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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1913
Page
4
A collage of quotes and society notes questions living in a single space between secular and sacred. Reflections on beauty, virtue, and ideal life are interwoven with social visits and travel notes from Huntsville area readers and local figures.
W F Jones superintendent urges higher revenues and longer school terms, noting annual debts of 2500 to 2800 dollars. He cites Aniston Dothan Gadsden Huntville Selma Talladega Tuscaloosa as peers charging incidental fees unseen in Decatur. He offers city reports showing higher average revenue per pupil and invites scrutiny by interested readers.
The article argues public schools unify a diverse population through indirect democratic education and must now adopt deliberate civics and Americanism curricula to assimilate new immigrant groups. It notes the past indirect method sufficed but recent shifts require civic focus to preserve American democracy. It mentions Harvard’s role and calls for schools to serve as civic centers, with social events and host institutions noted elsewhere in the text.
Geo J Merry of Nashville and J B User of Cleveland join a list of visitors in the city on business. C H Rae from Louisville, J R B Rose of Nashville, Luther Glazer of Athens, and others are noted as in the Decatur region for various business matters. A local health concern is reported as W D Lile is dangerously ill at home on Somerville road.
In Washington on July 22 Joseph Swander a coal miner was arraigned for braining his two daughters with tar to shame them on the street. The tar peeled skin as it was removed and his wife testified to being dragged by the hair and abused with a dipper. She showed a scalp gash and a wrist scar from being thrown from a window. Swander received a jail sentence.
Fragmentary OCR line notes E. B. Atkin 4 associated with cities in an unidentified article. Name appears without context or clear event, date, or place to confirm a coherent item.
Richmond, July 23. The city razes the boyhood home of Edgar Allan Poe, the Allen house once flanked by the Swan Tavern and the Bird-in-Hand. Commercial buildings rise where they stood as a new concrete James River bridge is planned. Read the Decatur s Daily for more.
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