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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1909
Page
4
Oxford residents report Rev. W. O. Stephens delivered a well received sermon amid bad weather. The local WaT community notes visits from Daisy Toland Herman Allen and others for holidays. The W C T U suspends meetings until January as Christmas shopping hours extend to 9 PM nightly.
Fifty persons were killed in a panic when a fire broke out at the Arding and Hobbs drapery store in London. Flames spread rapidly and a disastrous fire was threatened as the tragedy unfolded this afternoon.
With five shopping days left before Christmas, all New York stores report a strong holiday rush. Retailers large and small note unusually brisk business and hotels brim with out of town buyers as the week opens.
In Washington on December 20 Senator Burkett introduced a senate bill to limit federal judges authority to restrain state laws and the actions of state officers enforcing them.
Pope Long's nomination as marshal of the Northern District of Alabama and four other ministerial posts were sent to the senate. William James Calhoun to China, Robert Bacon to France, Richard Kerens to Austria Hungary, and Henry Lane Wilson to Mexico were named. A Southern railway officer held a "possum dinner" at the home of a 74 year old African American porter named Uncle Phil.
Six thousand girls in Philadelphia shirtwaist shops walked out in sympathy with New York strikers. They accuse Philadelphia firms of booking orders from New York. Stores plan evening hours to handle crowds for the rest of the week. John W. Kern, age 60, former Democratic VP nominee, is noted in Indianapolis dispatch.
Governor Sanders calls in the militia as tensions rise in Baton Rouge amid a race war near Green Lane. Reports say whites and Blacks have clashed with casualties, and the situation threatens to escalate further.
States received many birthday wishes today for the sixtieth anniversary of Mr Kern born December 20 1849 in Howard County Indiana and a lifelong resident. Since age twenty one he has been a notable Democratic figure and has served as city attorney of Indianapolis along with running as the party nominee for governor US senator and vice president.
The article highlights Miss Gordon’s push for universal women’s rights including property control, wage earnings, guardianship reform, and equal pay. It notes her influence on Louisiana 1898 taxpaying women’s suffrage and her leadership in New Orleans sewerage reforms driven by women voters.
The Senate confirmed Judge Horace Lurton of Tennessee to Supreme Court justice replacing the late Rufus W. Peckham. In Boston officials report railroad workers demand a ten percent pay raise and a ten hour work day reform from the New York New Haven Hartford and Boston and Maine lines.
California lemon growers file a bill of complaint against railroads alleging exorbitant freight rates. They claim duties on lemons favored domestic competition, but after foreign fruit was crowded out, rates rose to capture higher profits. Coal ad follows.
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