Eight Held For Beating Miner in Alabama
In Bessemer Alabama on July 13 a mine employee Thomas A Warnell said he was dragged from a bus and beaten by about 50 men for not observing a three day work week. He reported the assault occurred near the Short Creek coal mine of Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. Police filed assault with intent to murder charges against 11 men. eight were jailed. The Short Creek mine employs about 450 workers and seven shifts did not report to work after the arrests. UMW officials did not comment.
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Bessemer
Ala
Thomas A. Warnell
Sheriff's
Tennessee Coal & Iron Company
Short Creek
Warnell
UMW
TCI
Sewer Bond Issue Wins Approval in Jefferson County
Jefferson County voters approve a $10,000 sewer bond program with 7,268 for and 4,715 against from 231 of 251 boxes. Health officials warned the existing sewage system posed a health menace and funding comes via sewage rental fees with no new taxes.
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Birmingham
Jefferson County
Joe Money Plans 1950 Run for Governor
Birmingham businessman Joe Money announces definite plan to run for governor in 1950. He is 38 and says he has strong support from all 67 counties and is a Jackson native.
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Joe Money
Birmingham
Money
Jackson
Beauty queens arrive in Miami Beach for visit
Fourteen young ladies from Southern states arrived in Miami Beach for a weeklong visit. They were winners of beauty and talent contests sponsored by radio stations in their hometowns and were chosen for the trip. Sponsors expect 25 contestants for the preliminary elimination contest tomorrow night.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Extradition Stay In Tingley Case Delays California Return
Montgomery July 13 A pending U S Supreme Court appeal has stayed Alabama court action ordering Marold N Tingley returned to California to face war veterans fraud charges The state court of appeals announced the stay while the appeal proceeds The Alabama Supreme Court had upheld the lower court ruling that Tingley must go to California to face charges The United States Supreme Court appeal keeps the extradition in limbo pending decision
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Montgomery
U. S. Supreme Court
Alabama
Marold N. Tingley
California
State Court of Appeals
Tingley
All-Day Singing at Cotaco Church Set For Sunday
A note from the Cotaco church announces an all day singing this Sunday July 17 with dinner served at noon The Speer family from Double Springs will perform Saturday night July 16 The event aims to attract singers and fans of good singing to a long community gathering in Hartselle Alabama
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Cotaco Church
Ning
John Grizzard
Hartselle
Speer
Double Springs
Cotaco
Office Cat: Substitute Speaker Compared to Ragged Pane
The substitute speaker likened his role to rags stuffed in a window, not glass. Dr. Gerald McCullough, theology professor, praised him as a real pane. A singer asks for an accompaniment, and the teacher suggests a bodyguard.
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Gerald McCullough
Garrett Biblical Institute
Food for Thought by Hawley E. Everhart
A brief verse reflecting on a man missing his wife’s cooking, noting humorous irony in daily meals. The writer Hawley E. Everhart frames the thought as a light, nostalgic observation. The piece centers on domestic life and sentiment rather than public events.
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Hawley E. Everhart
Impressive family tree clue ends with electric chair note
A genealogist hired by Mrs Jones uncovers a single recorded ancestor who was executed by electrocution for murder. The researcher then notes the ancestor had occupied the chair of applied electricity at a well known public institution. The clipping adds that staying current is key to business success.
Strange Team Roles Echo In Courtroom Drama
A terse exchange probes what position a player holds on the squad as opponents question the true stance of each role. The dialogue hints at provocation and the perception that teammates’ duties appear more pliant than the speaker’s.
Overheard on the Sweetcar Seat Exchange
A brief exchange occurs as one man sits beside another on a streetcar. The first greets the other and compliments his appearance, prompting a short, polite response. The fragment suggests a casual, everyday moment in transit.
Costume contrasts and home building jests in a humorous collage
A skein of quips and captions riffs on fashion size beachwear carpentry and family life. It lampoons magazine claims about physiques old jokes compare fathers dawn routines and the lure of vacations while offering light social humor through brief vignettes and caption-style lines.
Franklin's Almanack Made Franklin Rich in Colonial Era
The widely known Poor Richard's Almanack elevated Benjamin Franklin to wealth and fame as a prominent colonial publisher and polymath.
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Richard
Benjamin Franklin
Official rushed to crash scene hospital aid
A woman shielded her unborn child with a blanket as officials prepared to crash the aircraft. Doctors cited maternal instinct to protect the fetus while the stewardess suffered serious injuries. CAB Chief Peyton arrived about 90 minutes after the crash.
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Peyton
Bamian Dies in Chicago Radio Chief Covington Dead
Montgomery Alabama radio station owner P G W Covington Jr died in Chicago yesterday at age talk no further details provided. Covington founded and led a regional broadcasting firm and expanded stations across the Southeast.
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Sherman
Covington
WCOV
Montgomery
Selma
Gadsden
Ala
Chicago
A Bamian
P—G. W. Covington, Jr
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Times
Duel L. Jones
Carpenter
Victor Stone
Belk
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Lee Street
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