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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1913
Page
4
Buttrey's The Store of Fashion promotes a July clearing sale with heavy stock and no carryover policy. Crowds left satisfied as customers praise finding every advertised article and bargains fill the store throughout the month.
Under a 1909 mortgage by David J Singleton and Lizzie M Singleton to Isabella Payn g the note secured by Lot 5 and 6 Block 23 of DecaturLand Improvement and Furnace Company Morgan County Alabama will be sold at public auction June 30 1913 at the courthouse door Decatur Alabama for cash. Mary Be Singleton assignee of the note and mortgage Eyster & Eyster attorneys.
A long society page lists guest visits and departures, including Miss Mattie Spielberger with Mrs. Patterson. Mrs. Geo Hartung and family planning a Chicago Milwaukee Michigan trip. Mrs. Hockensmith's recovery after surgery. various trips to Tennessee, Chicago, Nashville, Ashville and Denver. and local social updates from Emerson quotes to family arrivals and illnesses.
Will Carpenter special agent Southern Railway is in the Decaturs. E D Locke Huntsville is on business. Watt Talladega was in the caturs yesterday. E Jacison cashier City National Bank returned from Chattanooga. Carl Wilkinson returned from Haleyville and will go to Mammoth Cave tomorrow. H Edwards Decatur spent yesterday in this city Huntsville Mercury Banner. John W West College Park Ga is in the Decaturs on business. R L McCullough ill but better. S E McCulloch ill at home. H Holt stock broker Louisville Ky will be in the city tonight and tomorrow with E J Holt. Jim Murphree left for Jackson.
An advertisement notes 35c Sunday dinner and service starting at 12 30 PM. A testimonial from Mrs G Stengle of Plainfield NJ claims relief for chronic stomach trouble after using Chamberlains Tablets. She says meals rarely upset her stomach now and recommends the product from all dealers.
The West Side Presbyterian revival opened with testimony and singing then Rev. J P Cotton preached on Satanic Compromises using Moses and Pharaoh to illustrate resisting partial obedience. He warned against leaving church life, wealth, or families behind and urged Christians to take the whole trip to faith. Nine people had joined the church by this point.
The New York area tale recalls John D. Rockefeller considering 400 sheep to cut the grass and maintain the lawn at his Pogantico Hills estate. After weighing costs, he ordered 1400 Southdown sheep, and the latest load arrived by car to feed on the grounds, saving money in the long run.
Notice is given that New Morgan County Building and Loan Association will sell at public outcry for cash the mortgaged property in Decatur Morgan County Alabama described as Lot eight Block twenty seven addition two of Decatur Land Improvement and Furnace Company at the courthouse door in Decatur on August 6 1913 to satisfy an $800 debt secured by a mortgage dated October 19 1908 from E A Brown.
The Murphree family from Jackson Tennessee posed for a portrait with Mr and Mrs J V Murphree and their eleven children. The group includes Mack Claude Frank James Roy Bert Henry Jack Maude Irene Eva and another daughter. Several children are married and the family notes no intoxicants or tobacco usage. Mr Murphree and family are presented as a beacon of healthy, large kinship with fifteen grandchildren mentioned.
A brief mortgage sale notice features a testimonial from Mrs. William Orvis of Clare Michigan praising Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as curing her dysentery stricken child. The ad claims the remedy is sold by all dealers.
Montgomery judge Armstead Brown urged the county grand jury to investigate all gambling violations, asserting that gambling thrives in fashionable homes and clubs as well as dives. He warned enforcement requires patience, noting laws target illegal gambling while acknowledging widespread acceptance among many citizens.
W. D. Magli, a well known merchant of Whitemound, Wis., bought a stock of Chamberlain's medicine to supply customers but became ill himself. He valued the diarrhoea remedy more for his own cure than as stock for sale by dealers.
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