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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1912
Page
2
A 1992 notice lists mailing rates for the Apoc cup matter at New Decatur Alabama, under the Act of March 3 1879 and details carrier and subscription prices for various periods. It includes instructions for timely newspaper delivery, reporting missed issues, and advertising copy deadlines.
The piece accuses Alabama delegates Frank P. Glass and Evans Emmet ONeal of betraying Senator Underwood by supporting Wilson. Glass denies interviews with Sun sources while questions linger over Kennard letters praising ONeal for vice president. The column condemns Glass and ONeal for alleged treachery and calls for accountability.
A Nashville Democrat piece argues that trusted leaders Harmon Parker Underwood Belmont and Ryan should not be excluded from the Democratic party. It rebukes ultra progressive critics who sneer at wealth and urges the party defend property rights and equal justice for rich and poor alike.
A speaker defends the Convention against claims of anti progressive bias arguing that justice was pursued unlike Mr Bryant who allegedly acted with prejudice.
The New York World extols Helen Keller as a world changing figure as she is named to Schenectady's board of public welfare. Keller, born deaf, dumb, and blind, has mastered learning through touch and risen to lead in civic affairs. Her appointment marks a historic quiet triumph.
Dean Sumner urged ministers to require a health certificate with marriage licenses. About 200 Protestant clergymen in the Federated Churches meeting adopted a resolution directing pastors to build public support for the plan. Sumner cited Michigan’s 40 year old law fining or jailing marrying a contagious patient, noting it has never been enforced.
Summer brings chicks and flowers but also vermin and disease. Keep hens and chicks separate, dust chicks for head lice, and disinfect hen houses with pyrethrum. Whitewash interiors, dust, and provide dry dust baths. avoid mixing young with old fowls. change runs to prevent ground contamination.
Ensure clean water with frequent fountain feeding and regular scalding. Do not let water run dry or fowls overload it. Use a tablet of potagh persails canate in the water periodically as a mud disinfectant and corrective. Provide ample pasturage shade and fresh air to keep vermin down and protect profits.
An advertisement for Zemo claims fast relief from eczema chafing pimples and salt rheum with deep absorption and no residue. Produced by E W Rose Medicine Co St. Louis and sold by druggists at 1 per bottle with trial sizes of 25 cents at Dillehay Bros Drug Stores.
Several deeds recorded this morning by the Probate Judge. Transactions include John B Gordon and wife to P G Kimbrough for part of section 1 5 township 7 range 4 west with 4750 dollars, P G Kimbrough to J C Freeman for another parcel valued 4750 dollars, W H Crow and wife to J B Gordon for a half of a southeast quarter of section 15 for 300 dollars, and Mrs M L Simpson and L L Simpson to W H Drinkard for parts of section 15 township 8 range 4 west totaling 1000 dollars. Also Mrs S A Drinkard to E D Drinkard for house and lot 8 block 10 and lot 3 in block 10 on the west side of the Louisville and Nashville railroad at Falkville for 1150 dollars.
Decatur firefighters were summoned yesterday afternoon to Dr. Edgar Morrow's Sixth Avenue home. The small fire, described as a burning broom, was put out before fire units arrived.
The Alabama National Guard Company E met at the armory for regular drill with four new members enrolled. A noncommissioned officers’ school will operate Thursday night, presided over by Captain R. Horton, so no drill that evening. The unit plans to camp at Anniston next month with equipment prep underway led by Lieut. Albes, and will assemble July 15 to travel by train to Anniston for one night.
HORS, contractor and builder, operates from 12 Second Avenue with phone line 417 for projects and inquiries.
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