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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 10, 1957

Page

11

Oil heater for sale near 16th Ave at Grant Street

Classified ad offers an oil heater for ten dollars. View from 8 to 8:30 in the morning at 1502 Grant Street near 16th Avenue.

Grant St 16Th, Ave

Pot Luck Suppers and Cemetery Rules Noted

Local notes feature strict Cedar Hill Cemetery rules in Newark and a reminiscence about pot luck church suppers. The collection includes poems on sorrow and food lore, plus a scene of a general store conversation about Ed Smith’s debt and a cracker-barrel joke.

Cedar Hill Cemetery Newark N. J Ed Smith Henry

Jenny Brown and the Brothers and Sisters riddle

A neighborhood tale recounts Jenny Brown solving a riddle about counts of brothers and sisters with equal numbers for girls and a brother’s twice as many sisters as brothers. The joke ends with the neighbor failing to figure the solution. The page also features comedy vignettes about a Bethany surplus store, a blunt store owner, and a bellboy whistling while on duty as he quizzes a manager.

Brown Jenny Brown Jenny Prather Bethany Missouri

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