowd orders temperance critics to leave city
A mass meeting in Fort Scott Kansas with about 2500 attendees adopted resolutions demanding Rev Frazer and others enforcing the prohibitory law leave the city. A committee of fifty will be appointed to carry out the resolution and ensure its execution.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Frazer
Death by public burning in Coffee County case
Eyewitness report from Ozark dated August 8 describes the public stake execution of John Wesley Pennington, a Black man, in Enterprise Coffee County after confessing to assaulting Mrs. Davis. About five hundred assembled, including whites and Blacks, as Pennington was bound, burned, and killed in a rampaging vigil.
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Wesley Pennington
Enterprise
Pennington
Sensational shooting affair in Montgomery
In Court Square last night Dr. J. H. Crossland shot Capt. Noble J. Wiley on a bank steps. A street fight followed with a whip and pistol fire. Wiley wounded in the right breast and arrested suspect Crossland jailed.
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Montgomery
MonteGomery
Court Square
J. H. Crossland
Noble J. Wiley
Wiley
Farley Bank
Capt
Chas
Allen
Cross
Crossland
Pres Watts Visits For Railroad Consolidation Plan
J W Watts of Montgomery president of the Montgomery Northern Railroad visits Calhoun to discuss merging with the Anniston and Montgomery Railroad. They aim to build an electric line from Anniston to Montgomery, opening rich mineral timber and agricultural territory to rail service.
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J. W. Watts
Montgomery
Montgomery Northern Railroad Company
Anniston
City
Calhoun
Anniston Seeks Cheaper Coal Supply
A committee of gentlemen from Gadsden Attalla and prominent Anniston men met in the city court room to discuss extending the L and N railroad from Gadsden and Attalla into Blount county coal fields. W P Lay outlined the savings and coal richness, noting current shipments from Underwood’s mine via Calera.
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Gadsden and Attalla
Anniston
L. & N Railroad
Gadsden and
Attalla
Blount County
J. FE. Blackwood
Gadsden
W. P. Lay
Commercial Club of
State League of Commercial Clube
P. R. Goldman
Queen City Bank
A. W. Woodliff
B. TL. Nicholson
Wm. A. Davis
Judge Lapsley
Bowie
Mr. Bowie
W.P. Lay
Underwood
Calera
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Pictssura
Tially
Clark
United States Steel Corporation
Kiskiminetas Valley
Siti
Shaffer
The
United States Steel Cor
Elaw Drug
Kansas Town
State Temperance
O. Watson
Anniston Trading Company
Jos. Saks & Co
Head To Foot Outfitters
Coffee County
Alabama
Mercy
Thy
J. C. Dalvis
Mrs. da
Vis
Davis
Hill
Pres. Watts
Mr. Watts
Donanoo & Co
the Globe
John B. Stetson
Othing
Talie
Iy, Wmn
A. Davie
the Anniston Lodnetrial Associa
Tion
J. Bowie
W. Knox
Wol
McCao
T. T. Robinson
W. Bell
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