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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1913
Page
3
Colbert county druggists report many satisfied customers who used STUTT'S EAS-IT for headache neuralgia and mental worry. Bottle prices are 28 and 50 cents. Money back guarantee offered if not satisfactory. Available from Dillehay Bros South Decatur.
Healthful remedy advertised for babies with delicate stomachs. Claims no opium morphine or harmful drugs. Promotes stomach and bowel balance. Priced 25c and 60c per bottle. Sold by Ow! Drug Co.
In Coldwater Mississippi a belt of Antioch Hickory Grove and Bowman sees frequent marriages at age fifteen. Girls are deemed ready at fifteen and many boys start large families before voting age. School enrollments drop as early marriages rise. one farmer reports three sons marrying within months, each bride aged fifteen. Divorce is rare in the area.
Tyrus Cobb champion batter and Starke F Ginn of Royston Franklin County visited the White House to pay respects to the president. Ginn also plays for Roanoke in the Virginia league and watched Walter Johnson. Cobb had five hits in eight trips, including a bases loaded home run.
Sylacauga Alabama Sept 2 News arrives of the discovery of J Wiley Brooks near his home nine miles east of town dead in a creek yesterday afternoon. A bullet hole in the head is blamed for the death with foul play suspected due to nearby murders and illicit distillery trouble. Brooks, about fifty, had lived a quiet life and enjoyed a good reputation in the community.
The Decaturs Daily advertises prompt, high quality job work services. It invites potential clients to send their assignments for reliable processing and timely delivery.
Washington reports a Greenland census supervised by Denmark shows 13 459 residents up from 11 593 a decade earlier. Europeans total 384 with 766 in Sydproven the largest settlement. The population has doubled since last century as European labor enters copper mines.
Former Representative Littlefield tells House investigators there is a strong labor lobby led by Samuel Gompers and that many Congressmen oppose bills when he is against them. Conference on the Tariff Bill adjourned with eighteen unresolved questions as Simmons says two to three days remain to finish. Felix Diaz in Paris awaits orders to return to Mexico and says his administration would seek friendly ties with the United States. Donnelly of Brantford Conn sentenced to one to five years for stealing jewelry from a wreck victim. McReynolds plans to use the U S District Attorney to speed anti trust investigations.
A grand jury returned ten indictments accusing the defendant of altering ballots to help Maclay Hoyne State's Attorney of Chicago in the November election fraud inquiry. Other items note London basities arbitration, Manchester strike spread, Dublin quiet, Nazi Congress stance on armament tax, L N acquisition of rail line, Army Engineers dam recommendation, and Rural Letter Carriers ban on Black members at national convention.
The former Provisional President of the Chinese Republic, Dr Sun Yat Sen, is believed to be traveling in Vancouver, British Columbia, using the name Wong Kwok to conceal his identity.
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