Trade at Home Department encourages local shopping
An OCR excerpt lists multiple Decatur area merchants urging residents to buy locally. Businesses include Mant To see our Automobiles means you wart one, Burk Auld Co., Southern Stone and Marble Co., J. & Walker's livery stables, Morgan Furniture Co., Crow Crow, Decatur Ice Cream Co., Paytle Lumber Co., Rheit heit Bottling works, Pretit-Dilehay Drug Co., Crawford Limber Co., Odom Shoe Co., Cook Bros. Furniture Co., Britain Bros., Hughes Tidwell, See At the Side Hardware Co., Sivley Sandlin, Battrey, Madame Finnie. The piece promotes keeping money in town to support the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burk Auld Co
First Avenue
Speake and Movbes Merchants Claim We Have It
Fragmentary ad style note shows merchants promising goods and repairs with odd wording. Mentions Out-of-Town Mer chants Kuhn's store and a barge line, suggesting a chaotic promotional fragment from a historical paper. The readable phrases imply a sales or service pitch without clear specifics.
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Kuhn
Failures Without Effort and Patronage Crises in Farming
An article argues failure stems from lack of capital and patronage, noting farmers fail due to ignorance and credit reliance. It stresses technical education, farm fertilization, and community support as keys to farmer success and sustained business.
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Neile
Thormas J. Sullivan
Busi Inet
Heaven
Willi
Aimee Ald
Bate
Rte
SECOND PHANTOM SHIP HAUNTS BAY COVE TALES
Fishermen from Bangor and nearby ports avoid the cove after reports of a spectral vessel, the Punto are, seen in calm seas before storms. Accounts tell of a gray ghost ship with a ghost crew that vanishes and reappears, panicking ships and driving crews to prayers. Some say a 1784 wreck fuels the haunting while St Pierre sailors link it to buried treasure.
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Bangor
Tate
Salle
Gray
St. Pierre
Dead Man's Cove
Magdalen Island
Maine
St Pierre
Tommy Poses for the Films
The London Chronicle notes soldiers posing for cinema cameras as war reporters seek pictorial history. Soldiers display varied antics from supreme nonchalance to heroic rifle handling, with some adopting a Chaplin-like stance for the camera.
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Tommy
War Office
Charlie Chaplin
London Chronicle
Novel Gas Holders Introduce Fixed Tank with Sliding Roof
A new gas holder design replaces movable telescoping sections with a fixed tank and a sliding roof. The roof sits close to the tank and water is pumped onto it to create a water seal, while dome water leaks are recaptured to maintain efficiency.
Song Moves Willing Groom to Propose in Romance
A fiancé of fifteen years lacking courage to ask for marriage asks his fiancée to sing a sentimental tune. She performs at the piano with "Darling, I Am Growing Old" as the emotional request to spur him to name the happy day.
Monogrammed Stationery Designs Featured Daily
The Daily notes new monogrammed stationery with engraved finishes and latest patterns. Catling cards are printed or engraved, showcasing current design trends.
Arrival of the New Cards in The Decatur Daily
The Decatur Daily announces the arrival of new trading cards for readers and collectors. The feature covers availability, format, and where to obtain the cards, highlighting series details and potential early access.
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Decaturs
Southern Mines Benefit as I C Orders Rate Change
Interstate Commerce Commission issues order of difect. Southern mines greatly benefited by wholesale cut in goal rates. Public notice hints at regulatory action impacting mine operations and transport costs.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate Coal Rates Cut and Raised in Mississippi Valley
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered revisions to bituminous coal rates from Illinois Kentucky and Alabama to Memphis and other Mississippi valley points. The action yields 1030 rate reductions and 140 increases from southern mines plus 170 reductions and 922 increases from Kentucky and Illinois mines, with new mileage scales 15 to 20 cents higher than before and a higher Kosciusko Miss. shipment rate.
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Washington
Illinois
Kentucky
Alabama
Memphis
Mississippi Valley
Interstate Commerce Commission
Linois
Tennessee
Vicksburg
New Orleans
Kosciusko
Miss
The Daily Business and Professional Cards
A note on business and professional cards printed or engraved by The Daily after the latest designs. The Daily announces updated card styles for business use.
East Decatur Holds Barbecue and Ball Game
The East Decatur community held a barbecue and picnic in the grove opposite the Baptist church. A large crowd enjoyed barbecue then a baseball game between South Decatur and East Decatur clubs, South Decatur winning 13 to 10.
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East Decatur
Baptist Church
South Decatur
Benevolent Society Hospital Notes
Numbers list 12 patients 6 pupil nurses and 1 visiting nurse with contact 255 New Decatur. Rubber matting from Side Hardware Co. Decatur improves comfort and lowers noise. matting laid free. Women of Decaturs aided funding for matting beds and equipment. Visitors urged to come only 10 to 11 am and 2 to 4 pm. Signed Mrs C Payne Chairman Publicity Committee.
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New Decatur
Side Hardware Co
Decatur
Decaturs
Asell
Difficulties Delaying Shrapnel Plant Output
Inability to obtain machinery and skilled mechanics hinders the Eddystone Ammunition Company from meeting orders for three inch shrapnel shells for Russia. Only a portion of machines have been adapted, with shipments anticipated to start after weeks of labor strife and skilled worker shortages.
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Sudiden
Eddystone / amunition
Philadelphia
Thé & Béries
Need Hous es For Workmen In Neath England
Neath England faces a housing famine due to an influx of munitions workers and exchange states. The city, a steel trade hub and home to one of the kingdom’s largest armament firms, has strained capacity. Street housing is torn down for steel works extensions as fresh workers arrive, worsening shortages and slowing business and production.
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England
I Im Kingdom
Sepa
Oing
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Trade At Home Department
Samuel Spietberger
Southern Stone and Marble Co
Second Ave
J. &. Walker's
Second Avenue
New Decature
Morgan Furniture Co
Crow
Decatur Ice Cream Co
Buhay
Paytle Lumber. Co
Géco
Rheitheit Bottling Works
Crawford Limber Co
Odom Shoe Co
Cook Bros. Furniture Co
Britain Bros
Sandlin
Battrey
The
House of Truthful Advertising
Madame Finnie
Graid
the Daily
Decaturs Daily
Minous
Miss, Valley
International News Service
Middy
Speake & Moebes
On Heace
Last
Deecaturs Daily
C. Payne
Redpath Chautauqua Children's. Workers
Indianapolia Speedway
Josef Christiaens
Sheffield
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