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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1915
Page
3
W A Hill, a popular pharmacist with Preult Dillehay Drug Co, enjoyed a pleasant time at a Birmingham Medical College alumni banquet last night. He received a P H G degree from this visit and was among several hundred attendees, returning home today.
A bank urges readers to measure success by savings not income. The message argues that earning $5000 a year and spending it all proves nothing, while earning less than half and saving a just portion leads toward independence and possibly wealth. It invites customers to learn how the Savings Department can help.
Penney of Birmingham visits Decatur today. Dr J A Culpeper of Cullman injured in an auto crash Tuesday. Pilomnas Irwin and Mr and Mrs Paul White guesting of Mr and Mrs W T Lowe. Lowe returned from Nashville after an extended northern absence.
Two American women, Harriet Boyce of San Francisco and her daughter, were sentenced to three weeks imprisonment at Lindau Bavaria for insulting a German officer. They were released on 5000 dollar bail pending an appeal to Ambassador Gerard in Berlin.
In Birmingham on May 27 Hanah Lewis and John Thomas, both Negroes, were killed and W B Patton, a special officer, was fatally wounded during a shootout after officers Maddox and Patton attempted to arrest the two men on a murder charge linked to a prior killing of a Black man named Casey at the Fos sil mine last night. Armed resistance halted the entry into the refuge house.
The item recounts Henry Van Dyke poetry excerpts and a stag party hosted by Hale Cullman for Mrs E C Payne's residence with guests arriving by wheel. A wedding shower for Miss Leila James at Mrs S O Hardin’s home featured a pink white theme, rice bags, a bridal cook book, pink express wagon gifts, and notes of upcoming nuptials to Weary M Swift. Also mentions guests and travels of local social figures.
Paris reports a fleet of 19 French aeroplanes raided the Rhine valley 100 miles inside the German border in the second major Allied raid within 48 hours. The communiqué says German counter attacks on the northern end of the front were repulsed and the Ludwigshafen dye works on the Rhine was destroyed by French aviators.
Russian government cash shortage halts a $12,000,000 freight car contract in the United States. Pullman Railway Car Company refused to accept a Russian note, blocking the deal.
Washington reports Senator Smith of Georgia filed additional pleas to the State Department today seeking diplomatic support. The action follows prior outreach aiming to influence policy discussions and secure formal responses.
In Kansas City on May 27, 18 people died and 50 were injured from storms and floods across the territory west of Kap sds city. Six drowned near Tajikina and Checotah Oklahoma. Pipes drowned in Nebraska and a tornado near Lima Col. caused further fatalities.
London May 27 reports the Canadian steamship Morvenna of Montreal torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off St Annes Head. The loss adds to wartime shipping dangers in the Atlantic.
A cold wave in Vermont and Maine has damaged fruit and early vegetables for thousands of dollars. Temperatures dropped to two degrees below freezing in several areas.
Memorial services were held today at the home of Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt in New York for Alfred Go Vanderbil who perished when the Lusitania was sunk. The service honored the late ship passenger with family present.
The line invites readers to take the Des feturs Daily along on trips and moves, implying a connection to the paper as a constant companion during travel or absence from home. The wording mirrors a promotional slogan typical of local newspapers.
The New Decatur high school holds its final graduation exercise at the Masonic theatre tonight with Prof KE M Wright of the state normal school at Troy delivering the address. Eight graduates receive diplomas after a program of essays and musical numbers presented by students and the high school chorus.
Athens reports King Constantine improved today after a better night following a bulletin that he passed a difficult night but is now in improved condition.
The eighty year old French composer Camille Saint-Saens, first delegate of the Franco American commission, lands in New York. He looks forward to touring the United States, to be entertained by French societies in various cities during a three month stay.
In Pomeroyton Kentucky A J Hughes writes that he suffered stomach trouble for five years with severe headaches. After three months of Black Draught he reports the illness cured and the headaches gone. He endorses the remedy and its effects.
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