Legacy of the Lawrence County Bar in Moulton
A reflective portrait recalls Col. Richard O. Pickett and Maj. Thomas M. Peters as representative figures of the old Moulton and Lawrence County bar. The piece lauds their democratic spirit, integrity, and distinct legal temperaments, contrasting Peters’s scholarly, constitutional focus with Pickett’s practical, persuasive advocacy.
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Moulton
Lawrence County
Kent
Blaskstone
Taney
Marshall
Moulton Bar
Richard O. Pickett
Thomas M. Peters
North Alabama
Dick’ Pickett
Tom’ Peters
Dick”’ Pickett
Tom”’ Peters
Maj. Peters
Morning Thoughts for a Week of Daily Reflections
Sunday to Friday offer a devotional cadence praising Christ's sacrifice and urging daily virtue. Each day presents a maxims style theme on joy, courage, home, fame, and selflessness, ending with a hopeful prayer for meaningful deeds and a thankful heart.
Farmers' telephones win at Georgia State Fair
The Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company farm line exhibit won blue ribbon and diploma for best suggestions to boost social educational and economic farm interests. The display showed rural telephones and line construction details and highlighted growing farm use and cost reductions enabling near-exchange service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Line Department
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Southern Bell Company
Unprecedented offer for two papers and three pictures
A sales pitch promotes Moulton Advertiser and Farm and Fireside as top religious and farming journals. It praises the Lincoln engraving for homes and for inspiring boys toward public service, urging readers to seize the $1.15 deal to support their ginger solicitations and machinery contests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moulton Advertiser
Farm and Fireside
Abraham Lincoln
Kentucky
The New Idea Woman's Magazine December 1908 features
December 1908 issue highlights The Spirit of Christmas by Brand Whitlock The Price of Fame by Maud Powell Why Motherhood is Unpopular by Nevada Davis Hitchcock and The Romance of Camille Clifford by Helen Voriane Hammidge plus Christmas in the Used-to-Be Land and Dorothea Dix House piece. Social Problems Children's Red Cross Club What is Good Form Hygiene Health Needlework Fashions Housekeepers Exchange and more.
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Brand Whitlock
Maud Powell
Nevada Davis Hitchock
Camille Clifford
Helen Voriane Hambidge
Caroline Denton
Dorothea Dix
Gertrude Hill Springer
Maria Scott
Red Cross Club
New Idea Publishing Co
Broadway
New York City
Big Vegetables in California Letter from Los Angeles
A long letter from Los Angeles dated November 10 1908 thanks a printer and proof reader for a copy of Old Lawrence in The Moulton Advertiser Nov 8. It humorously extols oversized produce seen in Imperial Valley and Southern California including potatoes beans gourds beets pumpkins and a giant stalk of cotton with many playful notes about weight size and novelty crops. It closes with a tease of more such tales from California in the future.
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Moulton
Hester
Russelville
Imperial Valley
Los Angeles
California
Dixie Land
Old
Lawrence
What to Do If a Mad Dog Blocks the Road
A reader moralizes on road maintenance and public duty. If a mad dog appears, dive if waters are deep enough and surface to ask what provoked the dog. The creature’s actions signal roads poorly kept and public responsibility. Taxpayers, including corporations, should fund road upkeep or face jail to gain the benefit of maintenance.
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Bill
The Rev Hicks Almanac For 1909 Announcement
The notice advertises the 1909 Rev IRL Hicks Almanac ready November 11 with mail price 36 cents and newsstand price 36c. It promotes mail subscription and a free copy with Word & Works monthly issue, listing Word & Works Co. at 2101 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri.
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Word & Works
Word & Works Co
Locust Street
St. Louis
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Journa Warre
J Paul Wuhr
J. M. Irwin
Attorney At Law
Ala
Chenault
Downing
Chenault & Downing
Attorneys At Law
Bank of Moulton
MO. HH. Irwin
Bank OF
Public Square
Feleg Wwin
EF. DD
Glilbscon
Noulton
the Masterson Hotel
Ame
MaTrir Masterson
Aeen
Sue
Windham & CO
W. C. Irwin
Moulton, Ala
W. D. Irwin
A. Bernstein
Dr. King
Wyker’s
Old Lawrence
S. W. Barsie
Olive St
Cal
Col. Pickett
Peters
Jefferson Davis
John Marshall
Christ
The
Atlanta Constitution
New Idea
Woman’s Magazine
Bro. White
Iwkill
Vulcan
John D. Wyker & Son
Decatur
Alabama
Irl R. Hicks
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