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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1912
Page
3
Vendor price list for lemons oranges potatoes sweet potatoes apples beans peas onions cabbage strawberries tomatoes bananas pineapples and more. Includes sugar coffee flour syrups canned fruit vegetables fish and provisions with corrections by different firms.
Corrected by New Decatur Hide and Tallow Company. Hides green dry salt 12 1 2 to 13 cents, dry flint 16 cents, tal low 4 to 5 cents, beeswax 22 cents, cultivated ginseng 31 2 cents, wild 4 1 2 cents, sheep pelts 100 to 25 cents, bones 100 lbs 25 cents, scrap per ten 4 50 dollars, brass 21 2 cents.
Railroad time table lists south bound and north bound departures from Decatur to New Decatur with times around 12:55 p m and 4 p m and other the era markers. It includes No 4 No 5 and other service notes with exceptions on Sundays and accom. trains and a closing line for Southern Railroad west bound services.
New Orleans May 28 reports detail dire distress among flood refugees near Jena La Lasalle parish. Dr Oscar Dowling says 1489 refugees need food medicines and shelter while 950 Negroes and 459 white residents dwell in camps nine miles from Iona scattered through swamps. Rations are late and supplies were ordered as crevasse waters fall and millions remain displaced for weeks.
Newburg Junction resident Darius Downey reports his wife experiences relief from stomach and bowels using Chamberlain's Tablets. Promotion urges readers to try them, alongside Chamberlain's Liniment for rheumatic pain, sold by 8 M. Thompson and local Decatur stores.
Birmingham, May 2. P. Montague has submitted his resignation as president of Columbia College at Lake City. Trustees will act on the resignation at their annual meeting. The move follows ten years of service and signals a change after a decade of leadership.
AT THE BAT notes tickets go on sale for the baseball game between Courtland and Neo Scouts. Prices listed at 10 and 15 cents.
The Decatur Daily touts over 5 000 readers daily and 30 000 weekly reads, claiming Morgan County’s largest bona fide circulation. It markets itself as the best daily in North Alabama with extensive telegraph and local news, photos, and a full market report, inviting scrutiny of its reach.
An announcement lists Mammoth Cave round trip expenses from Decatur at 1146 including railroad and lodging. An advertisement promotes PLEZOL a new drink from Ala Cola Bottling Works highlighting its availability and hoped for wide appeal.
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