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{{date|1907|1909}}
==Statistics<ref>"Stamp Sales Reflect Growth and Prosperity of Pensacola." ''Pensacola Journal'', January 3, 1909.</ref>=={{| aligncolbegin}}*Births:<ref name="rightdec07nov08">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| __TOC__**White females: 175**Colored males: 133**Colored females: 120**Creole males: 2|}**Creole females: 10*Deaths:<ref name==Notable events=="dec07nov08"/> 428**White males: 111**White females: 84**Colored males: 108**Colored females: 115**Creole males: 5**Creole females: 4*Marriage licenses: 526*Date unknown – a new Suits filed in [[Pensacola City Hallcircuit court]] is completed at 300 South [[Jefferson Street]] on the east side : 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 [[Plaza Ferdinand VII]]water)**Buildings damaged by fire: 62**Losses covered by insurance: $56,594. The building currently houses the [[T. T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum]]98**153 new alarms installed (38 box, 105 telephone, 10 still)*Stamp sales: $61,272.21{{colend}}==Events==*[[April 75]] – Streetcar operators of the [[Pensacola Electric Company]] [[1908 streetcar operators' strike|go on strike]].*[[April 1211]] – 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==
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