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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Aug 13, 1952

Page

11

For Sale Classified listing of sewing machines and tools

High pressure and heating boilers from Jervis Foundry and Machine Co. Sewing machines NECCHI SEW GEM SHERATON with repair services and trade-in on other machines. Upholstering tailoring dress making machines with two-year repair guarantee. Lytton C. Walker 612 Oak St. Phone 834. Also Underwood portable typewriter 25. 16 gauge shotgun 20. 30 caliber pump Remington 20. 22 pump Savage 15 today only at Tennessee Valley Hotel room 318. Roll-away bed with mattress in good condition Phone 348 W.

Necchi GEM Sheraton Lytton C. Walker Oak St Underwood Tennessee Valley Hotel

SPECIAL H John Deere Tractor and Implements For Sale

Classified notice lists a John Deere tractor with a two pawl plow cultivator disc harrow section harrow and two row planter with a two wheel tractor priced at 795. Also notes trade in options and contact details. Probate and corporate legal notices follow, detailing estate letters and Dixie Freezer Inc stockholders meeting with date and location.

H. John Deere

Early Chicago Cafeteria Opens 1895 By Ernest Kimball

The first cafeteria started in Chicago in 1895 by Ernest Kimball. He relocated from Adams Street after four years but kept the business operating in a basement of a city office building until 1925.

Chicago Ernest Kimball Adams Street

DAILY CROSSWORD AND CRYPTOQUOTE PUZZLE CLUES

A reader puzzle page lists across and down clues for a daily crossword with theme entries and a cryptogram quotation. It includes solution hints and an example quote from LONGFELLOW with code letters, plus yesterday's solved line attributed to Nichols.

Longfellow

Flour Blending Plant Bought to Boost Mobile Exports

The Alabama State Dock acquires a flour blending mill for 2300 dollars from Dixie Portland Flour Company. General Manager Jerry P. Turner says the plant will boost flour shipping via the Port of Mobile by allowing central blending and conditioning before export.

Mobile Alabama State Dock Jerry P. Turner Dixie Portland Flour Company Turner

Early Jamestown Glass Factory and 1622 massacre

A glass factory was established near Jamestown Virginia in 1608 twelve years before the Pilgrims landed. It was destroyed in a massacre by Native Americans in 1622.

Jamestown

Temperature Rise With Depth in Earth

Reading from a field study shows that soil and rock temperatures increase by about one degree Fahrenheit for every 60 to 70 feet of depth. Researchers note this gradient helps understand geothermal potential and underground engineering.

Five survivors rescued from Bon Secour Bay fire at sea

A shrimp boat Virginia Dare saved five people from Bon Secour Bay after flames engulfed their boat. Ruben Ewing 42 his wife 27 Leon 7 and Mary Marguerite 5 plus crewman H D Robinson 25 jumped into life jackets as fire consumed the engine room. Coast Guard said their boat sank and no injuries were reported.

Mobile Bon Secour Bay Ruben Ewing Leon Mary Marguerite H. D. Robinson Elmer Virginia Dare Ewing Coast Guard John F. Powers The Mobile Coast Guard Bon Secour

Reynolds Bride Shows Island Home on Sapelo Island

Tobacco heir R J Reynolds guides an AP photographer around his Sapelo Island plantation in Georgia where his auburn-haired wife Murial Greenough and 72 resident Negro families share a history. He details a 23 room house, boat building, shipping, farming, timber, roads, and a 1500 head cattle operation with a sunset garden pool nearby.

Sapelo Island R. J. Reynolds The Golden Isles Reynolds Associated Press Murial Greenough Gordon C. King Darien Georgia Thomas Spalding

Marine corporal found guilty over lemons on car display

Frank Farkas, 25, a Marine corporal from Flushing tied to Quantico, was adjudged guilty of violating a D C law prohibiting displays ridiculing property after painting lemons and the word lemon on his 1949 car. Sentencing set for Aug. 19. attorney plans appeal claiming speech protection.

Washington District of Columbia Frank Farkas Flushing N. Y Quantico H. Clifford Allder Farkas Allder Andrew J. Howard Jr Ife

Housekeeping license inquiry sparks courthouse mix up

A man asked for a housekeeping license at the Faulkner County courthouse in Conway Arkansas and was told by clerks that only marriage licenses could be issued. He left without a license and the item turns to unrelated notes on dates in Iraq and Franklin’s Join or Die cartoon.

Conway, Ark Faulkner County Jewell Crow Diplo Benjamin Franklin Pennsylvania Gazette

Also Mentioned on This Page

Jervis Foundry and Machine Co McRae Lee St Learlean Young T. C. Almon Morgan Ae Julia Mae Young London Dixie Freezer, Inc Banks Street Decatur James H. Lee Bank St. Tel Lester Rice Mgr Union Finance CO E. Moulton St Daily Crossword Aegean Sea Island Rflrrd Amte Lopl Fojihk Nichols King Features Syndicate R. L. Pirtle A«S Appliance Co Fugitive Detective Carson Phil Corrigan Aline Ambulance T Jackson Summit Junction Dawdin E. Moulton Sc Carson John W. Sandlin & Son Hardware States Major Canyon Revere Yankee Victor Hotel Union Minnie Tce Ae Fleur MR. Moray Kirby Su Davies Keester Sid Tiger Lil Caddell Tabu Lucien LeLong Yardley Old Spice Elizabeth Arden Marcelle Cosmetics Decatur Transit Ist Ave. S.E 2Nd Ave F. T. Macfeely Housekeeping Iraq Mobile Bay Green
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