Word: bragg
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Died. Braxton Bragg Comer, 78, onetime (1907-11) Governor of Alabama, onetime (1920) U. S. Senator from Alabama; in Birmingham, after a long illness...
...publisher of all the newspapers in Mobile, Ala., last week bought an Evening Times, and thereby became publisher of all the evening newspapers in his state's capital, Montgomery. He merged the Evening Times with his Montgomery Evening Journal. Publisher Thompson's onetime partners in Birmingham, onetime Governor Braxton Bragg Comer and son Donald Comer, were not associated with him in the new purchase, their interest in newspapers having been purely industria-political. Save for one newspaper, the Montgomery morning Advertiser (owned by Publisher Victor H. Hanson of the Birmingham News), all the newspapers in Alabama's second and third...
Peddlers used to be called "Bible Leaf Joe," "Dew Drop," "Johnny Cup o' Tea," "Leather Breeches," "Dutch Molly," "Shoestring Pratt." Now they are plain "our-Mr.-Zerkle," "our-Mr.-Bragg." Along the road they used to meet, instead of small-time vaudeville folk, really queer dicks like David Wilbur, Rhode Island's gentle, weatherwise, forest wildman, whose passion was scratching signs on pumpkins; Dan Pratt, the sawbuck philosopher, whiskered butt of a score of colleges; Ann Lee and her twelve disciples who rumor said were self-made eunuchs; and Johnny Appleseed, wilderness pilgrim, with his body...
Publisher Thompson had two partners when he bought the Age-Herald; Braxton Bragg Comer, the first citizen of Alabama, 79 this year, who governed Alabama from 1907 to 1911, and his son, Donald Comer...