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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1929
Page
11
The Decatur Daily prints a classified index and rate table listing sections such as Automobiles Household Goods and Rentals Real Estate and Employment. It outlines placement rules types and pricing and notes that rates are for the next day and may vary by category.
A collection of legal notices from Morgan County Alabama including mortgage foreclosures, probate letters, stockholders meeting for Decatur Coca Cola Bottling Co, and administrator notices. Documents reference debts, nonresidence defendants, sale dates in January 1930, and required pleadings.
Official tabulations of ginnings for 1929 from the Decatur plant of Home Oil Mill indicate total ginning near 4000 bales, surpassing 1928's record. Local gins have drawn from northern counties and ginnings this year may run between 12000 and 15000 bales in the five Decatur gins. Decatur is the agricultural center of the Tennessee Valley.
Continued from page one a list of names and addresses in Decatur and surrounding Alabama towns for a holiday appeal. The column reads like a community notice with numerous residents and routings across Decatur Courtland Moulton Falkville Trinity and Courtland titles. The fragment shows many addresses and names indicating a local charity or petition drive asking for wishes or gifts.
The article notes sermons from multiple city churches. James R Greer of Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church spoke on The Birth of Christ. Rev Frank T Turner preached The Significance of the Birth.
Historical data shows a sharp decline in drunkenness, with only four cases on the blotter this Christmas compared to many years ago when numerous drunks crowded city courts. The shift marks improvement over prior eras of higher alcohol-related incidents.
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