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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1956
Page
19
Classified ad lists multiple English brick homes with 3 to 12 rooms, 4 bedrooms, baths, gas heating, and quick possession in the city and west areas. Also mentions farms from acres on good roads and a 30 acre tract. contact Russell Speake at Ratlif? for details.
Real estate ads list several properties for sale including 10th Ave and Highway Caddo area with prices from 3 7 to 8 5 thousand and details like rooms baths and acreage. The page closes with a remembrance note for Faye Tanner Blair and a short poem of faith.
In Somerville and Falkville Alabama notices show candidates for Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control Districts 4 and 3. Leon Nelson of Falkville appears among listed candidates urging voter support ahead of an election date in May. For sale notice ends this fragment.
Used four months Zenith 21 inch TV offered with pay equity of 55 dollars and take up payments. Phone 1430 W.
For sale advertising lists new and used sewing machines and industrial machines with guaranteed repair service and ports for all makes. Includes a 1954 System 34 ft trailer a bedroom air conditioner and Easy lift hitch. Bruce Davis at All States Trailer Park Highway 31 Decatur Alabama.
Local recount by Perry Bailey notes cash purchases cost more than credit in the 1890s. Charles Griffith, wagon maker, fixes a wheel for a town bad debtor who asks the price. Griffith says credit would be $2.50, then implies the debtor will not pay, keeping the cash price lower.
A student protested the birthday recount rule as legal though a State's Attorney William Henning advised releasing him while law is checked. He noted common law states a person born Jan 1 becomes one year old on Dec 31, starting a new year of life on Jan 1.
Limestone County 4H Club will hold public eliminations at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the elementary school cafeteria. Seventeen contestants will be narrowed to a male and female winner who advance to district finals at Belle Mina on June 1, facing representatives from 15 other counties. The event is sponsored by Tennessee Valley Farmers' Cooperatives.
ATHENS Arthur L. Spence newly elected president of the North Alabama Tuberculosis Assn has called officers and directors to meet in Athens Tuesday to map activities for 1956 Limestone County board of revenue elected last week a new slate including W. H. Jenkins as Morgan County vice second vice president and Taft as Athens treasurer.
The Cullman Student Association elects Herman Baker of Cox Cullman as vice president Glenda Plunkett of Hanceville as secretary and Miss Nina Gay Whatley of Fairview as sponsor The next meeting will be held in Cold Springs in September The article notes hospital admission rates show about 6 percent of men aged 25 to 34 and 14 percent of those 55 to 64 annually.
A sequence of crossword style clues appears in this daily across section. Entries include terms like Desert Asia and various furnishings and measures, with several grid numbered hints such as 5 9 11 12 14 17 20 23 125 28 29 31 34 and phrases like A skin w Sy trange and Meshed bric meaning.
Daily cryptogram note includes a cryptoquote line AXYDLBAAXR corresponds to LONGFELLOW and reveals a puzzle instruction. Elev 34 and N Z cage 33 72 appear in the cryptic snippet.
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