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From Our Files "The new and elegant steamer Maggie F. Burke was burned at her wharf in Mobile, last Saturday morning. She had just got in with 1,168 bales of cotton, and had discharged about 250 bales when the fire was discovered issuing from below her boiler deck…The Burke was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1878, at a cost of $31,000…No lives were lost…The total loss is estimated at about $70,000…." "Five wagons (says the Eutaw Whig) containing as many or more families passed through Eutaw last Monday morning, moving from Western Texas back to Talladega county, Ala. They say Alabama is a far better country than Texas…We have always contended that Alabama was one of the best States in the Union." "A Merry Christmas to our readers and friends and many returns of the same. May the season be honored as a religious anniversary, and not as a bacchanalian feast, as is too often the case." Dec. 25, 1879 78 years ago Those persons who voted against or spoke against the Democratic nominee in the presidential campaign of 1928 were barred from becoming candidates in the Democratic primary of 1930 by action of the State Democratic Executive Committee…[The action will bar] "both Hugh Locke, of Birmingham, candidate for Governor, and United States Senator J. Thomas Heflin, candidate to succeed himself, from making races in the Democratic primary of 1930." "Before another Democrat is issued the Christmas of 1929 will have become history. We trust it will be one of the happiest our readers have ever known…" W. S. Glenn, Allen merchant, advertised a "special sale on fireworks and other Christmas supplies." The store also advertised, "Every dollar traded here gets Free Chance on Phonograph to be given away Dec. 24 at 3:30 p.m." An ad: "Straight salary: $35.00 per week and expenses. Man or woman with rig to introduce EGG PRODUCER, Eureka Mfg. Co., East St. Louis, Ill. Congressman Miles Allgood of Gadsden, representing Alabama's Seventh District, resigned from the House Committee on Enrolled Bills when it was announced that Oscar DePriest, a black congressman from Chicago, had been assigned to the committee. Allgood did not deny that was the reason for his resignation.
Dec. 19, 1929
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