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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jun 17, 1966

Page

9

Tell Me to oe Why! Britannica Winner Announcement

Public notice announces Andy Tarbox of 10 Troy New York as today's Tell Me Why winner. Readers are invited to submit questions with name age and zip code to the paper for future contests and prize eligibility.

Andy. Tarbox Troy New York Faye McClendon Norfolk

What Does a Chemist Do history puzzle explainer

A mixed page explains chemistry fields, roles, and methods, noting organic inorganic qualitative and quantitative analysis and biochemistry. It describes how chemists specialize, create new materials, and apply discoveries, with a joke and a crossword and a cattle treatment drug note.

Credit cost to average American family reaches 23 percent

The article notes that last year the share of income spent on credit costs totaled 23 percent for the typical American family, highlighting rising debt service.

Marriage Licenses and County Civil Suits Listed

Daily records show marriages between Montie R. Free and Joan Elizabeth Smith. Jim Watts and Gladys Pike. James Hixon and Vivian Lee Smith. Ronald Hill and Bobbie Ann Roberts. Haleen Briscoe and Janice Thomas. Dieter Dreiser and Dorothy Snider. Lloyd Voyls and Bobbie Westbrooks. Harvey Hester and Deborah Maxwell. and Thomas Edmondson and Beulah Clark, plus numerous civil suits including promissory notes, garnishments, and damages involving multiple banks and local businesses.

Montie R. Free Falkville Foreman Joan Elizabeth Smith Hartselle Hartselle Manufacturing Co Jim Watts Gladys Pike James Hixon Phelps Mountain View Trailer Ct IBM Vivian Lee Smith 7Th Ave Ronald Dwight Hill Wolverine Tube Bobbie Ann Roberts Haleen Briscoe Janice Dianne iThomas Dieter Hermann Dreiser Huntsville Dorothy Jean Snider 6Th Ave. SE Lloyd Voyls Somerville Bobbie Sue Westbrooks Union Grove Harvey Weldon Hester 9Th ‘Ave Wolverine ‘Tube Deborah Gail Maxwell Thomas A. Edmondson Buelah Ann Clark Fowller Drug Co Joe Ardis Morgan Hart‘selle Shirley Fay Robinson Décatur Morgan County State National Bank of Alabama A Corp Beatrice Wimberly Associates Finance Co. of Fla Osie A. Wilbanks Hoyt Cheatham Georgia Life Ins. Co Columbia Oil Co. Inc

Fragmentary Trade and Ethnographic Snippets From a History Page

The text mentions Roy J. Ginbotham and Sir B Yarborough with a promissory note of $241. It then shifts to unrelated lines about black caterpillars in Congo and Australian aborigines nibbling ants, Eskimos enjoying polar palms, and Africans liking crocodile fins. The source is fragmented and centuries-old in tone.

Congo

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