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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1915
Page
4
A telegram from Payville, HL, repeats that there was no explosion at a powder mill last night and that no kind of explosion occurred. The message was received in Cairo at 11 o'clock pm.
Paris Dec 30 the senate voted to enact income tax measures aimed at meeting the rising costs of the war.
Eleven men indicted for negligence in the Eastland disaster appeared in U S court and were released on 10000 bonds each for a preliminary examination set January 25. Miss Lena Covey returned to Cul Looka after visiting her brother Tom Covey. Gen John Peebles of Belle Mina is in the city. Old papers for sale.
IoD Murphree announces an upgraded taxi service with two cars to improve promptness. He will continue operating the St George Cafe and can be reached by local 86 or long distance 9126, urging patrons to call ahead.
Washington December 30 word spreads that a Pan American Union uniting naval and military forces of the Americas to enforce the Monroe doctrine is imminent. Secretary Lansing has sounded out southern representatives at the Pan American Scientific Congress and sentiment appears strongly in favor.
The firm Ory and Cohen will give the first one hundred children arriving after three o clock Saturday afternoon a token of the season. This New Year greeting is part of the chain of tokens the firm has given to patrons in Decatur.
Cartersville Georgia temporary injunction bars Georgia newspapers from publishing ads to promote the Louisville and Nashville railroad branch from Marietta The injunction returnable January 31 1916 targets the Marietta Journal Cartersville News and Cherokee Advance The proposed line would parallel the Western and Atlantic owned by the state and leased to Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis railroad The lease ends in 1919 and a state commission may release the line The case cites a state law restricting charters for parallel lines and four weeks of public ads prior to charter changes
Ralph Arnold of Los Angeles told the Pan American congress in Washington that at the current consumption rate the United States oil supply will last about 22 years.
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