On December 8, 1937, this curious story was reported in The Tuscaloosa News from Huntsville, Alabama. SISTERS ADMIT MARITAL FRAUD Three Confess They Obtained Money, Clothes, Rings From Prospective Husbands Huntsville, Alabama Dec. 8 (1937) (AP) Three Alabama sisters, charged with using the mails to defraud in connection with ‘fake marriage’ proposals, pleaded guilty in […]
(Transcribed from Fairhope Courier, August 1, 1919) OLD SETTLER TELLS ABOUT OLD TIMES One of the old-time settlers of Fairhope who arrived here when the land was simply a wilderness and really knows what pioneering is, dropped into the Courier office the first of the week and gave the writer a few illustrations of what […]
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume V– Scroll to bottom to see Table of Contents of this book Stories Transcribed from the Times Daily December 15, 1894 BACK FROM TEXAS About a year ago about thirty Lauderdale people – men, women and children -left the Rogersville neighborhood […]
In England: This world’s a City full of crooked streets, And death the Market-place where all men meets; If Life was Merchandise that men could buy, The rich would live and none but poor would die. Cemetery 1934 by photographers Harris and Ewing (Library of Congress) A Man who lived and died in a city […]
During the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918-1920 the death toll worldwide reached 20 million including 548,000 Americans in 10 months. Compared to 20 million soldiers and civilian deaths in all of WWI. It reached all parts of the globe, annihilating Eskimo villages in Alaska and one out of every 5 people in Western Samoa. The […]
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