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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1968
Page
8
A miscellany of classified notices lists a hay sale at 600 bales for 75 cents each, 30 pigs age unknown, a request for 2 used pulpit chairs, a German Shepherd puppy for sale at 25 dollars, black bantam eggs and hens wanted, and a note about a new influenza vaccine with fewer side effects than prior vaccines.
Farmers Exchange announces free two insertion run for writing and sending ad copy to The Daily. Farmers may place notices about crops prices livestock equipment or services at no charge during the specified period.
A memoir style account recalls a rare June day in Mud Tavern beginning with a St John s service read by Ernie Alt, a breakfast at the Downtowner, visits with Mary and Eula and Joe Speegle, and a trip to Mt Hope s Bill Roberson catfish hatchery. The journey includes Mt Hope to Moulton via Hepsidam and Leola Road, notes on landscape, and a search for an old clocks contact.
A Mud Tavern Sunday journal highlights two deaths, Allan B. Kline former Farm Bureau president and Dr. John D. Sherrill Sr. a key Alabama team doctor and Crippled Children’s Clinic mover. The writer recalls dawn birds, rural roads, visits, and local life, ending with reflections on a rare June day.
William Wu, a student from Lawrence County, entered on duty May 20 as a summer trainee in the Morgan SCS Work Unit at Alabama A&M College Huntsville. He will work through the summer then return to college for the fall term.
The text mentions a chisel plow used by conservation district cooperators that may shatter a plow sole and hard pan. It also notes physicists preparing cosmic ray observations and hints at inspecting an Egyptian structure to see if part is hollow.
The article explains the International Date Line as a rough line along the 180th meridian where the calendar day shifts by one. It notes the line’s role in determining time zones as travelers cross it.
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