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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jul 25, 1955

Page

9

Classified for Sale Listings With Multiple Properties

Lot 92 by 239 across from a new school in Austinville. New 3 bedroom house at 1204 9th Ave SE with FHA loan. Somerville Road 100 ft lot listed at $3,000. 8 room cottage at 918 Church St NE. Earl Glenn at 226 Grant St contact 766. For sale by owner 1419 Locust St SE contact 4491 J. Save salesman’s commission on a 3 bedroom house.

New School Austinville Spring St 9Th. Ave Somerville Rd Church St NE Save Salesman Locust St. S.E

For Sale New and Used Homes on 2 Acres Land

Two houses on 2 acres land offered by John Patterson Company. Main house two years old, 3-bedroom, space water, financed with a 500 G.I. loan to qualified veterans. New 2-bedroom house with small down payment. monthly payments listed. Contact R. R. Thomas on Nick Davis Road near Athens. Phone Athens 632-R and W. coordinates.

R. R. Thomas Nick Davis Athens

For Sale NECCHI ELNA and VIGORELLI Sewing Machines

Advertisement from Lytton C. Walker at 612 Oak St Alabama offering NECCHI ELNA and VIGORELLI sewing machines with guaranteed ports for all makes and easy terms. Trade-in allowance of 10 dollars on older machines. serving North Alabama over 14 years. Phone 834.

Necchi, Elna & Vigorelli North Alabama Lytton C. Walker Oak St

Railroad Factory Salvage Furniture Co Ad

Laing drop leaf extension Duncan Phyfe table priced at 48 dollars 94 back chairs at 12.69 and a modern dinette suite with buffet china and four chairs damaged beds noted. Located at 23 Church St NW with phone 1073 contact details included.

Railroad Factory Salvage Furniture Co Church St. NW Laing Duncan Phyfe

Veteran recounts scar from Bull Run and civic figures

A veteran entertains listeners with war stories while avoiding the scar reveal. The crowd presses him about the facial wound at Bull Run and his reply hinges on a run and looking back. The piece ties to educator worries and notes civic worker William Harvey Allen and the flagging state of public education.

Bull Run William Harvey Allen Huxley

One Learner Awakens a Desperate Fullerian Lecturer

A Ful lerian lecturer, despondent after resigning, finds purpose from a single attentive auditor among 1500. He vows to continue and later notes the question about whether the cerebellum sits inside or outside the skull, asked by the lone attentive woman.

City Paint Marks Lanes Aimed at Vehicle Movement

The traffic department marks streets with colored paint to guide vehicle flow and pedestrian paths. The public should understand the marks help movement of vehicles, not act as a street art or stray mark.

Fragmented Humorous Snippets and School Anecdotes

A collection of humorous lines and brief school anecdotes. A child reports a hairbrush incident to a teacher with ironic logic. Prochnow’s quip about scratching for money appears. A mother guides a seven year old to a progressive school with a peculiar question.

Judy

Food Freezers Farmer's Pass

Food freezers are the farmer's friends says A W Jones of the Extension Service Auburn Alabama. Locker plants home freezers and similar facilities in the frozen food industry offer valuable marketing services to growers and consumers. Frozen foods provide market outlets and help stabilize prices during seasons of abundance. Consumer freezing facilities also aid households in managing perishable supplies.

Auburn Ala

Jokes and exchange lines from a playful classroom scene

A child answers a teacher and mother with witty retorts. The boss, a boy, and Junior exchange quips about prayer, mistakes, and a quarrel versus friendship. A sister’s suitor faces a playful poke about looks as family humor unfolds.

Maxwell Air Force jet crash claims two pilots

Two Air Force pilots died when two T 33 jet trainers collided during approach over Maxwell Air Force Base. One pilot parachuted free near the highway but did not survive. The other plane exploded near an Army supply center, tearing up a railroad area.

Maxwell Air Force Base Air Force Texas Maxwell Birmingham-Montgomery Charles L. Hood Enterprise Hood H&r Point

No title line from Herschel Stegar poem fragment

A fragment from Herschel Stegar expresses fatigue with futile dreams and fragile walls. The speaker rejects fleeting stars and stormy influences, promising resilience through unnamed pain and a renewed, calendar-spanning heart.

Herschel Stegar

Community Locker Plants Expand Roles in Food Storage

Alabama operates 72 locker plants that now act as community frozen food centers. They provide slaughtering, processing, storage, and marketing for farmers and home freezer users, cutting costs, boosting quality, reducing waste, and stabilizing supplies during periods of scarcity and war.

Alabama

Daily Crossword and Cryptoquote Feature

A mixed page item presents a large crossword with many clues across and down plus a cryptoquote puzzle. The section includes yesterday's answer and a King Features Syndicate distributed cryptogram quote by Longfellow and Crabbe reviews, with a note about how to decode the cipher.

Longfellow King Features Syndicate

Daughter Of Ex Circuit Judge Linked In Death

Julia Turner King, daughter of former Washington County Circuit Judge Ben D. Turner, was held at her home after her husband Bernie King was stabbed to death at their Monroeville residence. Sheriff Ernest Nicholas said the 40 year old log sealer died at the heart area before reaching a local hospital. The wife was sedated and to be questioned when her condition improved.

Monroeville Ala Julia Turner King Ernest Nicholas Bernie King Vredenburgh Alabama

Dean of Selma Bar Arthur Pitts Dies

SELMA, AL Arthur Pitts dean of the Selma Bar and longtime criminal lawyer died here early yesterday at age 75. Funeral services planned for 5 p.m. tomorrow. A University of Alabama law graduate, Pitts practiced law in central Alabama for 52 years and is survived by his widow Grace Fitzhugh Pitts, son William McClain Pitts, plus a sister and brother.

Selma Arthur Pitts Alabama Pitts University of Alabama Grace Fitzhugh Pitts William McClain Pitts

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Earl Glenn Grant St Back Rogers John Patterson Company Bank St State Naot Jervis Foundry and Machine Company Magic Cycle Kelvinator Ae Cote Frigidaire Mortland H. Ryan Second Ave. N& Phone Ace Bed Group Hunter Furniture Company Cove Radio Shack Liz Mrs. Hall Pentagon Schmidt Mexico Dion TZ Allied Sales Crone Secnisiisecec Hectors Oerkeeivceikcciuiatsseckens Allied Sales CO House of North Alabama Texas League Baseball Writers F. G. Kernan Herbert. V. Prochnow Satevepost Food Freezers Farmer's Pass A. W. Jones API Junior Miss Vail Auto Furniture Tide Finance Co Ind Ave Walgreen Agency Daily Crossword Odessa Labe Republic So. Am Erbium Sym City Ohio Rnce River U. 8 Mia Polat ii Lim Fi Father MDKW Whope Scott Gene Ahern Martyn 2Nd Ave Decatur Discount CO Tel E. Moulton
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