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The Birmingham Times
1871 –City of Birmingham founded; now the state’s most populous city, Birmingham was founded at the crossing of two rail lines near one of the world’s richest deposits of minerals.
1873 Birmingham becomes seat of Jefferson County.
–First Colored Baptist Church founded. Birmingham particularly hard hit by cholera due to the lack of urban infrastructure and the poor housing conditions. At least 128 people died from cholera, which struck in the height of summer and persisted for several weeks. The outbreak caused about half of Birmingham’s 4,000 residents to flee.
1874 – Birmingham Iron Age newspaper in publication.
Sloss Furnaces. (Birmingham, Ala. Public Library Archives)
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Which district attorneys in Alabama are pushing to block medical marijuana? AL.com 4 hrs ago Ramsey Archibald, al.com
District attorneys representing just over half of Alabamians jumped into the legislative debate this week, calling marijuana a gateway drug and attempting to block Alabama from joining most of the nation in allowing medical marijuana.
Twenty-three of the state’s 42 top prosecutors, including two from larger urban counties around Huntsville and Mobile, signed a letter to Alabama lawmakers in opposition.
They urged state lawmakers to kill a bill that would make Alabama the 37th state to allow the use of medical cannabis products, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The legislation is sponsored by Sen. Tim Melson, a Republican and a physician from Florence.