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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1920
Page
4
An Alabama man Samuel Bavis from Fulton recounts allegedly cured pellagra after using Sul Ferro Sol. The booklet touts the remedy for tetter eczema pellagra and impure blood, offering a liberal bottle for one dollar or six for five from Ferrerro-Bol Co., Montgomery Alabama.
Seymour Duke of De Leon Texas, known as the Oil King of Comanche County, built a vast oil empire with over eleven hundred companies. His Duke Discovery well spurred a boom, turning scattered investments into a stake worth between 15 and 20 million dollars at the Ranger field’s southern edge.
Continued from page one the game featured a pitching rotation with Pettey and Billings each throwing an inning while Bates and Mainard kept the catchers. The lineups for Kiwanis and Legion reflected unsettled rosters as players such as White Fussell Hamil Garnett Robinson Baxter Mortrecht Taylor Rankin Wyker Hunt Morrison Brown Bloodworth Stutts Roberts Jones Kyle Shackleford and Williams took the field in a damp, unsettled clash.
I express gratitude to friends for kindness during my sister's illness and death. Thanking for floral tributes, loan of cars, and especially the pallbearers for their attentiveness and loveliness.
Fussell’s sale for $20,000 was halted to settle freight terms. Auctioneer Joseph Bradley presided as the Kiwanis Legion held a meeting with many guests including Kiwanis stars and copper telegrams from managers. A $20,000 bid by John McGraw for W. Well was discussed but not accepted pending condition on F.O.B. Decatur. Fussell will continue with the Kiwanis until the dispute is resolved.
The Albany high school announces a record graduating class of 26. The group includes Misses Ro line Teasley Jeane Buchanan Daph ne Graves Mabel Eubanks Inez Williams Willie Feist Price Christiné Simerel Wilma Ross Jennie Norwood Reba Owens Ruth Smyris Annie Fay Almon Thelma Morrow Hetti Aycock Helen Aycock and Messrs Mack Adams A Bailey Joe Bell Cecil Crow Bo Shiton Hi Stone Ernest Morrow John Patterson.
Kansas City reports that over 12 000 miners will return to work as representatives of miners and operators in conference reached an agreement for higher coal and explosive charges. New wage contracts expected to be drawn and signed today.
Ciacco Lapi the Albanian brigand issues an ultimatum to Italy demanding the return of his wives or war. Italian forces pursue him in the Albanian mountains after clashes near Valona. A second ultimatum is sent and forwarded to Rome as hostilities loom.
The record lists thanks to Mrs. Thompson and others for ticket sales and parade support, plus a note praising volunteers from the American Legion and local clubs. It also includes wildlife commentary on Morgan California and Massachusetts figures and a description of the American redstart’s plumage development and gender coloration.
The text explains lazaretto and lazar house as terms for places treating contagious diseases, tied to the Gospel parable of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke sixteen. It notes Lazarus as the only proper New Testament name in a parable and discusses the impact of this name on Christendom.
About 7000 metal workers, machinists and helpers, in Crescent City, strike for higher wages. They demand 1.00 per hour for workers and 0.75 per hour for helpers, with previous scales of 50 and 64 cents per hour cited. The stoppage affects allied metal employment in the city.
A terse claim asserts Albania has no newspaper, no mile of steam railroad, and no postal system indicating a bleak state of infrastructure and communications.
An advertisement extols a blood remedy S S S for catarrh, claiming the cure treats the disease at its source by removing germs from the blood. It urges readers to obtain S S S at a drug store and offers medical department instructions upon writing to the Swift Laboratory in Atlanta.
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