This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 10 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1946
Page
6
A local notice offers 100 red cedar posts for 24 dollars each from W. R. Foutch at Route 1 Hillsboro. The short classified item provides contact and price for buyers.
A sequence of small ads notes for sale items including Jersey and Guernsey cows with calves and milk yields, a mount of Jersey cows with young calves, a 60 acre farm on Parkville Eva Pike with a modern house, and various trade offers. Also listed is a lost trunk lid for a 1938 Chevrolet and a Texas mare for sale or trade. Listings include contact names and locations such as Lacon Danville Parkville Hillsboro and Trinity.
The Farm Page notes Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama was a major legislative ally for farmers. It cites acts he steered through Congress including the Bankhead Cotton Act Soil Conservation AAA Parity Loan Bill Farm Security Administration Farm Tenancy Act and other parity measures benefiting numerous Alabama farms.
A German continuous buttermaking machine, designed for 1500 pounds per hour, has been brought to the United States for testing. It may outperform American churns and will have results shared with industry in three to six months after research. The machine is more compact than American units of similar capacity and has not yet been displayed.
Investigators from Washington headed to Mobile after 22 men suffered severe burns when poison gas escaped from German aerial bombs at the Theodore Naval ammunition dump. City hospital reported treating 22 gas burn victims and expected 18 more. Of those treated, 20 were Negro stevedores, one white civilian employee, and one Army private with the chemical warfare service.
The U S Department of Agriculture and Dairy Institute Committee with Extension Services outline an eight point dairy program. It covers feeding per cow needs improving pastures curing roughage records breed for replacements quality milk and cream layouts to cut labor and maintaining herd health for maximum efficiency.
FBI agent in charge Ray J Abbaticchio Jr of Birmingham told Alabama peace officers at their annual convention that crime detection could benefit from new science. He cited self sealing gasoline tanks armor plating mine detectors and magnetic devices to retrieve weapons as examples.
Duke Farms of Somerville New Jersey paid 18000 for a prize bull Draconis Royal Oxford at a promotion sale in Belmont North Carolina near here drawing about 1000 leading Jersey breeders from Canada and several states. The second high price was 16800 for a five month bull calf. Average price reached 3066.
An old saying notes that eighty three percent of a man's knowledge comes through vision, emphasizing the importance of sight in learning and perception across daily life and education.
Maryland launches artificial insemination for dairy cows with 9000 enrolled from a 215000 statewide herd. Seven counties participate with 13 purebred bulls at University of Maryland College Park, six proven, two partially proven, Breeds represented include Ayrshire Guernsey Holstein and Jersey.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.