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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1914
Page
3
Service advertises prompt baggage transfer and household goods hauling with safety and promptness guaranteed. Includes contact line and a likely business name Walker.
Special Register J H Green notices a public sale on July 13, 1914 for Morgan County Alabama real property in Decatur. The tract includes parts of lots 397 and 39 percent with detailed street-bound descriptions and references to Carrie M Williamson and D W Speake.
A New York Sun piece exposes how scam operatives prize a “sucker list” of eager markees. The interview reveals brokers selling names per thousand to float illegal schemes, noting millions seek con games from health cures to hair tonics and passage creams.
Advertising copy urges every family to keep Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy during hot months. It claims high value and inevitability of use, noting no superior product and urging purchase through all dealers.
F H Seeley of Chicago and Philadelphia, renowned truss specialist, will be at the Echols hotel in Decatur Thursday June 25 for one day. He promotes the Spermatic Shield device claiming rapid closure of rupture without surgery and offers free consultations for charity cases.
Veteran reporter details Americans escaping Vera Cruz era turmoil in interior Mexico. Ira Adler recalls Guadalaajara seizure aftermath reaching Manzanillo and San Francisco aboard a British ship. Americans faced mobs and consular aid, with trains, cattle cars, and guard escorts to safety amid shelling and pillaging in Montere y and Manzanillo.
A Decatur reader, J. L. Greer of Fairview street, praises Doan’s Kidney Pills for easing back pains and kidney issues after using them years ago. He bought a box at Pruit & Benson’s drug store and says they helped at once. Price 50 cents, from dealers.
Lumber advertisement from Crawford and Sons Co lists contact options and a phone number for inquiries. Includes a Cal phone 211 in New Decatur and references J-1.
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