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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1955
Page
9
A list of multiple homes for sale with prices from 8,200 to 15,500. Listings include 2 to 4 bedrooms, 1 to 2 baths, various lot sizes and features such as electric or recessed heat, dining rooms, and kitchens. Locations include 9th Ave SB 101 9th Ave Decatur and surrounding streets.
Real estate and insurance company advertises lots and houses for sale in multiple locations. Listings include Park Circle Riverview 13th corner, Somerville Road, and Church Street two and three bedroom homes with garages. FHA appraised value around 8 800 with new kitchen and recent painting. Contact numbers 892 R and 4546.
Real estate listings describe various homes for sale near Landersville Falkville and Cullman including 3 to 9 room houses with baths, gas heat, and large lots. Prices range from $1,000s to $6,000 with a quick sale note and multiple addresses such as 1518 Bene Vite Ci 930 Sendlin Road and 209 State Ave.
Classified notice offers an entire household furnishings sale with a contact number 4198 and a viewing address 522 Finley River. Includes multiple items and a sale structure for potential buyers.
Classified notice lists cast iron drains and baths, water heaters, fans, furniture, appliances, hay, ladders, lawn mowers, air conditioners, washers, and used showroom items with prices. Includes used office and kitchen furniture, refrigerators, cabinets, and garden tractors.
For sale fryer rabbits at 65 cents per pound dressed and delivered. Phone number 4774 for orders and delivery details.
Notices include Order of Publication in the Marie Harrison Posey case requiring defendant Irving Posey to plead by Sept 8 1955, plus a contractor notice by Ray Childs at Decatur Alabama and a mortgage foreclosure sale by DOSS as guardian for Kenneth Houston Jones and Brenda Kay Jones with sale set for Sept 19 1955 at the State National Bank Falkville.
The State of Alabama Circuit Court in Equity, Ralph E. Slate as administrator of Mattie Gray’s estate and Garfield Ringo as complainants, will auction the property at public outcry at the courthouse door between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. on September 1, 1955, for cash. Ollie Ringo and R. D. Robinson are defendants in the decree dated July 30, 1955. The sale follows a court decree to satisfy the estate debt and describes property in the City of Morgan County, Alabama.
Williamston Michigan remembers 84 year old Jacob G Frey who has worked 70 years at the chair. A lifelong Detroit start and a client list that once included Buffalo Bill Cody John L Sullivan and a young Henry Ford at the Edison Illuminating Co in younger days.
Legal notice describing a parcel in Decatur Morgan County Alabama. Beginning at the northeast corner of the intersection of Wilson Avenue and Newcomb Street. The description runs 70 feet east, 120 feet north, 20 feet west, 40 feet south, 50 feet west, and 80 feet south returning to the starting point. Dated July 30, 1955 and recorded by Bryan McAfee, Register.
Kaleopa Tavai, a U.S. Navy seaman, climbed a 40 foot palm barefoot to reach and end a five day tree sit after bystanders failed. He credited a skill learned in native Samoa for the quick ascent.
Roy Masters, an English diamond cutter, reports language difficulty in the United States. In London the subway is the underground and in New York the reply to how to get underground is always drop dead. Tibetan aristocrats hide long silk sleeves to show hands are not their livelihood, says the National Geographic Society.
The passage presents a Cryptoquote puzzle with wordplay hints and a sample coded line. It includes a daily coded quote and a quoted Browning line about keeping one end in view guiding readers to solve the cipher.
A mother opossum and her youngsters wandered into the diesel shops in Harrisburg. Workers organized a quick hunt and captured the animals. The mother and brood were ushered out and railroad operations resumed.
M D M Landrem reports forty four hives stolen from his High Springs property while he was away visiting. Police urge anyone with information to come forward.
Many jellyfish are so diaphanous that a swimmer can move among them without noticing their presence. Their transparent bodies blend with the water, creating a hidden hazard for unsuspecting divers and bathers.
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