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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1914
Page
3
The old city jail cells are being moved to the city hall site for the new jail. A single prisoner remains in custody as crews expect about ten days to finish the jail project. Police Chief Cobb notes this transition leaves arrests to the county lockup.
John Allen Wyeth recalls a Ford Times meditation urging moral restraint and honesty from 1821 to Huerta era Mexico. The piece blends satire on rulers with a personal plea for integrity at the dinner table and the end of life.
City taxes on personal and pal estate are due and payable with a penalty after January 1 1915. Henry Hartung clerk notices the delinquency and payment requirement.
A promotional advertisement touts Carswell's Liver-Aid as a fast acting vegetable remedy to cleanse the liver and kidneys. It claims immediate internal cleanliness, warns against poor health harming work and worth, and offers a 60 cent bottle at Owl Drug Co. Decatur locations with full refund if dissatisfied.
City tax notices outline levies on personal property and real estate due by January 1 1915. Officials remind taxpayers to file assessments and settle pending charges with the treasurer’s office before the deadline.
The Decaturs Daily reports a 1915 calendar presented by Morgan County National Bank. The ready reference calendar has 16 pages and reproduces portraits of U S presidents, with a handsome cover and illustrated design. Wm Holt, described as a negro, was to be arrested on a firearm charge and placed on the police docket this morning.
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance official Lewis W. Hardage presented The Decatur Daily with a handsome 1915 calendar. Hardage is associate general agent for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Thelma Martin of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company slipped on icy Second Avenue this afternoon and sprained her ankle.
Newly elected officers of Westminster Presbyterian Church will be installed next Sunday. The pastor urges their presence for the ceremony.
Horace McKinney was shot through the side and fatally wounded at about 2 am at the YMCA by Lee Shephard both identified as negroes. Dr. F. P. Pettey attended McKinney before he was moved to Sterres infirmary.
A party planning to tour the Ozark region of northwest Arkansas to view and purchase land will depart Decatur at 11:25 on January 4 via Memphis. Led by Thomas E. Pride, the group seeks cheap land along the Missouri and North Arkansas railroad and free-range areas attracting home seekers nationwide.
Rev. R. I. Walston spoke at the YMCA yesterday on character building in a sermon titled a life worth while. He described foundations in Christ Jesus, the need for a spiritual environment, and consecration as steps toward true efficiency, urging service over self.
Readable fragments describe a local scene with names and places unclear. The text hints at events or notices but lacks coherent details. The available material suggests a brief item or snippet rather than a full report.
Notice states Gil bert McCarley seeks pardon or parole for a bribery to kill conviction in Morgan county law and equity court with a three year state penitentiary sentence. Ruby McCarley, his wife, signs the notice dated December 16 to 22.
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