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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1964
Page
8
A call for questions to Tell Me Why at The Decatur Daily invites entries from readers. Today’s winner is Sharon Bordner of Hudson Indiana, announced as the winner for the contest.
The 72nd session of the Muscle Shoals Baptist Association met at Hillsboro Baptist Church on Oct 25 1891 with Rev W M Blackwelder moderator. Delegates from Pleasant Hill and New Center churches. Details include biographical notes on ministers and missionary addresses, church pledges, and discussion of a male high school within local associations.
This exchange lists three collective nouns in a playful way with items like a waste basket a fly paper and a vacuum cleaner. The dialogue includes a weather question and a humorous answer about rain and water intrusion.
Explains the origin of picayune as a term for trifling value from a Spanish coin once used in Florida and Louisiana. Includes puzzle answer, prize note, and the winner Sandy Finck of Fulton New York.
A 1962 food report shows 13 percent of U S consumption was imported. Coffee tea cocoa bananas were all imported and most spices olive and coconut oils cashew and brazil nuts also came from abroad.
Classified notes list Ira's Book Shop at 222 E Moulton St offering stock on 1965 Red Coin Book and more. Local ads advertise rubber stamps, birth certificate help, yard signs, rental rates at Dixie Hotel, lost purse, cement finishing by Stover Taylor, well drilling by Slemm Drilling Co., and a range of used cars with prices.
Help wanted notice seeks salesmen and sales management personnel aged 28 to 60 for Huntsville Decatur Hartselle and Tri Cities area. New product on market with average earnings $200 weekly and up. Training program set appointments must own late model car. Apply in person Southern Enterprises 2516 F N Memorial Parkway Huntsville Alabama 9 am to 5 pm.
Local uniform rental firm seeks three married men ages 21 to 30 with high school education and public contact experience. Starting weekly pay is 90 dollars with furnished uniforms and hospitalization insurance, commission on new business, and after one year paid vacation. Apply to Industrial Uniform Service at 2nd Ave and 4th Street.
Nights rate for Day Three lists six pence per line for Sundays with six pence. The fragment notes pricing terms but lacks full context or location.
Bradley Motor Co presents a lineup including a Dodge two-door, Buick four-door with high torque, a Volkswagen sedan, a Chevrolet four-door with air, an Oldsmobile 86.4 door high torque, a Chevy Impala four-door high torque, a Rambler convertible, an Oldsmobile 88 four-door with air, another Olds four-door with air, and a Valiant four-door with stick shift.
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