Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama interrupted a debate on the cruiser bill, last week, with the announcement: "The Senate will be profoundly shocked and grieved to learn of the death of ... Oscar Underwood...
Puzzling is the constant (endemic) presence of mild typhus fever in a certain few sections of the U. S. Hospitals in the Atlantic Coast cities from Boston south always have a few cases. They appear in the Piedmont section of the Carolinas. Alabama, Georgia and Florida have quite the largest number sick with typhus. But Mississippi or Louisiana have had none reported to health officers. Tampa, Pensacola, Mobile, Galveston and Houston (among Gulf cities) have had their mild affliction, and the lower Rio Grande Valley from Laredo to Mercedes. On the Pacific Coast only Los Angeles has reported a considerable...
...body lice. But when they studied the Montgomery, Ala., district, the worst typhus focus in the U. S., they found the whites and Negroes of that region as little lousy as the whites and Negroes of the more northerly Birmingham district. Indeed body lice are almost unknown in Alabama, although head lice are found occasionally in school children. Lice apparently are not responsible for Montgomery typhus. In places further south the health officers found cases popping up in isolated places, without traceable association with a previous case and without subsequent secondary or contact cases. So people have not been infecting...
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...Alabama raises the most Southeastern cotton; Georgia second...