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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1968
Page
8
A reader letter recalls a tranquil nature walk near Mud Tavern with Uncle Jim noting unusually leafed trees after a rainy spring. Weather a high blue sky, cool breeze, and lush fescue fields, plus a Sunday mood of reflection. Also includes farm classified ads offering Polled Herefords cows and Duroc pigs for sale in Danville area.
A feature review notes Wilma Dykeman’s Look To This Day exploring life in the Blue Ridge and travels abroad. It highlights the author’s humor, family themes, and roots in Newport Tennessee with praise for its universal vision and grounded storytelling.
Farmers may place ads in the Daily at no cost for two consecutive insertions by writing their ad and sending it to the newspaper. This offer targets farm operators and agricultural businesses seeking publicity in the community.
Classified items include Hampshire boars and a mare for sale, two poodles, a year old horse, a house with land, furniture and appliances, a milk cow, rental listings, a piano, a sewing machine, a tractor, tools, a Feist dog, an electric guitar, and a dining room suite. Numerous phone contacts and local towns such as Courtland Hadley Fairville Draper’s Market and Trinity appear.
Brief, readable items list multiple for sale offers an old Ford tractor mower outboard motor wash machine saddles pigs horses and a used car request plus soil stewardship week note. Contact numbers and rural locations include Hart selle Danville and Sherry Moore Rt 4 Hartselle.
A mixed classifieds list offers mowing and weed cutting services with hay bales at 25 cents each, multiple sale notices for pigs and a deluxe 1985 Oldsmobile F-85, sod, a Ford cultivator, a Gandy fertilizer spreader, and a Universal cement mixer with contact details for Luther Douglas and others. Household rent listed at 36 dollars per month.
For sale a heavy duty Econoline Ford panel truck with 6 cylinder 150 hp engine and cruisomatic transmission. Features radio heater west coast mirrors anti spin rear axle good tires and excellent condition. Price 1250 dollars. Call 773 7132 after 2 30.
For sale Feist puppies mixed with uahua and Terrier suitable as pets. Contact 773-7102. Also Baby bassinet in good condition available at 773-7102. Three full blood German Shepherd puppies offered in exchange for guitar or organ at 974-8128. 500 lbs Carolina Queen cotton seed sold at 35.00 per 100 lbs by Elbert Riley Rt 1 Somerville 353-3770.
Dinosaur hunters in Baja California plan a summer quest for a rare skull fossil of the world’s largest duckbill dinosaur. Researchers expect to locate the prized skull among canyon deposits with support from paleontologists and local expeditions.
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