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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1914
Page
3
A local resident reported an extra city office unknown to officials. A man asked to pay a semetiry fee, confusing sanitary duties with cemetery fees, revealing prior efforts by sanitary officer Dutton to collect. The ten cent payment was returned to the appropriate department.
A photograph shows a shower bath contrived in the French trenches north of Soissons, only a hundred yards from the front line. Commanders face immense tasks to keep an army personally clean amid war conditions.
Viennese musical comedy Little Boy Blue returns to the Masonic Theatre tonight as a leading Broadway attraction. The production, popular on New York stages, features a grand Bal Tabarin scene, a Parisian setting, and music by Henry Bereny praised alongside Lehar and Strauss.
Atlanta December 31 plans to carve a granite likeness of a Confederate soldier on Stone Mountain near Atlanta. The proposed sculpture would be monumental in size, potentially a hundred feet tall, reflecting a major public work in the South.
Samuel H Venable owner of the mountain grants formal consent for the United Daughters of the Confederacy to proceed with a memorial project. W H Terrell of Atlanta proposed the idea, with a committee to launch fundraising and select a sculptor led by Mrs Helen Plate, honorary president of the Atlanta chapter.
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