Alabama state highway improvements debated at Montgomery meeting
The state highway commission met in Montgomery to decide how 1911 state aid will be apportioned after a Jefferson county suit. The panel faces whether counties performing 1911 road work with their own teams lose state funds, then redistribute losses. The group approved a contract with Southern Bridge Company for six steel bridges in Sumter county and reviewed engineer Keller’s quarter ending December 31 noting satisfactory results.
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Montgomery
Ala
Jeferson County
State
Highway Commission
Jefferson County
Southern Bridge Company
Sumter
W. S. Keller
Keller
Farmer's Wife Finds Relief with Pinkham's Compound
Westwood Maryland woman describes months of nervous spells and pain from organic inflammation. After following Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound guidance she reports restored health and urges other women to seek help, inviting confidential correspondence from the medicine co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
John F. Richards
Westwood
Maryland
Lydia E.pinkham
Mobile and Bay Shore Division Double Daily Trains
Train service between Mobile and Bay Shore takes effect Sunday January 5 1913. Daily departures from Mobile include 9 15 am and 4 00 pm with Sunday only 8 35 am and 7 20 pm. Arrivals at Mobile are 9 00 am and 2 20 pm daily except Sunday 8 11 am and 6 45 pm. City ticket office 23 South Royal Street. H E Jones Jr general agent passenger department.
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Mobile
Bay Shore
South Royal Street
Florida official held on murder charge in Gunn assassination
In Pensacola Florida a coroner's jury links Thomas Clements Sr chairman of Liberty County Florida to the murder of William H Gunn Jr near his home before Christmas. Clements and his two sons are indicted with the senior held without bail. The sons are missing. A witness testified Clements and his sons rode away after the shooting.
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Pensacola
Fila
William H. Gunn
Thomas Clements
Board of
County Commissioners
Liberty County
Clements
Bristol
Gadsden County
Quincy
Gunn
Road program progress and 1913 state aid details
The report outlines county efforts to safeguard the 1911 appropriation through year end, work on state trunk roads planned for May or June, and anticipated national road aid within two years. It notes scouting trips, contracts awarded or bid on in multiple counties, and the 1913 state aid allotment of 2000 dollars per county.
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Boyd
Birmingham Ledger
Tuscaloosa Times
Birmingham
Meridian
Miss
Craft
Keller
Lamar
Hale
Jefferson
Chilton
Coosa
Pike
Barbour
Sumpter
Tuscaloosa
Crenshaw
Clarke Counties
Washington County
Highway Commission
St. Clair
Autauga
Marengo
Houston
Geneva
Mobile
Elmore
Colbert
Russell
Limestone
Jackson
Blount
Escambia
Marion
Dallas
Montgomery County
Health board discusses safeguards for dam aqueduct
Alabama Health Board members and Alabama Power Company representatives met to review public health safeguards for the Coosa River dam at Lock 12. Dr W H Sanders reported a sanitar survey of the inundated district done with the company. The dam will flood river banks in four counties when finished. Thomas W Martin headed company delegation, with several engineers present.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Power Company
Coosa River
Lock 12
State Medical Board
W. H. Sanders
Thomas W. Martin
Make Your Own Cough Syrup With Pinex and Sugar
A household guide promotes a home cough syrup using Pinex and sugar syrup. It claims equal effectiveness to store bought remedies, notes a 50 cent price for Pinex, and offers a money back guarantee through The Pinex Company in Ft Wayne, Indiana.
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Norway
Exrae
United States
Canada
Ft. Wayne
Ind
State medical board to hear Dinsmore Moss reports
The state medical board, chaired by Dr. W H Sanders, includes Drs C A Mohr, L W Johnston, W P Gaines, S G Gay, D T Talley, R N Cunningham, S W Welch, Glenn Andrews, and I L Watkins. They will supervise examinations which begin today. Over twenty five medical students have applied to take the state license examination.
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W. W. Dinsmore
P. B. Moss
State Medical Board
W. H. Sanders
General Strike Averts Walkout After Coast Line Talks
In Montgomery Alabama January 14 a threatened general strike by Atlantic Coast Line shop workers remained unresolved as leaders from several unions met with railroad officials in Wilmington to press for a two cent hourly wage increase and renewal of the 1911 agreement. About 650 to 700 employees across crafts were involved with a 20 to 1 vote in favor of striking if demands were unmet. Officials ordered workers to remain at their posts pending conference results and optimism for an adjustment prevailed locally.
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Montgomery
Ala
Wilmington
R. C. Taylor
Neat sum recovered for state school land
A Covington county case led to residents paying $3 per acre for 640 acres of state school land. The state board of compromise deemed the residents had equity, and about $1,200 had been paid with a total expected of $1,920. The lands are part of the original sixteenth section lands designated for schools.
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Montgomery
Ala
Covington County
State Board of Compromise
Southern Fair Association Holds Southern Convention
Representatives from Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Kentucky met in Jackson to form new members and set non conflicting fair dates. A committee will select dates for South fairs to avoid clashes among Louisville Augusta Mobile Hot Springs and New Orleans events.
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Jackson, Miss
Southern Fair Association
Mississippi
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Kentucky
Louisville
Augusta
Mobile
Hot Springs
New Orleans
South
Montgomery Medicos to Honor Dr J Marion Sims
The Montgomery County Medical Society plans a January 25 service to commemorate the birth anniversary of Dr J Marion Sims, hailed as father of modern gynecology for his 1849 silver suture treatment of vesicovaginal fistula in Montgomery and later fame in New York.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Montgomery Ctunty Medical Society
J. Marion Sims
Sims
New York
River Engineers Prepare for Flood at Eleven Points
Vicksburg Mississippi reporters say engineers of the third district plan prompt action at eleven sites including open crevasses to avert danger if the Mississippi River rises beyond levee levels. Weather forecasts place the stage at 40 feet with water in sight.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Mississippi
Alabama schools to gain revenue from dam project
J. J. Edmondson of Tuscaloosa urges Governor O Neal that if the Alabama Interstate Power Company is allowed to build a dam at lock 12 on the Coosa river the state should receive revenue from the grant to support schools. Taft vetoed a similar bill for lacking government revenue. The push to overturn Taft’s veto continues in the state.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Interstate Power Compais Os
Coosa River
J. J. Edmondson
Tuscaloosa
Taft
Edmondson
O'Neal
Two Doctors Attend Judge Jones as He Fights Pneumonia
Montgomery Ala Jan 14 Two physicians attend Federal Judge Thomas G Jones who is critically ill with pneumonia at his home Complications are feared The 68 year old jurist presides over the middle district of Alabama He was appointed in Theodore Roosevelt's first administration The December term of the federal court has been abandoned and jurors discharged due to his illness
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Montgomery
Ala
Thomas G. Jones
Carney Land Company Organized in Baldwin
Articles of incorporation filed in the probate office here name James A. Carney Eliot G Rickardy and W Corwin Frank as incorporators with Carney as president and principal stockholder The company will operate from Carney Alabama and focus on paying and selling real estate and development in the region The capital stock is 215000.
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Minette
Ala
Carney Land and Development Company
James A. Carney
Carney
El-iot G. Rickardy
Mobile
W. Corwin Frank
Canton
Ohio
Mississippi Electors Cast A Straight Vote For Wilson
Jackson Jan 14 The Democratic electors for Mississippi met in Jackson and cast the state's ten electoral votes for Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall in a brief formal session.
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Mississippi
Jackson, Miss
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas R. Marshall
R.E. Spivey
Madison
Why is Sugar Sweet GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC
The tonic claims to be strong as the bitter tonics yet tasteless due to non dissolving in the mouth. Sugar does not dissolve in the mouth, so sweetness comes from acids in the stomach. Marketed as equally good for grown people and children. The first and original for 30 years. Price 60c.
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GROVE
A Texas Wonder Cure Ad Excerpt
An old Florida style patent medicine ad touts Texas Wonder as a remedy for kidney and bladder troubles in men women and children. It claims to cure gravel diabetes and rheumatism and promises mail delivery of a one dollar bottle with testimonials and address for Dr EB Hall in St Louis Missouri.
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Texas
Olive Street
St. Louis
Cottage and hall with three rooms and bath
Property listing notes a cottage with three rooms kitchen and bath on Elmira Street near Milne. Describes a larger lot on Elmira and 2nd east Marine Street Brittig paying $300 per year. White tenants, always rented, near the car line.
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N. E. Car. Milne and
Elmira Sts
Elmira
East Marine St
Brittig
Vacant Lots Sold at Various City Locations
Several vacant parcels listed with sizes and prices. N S Montgomery and 2nd E Marine specify 55 by 106 feet at $400 each. Four lots on N S Old Shell Road west of Gilbert Street, large lot at $400 each. Government Street Heights lot one square from Govern ment Street priced at $250. W Plum 4th 8 Lyons Street 506 by 103 feet also offered.
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Old Shell Road
Gilbert St
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Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Florida
State Health Board
Hostetter
Grippe
GEO. A. Dickel & CO
Distillers
Nashville, Tenn
Richard Liquor Co. Distributors
Commerce Street
Feradicrela
Atlantic Coast Line
Castor
Bears
Tyue Centaur Company
New York City
Fair Associaton
Montgomery Medicos
J. M. Sims
Thos. G. Jones
Carney Land Company
Baldwin
S. E. Charleston
Dearborn
Conception
Maryland Streets
N. O
Delaware
New Jersey
St. Emanuel Street
S. Hamilton Street
Hall
Bath
M. J. Vickers & Son
Morrill & Lyons
St. Francis
W. Pine St
S. State
S. Basil
E. Kennedy St
Semmes Ave
N. Hamilton St
Monroe
E. Stocking St
N. S. Montgomery
E. Marine St
Congress
W. Calhoun St
Government St. Heights
Government St
W. Plum
Lyons St
Yuille
Francis ST
W. P. Roberts & CO
Masonic’ Temple
Bier
Jas. K. Glennon
Gulf Coast
Ee Paula
Ea Ta Ferguson
Windsor
Dauphin
Julia Stream
Costello & Doyle
ST. Francis Street
W. H. Cooper
REA State
Vacventires Bank of Mobile
Bell Phone
Windsor Cafe
Albert ER. Reynolds
Colden A Brown
Tal
Tole
Mobile Daily Item
Emma Tay
Abraham Lincoln
Tuno
Osek
Inc
Tissot
Bik
Douay
Endian
Faley
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