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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1956
Page
9
Classified notice lists multiple properties with details including 3 to 8 rooms, 3 bedrooms, brick houses, attics, driveways, and garages. Prices range from about 10 000 to 18 500 dollars with terms such as assumed loans and financing offered. Contact John Patterson Co at 109 S E Johnston St or phone for more information.
Crestview Heights presents a selection of bulleing sites in New Crestview Heights soon formerly tea. W.T. Marghese property. Prices range from $2,000 to $6,000. Cash or terms. Phone 2368-M.
Industrial machine ad offers guaranteed repairs and parts for all makes. Easy terms. Trade in onellie oneoft en or wale over mi n. Contact 612 Oakle Phone 834.
Furniture sale listing from Railroad Factory Salvage Furniture Co at 23 Church St NW offering various mahogany items including ching cabinet dining set buffet sectional sofa and beds with prices like 110 72 and 136 94. Includes contact phone 1073 and references to mattress sales and warehouse items.
Classified items include sewing machines furniture and appliances for sale or trade as well as an estate administration notice for Carlton Kenneth Hitt with probate actions and claim deadlines. Also a light human interest item about a hen and kittens born after two years of hatch attempts.
June brings school out and 4-H camp with senior and elementary sessions. Registration for senior camp opens at 8 a m on Wednesday June 20 and ends Friday. junior camp runs June 26 to 27 for children 11 and under. Local leaders are praised for cooperation and effort. county agents remind of items for Korea friendship project and the Massey 4-Hers’ charitable acts.
A collage of quips and exchanges spans topics from aging and ladders to rail jobs and weather myths. Characters from Suffering Fellow to New Yorker deliver snippets on luck, language barriers, and optimistic slang. A rail worker joke closes the piece with a playful misquote.
A scrambled OCR fragment notes the river’s changing course threatening to wash out areas and forcing relocation. It mentions a man named Bill returning from Texas to New York with luxury gifts and a Halloween trip to Houston, then cites the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans and a Spanish nobleman buried there. The passage also references a teacher, a student named Tommy, and a bathing beauty, ending with a pale-faced passenger in a car.
Fragmentary notes show a County Talent Show winner and a second place band. Mrs. J B Warren records numbers of pencils and tablets bought with winnings. The trio in the club progresses with dairy projects and plans future activities.
Entomologist W A Ruffin notes thousands of sugar cane beetles in Alabama towns signaling possible corn damage. Beetles attack young cane and corn, bore into stalks, and can destroy stands. Emergence April May with a fall brood. control includes soil-applied aldrin or heptachlor and proper fertilizer. dust formulations vary in effectiveness.
A passenger explains he just got out of prison and feels the urge to see the country while noting the difficulty of facing old-time friends. He adds he is just getting home from Congress, revealing a public figure’s return journey.
The fragment lists crossword clues such as Indian tree and Plutonium symbol with puzzle notes. It mentions a cryptogram method where one letter stands for another as in the sample where A represents L and X represents O.
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