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MOBILE, Ala. -- The JaMarcus Russell Foundation, with assistance from the Mobile Police Department Explorers, gave away turkeys on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2009, during the foundation's second annual Thanksgiving Turkey Give-A-Way. The event was held at Taylor Recreational Park facility at 1050 Baltimore St. in Mobile. JaMarcus Russell is a Mobile native and former football star at Williamson High School. Following a college football career at LSU, Russell went on to play for the NFL's Oakland Raiders, where he is quarterback.

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Yesterday's news

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

From 1859

"The daughters of Eve, of all ages and conditions, are admonished of the dazzling array of rich and desirable dress goods, silks, plaids, poplins, delames, merinos, fixins, and all of the ten thousand and odd whatyoucallems with which they are wont to deck their blessed bodies, to be found in the first class dry goods establishment superintended by Messrs. Averell & Rice , and their host of good looking and accommodating employees, at No. 104 Dauphin street."

Wed., Nov. 3, 1909

"An alleged violation of the Fuller law at Citronelle, Ala., on the 13th of August caused the arrest of Mr. Carl S. Pick , a young business man of that town. Mr. Pick was married a short time before and that day returned from a bridal trip. The Citronelle Band gave Mr. and Mrs. Pick a serenade and the bride and groom asked them in to drink a glass of homemade wine. ... Three months after the affair, Mr. Pick was arrested for violation of the Fuller law."

" 'Few things have occurred in Citronelle that have aroused such indignation as this indignity to Mr. Pick,' Pick said of the affair."

"Mr. A.A. Randall , manager of the Sumatra tobacco plantation near Chunchula, was in the city yesterday with samples of this year's crop, and expressed himself as well pleased with the quality, which is very fine, strong and of good color."

Sat., Nov. 3, 1934

"Capt. 'Doc' OBannon's Lions club team loped away to a 3 to 1 victory over 'Glass Arm' Neander Cunningham's Kiwanians last night out at Hartwell field in the third of a five-game series of donkey baseball for the benefit of Mobile's Azalea Trail."

"The season for deer hunting began auspiciously for a party of Mobile hunters Thursday, when members of the group 'bagged' three of the coveted quadrupeds in the Sunflower, Ala., section.

"Those who killed deer were Dr. Selden Stephens , W.B. Garner and S.A. Barrett ."

Tues., Nov. 3, 1959

"The beautiful Imperial House, new and inviting restaurant operated by Morrison Cafeteria Co., opens today at 2920 Government Blvd., on U.S. Highway 90 West. ...

" 'We have designed the Imperial House to blend with this historical city as well as provide a setting of quiet comfort for the discriminating diner,' said Dillon March , architect of the local firm, W.H. and Dillon T. March.' "

Compiled by Cammie East Cowan from files of the Press-Register