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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1955
Page
11
Classified ad lists two homes on 2 acres near Athens with multiple bedrooms and baths, garages, and features like closets and attic fan. Properties include addresses and a stated lot size with a price around 10 780 dollars and several interior details.
Real estate listings by L B Wright and Son and Earl Glenn Realtor show properties in Sherman Street area. Homes include a 2 story five bedroom with electric water heater at 1504 Sherman Street and a practically new five room house at 1207 10th Avenue Southeast with half basement and six closets priced at 7650. Also a two bedroom house at 1617 Sherman Street with electric heat and venetian blinds priced at 6000 and a detached attic garage at 504 Sommenen Avenue North with a 100 by 150 foot lot in Hortsville.
Local ads promote homes and land with multiple parcels for sale. Listings include 5 to 60 acre plots, 6 and 4 room houses, various bath and gas heat details, price points from $3,675 to $10,000, and urgent sale notes in a compact classified style.
A collage of jokes, quotations, and brief yuks, from Earl Wilson to Will Rogers, about fame, marriage, driving wives, gravity, and a tiger escape, reflecting midcentury humor and light mischief across radio, city life, and travel scenes.
Classified item lists electric motors and pumps for sale from Jervis Foundry and related seller. Partial line reads home freezer specials for sale and notes various motor sizes.
Trade in your old machine for ten dollars or more toward a new NECCHI ELNA or VIGORELLI at Lytton C Walker 612 Oak St North Alabama. Serving the area for over 14 years. Phone 834.
Seized 1947 Pontiac Tudor motor PGMA 8308 license 44 646 will be sold to highest bidder at the Central Office Montgomery Alabama at 10 AM August 29 1955 under Title 29 sections 49 50 51 1940 Code of Alabama. Also probate court notice to Earl Barnes seeking admission of Virginia E Barnes will to probate with August 22 1955 hearing date.
The judge sets a day in August 1955 for a hearing on a petition. interested parties may appear and contest. Dated July 26, 1955, T. C. Almon, Judge of Probate.
Letters testamentary granted August 2 1955 by Judge T C Almon. Notice to all persons with claims against the estate of E W Strother and Dessie Williams to present them within the legal period or be barred. Probate Court Mor gan County. Signed August 8 1955.
A man pays $25 with a note about sending the balance if sleep does not return. The piece also recalls a Texas town exchange about cotton market risk, featuring men named George and Sam discussing price volatility and the Board.
The note explains the daily substitution cipher where A stands for L and X stands for O in LONGFELLOW. It mentions one letter hints and that yesterday's quote by Goldsmith reads CARELESS THEIR MERITS OR THEIR FAULTS TO SCAN HIS PITY GAVE ERE CHARITY.
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