Pension measure favored as legislature acts on city government and pension bills
On St Patrick’s Day in Montgomery the legislature reported favorably the Kilby bill to create commission government for smaller cities and removed a governor appointive option. The Percy Barnard pension bill for policemen and firemen also moved forward. The senate kept routine business and liquor bills advanced in the house.
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Montgomery
St. Patrick's Day
House
Kilby
Anniston
Senate
Percy Barnard
Booker T. confronts Ulrichs wife in hallway incident
Washington sustained painful injuries including a torn ear requiring sixteen stitches. He alleges Ulrich Claimed Washington spoke familiarly to his wife and may have followed and peeped at her residence. The trial is set for tomorrow afternoon.
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Ulrich
Ulrich Claime
Washington
Sweetheart
Building at Piedmont indicates early local home projects
Tra Davis has built a nine room two story house on his farm at Nances Creek. He holds the contract to finish Dick Wilson s home at Vigo. Warry Hebble plans to start a house on Center avenue and Dr. Prank Teague will build on a lot near Y C Harris s home.
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Piedmont
Tra Davis
Nance’s Creek
Dick Wilson
Vigo
Warry Hebble
Center Avenue
Dr. Prank Teague
Y. C. Harris
Insurgent Boom Planned for La Follette Presidency
Boston event to mark LaFollette candidacy with March 30 lecture by Senator Bourne of Oregon at the Boston Club and an informal conference to follow. The announcement signals the insurgent push for LaFollette in the presidential race.
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Senator Bourne
Oregon
Boston Club
Washington
Boston
Bourne
LaFollette
Honor Accepted in Fiery Speech at Calhoun County Fair
Ross Blackmon was unanimously elected president of the Calhoun County Fair Association after S. W. Pace declined to serve. Blackmon pledged full effort to hold a fair next fall and urged development of agricultural resources to drive prosperity, noting Calhoun county’s recent signs of progress. He announced forthcoming steps to rally unified support.
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Ross Blackmon
Calhoun County Fair Association
S. W. Pace
Blackmon
Calhoun County
Incoming Democrats face glut of federal jobs in House
Washington March 17 With the approach of the sixty second Congress a flood of office seekers fills hotel lobbies. The new Democratic House will have 500 or more jobs, led by clerk of the House and sergeant at arms at 5000 dollars yearly. The door keeper and dozens of clerical posts follow with salaries listed, including journal clerk 4000 dollars and numerous minor clerks.
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Washington, D. C
Sixty-Second
Congress
New Democratic House
House
Journal
Committee on committees forms for Calhoun County fair project
E L Turner chairs a committee including D P Hale F Douglass C J Houser and W A Davis to aid in selecting other committees for the fair project. H C Persons superintendent of education asks the association to take over the Boys Corn Club with premiums for the boys. He proposes to incorporate Mr Persons and the club. the association may devise a better plan with more liberal premiums. President Blackmon pledges diligent immediate work and optimistic prospects for a successful fair next fall.
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H. C. Persons
Boys’ Corn Club
Calhoun County
OU. F. Douglass
Mr. Persons
Boys’ Club
Persons
Blackmon
Investigation of Ferrer Trial Begins Today
Madrid reports the government has opened an official investigation into the trial and execution of Professor Francisco Ferrer who was convicted of revolutionary activity and executed in Barcelona on October 13, 1909. The case prompted global socialist protests and accusations of an unfair trial.
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Madrid
Francisco Ferrer
Ferrer
Barcelona
Cortes
Begs Her Term: Mrs Melcher Begins Prison Sentence
Auburn New York March 20 Mrs William Melcher begins a twenty year term for the murder of her five year old son.
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Auburn
N. Y
William Melcher
Education chiefs prepare for Alabama Sunday School convention
The Alabama Sunday School convention returns with Oakman school principal IRA Perryman as host figure. Speakers include Dr. L W Munhall Germantown Pa Dr E Y Mullins Louisville and Dr Franklin McElfresh Chicago. Delegates from every Sunday school. entertainment planned. parade and sessions scheduled for April 25 26.
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L. W. Munhall
Germantown
E. Y. Mullins
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisville
Franklin McElfresh
Chicago
D. H. Marbury
Birmingham
J. B. Greene
Opelika
Geo
BE. O. Excell
Alvin W. Roper
Alabama
Excell
MccElfresh
Mullins
Munhall
Armstead Brown
Supreme Court Reopens Alabama Juvenile Case In 1907 Murder
The United States Supreme Court revived interest in Ira Perryman a boy then under fourteen charged with killing Philip Crook a negro in Anniston Alabama in 1907. The high court dismissed a writ of error after Alabama repealed its juvenile immunity law leaving Perryman free on bail. He now lives with his father in Randolph County.
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Supreme Court of the United States
State of
Alabama
Ira Perryman
Philip Crook
United States Supreme Court
Tyson
Supreme Court of Alabama
O. H. Perryman
Coleman
Supreme Court of
al United States
Rge
Anniston
Liberty
Randolph County
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LA Follette
Lapollette
Didacy
W. Pace
King George
Poon
Tay
THE
Anniston City National Bank
England
United Kingdom
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Oakman School
C. R. Bell
Judge Coleman
Perryman
Phil Crook
McElfresh
R. F. Kolb
Montgomery, Ala
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