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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1912
Page
3
The text shows disjointed chapters with a northern woman and a naive plan to flee. A hut owner named Tee appears along a road as horsemen gather and a captain is greeted. A general threatens a release only if a secret is revealed.
A narrator in disguise retrieves a colonel’s uniform during a crowded ball at a Confederate prison. He dons the outfit to slip past guards, recalling army orders and personnel as he aims for a bold escape path before dawn. He resolves to blend with the partygoers and press on toward safety.
Corrected pricing for lemons, oranges, potatoes, sweet potatoes, apples, beans, peas, onions, cabbage, strawberries, tomatoes, bananas, and pineapples. Includes per box or per bushel rates for Messina lemons, California oranges, imported potatoes, navy beans, Lima beans, sweet potato stock, Ben Davis apples, Janos apples, box apples, and crate prices for onions, cabbage, strawberries, and pineapples. Prices range from 8 cents per pound for Lima beans to 3 dollars for California black-eyed peas.
A corrected per-unit price catalog lists sugar coffee flour syrups canned fruit vegetables fish and dry goods with ranges for grades and brands. Items include Sugar Standard $5.65 per 100 lbs, Ariosa coffee $24.30 per 100 lbs case, Karo syrup $2.80 per case, California peaches $1.90-$2.25 per dozen, and lard and butter prices among others.
The tale recounts Eric the Red, Viking chief of sea raiders born in Norway ca. 950, and his son Lief. After murders and outlawry, Eric seeks new lands, founding Greenland, and Lief leads a westward voyage to Vinland, likely Newfoundland, where grapes flourish and a fresh homeland is imagined.
Corrected pricing lists show fresh candied eyes at 16 cents. Live hens 9 cents, pressed 14 cents, fryers 26 to 30 cents each.
Hides green at 9 cents dry salt 12 1-2 to 13 cents dry flint 1 to 16 cents tal low 4 to 5 1/2 cents beeswax 22 cents ginseng cultivated 3 1/2 cents wild 4 1/2 cents sheep pelts 10 to 25 cents bones 100 pounds 26 scrap per ton 4.50 brass 2 1/2 to 6 cents.
A fragmentary quotation from Professor George B stresses belief in the common people as safeguard of national character, urging trust in ordinary citizens over elite intellect. The passage emphasizes foundational virtue and enduring societal strength.
In a terse exchange quoted in Another Genee, a wife’s loyalty is prompted by hardship as she reportedly becomes the sole breadwinner amid ongoing strain and duty. The dialogue underscores personal sacrifice within domestic life during trying times.
A few lots in the best census area of Decatur will be offered for sale to anyone wanting to build dwellings to meet demand. Call on B Lampkin.
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