Our Man About Town in Friday the 13th Tale
G Bert Marvin, involved with Hitt mill and Decatur Ice Big Coal, visits Montgomery to show Light and Traction Co. He is an Auburn Polytechnic Institute alumnus, worked two years at Postal Telegraph and four years at Western Union. He later served as chief electrician for Lautee River Cypress Lumber Co. and moved with F R Seeley to Decatur, then Huntsville with Railway Light and Power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HITT
G. Bert Marvin
Decatur
Montgomery
Light and Traction Company
Marvin
Auburn Polytechnical Institute
Postal Telegraph
Western Union
Wally Smith Posts Eight Hits in Southern League Series
Wally Smith delivers eight consecutive hits in eight at bats during the Memphis and Atlanta series proving a strong bat in the Southern League though slow for the National League standards. Walter Trumbull named new sporting editor at New York Evening Sun succeeding Ed Moss who moves to Associated Press duties.
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Wally Smith
Smth
New York Evening Sun
Walter Trumbul
Trumbull
Grantlang Rice
Associated Press
Ed Moss
Evening Sun
The
A. P
Moss
Cornered the market and other assorted items
A jumble of notices and anecdotes spans a boys outfitter Sam Spielberger in New York and a haunted Back Bay Boston house cited in a MIT study. It also covers Chicago Cubs manager John Evers facing criticism, defense of President Murphy, and a gas-related haunting solved by pluming defects.
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Sam Spielberger
Second Avenue Emporium
Spiielberger
Hal Mullen
Sanitary Plumbing and Heating Company
Franz Schneider, Jr
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Back Bay
Boston
John Evers
Chicago Cubs
Evers
Murphy
Musings of an X Leaguer
A joke about Bob Harmon of the St Louis Cardinals who mistakes a big league expense account for free spending. He hops a trolley to the park and tries to charge the fare to the club, only to be refused by the Irish conductor. He ends up walking to the game an hour and twenty seven minutes late.
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Bob Harmon
Bob
Bobbie H
Stockholders Meeting Called for Commercial Savings Bank
Notice of a special stockholders meeting of the Commercial Savings Bank and Trust Company to be held in New Decatur Alabama on June 28 1913 at 4 PM. Meeting aims to increase capital from forty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars and convert the institution from state to national bank status. Public notices to run four weeks in Decatur Daily and Twin City Telegram.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Savings Bank and Trust Company
New Decatur
Alabama
Commercial Savings Bank & Trust Company
Decaturs Daily
Twin City Telegram
A. A. Hardage
C W Park Dramatic Company Returns Next Week
The Great C W Park Dramatic Company arrives in the city next Monday night June 16 promising the best new dramas and comedies by a first class troupe. The company plays in the largest canvas covered opera house with low prices and top talent for audiences.
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C. W. Park Dramatic Company
Park Company
Ady
J O Camp Takes Over Local Electric Business
J O Camp succeeds to the electric business previously run by Cam, joining partners William We Way son and Wallace Gover. Camp plans to conduct the enterprise alone and invites customers to call on him for any electrical needs or appliances.
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Electrica
Cam
J. O. Camp
William We Wayson
Wallace Gover
Tupure
Camp San Tin
Screens Made to Order for Payne Lumber Co
Ad copy notes screens built to fit customers, from Payne Lumber Co, urging prompt order to avoid selling out and to protect against pests.
Tombstone Makers Strike Paralyzes Brooklyn Shops
New York June 12. Two thirds of Brooklyn stone cutters housed in 12 shops walked out. About 650 men in line for six cemeteries protest for higher pay and a half holiday on Saturdays. They demand roughly a 20 percent wage increase.
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New York
Brooklyn
Delivery notice urges prompt paper service by phone
The notice directs subscribers to call if the paper is not delivered in the afternoon and promises that staff will check and ensure the paper reaches them each day. It emphasizes eight methods to verify prompt delivery and requests timely calls from readers.
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le Tive
Farrier
Local Health Advisory Warning on Contaminated Water
A damaged OCR fragment leaves a brief health alert about potential illness from contaminated water. The notice mentions caution for the public and emphasizes taking protective measures. The exact agencies and dates are unreadable in the record.
Also Mentioned on This Page
City National Bank
Decatur, Alabama
U. S
U. S. Treas
John D. Wyker
J. H. Calvin
A. E. Jackson
R. P. McEntire
Morgan County
New Decatur, Ala
H. B. Beard
American Oak Leather Co
W.a.bibb
North Ala. Traction Co
L. W. Barton
Decatur Cornice & Roofing Co
B. L. Malone
Malone Coal and Grain Co
F. A. Bloodworth
G. A. Hoff
E. M. Odom
Odom Dry Goody Co
Wm. E. Skeggs
J. E. Penny
Bank OF Commerce
Decatur, Ala
Up River Points
Our Man
Nashville
F. W
3Rd Avenue
Tenn
Webster
Canal Street
Ferry
Bank Street
A. Iuyny
Kinsbury
Morgan Furniture Co
Daniel Drug Store
Seaman
Johnson Street
N. A Young
Scond Avenue
U. 8
ARMY
United States
Bank St. Decatur
Ala
J. D. Thomas
Moulton Street
Magnolia Park
W. G. Henry
Trinity
W. L. Gover
C. E. Malone
Decaturs
E. H. Allison
Johnny
Johhny Evers
Sporting News
Mullen
Masonic
Cagle
Dr. Watsen
Stockholders Meeting
Thos
A. Bowles
Cashies
ALL Wext Week
Britain
OWL Drug CO
Decatur and
E. C. Payne Lumber Co
Fourth Avenue
Chandler
Brighten UP
C. Payne Lumbrr Co
Tombstone Makers
H. E. Hicks
Rainey Dry Cleaning
Recond Ave
Ween Eee River
Ow! Co
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