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Newspaper
Moulton Advertiser
Location
Moulton, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1908
Page
4
A local newspaper invites readers in Lawrence county to vote for two popular gentlemen by clipping coupons. The Moulton Advertiser offers two Jersey cows as premiums and runs a voting and subscription incentive with tiered ballot counts and agent rewards.
The article urges readers to save and send papers to back contestants for The Moulton Advertiser prizes. It explains entrusting ballots via friends on rural routes, notes a Strong Box tally system to be opened December 20, and promises weekly reports. It emphasizes community fun and long-term readership.
In accordance with the Alabama Election Law the Lawrence County Board of Registrars gives notice of reentry appointments for electors. The list includes multiple beats with dates from July 27 to August 21 1908 and notes a court house purge of the registration list on August 10 1908. The board asks citizens to report deaths and removals. Signed by Jas T Masterson J R Howell and W R Harris.
Estate of Simon Smith deceased. Court approves letters of administration on June 20 1908 by Judge 3 C Kumpe of Lawrence County Probate Court. All creditors must present claims within legally allowed time or be barred. Solomon Smith, Administrator.
Mrs George J Gould’s mother gains fortune through her daughter in law’s career. A New Idea Magazine note praises her influence, noting a grand role in New York society and as grandmother to the Gould lineage.
Democratic ticket lists candidates for Associate Justice J T Simpson of Land Je and J J Mayfield of Tuscaloosa. Electors state at large F C Pugh of Jefferson and Emmett O Neal of Lauderdale. Game and Fish Warden John H Wallace of Madison. President of Railroad Commission Charles Henderson of Proy.
William Richardson of Madison county appears as a congressional nominee. County nominees include M. H. Craig for Superintendent of Education, D. H. Bracken for Tax Collector, W. C. Hamilton for Tax Assessor, J. M. Sandlin for Treasurer, and for Court of Revenue candidates across districts: J. Hames in the northwest district, E. B. Harris in the northeast district, Rome Pickens in the southwest district, and Jack Windham in the southeast district.
Advertises valuable sewing machines with drop head designs and full attachments for new subscriptions and renewals. Promises inspection, guaranteed quality, and a call to help women secure one while noting coupons and card requests for distant subscribers. Encourages joining the widely appealing promotion.
The platform endorses Roosevelt policies, condemns wealth abuse and privilege, and calls for anti injunction rules by statute with notice. It supports labor relief, tariff revision after inauguration, flexible money policy, stronger federal supervision of interstate trusts, expansive inland waterways, ready military readiness, improved road construction, and equal justice for all races, opposing disfranchisement.
Miss Emma Ratliff of Morgan county asks subscribers to Birmingham Ledger to help her win a paper scholarship. A sister of Mrs. J L D Byars near Moulton, she visits occasionally and asks friends to save coupons and give them to Brother Byars.
A mid summer plea contrasts wood and wool with heat and discomfort. The writer urges rural readers to supply 100 words worth of oak, hickory, elm, hackberry and ash, split and straight, not badly curved, and to respond.
Government invites enterprising farmers to secure choice farms on irrigation schemes in North Dakota Montana Wyoming and Nevada. With limited public land remaining a large influx of settlers is expected in 1908. Contact the U S Reclamation Service in Washington DC for full details on location soil climate crops and terms.
The News of Indianapolis argues the national ticket faces defeat due to White House dictates, alienation of progressive Republicans, opposition from Black voters, hostility from organized labor, and a controversial Decoration Day remark about General Grant that could dampen Grand Army support.
Alabama Books and Songs offers a scrap book and assorted items with short titles and brief descriptions. Items include The Scrap Book for 2.00 You a looking glass for 100 Heart Shots essays for leisure thinking and Words and Music Wearing a Smile plus other titled songs and reflections. Postage paid on receipt of price. Address-
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