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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1913
Page
2
Rates listed by carrier and mail options for one year six months and shorter periods. Miscellaneous items include five cent per line tributes and obituaries with request to report late deliveries by phone. Advertising rates available on request and copy must arrive by noon. Editorial comment questions legislative reasoning methods.
Colonel Goethals expects to send a boat through the canal by October fifteenth, believing he has better information and an advantage as readers picture Culebra slides and ongoing excavations.
The note claims 80 000 English words exist for conversation but only 400 are common. It argues careful word selection expands expression and reduces complaints, urging mindful vocabulary use in schools and beyond.
It is a serious question whether those New York school teachers who spelled payroll should not be excluded carefully from that in teresting list hereafter.
A violent threat is issued toward the Sanitary Plumbing and Heating Company, promising to obtain a package of Roach Doom and to kill the recipient upon return. The message uses direct intimidation and a stated plan to cause deadly harm.
Dont wait for flies to bite you sick. Screens made to order to fit and wear by E C Payne Lumber Co.
Blisters on the hands scalds burns old sores lame back and rheumatism are treated with Ballard's Snow Liniment. It provides pain relief and penetrates affected areas. Prices are 25 cents 50 cents and 1.00 per bottle. Sold by Owl Drug Co.
The National Jewelers' Board of Trade reports that precious stones may be shipped to the United States by parcel post through a semi official British Post Office service. The arrangement with the American Express Company limits charges to customs duties for clearing.
G Port Lewis Hardage has joined the Opelika squad in the Georgia Alabama League after refusing offers from major clubs to finish his college course. His move is seen as a fast rise in the baseball world and is hoped for locally.
New Haven Conn June 19 Arthur T Hadley president of Yale turned the first spadeful of earth in the universitys new athletic field site to cover more than 100 acres A stadium of concrete and steel to seat 61000 will be erected at a cost of 350000
Birmingham June 19 Compulsory athletics will be part of Howard College next year. The Board of Trustees met at the YMCA this Tuesday and decided to make athletics as essential as reading writing and arithmetic. All students must take part in athletics.
Anniston defeated Opelika 7 to 4 with Hawkins pitching for Opelika hampered by costly errors. Spitznagle made a notable bare hand stop, while ex Vanderbilt star Hardage joined Opelika and performed well. Scores by innings show Anniston 230 101 000 and Opelika 100 020 010. Batteries Farr and Sheppard for Anniston Hawkins and Allen for Opelika.
The late J Pierpont Morgen leaves a perfect Caxton Morte dArthur as the sole surviving copy in existence. It sold at the Hoe sale for 42500, with each page valued around 250. An Antwerp First Folio Shakespeare once fetched 5000 at Sothebys, bought by a US collector after a 6000 mile chase.
If you are a housewife you cannot reasonably hope to be healthy or beautiful by washing dishes sweep ing and doing housework all day and crawling into bed dead tired at night You must get out into the open air on sunlight. If you do this every day and keep your stomach and bow els in good order by taking Chamber lain's Tablets when weed you should become both healthy and beautiful. For sale by 8. M. Thompson New Decatur and Decatur Drug Co Decatur.
For soreness of the muscles whether from violent exercise or injury there is nothing better than Chamberlains Liniment. This liniment also relieves rheumatic pain.
Mothers of young children are advised to watch for unusual bowel looseness during summer. Early prompt attention can prevent serious trouble. Remedy available from M. Thompson in New Decatur and Decatur Drug.
Our subscribers are urged to call if their paper fails to arrive in the afternoon. The paper states they have a method to know when prompt service is not received and will assist by ensuring delivery when contacted by telephone.
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