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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1914
Page
4
A government position as agricultural demonstrator was accepted by Jadson county. Gov Graves departed for Florence to spend the weekend. D C Martin left for Nashville. Maj Downs remains confined with illness. B C Payne is at Nort Tennessee. In law relative may return late part of the period.
The state Sunday School Association appoints Miss Bose of Montgomery Alabama as a teen age specialist. Her background includes work as field secretary and acting secondary superintendent, reinforcing programs to reduce dropouts among youths aged 12 to 16 during Sunday school.
An old warning rails against calomel and dangerous tonics claiming dynamite-like remedies harm the liver kidneys and bowels. It touts a potable substitute said to produce quick relief without after effects and stresses safer options for treating disease.
Engraved visiting cards or lines offer versatile options to fit all budgets. The selection includes various finishes and pricing tiers to suit different needs and occasions.
Local social news lists visitors, church events, and a Westminster bazaar in the Decatur area. Mentions include Eleanor and Mae Burleson in town, Rev and Mrs Cornish visiting, Miss Kate Smith returning from Selma, and plans for a Westminster bazaar with oysters and sale items. Club calendars note Priscilla's Jr, School Improvement, Auction Bridge, and Needie Club meetings.
The Decatur Daily urges readers to call Phone 46 and subscribe for full access to all local news and features. Readers are advised to stay informed with daily reporting and updates from the paper.
Quote from Henry D. Thoreau on sincerity and integrity as essential human virtues. Encourages steadfastness in character and humility while pursuing one's highest ideals. Reflects on personal conduct and moral striving.
A reflective line argues that persistence can enable most feats, except when a person aims to be original by imitating others. It suggests repetition may yield success but warns against mere replication and urges genuine creation.
At the Mobile state convention the D A R named Mrs Wm Harvey vice state regent. A Sephens Chapter member from this city, she was honored by the honor fell on the organization itself.
The article notes six major anne dynamical laboratories worldwide. Leadership centers include Doctor Ria at Koutchino Ruseta, M Eiffel's Paris private lab, and a well funded St Cyr division. Rome hosts an aviation corps lab and Britain’s National Physical Laboratory at Teddington features an aeronautical section.
A historic dispatch notes Europe seeks steel barrels for Russia as war orders surge. It estimates hundreds of thousands of barrels needed and hints shipments once routed through Germany may shift to alternative suppliers.
A Chicago Herald excerpt quotes a woman in Indianapolis discussing keeping her husband’s name on records and using his initials for purchases. She plans to drop his name and use her own, arguing it won’t hurt his feelings as the telephone remains in his name and department-store charges continue under his initials.
In Atchison Kansas a young man telephoned his girlfriend at midnight asking her to search the porch for a dime he had left earlier. He urged her to rise early the next morning and look before anyone else came to the porch.
Fragmentary lines reference a Decatur area item with mentions of visitors and engraving details, inviting follow up. The unreadable text suggests a local note or notice about visitors or engraved objects, without clear events or dates.
The Atlanta Journal urges immediate building, arguing contractors can offer better value now. Keith’s building authority cites returns of 1.26 dollars per dollar invested and notes price and labor advantages, warning that delays raise costs to about 6 000 for a 5 000 home in a year.
Norman Duncan describes twelve year olds entering a voluntary throwback drill culture that becomes compulsory by fourteen with penalties for parents and employers. The piece recalls brutal truant youths sent to barracks for days of confinement and intense drill supervised by sergeant majors as a method to foster patriotism.
Paris reports shifting German positions in West Flanders as the siege lines extend from Dixmude to Aypres. The Allies bombarded, dyke breaches flood southern Dixmude, trenches north of Aypres reinforced by French troops to counter heavy German artillery. About 1,800,000 men confront across Ostend to Armmentaries with 750,000 Germans and 550,000 Allies. floods aid Allied defenses.
Leaked military circles say Cracow is being bombarded from Wejlezski heights eight miles away as Russians mass forces to seize the city opening routes to Vienna and Berlin. Russians recaptured Strykow and Lowereles and push north of Lodz as Germans reinforce near Provain while Russia calls up 1,200,000 reserves for allied aid.
Emperor William visits troops in the Czestechowa district near the Polish border and praises their Poland campaigns. New battles loom in the Vosges as dispatches claim German havoc at Rheims totals at least 20 million dollars with continued damage and progress in the area.
Berlin reports England massing a huge force in Flget and Portugal plans to join the war by sending troops to reinforce Britain. Athens cites 31,000 Canadians serving in Egypt.
Official notice from Washington dated December 4 reports a proclaimed holy war by the Turks against Servia and her allies. The message arrived in Bucharest and was received by the state department.
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended, until June 13, increased rates on clean rice in carload lots from Ostend and other Texas points to Atlanta and other southern points.
Berlin reports from a Turkish source that Persia protests British actions on neutrality. A British warship used the Karun river in Persian territory. Cairo notes British forces flooded the desert east of Port Said to deter Turkish attack and planes fly constant over the Sinai peninsula with no Turkish signs seen.
A special meeting of the stock holders of the North Alabama Trac tion Company will be held at the office of the company in New Decatur Alabama on Thursday December 17 1914 at 10 30 a m to consider reducing capital stock to seventy five thousand dollars by lowering par value to fifty dollars issue of 75000 non cumulative 6 percent income bonds dated January 1 1915 maturing 15 years from date secured by a mortgage upon property franchises business and income of the company subject to the deed of trust securing the first mortgage bonds outstanding and any other business that may come before the stockholders
Paris protests to Berlin via the Spanish envoy accusing Germany of detaining French ambulance service members as prisoners of war rather than repatriating them under Geneva Convention rules. In Petrograd, Russians report a winning push in Lodz with German losses near 100,000 over five days as Austrian resistance softens.
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