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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1957
Page
9
A fragmented record notes Detroit's origin as a French trading center around 1701 with an allusion that roughly 14 000 seeds were imagined to make a pound of tulip seeds. The text fragments indicate a historical or ceremonial claim about early Detroit.
A Gadsden man Harry J. Coward says he was awarded custody of his 3 year old nephew Jerry Andrew Peterson after the mother Margaret Crawford Peterson was confined to a mental institution. He last saw the boy last August when the mother took him to visit a relative. Coward appeals to Fulton County Juvenile Judge W W Woolfolk for help so the child can be with him for Christmas. The boy had been placed with the maternal uncle and grandmother until the mother proves a proper home.
The group discussed plans for the March presentation of Agatha Christie’s Witness For The Prosecution to be directed by Les Kulberg with a cast of 30. Next auditions will follow the new year as the theatre continues road-ward production and honors Broadway approval.
Green cloth and red bell decorate a holiday display as Mrs Veazey Mrs Clifford Vaughan and Mrs J W Timberlake lead the Dutch treat refreshment committee. The Decatur Little Theatre plans its next meeting for January with time and place to be announced.
The first British settlement in Australia began as a penal colony established in 1788 near what is now Sydney, marking the start of European colonization in the region.
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