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Newspaper
Pratt City Herald
Location
Pratt City, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1900
Page
4
The Fifth District wrangle over nominations shows conventions and caucuses fail to reflect the people. A primary election is the honest method, giving party adherents a vote and reducing fraud. The HeRald argues Alabama and Jefferson County will shift to primaries, ditching conventions for municipal and ward officer selections by white voters.
Governor Johnston asserts a roughly $600,000 surplus in the State Treasury, while Treasurer Ellis provides a contrasting view of the same funds. The figures from the state treasury suggest a notable difference in interpretation of the surplus.
In the treasury at this time a balance of 6207.20. When the State has paid its debts to pensioners and schools there will be but 3,12.77 on the amount left. As 80,000 is involved in the contested school lands sale the courts may order withdrawal from the treasury showing a deficit of several thousand dollars instead of a surplus. Even if 30,000 remains it is borrowed money belonging to the University and the State pays interest as any borrower. The governor’s claimed surplus thus disappears.
The Bessemer Weekly prints a Nemarker tribute honoring Isidore A Levy Folkland a longtime Alabama Press Association member beloved for his cheerfulness generosity and generosity. Levy known as the babies of the association for his youthfulness is remembered for brightening excursions and making everyone feel at ease. He is described as a good man deeply missed by editors. The piece also notes a State Executive Committee decision urging a primary vote in the Thompson Brewer contest and compliments William Jennings Bryan for his nonabrasive style compared with Roosevelt and Hanna.
Alabama's coal industry projects extraction of nearly ten million tons in the current year. The plan signals strong activity at mining sites and impacts on regional energy supply and employment.
The Hampstead and High gate Express, a daily in a town twice Hampstead size, runs six advertising pages in Roman type and only two pages of reading matter. The Hampstead Wildwood Farm Dairies claims a century in business. The piece contrasts prosy, matter of fact ads with American flamboyance and claims readers in this land notice the difference in trust and persuasion.
An excerpt shows Thomas Nelson Tage attacking Newport society with caustic denunciations of New York customs. The piece notes fallout as Page and the Mages family retreat toward Topeka, while moble register reports on ongoing social dynamics and electoral results.
A colored citizen paid a wedding fee and delivered a humorous poem to the justice of the peace. Meeting a year after the marriage, he quips about married life, and the justice replies with a playful exchange reflecting social humor of the time.
Birmingham Lyceum announces the Page Concert Company of Detroit will perform at the Auditorium next Tuesday. Reader Mrs. W. B. Frazier of Auburn, Alabama joins the program along with four musicians. The lineup includes Bostonia Sextette, S. M. Spedon, Prof. John B. DeWatte, Imperial Tyrolean Concert Company, Ariel Ladies Sextette, and Hon. Alf Taylor. Season tickets cost 2.50 and grant access to all seven events with general seating.
In The Saturday Evening Post Dr. David Starr Jordan extols the early 20th century United States as the best time and place for a boy to grow with opportunity. He urges keeping clean and going to college, stressing American opportunity and demand for capable, trustworthy men.
A six fortyish cascade of earth ten feet wide and seventy feet long collapsed at the Birmingham Southern Railroad yard near the round house, taking an engine with it. The collapse affected old mine workings beneath the yard and threatened nearby structures. Repairs used cinders to fill the hole, with traffic only lightly disrupted as work continued into Tuesday noon.
Strike at the Ensley steel plant last week stemmed from Superintendent Palmer’s refusal to recognize organized labor. The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company backs Palmer, while other company divisions fully recognize unions, including rolling mills, furnaces, and mines. Deputies were called during a riot that did not occur, a move critics call cowardly. Also noted are Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets and a Princeton professor’s article on Napoleon for Youth’s Companion.
An old advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a cure for piles and injuries, claiming it has cured thousands and guarantees cure with a 24 cent price per box. It also mentions Dr Ersuime's cactus compound as a laxative tonic and other dubious health claims.
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