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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 19, 1956

Page

13

Bargains at Auction Sale Offer Used Range and TV

Auctioneers offer bargains on a used wood range and a model television. Prospective buyers inspect the lot as items are up for bids.

Complete Care and Household Goods on Sale

Complete Care for sale with used kitchen ants and metal beds starting at 4.50. Used commodes with tanks 18.50. Christmas Rookie Horses at 9.95. Water cans 0.50 and up. Electric Savory Toaster and used televisions. Room suites 370.00 and up. Wood and coal monarc sizes available. OW gas heaters 10.00 and up. Radios new and used 12.50 and up. Televisions 50.00 and up. Vegetable display case and used washing and feed 39.95 and up. Electric ro, 3950 and up. House of North Alabama phone 5080.

Furniture sale list with prices and items

A cluttered sale flyer lists items such as a ladder back desk chair sofa table end tables marble top end tables a cherry bedroom suite coffee tables a baby mattress a maple dinette set and a round table with prices including 185 97 119 and others. The note reads as a jumble of furniture items with scattered prices and incomplete descriptions.

For Sale Gift Bargains Sunbeam Mixmasters

Gift bargains offered including Sunbeam Mixmasters Sunbeam steam tables percolators electric skillets radios 32 piece dish sets glass door bookcases and Samsonite card tables.

Sunbeam Sunbeam Steam

Probate notice and public lawsuit in Morgan County

Estate of Burnie Beeler deceased letters testamentary issued December 7 1955. All claims must be presented within law or be barred. Also publication notice in Morgan County Alabama Circuit Court equity case Dew versus Dew requiring answer by January 12 1957 after four consecutive weekly issues.

Burnie Beeler T. C. Almon Morgan County Ray A. Dew Circuit Court Alabama Register The Consett

Decatur zoning changes proposed for 1957 public hearing

Notice from Decatur Alabama announces proposed amendments to City Ordinance 399 and related ordinances to alter the Decatur zoning map. The City Council will consider the changes at 7 00 P M on January 21, 1957 in City Hall. A map of boundary changes is available at the City Clerk’s office.

Decatur Alabama City of Ala Bama Joe Pettey

Office Cat and Postman Cheer to Mail Early

A cartoonish verse urges readers to mail early before the Christmas rush to spare the postman late deliveries. The piece portrays the carrier as a hard working yet underappreciated figure and ends with a light jab at a boastful suitor.

Cost to Discover America Rosy? A Historic Price Range

The article notes estimates for Columbus's first voyage cost between 16000 and 75000 dollars, funded by Castile and Leon, Luis de Santangel, Palos merchants, and Columbus himself, with ongoing revisions by historians. It then shifts to unrelated quotes about assassination, pen names, and a Canadian political figure detailed in a fragmented passage.

Castile and Leon Luis de Santangel Palos Columbus

Decatur Zoning Boundary Change Adopted December 19 26

The ordinance amends the General Business District Regulations in Decatur Alabama establishing a zoning boundary change shown on the May 23 1945 map and amended by numerous ordinances. It takes effect after adoption on December 19 and 26 of the year stated.

Decatur Alabama Decstur

Puzzle Snippet Clues Daily Crossword Theme

A fragment list echoes a daily crossword style with clues such as statuary piece and climbing in Swedish. The set includes use up stamps again and catch as, hinting at a mixed clue grid for a newspaper puzzle page.

Unknown Cryptoquote Puzzle

A daily substitution cipher hides a quote with shifting mappings. yesterday’s solution was I KNOW HOW BUSY YOU ARE IN YOUR LIBRARY WHICH IS YOUR PARADISE. The text is distributed by King Features Syndicate as a syndicated cryptoquote puzzle.

Erasmus King Features Syndicate

Never attempt to take down a speech when you are in such a deplorable condition

A political scene unfolds as an opposition reporter attends a meet ing and gets a corrected transcript of a speech. An elder candidate, humorously chastened, warns the young writer to avoid recording when in a drunken or ill state. The exchange turns on judgment and propriety in public discourse.

Christmas Joke Sparks Electric Gift Idea

A Cleveland wife asks what to give mother for Christmas. Her husband replies with a pun suggesting to electrify it, delivering a brief humor piece in a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper style.

Cleveland

Elk Herds Ford Summer Grounds in Olympic Park

In Olympic National Park in Washington state, the area serves as the summer feeding grounds for herds of elks. The report notes the park’s location in the northwest corner of the state and emphasizes the elk grazing pattern during warm months.

Olympic National Park State of Washington

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