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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1912
Page
3
Market list with prices for lemons oranges potatoes onions cabbage strawberries tomatoes bananas pineapples sugar coffee flour syrups canned fruit and vegetables, canned fish, and dry salt meats. Entries show multiple items with per unit prices and some corrections by providers Swift & Co and J M Catgin.
Fresh eggs candied and lic, live hens 9 cents, dressed 14 cents, fryers 26 and 30 cents each.
Corrected by New Decatur Hide and Tallow Company with current market rates. Hides green 9c dry salt 12.1 2c 13c dry flint 15c 16c tal low 4c and 6c beeswax 22c gin seng cultivated 3 1 2c wild 4 1 2c sheep pelts 10c to 25c bones 100 lbs 26c scrap per ton 4 1 2 c brass 2 1 2c and 6c.
Railroad timetable shows trains between Decatur Indiana and Louisville Nashville including No. 6 Accommodations and No. 5 Accommodations with morning departures around 6:21 a.m. and various noon and afternoon runs. North bound schedules from New Decatur and Decatur list No. 9, No. 6, and other services with several times and exceptions noted.
The Decatur Daily claims a circulation over 5 000 daily and 6 000 weekly readers, touts itself as the most valuable advertising medium in Morgan County, and cites praise from other editors. It asserts superior telegraph and local news coverage and markets itself as the only paper in Morgan County with a complete daily market report.
Soda water of all kinds and genuine Coca Cola are advertised by Buchheit Bottling Works in a local goods promotion.
O Bell was acquitted in the Laws and Equity court yesterday on the charge of violating the prohibition law.
The obituary notes Mrs George Mitchell of New Decatur died at 12 o'clock. The funeral service was held in the afternoon at Chestnut. She is survived by J Russell Mitchell, Matt Mrs O T Pepper and C D Mitchell and BOW Mit Al, with relatives living in nearby towns.
Dr W M Dupree of Athens is in the city today regarding the new Cora Cola bottled at Buchhelt Works. The advertisement touts the beverage as the most refreshing in the world and promises relief from fatigue.
Fragments show a clearance offering 200 pairs of Classy Nettleton and Oxford shoes at five dollars each, with regular prices listed as six dollars. Included terms like Sia and Moebes appear, but details are incomplete.
Ale Cols Botthas Works touts Plezol as the preferred drink for the year. They consider themselves fortunate to supply and enjoy the beverage amid promising demand.
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