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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

May 26, 1948

Page

6

FOR SALE AND STRAY NOTICES FROM LOCAL ADS

Classified style items include livestock for sale such as brown horn hens two roosters and a Jersey cow with crumpled horns. Also listed are a Studebaker one ton pickup a purple hull peas and a registered boar pig. A stray Jersey cow is reported missing from Talucah with a reward offered for information. Route details include Vinemont Hartselle Decatur Somerville Talucah and Weaver references.

Jay ‘Maddox Vinemont Studebaker C. C. Berry Hartselle Fred Aderholt West Point Ala William P. Fowler Route 2 Somerville

Decatur Hosts J C Penney Leader Amid Farm Weather Talks

Farmers from the valley discuss rain and dry spells affecting cotton and corn with remarks tied to regional weather. A sale at Union Compress is expected to draw interest, with cattle breeders and dealer optimism noted. Mr J C Penney and A A Means are highlighted figures visiting Decatur as wind and cold challenge early crops.

Montgomery Arkansas Catton Union Compress A. A Means Monnday J. C. Penney Guernsey America Foremost Farms Penney Decatur Alabama Cattle Club Elfreth Johnson Alabama Alabama Guernsey Breeder, Unloaded the 55 Heifers At the Union Compress Second Avenue

Local Support Builds Decatur Coliseum Project

In Decatur and surrounding areas many residents contributed money while others provided information and long term effort. Local volunteers and officials from city and county pitched in over years, turning the coliseum into a reality.

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Information leading to recovery of cow

Farm and sale notices list assets and contacts in Hartselle and Decatur. Items include a Farmall tractor, eight week old pigs priced at 20 and 25 dollars, gallons of molasses, a tractor disc, and a Grunow refrigerator offered for sale or trade. We preserve names, routes, and locations as in the original notices.

Elmer Hartselle W. S. Lemay Route 2 Decatur James T. Woodruff Haleyville Bear Creek

Quotas on Cotton Targeted by Knutson Bill

In Washington May 1 the Knutson bill proposes removing cotton import quotas and imposing a 10 percent ad valorem duty on foreign cotton shipments. Southern leaders condemn the move as spite legislation aimed at Dixie interests amid dairy tariff battles. The measure seeks to curb high textile prices by easing embargoes, with Ways and Means action planned for next week.

Congress Sparkman Hill Jones Associated Press Washington Ways and Means Knutson Rminn Knutso United States Ren. Rivers House Rivers Priest D-Tenn South House Agriculture U. S Mason R-Ill

Tracked for Slaying: Copeland Charged with Murder

Lloyd Copeland a 42 year old former Mobile tire department captain was summoned for trial today in the fatal shooting of his former wife Mrs Lottie Copeland. She was shot to death at her beauty parlor on March 24 Copeland surrendered to police at the scene.

Mobile Mer Lloyd Copeland Mobile Tire Department Lottie Copeland Copeland

Oven Barbecued Chicken and Apricot Mold Recipe

Recipe yields a family meal with two fried chicken halves baked in a water bath and glazed with a homemade barbecue sauce. Includes a layered apricot mold dessert using gelatine apricot nectar sugar salt lemon juice and egg white.

Dessert preparation notes with gelatin and whipped cream

The text describes chilling a mixture until slightly thicker than unbeaten egg whites, whipping to light fluffy texture, beating egg whites to stiff peaks, folding in gelatin, cooling in ice water, and layering over a stiff gelatin base. It mentions serving with whipped cream or soft custard, yielding six servings.

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