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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 20, 1955

Page

13

Christmas Gift Classifieds Featuring Emerson TV and More

Classified ad lists EMERSON TV from 149.95 and cabinet radios 198.00, table sets 19.95 to 25.95, Westinghouse irons and reels, Sunbeam mixers, portable mixmasters, deep fat fryers, toasters, electric irons, dish sets, rocking chairs, stools, oak tables, drop seat table 39.95, and various lamps and chests. Includes breadth of home goods with prices across items.

Emerson TV Boston Rockers Westin Lrons Sunbeam Products Bard Mae Ccccscencansene Acccecviccettiionecenseesee

Murdoch Furniture Ad Lists Frigidaire and Household Goods

For sale items include a Frigidaire unit at 607 609 Bank St with contact 2900 and George B Murphy in Tanner Alabama. Also offered Eureka vacuum cleaner with dolly and storage Hassock, a card table, hooked bag, and assorted prices such as 5.95 2a 495 12.95.

Eureka

Christmas Gift Ideas at IPO Exchange Furniture

Make This A Lasting Christmas by giving a sewing machine. Featured items include portable sewing machines with attachments at $69.50 and additional stock such as lamps, cedar chests, rockers, hampers, vacuum cleaners, wagons, tricycles, child tables and chairs. Address IPO Exchange Furniture Company 209 E Moulton St. Phone 166. Beersheba is now a city of 20 000 people.

IPO

Sele NECCHI Elna Vigorelli Sewing Machines Ad

For Sele NECCHI ELNA Vigorelli world’s finest sewing machines. Industrial sewing machines guaranteed repairs for all makes. Easy terms. $10 trade in on your machine. Service North Alabama over 15 years. Lytton Walker 612 Oak St. Phone 834.

Necchi Elna & Vigorelli North Alabama Lytton Walker Oak St

STERCHI'S Bargain Basement Ad Overview

Bargain basement listing from STERCHI'S includes items like an oil range at 9.95 a mahogany dresser with mirror 9.95 a 3 piece bedroom suite and a Hollywood bed outfit with inner spring mattress plus a Westinghouse refrigerator 59.50 uses washers 29.00 and delivery options marked 1.00 down.

Hollywood Westinghouse Seemel

For Sale offerings and a Morgan County case opening

For sale ad lists Super A tractor, corn, hogs, cattle, and tools with financing. Separate legal notice shows Anna Sue Dotson suing Casey Elmer Dotson in Morgan County Court of Equity, Alabama. The affidavit fields indicate Defendant Dotson is identified.

P. O Hartselle Casey Elmer Dotson Morgan County Alabama

Morgan County Education Board authorized to spend funds

The Morgan County Board of Education is empowered to use public school funds to provide furniture office equipment stationery postage forms telephone school census enumeration and supplies for the county superintendent of education and office. The Board of Revenue and Control is relieved of supplying these items. The act becomes effective immediately upon passage and approval. Dec 20 27 Jan 3 10.

Alabama Morgan County Board of Education Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control

Valley Health Insurance Company Stockholders Meeting Notice

Notice to stockholders of Valley Health Insurance Company Inc. that its regular annual meeting will be held at the corporation's Decatur Alabama offices at 2 p.m. on January 16 1956 to elect a board of directors and transact other business. Phil Wasson president and Bob Gilchrist secretary. Dec 20 27-Jan. 3-10. Washington state has 5,026 miles of railroad.

Alabama Register Decatur Daily Morgan County Bryan McAfee Valley Health Insurance Company, Inc Corporation Decatur Phil Wasson Bob Gilchrist

Rumble seat nostalgia in modern car era humor

A mixed column features Karl Flaster’s quip about preferring the old rumble seat over new tech and a joke about a chalky encounter with a mother-in-law. The piece also includes brief humorous vignettes about family names and a Decatur man’s bread-earning antics.

Chalky Karl Flaster

Random Household Anecdotes and Quotes From Readers

A collage of humor and light observations includes a 15 year old alpaca turning green along the seams, home building talks, a Mexico City door knocker, draft era jokes, family finance lines, a cat at dawn, church pew discovery, bed straw quip, a pontificating cardinal joke, and a driving case with a loaded truck.

Dear Miss Dix on Age and Marriage Advice

A reader asks about admitting age for work and handling a young husband motorcycle trouble. Dorothy Dix advises honesty about age and pursuing work while balancing duties, and suggests joint responsibilities and family influence to curb reckless behavior.

Miss DIX

Daily Across Puzzle Clues Mixed with Abbreviations

A compact clue set covers across items from feign to y with missing letters and hinted wordplay. Answers range from biblical terms to common nouns, including measures, letters, and simple descriptors.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE AND DAILY CRYPTOQUOTE FEATURES

A crossword puzzle with clues for multiple entries including Scottish tea cake listen miscellany duck full of nuts metallic rocks grow old a tree ripened fruit of the rose and more. Also a Daily Cryptoquote puzzle with the code AXYCLBAAXR LONGFELLOW and a sample SBLPM OPXBVP HRVUCK plus yesterday's quote themed on mischief and greed.

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