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{{date|1907|1909}} ==Statistics<ref>"Stamp Sales Reflect Growth and Prosperity of Pensacola." ''Pensacola Journal'', January 3, 1909.</ref>=={{colbegin}}*Births:<ref name="dec07nov08">Figures were released in January 1909 and covered December 1907 through November 1908, inclusive. Please replace with full 1908 figures if available.</ref> 627**White males: 179**White females: 175**Colored males: 133**Colored females: 120**Creole males: 2**Creole females: 10*Deaths:<ref name="dec07nov08"/> 428**White males: 111**White females: 84**Colored males: 108**Colored females: 115**Creole males: 5**Creole females: 4*Marriage licenses: 526*Suits filed in [[circuit court]]: 587*Exports: $18,680,125*Building permits:**Within fire limits: 9 brick, 4 iron**Outside fire limits: 428 wooden buildings**Total (including repair permits): 1,028**Total cost of finished new buildings: $251,870**Total cost of finished repair work: $18,849*Fire losses:<ref name="dec07nov08" />**Buildings destroyed by fire: 37 (19 within reach of water)**Buildings damaged by fire: 62**Losses covered by insurance: $56,594.98**153 new alarms installed (38 box, 105 telephone, 10 still)*Stamp sales: $61,272.21{{colend}}==Events==*[[April 5]] – Streetcar operators of the [[Pensacola Electric Company]] [[1908 streetcar operators' strike|go on strike]].*[[April 11]] – National Guard troops are ordered into Pensacola to protect [[1908 streetcar operators' strike|strikebreakers]] and restore order.*[[May 13]] – [[1908 streetcar operators' strike|Streetcar operators' strike]] ends.*[[July 29]] – [[Leander Shaw]] is hanged by a lynch-mob in [[Plaza Ferdinand VII]] for the rape and murder of [[Lillie Davis]].*A new [[Pensacola City Hall]] is completed at 300 South [[Jefferson Street]] on the east side of [[Plaza Ferdinand VII]]. The building currently houses the [[T. T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum]]. ==Deaths==*[[August 9]] – [[Emma Lucy Varner Sanders]] ==Candidates for office==:''See [[Municipal elections, 1908]] ==References & notes=={{reflist}}
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