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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1914
Page
2
Classified notice listing obituaries and thank you cards with rates and instructions for timely newspaper submissions. Advises readers to report missed deliveries and notes advertising rates and copy deadlines, urging advertisers to submit copy by noon for same day publication.
Britain faces a volatile debate over how to respond to the Zeppelin raid. Officials weigh new air defense measures as public concern rises over potential follow up strikes and civilian safety.
Despite the neutrality proclamation, French dressing English peas and turkey are unlikely to be banished from holiday menus. The president’s stance seems not to affect domestic food preferences or traditional holiday fare.
A zealous singer hurries to the post office to dispatch a letter to a mail order house while performing Home Sweet Home in the street.
First aid to the injured, so far as King Cotton is concerned, is the 13,400,000 dollar loan fund designed to support the troubled cotton economy and related relief initiatives.
A society girl faces a six month courtship as the shortest day of the year passes without a Christmas gift from the presumed beau. The quiet refusal unsettles her festive plans and social expectations.
District supporters urge Governor Glynn to grant executive clemency to W J Cummins serving a New York prison term for banking law violations. Friends defend his character, argue the offense was technical and he paid his debt, praising his role in Nashville's development and calling for leniency.
A sensational murder mystery film at the Delite features banker Cur tis dying and leaving a vast estate to his niece Mabel. Protea uses violet rays to read a will note and tracks a tattooed clue on valet Sharp while Skettitch accelerates the plot with a safe blast.
The Mysterious Hand features My Lady Raffles with Francis Ford and Grace Cunard. Audiences may recall The Twins Double The Leopard Lady and The Mystery of the White War as prior screen drama credits.
Rev Robert J Willingham secretary of the foreign mission board of the Southern Baptist Convention died yesterday in Richmond after suffering apoplexy on his way home from church services. He was 60 and a brother of Mrs P S Malone and uncle of I L and C B Malone of the Decatur area. He was well known in church circles and had visited the Decatur region several times.
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