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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jun 26, 1959

Page

11

Decatur Alabama adopts sanitary sewer ordinance set

The city council adopts Ordinance No 1128 establishing definitions for sanitary sewer use, waste types, measurement rules and inspection authority. It outlines prohibited discharges, storage tank and control manhole requirements, permit process, penalties, and enforcement rules effective September 1 1959 with notice of completion for a separate housing project and a Vatican Observatory note.

Decatur State OF Alabama B.C.D City of City of Decatur Municipal Utilities Board of Decatur Federal Register Ord City Plumbing Inspector Sewer Department Municipal Utilities Board City Water Department American Public Health Association, Inc City Sewer Department Municipal Utilities Board of Storrs Homes Second Ave

Mystery Mountain River and a Hazardous Local Blaze

The text notes Little River near Fort Payne Alabama may be the only river atop Lookout Mountain in DeSoto State Park. It recounts an accidental gas explosion in a butcher shop when a man lit a match after inhaling gas, leaving him dazed yet unharmed as a neighboring shopkeeper aided him.

Fort Payne Alabama U. S Lookout Mountain DeSoto State Park Jane See

Impecunious Youth and a Leap Year Proposal

A fragment from a humorous page pairs a shy suitor confessing marriage is unlikely with a determined partner insisting love can aid marriage. The piece blends college jokes and a wartime quack medical tale about beriberi and patient misadventure.

Jean

Fragmented dialogue from a domestic scene

Excerpts show two children Johnny and Anow and their mother in a tense domestic moment with a ladder knocked over and a father allegedly hanging from the windowsill. The passage hints at a letter writing moment and a restrained, uneasy atmosphere.

Johnny

Swain and Father Exchange Nighttime Transit Warnings

In a late hour dialogue Samuel D. Babcock quotes Swain asking how to leave. A tired father peeks in and asserts Bus No. 30 Train No. 9 or any taxicab must be kept right, and wrongs set right.

Swain Samuel D. Babcock

Decatur boy’s cheeky heaven plan sparks family humor

A mother probes a boy about going to heaven. He replies with a playful, stubborn plan to keep running doorways open, until adults insist he both enters and stays out, ending in a lighthearted family joke.

Decatur Heaven

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