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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1918
Page
6
Washington may 15 more than 300 million dollars in operating and other railroad expenses will be cut to balance proposed wage increases before Director McAdoo.
Fire swept Coughland Shipbuilding yards in Vancouver on May 15 causing damage estimated at 2,000,000 dollars and destroying two 8,000 ton steel vessels.
The Decatur Red Cross executive committee reviewed Belgian Relief Units and upcoming drive plans. They reported shipments of bed shirts pajamas and dressings to New Orleans and outlined monthly hospital garment allocations. The call went out for more volunteers to meet rising demand as local servicemen enter combat.
Washington May 14 The government increasingly relies on women to handle a surge of civil war work. Civil Service Commission calls for women in 60 plus job types including stenographers typists bookkeepers clerks statisticians operators and more as war production expands across Washington and national defense industries.
Athens College begins commencements Sunday May 19 lasting through May 21 with services led by Rev. P. B. Wells and Rev. George Stoves and student events including a school music recital an opera pantomime Hiawatha and graduating exercises for the Academy and college.
City National Bank of Decatur will relocate to its former building next to Wyker & Son to fund a $15,000 remodeling aimed at creating a premier banking house. Alabama Power T. E. Pride and Hitt Lumber move to 405 Bank street temporarily. re modeling will take weeks.
An old remedy advertises cleansing the blood to cure rheumatism arguing that liniments and local applications fail. It promotes S S S as a blood purifier, claiming many sufferers were healed and invites readers to obtain free medical advice from Swift Laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia.
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