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PATRON – The Butler County News – 1914 includes personal news from communities of Starlington and East Garland Alabama.

(Excerpts transcribed from The Butler County News, Georgiana, Alabama September 10, 1914) STARLINGTON Well there is no panic at Mt. Olive West, judging from…

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PATRON – The Butler County News – 1914 include personal news from Bethel West and Garland of singings and dancing

(Local news excerpts transcribed from The Butler County News, Georgiana, Alabama September 10, 1914) INTENDED FOR LAST ISSUE BETHEL WEST Mrs. R. Hawkins returned…

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Is this a photograph from the Titanic? [see film] No, it is one of many steamships built by an Alabama native before the Civil War

When the building of steamboats was still in its infancy, one Alabamian built floating palaces, as fine and as fast as money could produce.…

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PATRON – One Dr. Coleman returns to Abbeville, Henry County, Alabama while another leaves for Alaska.

(Transcribed from Abbeville Herald, Abbeville, Alabama April 1, 1920) (Transcribed from Abbeville Herald, Abbeville, Alabama April 1, 1920) THE DOTHAN EAGLE, HOUSTON COUNTY, ALABAMA…