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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1916
Page
2
The item lists candidates including President Woodrow Wilson, Congress Edward B. Amon, Circuit Judges R. C. Brickel and C. Kyle, Probate Judge L. P. Troup, Circuit Court Clerk James L. Draper, Tax Assessor Frank J. Troup, Tax Collector Chas C. Robertson, and all other Democratic nominees.
In St Paul the Prohibition party opened its national convention to nominate a ticket and a platform. Analysts see little common ground with the Bull Moose remnants, led by Parker, though a fleeting alliance could draw press attention for the temperance cause.
The Moulton Advertiser edited by Jourd White and his son White offers a popular Tripod Sermons column. Veteran editors provide Bible-based morals in plain language for humble readers across North Alabama and beyond.
A fog of temperance rhetoric surrounds a Mobile hurricane report and press ethics. The piece critiques how liquor issues are used to attack journalism and how the Mobile Register clashed with Alabama papers over storm damage coverage, accusing officials of bias and sensationalism.
The piece argues President Wilson will be remembered as a great financier for backing landmark financial reforms. It credits the Federal Reserve Act with stabilizing finances and preventing panics, enabling farmers and landowners to access capital, and notes its far greater impact than Wilson's submarine and Mexican policies.
The passage lauds Editor Pierce of the Huntsville Daily Times for promoting decency in Madison County and standing by good government. It notes Mr. Wilson as a capable financier and suggests Pierce’s influence could have eased Huntsville’s burdens from harmful advertising.
The Alabama Courier expands with a new press at its Athens plant. The weekly paper, ten pages this issue, boasts abundant local news and a full listing of Limestone County fair premiums. It remains a clean snappy publication for the exchange desk of the Daily.
President C S McDowell Jr of the Alabama State Bar Association thanks Col Tennis Tidwell for courtesies shown during the recent bar convention in Decatur. He notes how fortunate the association was to visit and hopes future meetings can be held in a city like Decatur if such a place exists.
An item from Decatur recounts delegates of the Alabama State Bar Association leaving a trail of jokes in Decatur last week. A crowd on the streets drew chatter about city name changes or consolidations, with a noted quip about Washington Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt and heaven.
D C Adams planned to build a large apartment house. A new grand jury was seated in Venice. Funeral held for Ralph Dutton. Crandall Mosely and Fannie Hill, colored, charged with murder, released. Sivley and Sandlin’s store robbed. Hitt Lumber Company assessment raised by 30000 dollars.
G C Cowart and Ada Scroggins wedlock noted alongside Leonard Crow and Mattie Edwards. Then Conrad Jennings and Clem mie Russell, John Coleman and Mattie Mitchell, Lonnie Jones and Bessie Holloway listed in colored- and mixed-race marriage licenses.
A detailed portrait of Chief Bender the former Athletics star now with the National League rosters. The piece notes his disciplined, deliberate style from Brainard Minnesota and his goal to reclaim form in Philadelphia. It highlights his trap shooting golfing and billiards fame and recalls his no hit game with the Race 2 team.
Mr. Poling attacked prohibition opposition and outlined a Liberal party platform urging federal action on prohibition, militarization, public works, and national development. He tied anti liquor campaigns to national elections and pledged a disciplined party stance ahead of November 7, 1916.
Miss Marie C. Brehm of Illinois told a national prohibition conference in St. Paul that war raises women's standing worldwide. She cited German women in war work and noted four million U.S. women hold ballots, urging voters to rally to prohibition by administration against alcohol.
The Decatur Daily announces the arrival of a newborn, noting a cute engraved announcement card and celebrating the new addition to the family.
A Friday matinee at the Greenwood show will be held for the Benevolent Hospital. All gross receipts from admission and Cherro Cola sales go to the hospital, with Greenwood turning his show over to the ladies of the Benevolent Society for the benefit of the institution.
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