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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1929
Page
7
Classified index lists categories from announcements through employment sections. Hill Chevrolet Co advertises from Cor Lee and Line Streets with phone 1033, highlighting automotive and service listings.
A fragmented note lists car extras with prices including 550 575 425 and 375 dollars. The terse entry provides no context on items or seller.
In Morgan County Alabama the probate court schedules final settlements for the estates of Mary Lou Dancy and Josephus Aldridge with hearings set for July 16 1929 and observers notified to show cause if any why settlements should not be passed. Also J W Chambers Lumber Company announces completion of courthouse work and final settlement on July 22 1929 inviting all labor materials and supplies claims by that date.
Classified ad guidelines outline submission deadlines and rates. Payment options include cash with order and 6 percent for certain types. Copy must meet word minimums and be placed by the prior day’s 9:30 PM cutoff. Rates specify a per inch daily charge and extra for larger type.
Morgan County Court House Commission warns it will not proceed with further efforts to protect individuals in collecting their claims. Signed J. W. Chambers Lumber Co. June 30 July 6 13 20.
Mrs. Mattie M. DeGraffenreid aged eighty, mother of Dr. W. T. McDaniels, died at her Athens home Tuesday night. Funeral services were held Thursday conducted by Dr. E. G. Mackay. Interment followed in Athens city cemetery.
Interest grows for an all day singing at Mt Zion church two miles east of Leesdale on Sunday July 7. Several singing groups will attend as the public is invited to attend. Farmers in northern Italy start a wheat raising battle with a silver cup for an award.
The county board of education, facing criticism for short terms, promises a seven months term for the coming year. It plans close economy and a slight teacher reduction to achieve it while urging rural schools to conduct two months summer terms where possible.
August 6 7 8 and 9 were chosen for the annual Athens Boosters tour through the counties and Giles county Tennessee. A caravan of about one hundred automobiles led by the Athens band will make the trip.
Hanford California conducts experiments using Chilean nitrate of soda in cotton production to fix and study the fertilizer value.
Work began this week on remodeling the Athens Public school building to house the junior high school next fall from the Athens Agricultural school. The upper floor will be divided into five new modern classrooms while the rest stays unchanged. A bond election for a new $50,000 high school building is planned for next fall.
A new talkie studio rises on the former Essanay lot in Chicago where Charlie Chaplin Gloria Swanson and Wallace Beery started their film careers. The project signals a revived Chicago film era and marks a shift from silent to sound production.
The Venguer, a French aircraft carrier, will be equipped with three landing decks and sixteen catapults to launch aircraft. This development highlights advanced naval aviation capabilities and ship design aimed at increasing sortie rates and operational flexibility for carrier air wings.
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