DOWN IN ALABAMA, / SOMETHING ABOUT THE PEOPLE, / POLITICS AND INDUSTRIES. / THE ADVENT OF NEW ENGLAND CAPI- /TAL, AND WHAT WE WILL DO. /FORT PAYNE A SECOND BIRMINGHAM - ITS/ RESOURCES. / A MAGNIFICENT COUNTRY AWAITING / DEVELOPMENT. / Result Already Accomplished, and / Plans for the Future. / [caption title above first column of text and 13 long paragraphs of dense text addressing the issues raised in the headlines, printed in three columns with eight sub-heads highlighting important points]. Signed at the end “Chas. P. Bond,” described above the text as “Financial Editor of the Boston Traveller.”
Boston, MA: Boston Traveller, Saturday, Dec. 15, 1888. First edition, this issue only, a printed broadside, 20 ¾ x 9 3/8 inches. Largely a promotional for Fort Payne, where Bond filed this report. “This region, so exhaustless in supplies, so admirably furnished with coal, so conveniently communicating with the Gulf..... More
