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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1935
Page
5
In a heated exchange Senator Max Rogers of Mobile cites the adage the rich get rich and the poor get children while lawmakers discuss a four to fifteen dollar automobile tag and related state tax issues. A boy’s reply and references to a time of return are noted as part of the debate.
A December era assortment shows WANTED TO BUY for good weed and a two horse grain drill, FOR SALE of two tons pea hay at 18 dollars per ton, plus WANTED TO BE good specimens of fossils and stones, and WANTED work on a farm with living arrangements. Also offer for a large farm 40 or 80 acres with a spring, orchard, house, barn, and woods near Harteeclle, with terms.
A posse of state troopers and city police with hounds followed a criminal who escaped with two rangers early today. Another suspect in the robbery of a Kansas estate was held. A man identified as William Edward Clyde, a Kansas convict released from prison June 4 after 26 months of a four and a half year sentence, is connected to the case.
In Laurier Washington on July 6 a 50 inch rattler became stuck while entering a gopher hole. Two men freed the reptile but its girth proved fatal as the snake trapped its midsection. The men killed the animal.
Divorces in Cook county rose 86 percent year over year with 4,044 granted in the 1938 34 period and 7,556 in the 12 months ending June 1935 in the Cook County Superior Court.
A bridge collapse near East York sent many homeward bound picnickers into a ravine. About 24 people were injured, none seriously, all transported to hospitals. Several others, including women and children, received on-site medical aid.
Maria Savage, renowned as America’s senior chorus girl, has signed for her 28th consecutive season with the Metropolitan Opera Company. The Belgian-born artist will be 70 next New Year’s Day and has sung at home and abroad for many years.
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