Decatur Se wer Contract Let for New Sewer System
The Decatur sewer project has been let to Guild & Co of Chattanooga for about 29000 dollars. Construction will start July 1 and the plan is deemed constitutional with broad public support. Property owners pay 4 to 5 percent of assessed value, 1 fourth due at completion, rest in three yearly installments. Mayor Skeggs and the city council are lauded for securing the project and attracting residents.
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Decatur
Messrs. Guild & Co
Chattanooga
Tenn
Skeggs
City Counel
Reform vs Constitution and Campaign Tactics Across Papers
A collage of excerpts spans debates on the Alabama Convention and Democratic reorganization with cites from the Atlanta Journal and Jacksonville Times-Union. An ad-like note promotes Tabler's Pile Ointment for hemorrhoids and a Philadelphia industrial convention featuring a distillery mint scene. A St Louis Globe-Democrat quote notes an adjournment motion in a Kentucky matter.
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Philadelphia
Kentucky
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic advert and political note
An old advertisement proclaims Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic contains iron and quinine with No Cure No Pay for 50c. A Louisville Post blames anti imperialists for a weakened republic and notes cabinet attire at a controversial meeting with the president.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Louisville
Nature Aid and Political Succession Highlight 19th Century Era
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla for cleansing the system and brightening the complexion. The text notes William J. Samford as Alabama's thirty first governor and the second to die in office. It also recalls July 20 1820 when William B Bibb of Autauga began his term and was succeeded by his brother Thomas Bibb of Limestone, a rare instance of a brother succeeding a brother in state leadership.
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William J. Samford
Alabama
William B. Bibb
Autauga
Thomas Bibb
Limestone
Senate
Supreme Court
Industrial boom eyed at Ensley Alabama with three new plants
All signs point to extensive development at Ensley Alabama as the Tennessee Coal Iron and Rail Company plans three major additions a rolling mill a tin plate mill and a structural steel works as part of a large industrial expansion.
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Ensley
Alabama
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railsroa Company
Fifty Years of Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Promoted
An advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as trusted for teething and colic relief. It claims to soothe, soften gums, ease pains, cure wind colic, and treat diarrhoea at 25 cents per bottle, with January 1 publication date.
Constitutional Convention Debates Named in Montgomery Sessions
June reports show motions on education funding whites and blacks, a whipping post, and department store petitions. Sections on governor succession, executive powers, and banking provisions dominate the day with a push for a higher governor salary and a clash between Judge Coleman and Gov. Jones over office honor.
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Montgomery
Graham
Committee On Education
Williams
Maenyo
Pettus
Case
DeRaib
Caser
Mr. Fletcher
Committee On Parks and Banking
General Assembly
O'Neal
Lauderdale
Executive Depot
Knox
Coleman
Gov. Jones
Southern Prosperity Praised by Northern Capitalists
The New York World notes that the South, with one fourth of U S area and one third of its people, earned 545 million dollars from cotton and cottonseed last year, 300 million from corn and lumber, and dominates tobacco, coal, iron, railroads, and rising cotton mills, signaling a lasting shift in U S manufacturing strength away from New England.
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South
Philadelphia
New York World
United States
New England
Dixie
Grove's Tasteless Cholera Cure Ad
The Best Prescription for Malaria Chillé and Fever is Grove's Tasteless bill-Tonic. It is iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure no pay. Price 50c. nov2 ldr.
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Grove
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Editors Missing There The Prison Mirror Motto
The Minnesota penitentiary paper laments the absence of editors among its staff claiming editors never stay. It mocks preachers doctors and lawyers then quips editors all die good and go to Heaven.
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The
Prison Mirror
Minnesota Penitentiary
Hades
Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold Dramatic Claim
An old advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets as a cure for a cold in one day with a no cure, no pay offer. The ad uses bold repetition and a small price claim of 25 cents, dated from period promotional copy.
Blue Mountain Chautauqua Reduced Rail Fares Anniston
Anniston Alabama hosts Blue Mountain Chautauqua from June 20 to July 14 1901 with reduced round trip fares via Southern Railway and Alabama Great Southern Railroad. One fare for select dates June 20 25 29 and July 1 1901 with three day limit, and one and one third fare for travel June 15 to July 3 final July 6. Tickets via local ticket agents.
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Anniston
Ala
Southern Railway
Alabama Great Southern Railroad
The
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Southern Press
Atlanta Journal
Col. Watterson
Col. Bryan
Jacksonville Times-Union
Assist Nature
Nature
Hood
Lomax
Dixizz
Blue Mountain Chautauqua
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