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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1956
Page
19
For rent and sale notices list multiple properties including a 3 room unfurnished apartment with private bath, a furnished 2 room upstairs unit, a small 3 room house, and a 6 room house with living areas and yard. Realty firm Pettey Realty Co advertises numerous homes, lots, and a restaurant business on Highway 31 with prices and contact phones.
Fragmentary OCR states a large lot on Market Street designated for heavy industry. Reads rent money gone and 220 by 264 percent notation, unclear details on disposition or authority.
A vintage sale notice highlights Hunter's summer bargains with price tags like 98.00 and 169.50, suggesting marked down offerings across merchandise. The fragment emphasizes low prices and promotional wording from a retail ad.
In Decatur the Bargain House of North Alabama lists air conditioners and fans new and used, adding machines typewriters cash registers scales complete dairy dip outfit used windows doors screen windows lawn mowers washing machines furniture meat display cases, with prices as low as five dollars. Phone 5080.
A catalog of discounted seating and pool items. Ranging from 3-Ratan Peel Chairs at 4.50 to Hammocks at 8.95 and several glider and chair options priced from 3.95 to 44.95. Includes folding canvas chairs and family pool goods.
The nationwide steel strike did not derail Wall Street as the Associated Press index rose to a new recovery high. Brokers saw inflation risks but steady steel shares and rail losses reversed by week’s end with higher volume and ongoing health reports on Eisenhower.
In State of Things Baltimore the port remains second in the United States for handling foreign tonnage attracting local pride. Edward W. Heath and Frank T. Siejack were fined $50 each after a Central Police Court scuffle between two seamen who argued over shipping conditions ending in a knife and a beer bottle fight.
San Francisco reports the world’s longest timber trestle over Great Salt Lake is to be replaced by a 12.6 mile rock and gravel fill. Southern Pacific allocates 15 million dollars in specialized equipment for the project and builds a construction camp for 600 men. The trestle, once 23 miles long, had sections rebuilt with solid fills.
A garbled OCR style clue set lists numbered hints like Polished, Thorax, River Ger, and Master of ceremonies. It appears as a mixed group of crossword style clues with missing letters and partial words.
A clipped crossword poss clue list with entries such as Dispatched shelf in a trunk circle of metal hospital corpsman abbr lamprey and more. The page notes a cryptoquote Yesterday and a quoted Junius line The puzzle is distributed by King Features Syndicate.
American Legion members from Alabama s 67 counties arrive for the 38th Alabama department convention in Mobile with 2000 expected attendees. National commander J Addington Wagner and Lt Gen Thomas F Hickey speak. memorial service led by Chaplain Charles S Trimnier. Society of Women and Motley speakers planned. officers to be installed Tuesday.
Prince Norodom Sihanouk announced a Soviet economic and industrial aid agreement for Cambodia. A Kremlin communique said Bulganin Khrushchev and Shepilov accepted an invitation to visit, with Russia to build a Phnom Penh hospital and supply industrial equipment and technicians. Cambodia’s leader, once prime minister, seeks peace and prosperity.
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