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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1913
Page
4
Curry visits Huntsville on business. Rees and Scott in the sis t, Atlanta resident A B Scott. H Calin in Athens on business. W E Crawford and son Skeggs in Athens yesterday. W E Skeggs ill with flu. Albert Drinkard of Falkville weekend visit. James Padgett of Scottsboro in Decatur for a day. PW C Hardage once ill is reported much better at his son's home M L Hardage.
The page blends literary fragments with social notices. Walt Whitman quoted, then lists guests from Holland Michigan and Athens plus club meetings and visits. Various society events include Music Study Club readings, Victrola numbers, Missionary Society gathering, and upcoming visits and marriages noted around Decatur and nearby towns.
Mrs A R Tabor of Crider Maryland says five years of sick headache vanished after using Chamberlain Tablets. She took two bottles and was cured. The tablets target stomach issues causing headaches and are sold by S M Thompson New Market and Decatur Drug Co.
J M Herndon, after fifteen years with W W Garnett, starts his own business on 12th avenue west. He will offer a full line of groceries and notions and specialize in country produce. He pledges to supply what customers want, with best quality at competitive prices and cites long experience to assure satisfactory service.
Washington notes mark January 13 as the electoral college meets to vote for the next president. The reference to the number 13 underscores a superstition tied to this pivotal moment in Wilsons life.
A notice announces a loan opportunity of 1500 dollars on improved city property offered by T. M. Dix of Decatur, with contact at phone line 438 3-Lf.
Rev J J Cornish of St Johns Episcopal delivers a forceful sermon on the theme Vice to God as freedom. He discusses Christ’s earthly manifestations and dialog with temple doctors, stressing that Jesus must be about his Fathers business and that faith and reason reveal God.
The text presents a religious reflection on Jesus as the shepherd who knows his followers and grants eternal life. It emphasizes voluntary belief, discernment of doctrine, and the idea that understanding comes through contemplation without coercion.
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