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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1912
Page
2
Notice urges readers to report late deliveries and ensure prompt service. Advertising rates available on request. Advertisers must submit copy to the office by noon of publication day. Oscar Underwood named as presidential candidate in 1916 from the Heart of Dixie.
Decatur area business improves with 25 to 50 percent gains over last year for similar months. Builders flourished with houses rising and labor in demand as the city nears a peak of prosperity. Citizens emphasize cooperation as the path to wealth and growth for North Alabama’s metropolis.
The piece recalls fears of past inauguration chaos and notes President elect Wilson may push the ceremony to late April. It highlights debate over timing amid storms and flu fears, and suggests eventual pensions for inauguration day widows and orphans.
An old ad copy touts Zemo as a healing wash for itching rough skin. It claims relief from raw eczema and scalp eruptions using ingredients like ter mol, glycerine, witch hazel, and boric acid.
Bulletin invites Decatur and New Decatur students to submit essays on the new Parcel Post Law by December 15. Top prizes include savings pass books worth five, three, and two dollars, with word limits and author name publication rights noted.
Justice of the Peace L N Buttler orders attachment of F S Jones goods to satisfy J S Pepper debt of 100 dollars. Writ executed November 21 1912 including 2 boxes household goods table cook stove tea kettle 6 chairs rocker milch cow. case set for November 26 1912 at 10 a m.
Chicago Record-Herald reports on C. H. Knight who started giving one dollar daily to the Inglewood Baptist Church in 1873. His gifts averaged over a dollar daily with a peak of three thousand dollars in a single year. Knight served as Sunday school superintendent, trustee, and usher, while also leading C. H. Knight Theatre Company jewelers in Columbus Memorial Building. He remains a quiet, active figure in church history.
Local laundry service promotes pickup and delivery at 248 and 25 Moulton Street offering free door to door work. Branch office listed in Decatur with phone number 10 and prompt delivery highlighted by the text.
An advert promises Zemo cures for eczema without risk or mess. It claims immediate absorption and relief from itching, rash, and bleeding lesions. The product, from RE W Rose Medicine Co of St Louis, is priced at 1 per bottle and 26 cents for a smaller size.
Will Peebles of Athens Andrew Zeitler of Columbia Will Leslie of Harris Stations Lamar Cartwright Frank Lide and W E B Crawforde are slated to attend the Pryor Paiston marriage in Florence tomorrow.
The corrected market list shows prices for sugar and tea items, coffee, flour, syrups, canned fruits and vegetables, fish, and meats. It also lists produce including lemons, potatoes, apples, beans, and onions along with poultry and livestock prices and assorted byproducts like hides and beeswax.
In Morgan County probate court a guardian guardian Commercial Savings Bank and Trust Company guardian of Leon ard Lee Crow a minor files its final account and vouchers for examination and auditing on December 16 1912. Interested parties are summoned to appear and show cause why the account should not be passed. Judge WM E Skeggs presiding.
Advertises Zemo a clear vanishing preparation from BE W Rose Medicine Co St Louis Missouri. Claims to stop dandruff scalp itch eczema rash pimples and all skin afflictions with a 25 cent trial bottle at Dillehay Drug Store and sold by druggists at 26 cents. Becomes a rapid head relief product with easy application and no residue.
A lighthearted note from Decatur reports Beers for Engraved Visiting Cards as a quirky local event. The item references SUBSCHIG with a playful nod to social customs and small town gatherings.
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