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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1914
Page
3
Governor Ferris urges efforts to stamp out tuberculosis in humans as animals are marketable. He cites Michigan campaign and urges citizens to buy Red Cross Christmas Seals to fund the anti tuberculosis drive.
A young woman named Betty, eighteen, appears vibrant yet lives in squalor with tuberculosis in a crowded home. After her mother dies, Red Cross Christmas Seals offer hope and a path to recovery, urging readers to buy shares to save other Bettys.
The cobbler in a small shop and President Woodrow Wilson each voice support for Red Cross Christmas Seals to fund tuberculosis prevention. Wilson writes to the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis praising the seals as a practical way for the public to support anti tuberculosis work.
A fragment shows Dorothy with whooping cough joking that Santa Claus has tuberculosis. The mother warns coughing will keep Santa away, while Dorothy quips that Santa himself has tuberculosis and references tuberculosis stamps for Christmas.
A Decatur committee including Mayor Hardage and public property and finance chairs met to discuss moving the cages from the old city jail on Holly Street to a rear city hall room after remodeling. The plan involves renting the old jail space and converting the storage room into a prisoner area, seen as a good city investment.
President Roosevelt telegraphed Representative Hobson that testifying before the Naval affairs committee would do no good. Hobson withdrew his demand to summon Col. Roosevelt as the committee met in Washington on December 16.
Al G Fields and his minstrel troupe return to Evansville for a December 17 Masonic Theatre show with new acts, bright scenic effects, and rapid fire music dancing and humor that pleases audiences from the start.
New Morgan County Building and Loan Association will sell at Morgan County Alabama courthouse on January 5, 1915 at noon the property described as one story frame dwelling with lot 194 in Decatur. The sale is to satisfy the mortgage executed October 13 1906 by Thos E Pride now in default.
A long blast then one short blast designates West Town. Two short blasts indicate South Town. Short blasts mark East Town and Central Town. A single long blast signals Decatur.
Notice to interested parties that Gil bert McCarley, convicted in Morgan county law and equity court of bribery to kill and sentenced to three years in the state penitentiary, may apply to the Board of Pardons for pardon or parole. dated December 15 22.
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