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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1957
Page
11
A judge orders a divorce settlement split fifty fifty and a man half-cuts the piano a davenport and other furniture before authorities halt the bizarre division. The piece then pivots to light anecdotes about telephone operators and a merry go round debtor.
Classified ads include sale of a deep well jet pump and coal stoker with fittings priced at 30 and 25 dollars. Local social notes report trips to Birmingham and visits among Tipton, Conner, Anderton, Davis, Lovett, Hagood, Brackin, Jeffreys, and Taylor families with hospital and commencement activity in Peabody College.
Rev. W J Alston earned a B A degree at Athens College Sunday. Mr and Mrs Truman Bridges and Gary visited relatives in Birmingham. Mrs W P Roberts and Doris Roberts dined with Malcolm King family in Hartselle. Mr and Mrs Charles Ryan of Falkville visited S A Garner. A large group from Lawrence County attended various Sunday visits and a West Point High School graduation. A Smith and Curtis family reunion planned for the fourth Sunday in June at J M Smith home.
A town defines local ease with wit about a fellow with a black eye and bright-eyed ducks. A taxpayer writes to the state comptroller admitting tax cheating ten years past and offers cash with a sleep remedy promise. A joke contrasts medicine and fun while a countryman spots a sheriff with a handcuffed prisoner and oddly reads his thoughts.
A Decatur couple’s violent quarrel escalates as the husband warns he may “bring out the beast in me” while the wife remains defiant. The note reflects domestic strife and a tense home scene captured in a brief public notice style.
Members of these families are invited to be present for the upcoming community gathering. The notice directs relatives to join officials and neighbors at the designated venue to participate in the scheduled activities.
F S Holmes is slowly improving at his home. Dalton Archie Henry of Chicago visits his parents in Morgan County. Rev D H Davenport Rev James Abbott and Coleman Holmes were supper guests of F S Holmes and family. Mrs Katherine Foote went to Cullman for her mother Mrs Richard Speegle. Mr and Mrs Charles Woods toured to Huntsville to visit friends. Patsy Knox of Hartselle stayed with Luth er Holmes family. Coleman Holmes and Harris Pannell families visited Melvin Rice on West Decatur Pike.
The clipped notes list a glass water bottle, a beverage covered with egg, and a reference to the Pasha of Tunis. The trio hints at a puzzling daily sequence or riddle from a historic column.
Public notice and puzzle bonus items appear with a list of crossword hints covering mossy state one legged stand and prong plus a malt beverage and a cryptoquote phrase It lists distributor names and a dated author or signature line with scattered capitalizations and peculiar spellings indicating a small town newspaper puzzle page teaser
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