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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1912
Page
3
Readable list of commodity prices including vegetables fruits meats and canned goods with values per unit, crate, or case. Items include potatoes, beans, strawberries, tomatoes, bananas, sugar, coffee, flour, syrups, canned peaches and pineapples, tomatoes, figs, kraut, hominy, salmon chums, oysters, sardines and Argo Mat cans.
Corrected by Swift & Co shows prices for dry salt meats and hog products including ribs at 11.47, hog tard at 12¢, butter Premium oleomargarine 18-220, cheese 2he, and various poultry items such as fresh candied at 16¢ and dressed fryer at 26 and 0e each.
A fragment lists hides and goods with prices including dry salt 12, dry tint 16, beeswax 22, bones 100 lb, scrap 26 per ton, and brass 1 2c. Also promotes Coca Cola as refreshing and Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy with local sales by S. M. Thompson and Decatur Drug Co in Decatur.
Notice from Morgan County Probate Court announces letters testamentary granted to T. Royer as executor on May 9 1912 under the will of the deceased Roger. Creditors must present claims within the legally set period or be barred. Also a medicinal advertisement for Chamberlains Stomach and Liver tablets appears.
Home Steam Laundry at 248 and 25 Moulton Street offers prompt cleaning services. An ailment advice mentions Chamberlain's Ligemeat for a lame back and muscles, with sales through M. Thompson at New Decatur and Decatur Drag Co in Decatur.
A fragmented report describes replacing one arc street lamp with multiple tungsten lights at Grant and Maple, Sixteenth, Gum, and spruce streets. Citizens on Sixteenth Avenue may seek three tungsten lights for the price of one arc, with suburb lighting praised as brighter and cheaper.
The piece argues Roosevelt failed to secure broad GOP backing in 1908 primaries. Maryland produced 29,124 Roosevelt votes from a total Republican 126,513. Massachusetts 1,854 of 966 Republican ballots. It notes only a minority of Republicans declared preference for Roosevelt, denying a national front and labeling the nomination contest a game of political intrigue.
Horace Greely writes to Cincinnati convention assessing Washball planting timing. He advises planting in spring to ensure ripening before salt. He notes many baseballs are picked late and often miss due to being too soft. He suggests using a stiff batter to drive them in hot and asks for seed bat suggestions for next year.
Readable fragments mention names like Hill and Brown Nolley Sparks and Randall Wella Ley Rose Rolleg along with scattered terms Battery and Farrow. No clear event, date, or location available to establish a coherent news item.
Batteries Balee and Wingo Ra gan Knetzer Yingling and Phelps competed in Chicago. Cheniey Archer Al tatide Beston and Kiilifer participated in the event.
A fragmented Decatur page advertises a bottling works showcasing Coca Cola, rental and summer drinks, subscription for the Decatur Daily, and delivery prompts. It mentions Lime A Lampkin and local businesses, warnings about imitation Coca Cola, and a health tonic by S M Thompson.
Ala Cola Bottling Works announces it has secured the exclusive bottling privilege for PLEZOL the new drink for the year. The firm promotes its enterprise and urges job work to be brought to its office to capitalize on the exclusive rights and demand.
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