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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1912
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR style excerpt references scouts, pickets, Confederate offices, and a maze like setting. It mentions a female companion and a northern ally seeking escape, with imagery of darkness and trees. Details are incomplete and names or places are not identifiable.
A wounded Confederate officer hides in a river cabin with Mrs Brennan the woman he treats as a nurse. They share food and quiet moments as two rough couples, Jed Bungay and Maria, guard the cabin while a party of irregular soldiers approaches.
Corrected list of market prices for lemons oranges potatoes sweet potatoes apples beans peas onions cabbage strawberries tomatoes bananas pineapples and more from Messina California Texas and Southern crates with per box per barrel and per pound figures. Prices include Messina lemons 5.50 per box and apples Ben Davis 5 per barrel Ganos 5.50 per barrel and other regional values.
A corrected price catalog lists per 100 pounds sugar at 5.85 with varieties cut leaf and powdered. Coffee Ariosa 1 lb packages at 24.30 per case of 100 lbs, bulk roast 26c. Starch Cellulory 2.66 per case. Flour Standard patents 6.00, fancy 6.26, extra fancy 6.50 to 6.75. Syrups canned Karo per case 2.30, 5-lb 2.40, 2-lb 2.00. Canned fruit California peaches 1.90–2.25 per dot, pineapples No. 2 1.90–2.10, figs 1.25. Canned vegetables per dozen No. 3 tomatoes 1.40, standard corn 0.90–0.95, fancy 1.26, pork and beans 0.90, peas 1.20–1.65, petite pois 1.90, kraut 0.90, hominy 0.75. Canned fish per dozen salmon chum 1.35, pinks 1.40, tall red 2.00, Argo flat cans 2.25, oysters No. 1 0.96, No. 2 1.80, sardines 2.75–6.50. Dry salt meats galt ribs 11.70, lard pure hog 0.? per gallon, Swift’s jewel 9 7-8, ham 16 1-4c, bacon 22 1-2c. Butter 34c, oleomargarine 18–22c, cheese 18c.
Poultry prices list mentions candied eyes fresh at 15 cents. Live hens priced at 90, dressed poultry at 14 cents, fryers at 26 and 30 cents per unit.
Corrected price list for hides and byproducts shows rates for green hides nine cents, dry salt twelve and one half to one cent, dry flint sixteen cents, tal low four to six cents, beeswax twenty two cents, cultivated ginseng three and a half cents, wild four and a half cents, sheep pelts ten to twenty five cents, bones per hundred pounds twenty six cents, scrap per ton four dollars and sixty cents, brass two and a half cents and be.
In probate court Morgan County Alabama on June 10 1912 W O Houck administrator files final account and vouchers for the estate of John J Houck deceased. The July 8 1912 date is set for examination and auditing of the account and all interested must appear to show cause why the account should not be approved. Judge WM B Skroogs presiding.
An account describes the 1066 Hastings battle with Harold and Duke William, the Norman invasion, and the conquest's consequences. It notes William's rise, the Tower of London, and claims that conquest brought progress by mixing cultures despite brutality.
Baseball results from Huntaville show RH and Bessemer with Robertson and Bene dict for the batteries. Luhraon and Rolleg also contributing in the game marked by a 2 to 0 score in one contest.
In Nashville Memphis Mae and Ferguson with Tanneman and Elliott led by a 613 6 batteries. At Montgomery Laudermilk Vance and Aitchison McAllister supported by McAllister. At Chattanooga Redaan Brady Donjahue Ware Chappelle Hannah starred. New Orleans 50. At Birmingham Swindel Maigh Prough Boyd Yantz led the batteries.
In Cincinnati and Boston games RHE teams faced Pima and Nos Se tes. Batteries featured Adams Cole Gibson Kelly Keefe Gaspar Clark Hendrix Kelly Fromme Severoid Brown Donnelly Hogg Kling Whitehouse Wiltse Shore Meyers Hartley Chatliers Killifer Barger Erwin Miller Leifield Brown Afcher Harmon Wingo Bliss.
An advice column promotes Chamberlain's Dihiment for rheumatism with massaging of affected parts. Local ads note availability at Decatur druggists. Also printed is a sheriff's sale notice listing five houses and lots in Decatur from C H Austin to be sold July 18 1972 under an execution.
A fragment notes that many and man have been true of thought, reflecting on perception and belief. The text appears incomplete, offering a fleeting glimpse rather than a full argument or narrative.
A few lots in the best part of Dechthr will be offered cheap to anyone wanting to build dwellings to supply the demand. Call on B. Lampkin.
When your child has cough the careful remedy liquifies tough mucus and aids expectoration. It has been used successfully in epidemics and is safe. For sale by M. Thompson in New Decatur and Decatur Drug Co. Decatur.
Invitation to see bottling operations at Buchheit Bottling Works detailing Coca Cola and soda water production.
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