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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1913
Page
3
A hometown column jests about improving Decatur streets to ease fat visitors and mentions their good drainage toward the river. It extols balanced elevations, healthy children, and local industries while joking about padded sidewalks and frog legs from cafes. It ends with a note of local pride.
An uneasy feeling in the stomach or bowels yields quickly to herb bine. It tones up the stomach and purifies the bowels. Price 50c. Sold by Owl Drug Co.
A Paris exposition outlined acetylene apparatus and gas elimination, including a movable gas oven broiler frame and a compact knapsack device claimed to capsize aircraft. Other notes describe portable sterilized water retorts, airquake theory from meteors, a canvas basket for invalids, and a water evaporation cycle.
A lender named M. Dix offers a loan of 500 dollars secured by improved city property. The note specifies a loan amount of 500 dollars with terms to be arranged upon inquiry.
The article reports that Hardage Watson Robbing and others were cleared of professionalism charges tied to a Texas Christmas trip. They had journeyed with Vanderbilt teammates. sworn statements showed they received only railroad fare. Hardage’s return boosts Vanderbilt's title chances.
Montgomery Journal reports Congressman Hobson calls for a congressional inquiry into police failure to protect a suffragist parade in Washington. He condemns the mistreatment of marchers as cavalry helped prevent a larger disaster amid hospital injuries and public outrage over inadequate protections.
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