New Decatur license ordinance outlines trades and fees
City of New Decatur imposes annual license taxes for businesses from soda fountains to watchmakers. The ordinance lists fees, enforcement, and penalties, effective January 1, 1913, detailing classifications for telephones, theatres, tobacco, wagons, and various trades with per year amounts and audit rules.
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New Decatur
Alabama
Bueveyor
Edaimerc
Opera House
Ipl
Decatur Advertises Thompson and Decatur CGF Tablets
Fragmentary ad copy indicates a local promotion for tablets labeled Thompson and Decatur CGF. Text references chronic mild and gentle effects and notes a claim of fatigue relief but details are unclear.
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Im. Thompson
Decatur
Heritage of New York children and immigrant labor issues
Ernest G. Coulter argues native poor New Yorkers lack fair paths to citizenship, linking slum conditions to delinquency. He suggests missionary work for immigrants, rural schooling strengths, and better city housing as remedies while noting economic limits and urban crowding.
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New York World
Ernest G. Coulter
New York
Hilter
Coulter
America
Paris
Promised Land
Hudson
Fire devastates Schulman dry goods and damages drug store
A blaze caused by a defective gasoline lighting system swept Sidney Schulman’s corner dry goods and clothing shop on South and Spruce streets last night at 9:30. Schulman estimated 75 percent of his $12,000 stock lost. total damage around $10,000. The Schulman building, owned by Jacob May of New York, suffered smoke and water damage to nearby stock, with insurance covering losses. Schulman had left the store about 9:10 p.m. and the fire alarm was rung from Box 87 at 9:24.
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Sidney Schulman
Spruce Streets
Schulman & Eubank
Schulman
Jacob May
New York
Ballard’s Horehound Syrup advertises relief for coughs
An old advertisement notes children’s coughing signals possible illness and touts Ballard's Horehound Syrup bottles priced around 1.00. It claims to ease chest and throat discomfort with a “root of flesh to the bone” conveying strength to the pain area.
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Ballard
W! Drug Co
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