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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1914
Page
3
A wartime tale describes how a single mile of telephone line atop 203 Meter Hill enabled Japanese gunners to direct Osaka from the summit. The line, mounted on nearly invisible poles, cost ten thousand lives and millions in ammunition, supposedly marking the end of Port Arthur in 1905.
A reflective piece compares deserted homes to empty lives, noting blank walls and rank weeds as marks of lost joy. It argues urban neglect leaves spirits barren, yet insists any lifeless house can become alive again when someone brings humanity and purpose to it.
United States Geological Survey Bulletin reports ichthyol a notable Austrian asphaltic medicament via dry distillation and sulphonation. War closures cut imports. price rose to over 60 cents per ounce. A St Louis firm offers a favored substitute resembling ichthyol in efficacy.
Anne Warner, a married author and principal of a leading New York girls school, maintains a 12 room apartment with a maid and Japanese cook. She resumed teaching after her daughter was two and has readied her daughter for college at fifteen. She writes at home from nine to five after housekeeping, treating this as her business hours.
A New Yorker comments on difficult fashion trends causing winter evening gowns to be less decollate. A woman at a dance remarks on her daughter’s dress, and another friend notes the daughter’s neckline, reflecting a shift toward modest attire.
An Indianapolis man nicknamed Shorty bought live bait for fishing at Lake Manitou. He found his crickets vanished while frogs remained alive in a green minnow bucket, leading to a puzzled morning and a question about the bait outcome.
The Journal of the American Medical Association notes no scientific studies on war’s effect on minds but cites factors like short rations and homesickness that may unbalance soldiers. Early Army findings by Dr. E King show one fifth of discharges for disease or external causes due to mental disease and dementia praecox dominates dismissals.
La Prensa in Buenos Aires is described as one of the world’s most luxuriously housed journals with spacious staff rooms a well equipped public library and reception suites for dances. It also keeps a highly efficient on site doctor offering free prescriptions and a roof steam whistle signals special news items.
The figures indicate 20,969,000 horses with a total value of 2,291,638,000 dollars, averaging 109.82 dollars each. The data underscores that despite the rise of the auto, the horse remains a significant asset.
Trustees and owners of a mortgage note declare the mortgage on Lot No. 22 in Brock YSr Kron's addition to New Decatur Alabama to be in default. They set a sale date January 14, 1915, at the Morgan County courthouse to offer the property for cash to the highest bidder.
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