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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1913
Page
3
In New York on January 26 Jim Thorpe, famed as a versatile Indian athlete, is labeled a professional after admitting an amateurism violation. A past 1909 baseball payment with Rockingham and Fayetteville teams is cited as the indiscretion that ends his amateur career and could strip Olympic 1912 honors.
There will be a meeting of the stockholders of the Development Co. of the Decaturg in the council chamber of New Decatur on Tuesday evening February 11 1911 for electing directors and other business as may come before the meeting. Jan 22-29 Pebii 4 T. M Dix Secretary.
New Decatur housekeepers are invited to the Central Methodist church tomorrow at 3 PM for a free aluminum ware demonstration. Each attendee will give 10 cents to the demonstrator and receive a 50 cent aluminum pen, with proceeds benefiting the Epworth League and Missionary Society. admission costs nothing.
The article explains that it is physically impossible for a man to kill himself by holding his breath. It notes wide variation in breath-hold capacity among individuals and points to long divers’ breathing times as evidence. If someone ignores discomfort to continue, a coma would result and natural breathing would resume, preventing death.
The Red Men Council schedules a weekly sleep meeting every Monday. Attendees listed include A. C. Banks and W. S. Jameison with a note by the Chief of Records Sachem dated 12-2m.
A lender named T M Dix in Decatur advertises a $1,000 loan on improved city property with contact by phone 438.
The text urges willingness to participate in advertising to boost business. It emphasizes that advertising will also contribute and that one must do their part to gain a fair chance.
Listing from Cartwright's Drug Store in Decatur offering Cypher's incubators and brooders for sale. Also notes money to loan on improved real estate through E. H. Allison.
The Audubon society backs a new misdemeanor law banning sale or possession of bird plumage. A New York milliner faces trial for displaying twenty aigrettes, while reports detail brutal methods used to obtain feathers and note other extinction marks including the South Sea Islands royal mantles.
An old advertisement touts Zemo for eczema chafing and dandruff with fast absorption and no residue. It notes BE W Rose Medicine Co of St Louis sells it at one dollar, with a 25 cent liberal trial bottle and a money back guarantee. Dillehay Drug Store carries the product.
A Morg an County Alabama sheriff sale lists execution against Jno W Johnson and describes the tract NW of 8 W Section 4 Township 6 Range 6 West Morgan County. The sale day is February 17 1913 during legal hours at the courthouse door with costs of suit if applicable.
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