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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1912
Page
3
A Florence, December fire destroyed the 8 M Gardner gentlemen’s furnishing store and heavily damaged R W Cranes pool room C B Campbells photograph studio and J D Weeden Co offices in the same building. The blaze started behind Gardner’s and marks the second fire in the area this year.
A Mrs Gilman anecdote shows a New York stenographer earning $25 weekly confronted with marital roles. Her employer questions cost and division of labor, prompting the claim that a wife should not work after marriage. The tale highlights gender wage and work expectations. Chamberlains Cough Remedy is recommended for colds to prevent infectious diseases. praised for safety and absence of narcotics.
Bulletin invites Decatur and New Decatur students to submit essays on the New Parcel Post Law by December 16. Top prizes include a savings pass book with five dollars deposited, a three dollar book, and a two dollar book. Essays capped at 200 words, with publication rights reserved.
Thousands of wild ducks migrate to the oil fields near Tam Pico and the Great Lakes, alighting on vast crude oil lakes. The absorbed oil and decaying carcasses ruin crude for refining, costing producers more than $500,000 as dead birds cluster along the lake edges.
Justice of Peace I N Butler orders attachment notice published for non resident J A Coursey. Property levied includes four boxes of household goods one sofa two bedding bundles one organ and one sewing machine marked J F Carrick Tracy City Tenn. Publication once weekly for three weeks before December 27 1912. Return by December 27 1912.
Corrected market sheet lists prices for sugar, coffee, flour, syrups, canned fruit and vegetables, canned fish, and staples like potatoes, lemons, onions, cabbage, bananas, and grapes. Also included are dry salt meats, lard, butter, cheese, eggs, poultry, hides, beeswax, ginseng, bones, scrap, and brass with varied per unit or per quantity pricing.
Vienna December 12 United Press reports reaction to an imperative order from Belgrade recalling the Servian minister to Austria. No explanation or successor named. The move is seen as a formal break in diplomatic relations between Austria and Hungary.
John Davis was arrested in Lawrence County last week on a warrant charging assault with intent to murder. He was turned over to Blount County authorities last night and transported there for trial.
An old classified style notice promotes Chamberlain's Tablets for bilious attacks. It lists product endorsement and sales through local drug firms including 8. M. and Decatur Drug Co. and De-Wate FE eth gy.
An Owl Drug Co advertisement promotes a large line of toys under Crow & Crow and directs readers to leading Southern florists. It also notes Chamberlain's Tablets for chronic constipation and lists Decatur Drug Co and S. M. Thompson as local sellers.
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