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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1920
Page
6
A description of report charges by a telephone company for locating a contact or reporting status. It explains when a report charge applies and when charges are waived, including cases of busy lines or successful connections within an hour. The piece emphasizes customer recourse with local management to correct billing errors.
A historical note outlines old British Sunday work restrictions for workmen and traders with penalties for selling goods and services. The text highlights exemptions for farmers, attorneys, surgeons, cab drivers, coach proprietors, and Jews, and explains enforcement requires consent of magistrates or chief police.
The Philadelphia Press writer notes constant sonic torture for canaries in captivity and for people amid motor boats planes autos and trains. He highlights auto horns as the loudest ear-splitting signals marketed by dealers and urges attention to sound pollution.
The Manchester Guardian notes a misfit in a Westminster fiesto showing the Mayflower departure with a Union Jack. The Union Jack did not exist until 1800, 180 years after the Pilgrim fathers left. An Irish Union flag combined St George St Andrew and St Patrick emblems was raised in London Edinburgh and Dublin.
The maple known for its sweet sap is praised as the most important sugar maple. The lumber is valuable, but the tree’s standout feature is the abundant sap used for sugar. Early settlers noted its value, with land promoters advertising “The Sugar Tree Grows Here.”
In grateful remembrance of Scotland's sons who died for the Holy Land a memorial in Jerusalem is planned. The joint effort by the Church of Scotland and United Free Church of Scotland will create an Institute for Biblical Research and a Presbyterian church named the Scots' Kirk and College in Jerusalem.
The American Forestry Magazine notes the thrush as a top singing bird and reports a nationwide bird house building contest among school children. The magazine awards blue ribbons to prize winners in schools nationwide.
A fragmented thought articulates courage and intelligence as core civic virtues. It links personal growth to recognizing precarious estate and being unashamed before facts. The excerpt appears from a piece titled Automobile Laundry by Frank P. Lide.
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