Prominent Stores On Second Avenue Swap Premises
A late Saturday agreement moves Decatur Light Power and Fuel Company into Owl Drug Company’s building while Owl Drug takes the Light Company’s former offices. The swap aims to expand Owl Drug and upgrade the Light Company offices, with the move expected around October 1.
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Second Avenue
Owl Drug Company
Decatur Light, Power & Fuel Co’s
Decatur Light Power and Fuel Company
Drug Company
Light Company
Owl
Alabama
Decaturs
Underground railway linked to murders and escapes in city
Chicago detectives probing the murder of Chinese merchant Charles Sing uncover an alleged underground network extending from British Columbia to Hong Kong with branches in multiple U S cities and Mexico The Diack book outlines the scheme A love letter from Chinese restaurant owner George Dertiori to Sing s white wife urged flight to China The crime scene yielded photos of white women and money requests as authorities track the suspect linked to Sing s death
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Chicago
Charles Sing
Mexico
Clark Street
Diack
Sing
Columbia
Miss
San Francisco
Seattle
Wash
Vancouver
B. C
Ann Arbor
Mich
Athens
Boston
Cambridge
Mass
Ensenada
Mex
Hts
George Dertiori
China
Derhorn
New Decatur Council Meets in Regular Session
The New Decatur Council meets in regular session tonight. Officials discuss the bond issue muddle and potential developments amid ongoing finance talks.
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NEW Decatur Council
Engineer Douthitt 15 Buried at Littleville
Special to Decatur Daily from Sheffield Alabama September 8 burial held for Engineer Douthitt killed when Transfer Engine 364 overturned at Littleville. Fellow Order of Locomotive Engineers members served as pallbearers. Conductor Bell sustains leg injury and others minor injuries. Train speed later corrected to 15 20 miles per hour.
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Sheffield
Ala
Douthitt
Bell
Middleton
Owen
Malone
Smuggling Ring Tied to Opium Trade and Immigrant Transit
Federal officers reviewed scattered orders and records in a smugglers black book. They concluded the group ran opium trafficking and smuggled Oriental immigrants across the border, aiding fugitive members to flee.
Tramp Dazes Woman Then Fled With Pistol Threat
A tramp entered a Fryers Addition yard on Friday and spoke in an unknown tongue as if making a request. When asked to repeat, he drew a large pistol and fled, leaving the lady frightened but unharmed.
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Fryer
Attanger
Chambers Initiates The Maids of Paradise Serial
The Decaturs Daily will publish Robert W Chambers The Maids of Paradise starting tomorrow September 9. The paper offers free first installment to subscribers and a 10 cent weekly rate for new readers. call 46 to start receiving the Daily.
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Decaturs
Maids of Paradise
Robert W. Chambers
Scarlett
Thaw to Be Heard in Montreal September 15
Coaticook reports no Ottawa word on when Harry K Thaw will be moved for a Montreal habeas corpus hearing on September 15 before the king's bench. He spends time reading about himself as two girls outside plead for a glimpse while a guard intervenes. William Travers Jerome plans to appear tomorrow before District Magistrate Mulvena on gambling charges, with the hearing advanced from September 11.
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Coaticook
Quebec
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
Harry K. Thaw
Montreal
Defich
Thaw
W. L. Shurtleff
Harry
William Travers Jerome
Mulvena
Jerome
Decatur Schools Open Next Monday Morning
Decatur Public Schools plan to open Monday morning at 8 30 in the Decatur School building for white and Negro pupils with no increase in incidental fees. Prof W F Collier asks tenth and eleventh grade students to meet him Wednesday morning at 9 o clock at the same building.
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Decatur
W. F. Collier
Central United States to see a cooler week ahead
The Weather Bureau forecasts cooler conditions across the Central United States for the coming week. No relief expected for the East and South. In contrast the Northwest may experience even higher temperatures.
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Central
United States
Washington
Weather Bureau
Northwest
Man and his mission addressed at Sunday meeting
Mr. L. P. Troup spoke on man and his mission based on Genesis 1 26 and Isaiah 49 70. He argued against evolution, emphasized creation for God's glory, and that man must serve God in this life through labor and duty, not in a distant place.
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Peake
Clara Worthington
T. L. Baker
Troup
Issiah
God
Panama Canal Nearing Readiness by October Tenth
Washington reports completion of GFF excavation on the Panama Canal ten days ahead of schedule. Crews will clear Culebra Cut, remove rails and equipment, and allow limited water inflow by October 5 to cushion the dike blast. Dredges will finish deepening and the canal should open to ships by December.
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Washington
GFF
Panama Canal
Great Waterway
Culebra
Gamboa Dike
Pedro Miguel Locks
Gatum Lake
Atlantic
Gamboa
Gatun Locks
Pacific
Miraflores Dike
Gatun Lake
Lost and Found Ads Prompt Decatur Daily Readers
A weekly Decatur Daily notice shows quick results from lost ads. Items returned include a watch a five dollar bill two dogs and a Shriner’s pin. Readers are urged to announce losses purchases sales or findings in the columns for fast results.
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Decatur
Japanese Demonstration Calls for Action Against China
Tokyo reports a mass protest after the assassination of Moritaro Abe. About fifteen thousand rallied in Hibiya Park and marched to the foreign office demanding troops to China or the foreign minister’s resignation. The crowd, mostly students, demanded stronger action over Nanking and the California question. A gate standoff followed with officials refusing entry.
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Tokio
Moritaro Abe
Japanese Foreign Office
New Japan
Hibiya Park
China
Foreign Office
Nanking
Nobuaki Makino
California
Russia
Japan
Atlanta Wins Pennant in Southern League
Atlanta, Georgia reports the Southern Association pennant for 1913 after New Orleans defeated Mobile 5 to 2, breaking a tie. Atlanta finished 81–56, Mobile 81–57, with Birmingham third and Chattanooga fourth, as Montgomery led the second division with Memphis Nashville and New Orleans close behind.
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Atlanta
Montgomery
Memphis
Nashville
New
Sydney Mint Gold Returns Fall in Half Year
The Sydney branch of the Royal Mint saw 272 257 ounces of gold produced in the year ending June 30 1913 valued at £1 156 473, down from 286 047 1 2 ounces worth £1 216 000 in 1912. For June alone the branch took 23 177 ounces worth £98 451. New South Wales gold from January to June 1913 totaled 52 920 1 2 ounces, an increase of 11 006 1 2 ounces over the same period in 1912.
Athens man shot by woman at East Pond Street
Liflis Atkins of Athens was shot and dangerously wounded by Daisy Hallberg of East Pond Street. Atkins, now at Watson Greer Infirmary, may not recover though he was alive late today. He reportedly visited a house of prostitution and did not know its nature, leading to the shooting as the woman fired after refusing admittance.
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Liflis Atkins
Athens
Daisy Hallberg
East Pond Street
Atkins
Watson Greer Infirmary
Resto
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