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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1916
Page
5
Tickets for the Chautauqua program go on sale at 2.50 now and will rise to 3.00 later. The season pass offers access to Redpath shows and a host of attractions, promising a high quality program for a small total cost.
Washington May 16 The Brandeis supreme court nomination faces a likely senate vote without an approval or disapproval report from the judiciary committee after three months of investigation. Some Democrats fear an adverse report. others may back the nomination to avoid political fallout. Administration leaders foresee confirmation despite opposition from a Republican senator.
Rev G F Bell pastor of Florence First Presbyterian will conduct services at Belle Mina Presbyterian from Monday May 29 through Sunday June 4. Morning service at 11 o clock evening service at 7 30. Public invited.
Classified pitch urging locals to buy locally with a long list of businesses. Ads promote autos, lumber, furniture, hardware, ice cream, drugs, and home goods. Emphasizes keeping money in Decatur and supporting hometown merchants. Mentions Burk Auto Co Fort Decatur Second Ave and many others.
A 1914 critique likens mail order houses to quack doctors of commerce. It argues they drain local wealth, offer nonreturnable goods, and fail to support communities, contrasting them with robust local merchants who back their products with warranties and local prosperity.
An old ad copy promotes Kilin's Five Ten and Twenty Five Cents Store and Speake Moba lines claiming value and bargains to offset a bitter mall order. It touts selling real good bargains from standard merchandise lines and urges customers to shop for value.
Continued discussion notes the belief that Mexicans want stronger U S action to capture Villa and prevent further railway disruption. The speaker argues for vigorous government measures in response to the situation.
Two thousand Carranza troops were reported marching toward the district south of the border where Col. Sibley’s American cavalry is seeking bandits. Mexican sources said three-column advances from Sierra Mopada Piedras Nagras and Cuatro Cienegas. American officers had no advice and doubted any threat to Sibley’s communications.
General Funston confirms in war department dispatches that three Mexican bandits were killed near the Rubio ranch while attacking twelve Americans in an automobile led by Lieut George S Patton. One of the dead is identified as a Villa faction leader Jus tocar.
Felix Diaz, nephew of the former Mexican president, reappears in reports from Washington on May 16. He is said to be in Oaxaca city heading a revolutionary movement against the current de facto government.
George W. Davies, who originally played the schoolmaster in Dickens Nicholas Nickleby, was buried in Mobile yesterday after his death.
Remains arrived from Springfield Missouri last night for burial. Born January 12 1835 in England he studied at Oxford and became a civil engineer. He immigrated to the United States 25 years ago settling in Mobile then St Louis before returning to Springfield in 1915. He enjoyed royal honors from Queen Victoria and was said to have accompanied the queen to Egypt.
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