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Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jun 22, 1914

Page

4

Personal notes from Brock & Spight Co and area visits

Brief personals mention Ww Montgomery returning to duties at Brock & Spight Co. W Seamons in Sheffield yesterday. Mrs. Smith of Sheffield improving. Claude McMillan visiting in North Carolina, to return next Wednesday. W B Skeggs left Springs Tennessee and may be joined soon by his son. A Rickles spent the week in Cullman. Atty Frazer left for Fay. Apinard was vigil aid to Mrs T P. Lanier Baker Jr. returning to Tuscaloosa after funeral of their relative Warner.

Montgomery The Brock & Spight Co Seamons Sheffield Mrs. Smith W. BE. Skeggs Springs Tenn Bes

White man executed for murder in Birmingham

International News Service reports Walter Pryor, a black man, sentenced to death for killing George Guist, a white man, with a date set for Friday June 26 to face the hangman.

International News Service Birmingham Walter. Pry Itin George Guist

Taft and Bryan May Testify on Nicaragua Inquiry

Washington June 22 The foreign relations committee ordered a favorable report on a Senate resolution by Senator Smith of Michigan investigating the communication of the state department and Diaz administration in Nicaragua It may call Ex President Taft and Secretary Bryan to testify.

International News Service Ihington Foreign & Senate Committee Senate Smith Michi- Mm State Department Diaz Nicaraugua Taft Bryan

Local Man Heads to Convention of Y M C A Officers

Local man secretary N B Peake of the IMGA leaves Tuesday for Lake Boe Wis. On Thursday he will preside over the conference of employed Officers of the inroad department of the Y M C A. Geheva is near Chi p Pig City as the Sun convenes this week. Dr attends the convention also. returning home.

Retary N. B. Peake Lake Boe Wis Chip Pig City

Card of Thanks

Beloved son and brother mourned as family thanks all who offered kindness and bereavement support. L. Baker and family extend gratitude for the many attentions shown during their sorrow.

Ike L. Baker

Thoughts on Hope and Courage

A fragment reflecting on mindset and opportunity. It contrasts noble thoughts with practical action and notes that successful people stay cheerful, steady, and hopeful while facing life’s changes. The quotation references Nixon Waters and Kingsley as sources or speakers.

Nixon Waters Kingsley

Local society notes and literary items from Tri Cities area

Miss Lula Almiot of New Decatur visits Judge and Mrs. Almon in Tiscumbla. Pagnes Literary Club meets Friday at 3 PM with Mrs. Hal Mullen. Mrs. G H Berry and sons visit Capt. and Mrs. W T Rowden in Louisi e. Multiple notices of convalescence travel and social calls across nearby towns including Franklin and Troy with camping and tea events and millinery updates.

Lula Almiot New Decatur

Central High School graduates receive awards after Bryan speech

Mr W H Duncan and party left for a Florida trip visiting Santa Rosa Island while Miss Clara Teck Brown plans to visit the Weavers in Birmingham. Miss Mamie Baker and Jennie Houghton depart for Winchester with Mamie to return in a week. The Albes family will feature a three column notice in the Wash- Thatein Evening Star detailing the Central High School graduation cruise. John Conrad Albes wins the Daughters of 1812 prize essay on The Loss of the Essex and earns a diploma.

W. H. Duncan Vanda Hubbard Florida Santa Rosa’ Island Clara Teck Brown Birmingham Mrs Elbert Weaver Jennie Houghton Mamie Rowena Baker Winchester C. B. Albes Central High School Wm. J. Bryan John Conrad Albes Daughters of 1812 Essex Con

Remembering Our Past in a Grand Ethnology Exhibit

A San Diego letter promotes a vast ethnology and archaeology exhibit in a massive building overlooking the coast. The piece touts the Smithsonian backed display as the most complete of its kind, with collections borrowed and explained for lay readers, promising a vivid, schoollike learning experience about human history and our own evolution. It ends with a note from Scotty at San Diego in June 1914 and a Chamberlain's remedy advertisement.

Herb Bightly Hill San Diego Coronado Point Loma Corpado Islands Napoleon Bonaparte Iit Smithsonian Institution of Washington School of American Archaeology Scotty Cal

HOVENTURES OF KATHLYR AT THE STAR THEATER

The twelfth installment of Selig's animal story from Harold Mc Grath's novel will be shown at the Star Theater tomorrow. The picture has attracted much attention and features 13 releases of two reels each with a continuing sequence of sensational moments.

Selig Harold McGrath

Take Plenty of Time to Eat

A vintage ad cautions against rapid eating linking it to indigestion and constipation and urges use of Chamberlain's Tablets. It claims digestion starts in the stomach and that many stomach troubles are cured by the tablets, which are easy to take and agreeable, sold by all dealers.

Chamberlain

bumper crops looked for in south and west

Washington reports much improved crop conditions with expectations of a bumper crop. In the south a dry backward season hurt cotton while in the west moisture improved yields above average.

International News Service Washington

Also Mentioned on This Page

Mployees A. Rickles Cullman. Ieeke Atiey Frazer Fay Apinard T. P. Appealls Tuscum Lanier Baker, Jr Reto Béction Ala Thetr T Warner Sec Glen Pals Wallcott Pagnes Literary Club Mrs.m.s. Bifghath Tittle Daugher Julia South Alabama G. H. Berry 3Ong Frank and Henry Louiyisie, Kf W. T. Rowden W. T. Jidwe Moulton Julia Neville Cullman Marcella Collier Trinity Mias-Pheo, Davis Wim. McCalla Dane Phoenix Club Madame Coton Ory-Cohen’s Nashville Blue Water May Penick Troy Adglard’* Murphy E. N. Penick C. W. Goyer Ben Martin Ak Street Oe Brown Humboldt, Tenn 5Th Avenue West Unscientiffic Miss Haysel Coulter Olympic Masonic Theatre Bulletin Thompson Star Theatre the House of Cooling Breezes Billy G. M. Anderson Edison Sallie Crute Ben Wilson Lone Walf Princess Mona Darkfeather Kathlyr Masonie Theatre Olympia Opera Company Lea Stave Audrian la Mascot Ward Robe Ford Sterling Delite Theatre Domino Frank Borzagé Gladys Brockwell Keystone Kathryn Décaturs Daily Kimonas Kimhonas Tad Second Avenue
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