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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1954
Page
11
Classified sale notice lists UD-9 diesel and Cor in th saw mills as new and used items from Jervis Foundry and Machine Co. Contact phone 1056 for inquiries.
For sale Frigidaire 8.6 cu ft automatic defrost refrigerator with trade in option nets $225.00 after a $75.00 trade in from Murdock Furniture Co. Also offered are an 8 inch table saw with a 34 hp motor by H B Johnson of Hartsel le Alabama on Highway 31 and a 6 inch electric hand saw by H B Johnson of Hartselle Alabama on Highway 31 North.
Mrs. Mable Lyles of 10 Market Street won a beautiful chair in a thanks note. The business announces a new address at 23 Church St NW and hours 8 to 5:30 with arrangements for after hours shopping.
Classified notice listing items for sale including a furniture salvage firm at 23 Church St N W between Bank Street and R R overpass and peaches for sale by H M Blankenship at Priceville Mt Highway 67 and by Ernest Maples near Brooksville on Highway 67 with contact phones 1073 2934 1 3.
The sheriff returns a service attempt as not found on William B. Harris. The register orders weekly publication in Decatur Daily for four weeks demanding pleadings by July 24, 1954, or the bill may be confessed. Also includes Improvement Ordinance No 752 detailing paving and curb work on several Decatur streets with sections where open ditches instead of curbs will be built.
City of Decatur schedules a public hearing on July 19 1954 at City Hall to hear objections to proposed street improvements. Officials file detailed estimates totaling 69939.47 and publish notices in the Decatur Daily over two weeks prior as required by law.
A miscellany of humorous vignettes and clipped scenes from a 1954 city paper. A traveling salesman fails to see a hard to reach industrialist, a clerk discards a card then relents with another, and a nickel buys him a renewed interview. A jokey obituary tombstone gag and office humor close the segment.
An 11 year old African American boy named William Bruce Hardin was killed when struck by a passing car on U S Highway 72 about nine miles east of Florence. The incident was reported by the Highway Patrol.
A collection of short quips and rural wit including a foot in humor about stepping on a coin, a detective in training gag, a squirrel reference, a coal heating line, a ghost joke, and a note about eggs joined at the small end from Mrs. Ford Poole of Comers Virginia.
Mr and Mrs Marvin Bowling announce a daughter born Monday at Arab Hospital. Mr and Mrs James Louis Maze born at Hartselle Clinic this week. Mr and Mrs Buddie Smith and boys of Priceville visited Mr and Mrs Robert Knighten Sunday afternoon. Mrs Bessie Thompson returned home after visiting daughter Mrs Will Frazier and family at Cotaco. Glen Collins of Decatur visited Russell Peck Saturday night. Elgin Bowen was sent to a doctor after a nail injury Sunday. Mrs Dewey Bowen and Mr and Mrs M G Peck attended Shiloh singing Sunday night.
In The Hague talks Indonesia calls for West New Guinea issue and debt reduction. Netherlands rejects discussing West New Guinea at these closed-door talks. Unconfirmed reports say Indonesia may seek to halve its four-billion-guilder debt to the Netherlands.
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