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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1912
Page
3
List of prices for lemons oranges potatoes apples berries tomatoes bananas sugar coffee starch flour canned goods and fish across California markets. Includes per box per crate per bushel and per can pricing with multiple brands and package sizes.
Corrected by Swift & Co listing dry salt meats at 11 471 2. lard at 12¢, cotton oil 79 per gallon, butter 18 to 22c, oleomargine 18 to 22c, cheese 21c. Poultry items from F. H. Pointer include fresh eggs candied 15c, live poultry 9c, dressed fryers 25 and 26c each.
Corrected by New Decatur Hide and Tallow Co. lists prices for hides and pelts including dry salt hides 12 1 2 and 14 cents dry flint 15 and 16 cents tal low 4 and 5 cents beeswax 22 cents etc. Also Coca Cola ad and Chamberlains Cough Remedy testimonials and notices of appointment Henry H. Royer executor in Morgan County probate. Also stomach and liver remedy and local druggists.
An advertising snippet lists 245 and 25 Moulton Street with prompt delivery of ties. It mentions back pain remedies attributed to Chamberlain's and references Linemeat and 8. M. Thompson of New Decatur as the source.
Stewart of Virginia visits kin while Piauadh’s cousin works at the roundhouse. George Davidson has been tending children. one son, a machinist, left for Shelbyville Tennessee on a fishing trip returning with about 40 pounds. Forlines, a planing mill sub foreman, heads to Birmingham for Odd Fellows Grand Lodge. Jackson the car repairer was slightly injured but will recover quickly. M L Hardy also slightly hurt. H Royer to Hartelle for personal business. Newsome, blacksmith helper, to Birmingham. Hollinsworth visiting Athens. Parrish and wife to Birmingham. R E Weaver master trains on the South and North aviation. Big Park Show every night next week.
Down time and schedule notes for the Louisville and Nashville rail line showing south bound departures from Decatur at 6 52 am and 8 30 pm with early arrivals near 12 37 am and 8 27 pm. North bound times include early morning departures and afternoon services with several accommodation trains.
A fragmented OCR snippet lists battery names and associates across several locales. References include Baker and Farrow, Matthews, and Hunteville with numbers like 2.05 and 413 6. Additional lines mention Waknon Rolleg Priest Wells Pease Riek Woodruff Brown Adgies buarke and Coveleskie Noyes. Kissinger Tooneman Dunn appear in another cluster alongside Yeats Johns.
In Philadelphia Washington and Cleveland games list battery pairs Walsh Kuhn Baskette Easterly Walker Henry. In Boston names Mitchell Stephens Hall Bushel man Bedjent Carrigan. In New York Neonat rain shows Batteries Works Pennel Sras age Vaughan Street.
Notice of appointment issued by Morgan County Probate Court on May 6 1912 calling all estate creditors to present claims. Also local ads for Coca Cola bottled drinks and PLEZOL exclusive bottling rights in Decatur including Chamber tablets testimonial and a note on summer promotions.
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