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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1913
Page
2
Rates list by carrier per year six months three months one month and weekly option with advance mail prices. Contact New Decatur at 46 for missed deliveries and prompt service. Advertising rates available on application and must be requested by noon for publication.
Announcer states Harvey H. Wright is a candidate for Morgan County sheriff, subject to the upcoming primary's action.
A reader ruminates on how editors treat subjects versus how editors might handle critique in print. The author warns that personal offenses from coverage could fuel lasting grudges.
The piece argues the editor serves the community by boldly sharing major life events from births to deaths, honors to misfortunes. Readers are urged to consider the editor's role in shaping local pride, sympathy, and communal memory rather than belittling his influence.
In a grim reflection the coroner condemns a culture of increasing murder while pointing to a failure to catch most offenders. He notes gun makers’ profits amid a public desensitized by rising crime and an aura of nonchalant violence permeating the era.
Secretary to the President Tumulty rode through the city in a sightseeing automobile, catching up with the tumultuous scene of official life in Washington.
While passing the White House a lecturer claims a genial secretary’s offices, prompting Tumulty to wonder about a possible job. Later he discovers the guide knew him and the journalist seeks a White House police position.
An ad touts THEREINE as a purifier for the bowels that promotes regular movement and leaves users bright and vigorous. It lists a price of 50 cents and notes Ow! Drug Co. as the seller.
Our Man About Town recalls the Decatur Bismarck Hotel as the first three story building, notes the first telephone connection and historic guests like Adlai Stevenson, Mark Twain, and Buffalo Bill. It recounts wartime fever hospital uses and a corner stone with hidden bottles, urging curiosity about the contents.
An advertisement extols the purgative effect of Chamberlain's Tablets, claiming they improve bodily health and mental well being, leaving users joyful. Sold by all dealers.
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