Alabama Supreme Court Validates Court Consolidation Plan
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled the consolidation bill constitutional and valid if enacted, saying a circuit court system will replace local and law and equity courts. It states Jefferson County probate cases and others move to circuits, with Lee and Marengo counties joining their own circuits.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme
Supreme Court
J. Q. Smith
J. P. Stiles
Jeffersonounty
Alabama
Asso- Justice
A. D. Sayre
Lee
Marengo
Courts to keep circuits as they stand in two counties
The article notes circuits remain as current. some gain judges under the new bill while others keep existing staffing. The chief justice may transfer judges between circuits and the attorney general may send a circuit solicitor to assist prosecutions. Mobile cases listed include Barker Cotton Mill Co. v Sage and others. most lack general interest. A Plymouth Rock hen in Mobile reportedly laid a four ounce egg, claimed by local observer LL V. Danzey.
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the Supreme
Mayfield
Barker Cotton Mill Company
Catherine G. Sage
Mobile Law and Equity Court
Edward M. Bailey
Dollie
Mobile Temperance Hall Association
Mary E. Holmes
Mobile Chancery Court
Mobile
Ll. V. Danzey
South Lawrence Street
Uric Acid Remedies and Dr Pierce’s Anuric Promotion
A historical ad describes uric acid as a toxin linked to gout rheumatism and neuralgia and promotes Doctor Pierce’s Anuric tablets as a remedy proved 87 times stronger than lithia. It urges readers to request pamphlets and trial packs from the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo New York and to buy at their drugstore.
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Pierce
Dr. Pierce
The
Invalids’ Hotel _and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
Doctor Pierce
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Wolgast Cleared to Fight Despite Forehead Cut
Ad Wolgast will still headline against Lead Cross in New York after a Atlanta bout injury. A state athletic commissioner’s physician examined Wolgast and issued a clean bill of health noting only a forehead cut.
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New York
Ad Wolgast
Frank Whitney
Atlanta
Lead Cross
State Athletic Commission
Wolgast
Sports notes parade of boxing billiards and coaching jests
The column lists Freddy Welsh and Harry Pollak as dancers, notes Gilmour Dobie never coached at Northwestern, mentions big money in trapshooting and Jess Willard bidding wars. It also covers Danmarks interest in American boxers, Hoppe beating Cochran at billiards, Yale football coaching difficulty, and a Wallace-esque gag about getting Gotch a match. A Times Square snow night encounter with George M. Cohan ends with a dirty tramp joke.
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Freddy Welsh
Harry Pollak
Harry
Gilmour Dobie
Pacific Coast
Northwestern University
Mathewson
Printer
New York
Jess Willard
Jess
Denmark
Donnie
Hoppe
Cochran
Yale
Cincinnati Reds
Joe Stecher
Frank Gotch
George M. Cohan
Broadway
Times Square
New York City
Henry Jenkins and the Case of the Reluctant Worker
A 19th century court tale features Henry Jenkins a man of color who refuses to work claiming the grave of his mother forbids labor. The recorder questions him about landscape gardening and grass cutting while the court offers a month to seek suitable employment before possible highway construction service.
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Henry Jenkins
Henry
Castle van Liew
Jedge
Dave Streiffer
Gibson
Della Mason
Sarah Gillman
Della
Sarah
Rebecca James
Recorder
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