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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1912
Page
2
Wonderful Bernhardt Defies Trusts In Own Films Push
The article lauds Madame Bernhardt's stamina and business sense as she journeys by night from Paris to Boulogne and back to perform in London for Titanic victims. It notes her independence from theater trusts buying a moving picture machine and producing her own film of her famous role, predicting substantial wealth from the new medium and praising her autonomy in a trust-dominated era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Boulogne
France
Tani
Bernine
Bernhardt
Ing-Picture
Cne
Belign
Birmingham
Madame Bernhardt
Erand
Couney
Theatre Trust Robbi
The
Theatre Trust
Tor Herselt
Diyas
Masten
School Board Plans Public Teachers For Next Year
The board outlines hiring plans for teachers next year with one or two exceptions. Details suggest standard staffing changes and possible adjustments based on enrollment and funding.
Sumter County Supervisor of Music Vivian Grove Selected
At New Decatur Board of Education meeting the music supervisor post shifts to Vivian Grove of Panola Sumter County replacing Elizabeth Jones. Jones returns to Birmingham after two years of service while Gilmore and a slate of teachers are named for the coming year with Wilson reelected as principal of the Negro school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vivian Grove
Sumter County
Elizabeth. Jones
Elizabeth Jones
Panola
Jones
Birmingham
H. I. Gilmore
Incomplete OCR Spoils Local Market Item
Fragmentary text shows unrelated phrases about trying a bottle of Orange Ked s and a Buching Werks mention. No coherent event or named entities are readable to summarize a proper news item.
No Roof Garden Planned for Decatur This Year
Peter Ballas, proprietor of the addlt, and George Cate plan a roof garden on seven buildings leased from Col. Harris on Lafayette Street. They returned from Memphis and Birmingham to confer with experts. Contractors doubt price readiness within four months, so work will wait until next summer and start in January to finish by mid April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Ballas
George Cate
Col. Harris
LaFayette Street
Memphis
Birmingham
Ballua
Bollas
Jaguary J
Eastland Terrace Promises Home Lots Near Pecatur
A real estate sale offers parcels on Eastland Terrace within the 6 stock property with single dollar down and weekly payments of one dollar and fifty cents until paid. No taxes or interest charged. heirs receive deed if predeceased. Purchasers get abstract. sale to white buyers only. Sales grounds open 9 am to 6 pm each Saturday beginning this week. First come, first served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lon Addi
Personal notices and social tidbits from Decatur column
A jumble of local items notes engagements visits and events in Decatur including Miss J Leshtz baby on the 10th of May and a heating apparatus bid by A Clee of Louisville. Also mentions Decatur youth dance at Knights of Pythias Hall and clergy traveling to Montgomery for the Supreme Court and Diocesan Council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Clee x
Onteachor
Louisville
Newcatur
Mighty Casey Strikes Out In Mudville Classic
A crowd watches as Casey, once poised for heroics, strikes out after Blakey misplays Flynn's earlier hit. The famed ballad ends with no joy in Mudville as Casey's bat fails at the pivotal moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mudville
Casey
Railroad man killed in accident at Sheffield yards
A Louisville and Nashville Railway worker H. H. Ballinger was killed in Sheffield on Sunday night. He had just arrived from Columbia and is believed to have fallen from a couch or foot-board, his neck crushed and right hand severed. Train crews searched for him for nearly half an hour before he was found in the switch yards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheffield
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
H.H. Ballinger
Hiun
Columbia
Ballinger
Crushe
Storm sewer project bids due May 28 1912 in New Decatur
The City of New Decatur invites bids for furnishing materials and constructing a storm water sewer 700 feet long between Second and Third Avenues East, linking with the Fourth Street South Storm Sewer. Plans are with the City Engineer. bids require a $200 certified check and may be rejected. Mayor Patterson and Clerk Aartung sign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
New Decatur
2Nd Ave
3Rd Ave
4Th Street
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Miss Powers
Miss.Troy
H. F. Gilmore
Gladys Godbey
Martha Weaver
Eva Whittingham
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Julia Lee Gibson
Ruth Clarke
Mabel Blackwell
Cornelia
Duke
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Cliffe
Stella Orr
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Flora Nelson
Wilson
Princhen
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Annie B.todd
Ballas
Chandler
Nansook
Balbrigan
Boy Cassimere Pants
Silk Sox
Bom
J. Leshtz
Cherry- Street
Knights of Pythias Hall
Lawrence Brown
Itsboro
Montgomery
Supreme Court
Roseland
Herald
Sam, Spielberger
Sam Malone
Fourth Avenue
W. F. Bheby
St. John's Ehurch
Buchheit Bottling Works
Chamberlain
Thompson
New Decatur, and
Decatur Drug Co
Decatur
Lamar Brown
Searo
J. J. Cornish
Episcopal Church
Saxe
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Rink
Penn
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Élarity Pinape Senate
Mieg
Tofony
Cooney
Burrows
Flynn
Bike
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Eyei
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Joan Patterson
Henry Aartung
Cola
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Tig
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Lee
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Morgan County National Bank
Nichols
West Vine Street
Beyied
Strie
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Payne Lumber Co
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