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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1976
Page
12
A reflective farm column traces dawn colors from light to sunset, noting changing cloud patterns and sunlit hues on trees. It recalls early Christmas tree trade, from German American roots to New York’s Catskill market expansion led by Mark Carr in 1851.
The piece recalls Mark Carr starting a makeshift Christmas tree business in Washington Market 1890s New York, the Catskill growers' fresh-cut claim, and rapid market growth into 1880s with 600 dealers. It also tells Chicago’s Schuenemann family tree ships from Michigan, the 1912 Rouse Simmons disappearance, and the postwar ship legacy. It closes with holiday recipes for cranberry pancakes and plum pudding and cookie dough hints.
The AP stock list shows large and small cap names, with prices, changes, and percent moves for many issues. Highlights include Ampex, Avco, Exxon, Coca Cola, IBM, and Sears with varied gains and losses. The report also covers bonds, Dow and Nasdaq style figures, and notes on market breadth in New York trading.
The clipping lists commodity prices for cotton, soybeans, milling wheat, yellow corn and white corn with cents per bushel, plus over the counter securities quotes from NASD at around 10 a.m. and various corporate entities with fractional price data, reflecting a market snapshot. Names like Memphis and Alabama appear among institutions and firms cited.
An AP report lists selected national prices for American Stock Exchange issues with columns for Low Last and Change. The fragmented data includes several tickers and price values, though many characters are garbled. The item presents a snapshot of trading quotes without a cohesive narrative.
Wall Street prices fell as the Dow Jones average dropped 2.33 to 976.73 at noon. Declining NYSE issues led advancing ones 7 to 4, with volume at 9.03 million shares in two hours. Southwestern Public Service rose 1/2 to 15 percent and Dow Chemical slipped 4 to 41 1/2, while indices hovered near intraday lows.
Daily records show admissions at Lawrence County Hospital including James Collier Town Creek Cora McDaniel Houston Wendell Terry Jr Town Creek Annie Jackson Danville James Armour Moulton Jamie Williams Moulton Charlie Terry Moulton.
Prof. Woodall of Arkansas lists practical steps to improve cotton yields amid tough conditions. Recommend soil pH at least 6.0, break deep compaction, use high vigor seed, elevate and firm seedbeds, complete planting by April 25, apply systemic insecticides and fungicides, fertilize by soil tests with cautious nitrogen, monitor herbicide use, control pests promptly, and time defoliation for harvest.
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