[1] George Washington Bonaparte Towns owned and edited it.
It was renamed the Alabama Journal and the Times in 1927.
[3] It competed with the Montgomery Advertiser and was purchased by that paper's publisher, Richard F. Hudson, in 1940.
[4] In 1988 the paper was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in the General Reporting category for its coverage of infant mortality rates that resulted in legislation.
[6] For a time it was published as part of the combined Montgomery Advertiser & Alabama Journal.