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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1914
Page
9
The text urges comprehensive railroad operation detailing subtle tasks from spike placement to bond issues for extensions. It emphasizes printing selling and recording tickets between stations and city-to-city routes, parcel handling, recording, and delivery, urging cooperative effort to provide essential rail service.
New York dispatch reports Anna Newman prepared to testify for her father W V McClean Democratic leader of the county on trial for the murder of her husband. The proceeding opened with six jurors selected as McClean stands accused after the shooting.
A collection of handwritten Santa letters from Alabama children asks for basic gifts. George Baker requests gloves, a coat, a belt, a bicycle or wagon, and school learning. Estelle Wallace asks for a large doll, apples, candy, and oranges. Clyde Wallace asks for a toy pistol firecrackers apples candy and a bugle while urging care for other orphans.
A Washington Post account notes the rivers and harbors hearing on making the Tennessee River navigable at Muscle Shoals. Gov. O Neal of Alabama and J W Worthington urged the project as South development, with an $18 million cost and a water power lease to a local company.
Local shop Simpson and Robertson's promotes Nicélime toys and novelties in a seasonal display. The advertisement highlights new arrivals and affordable prices aimed at families and children visiting the store.
The ad warns against calomel’s harmful shocks to the liver and promotes a vegetable alternative, Carwswell’s Liver-Aid, as a harmless remedy that cleanses liver and kidneys. It promises a full refund if unsatisfied and notes availability at Ow1 Drug Company in Decatur. Also mentions French dry cleaning and a Christmas suit service by Patrick & Poole Bros at 218 Johnson St.
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