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Newspaper
Decatur Weekly News
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
2
A household in West Decatur cherishes a diverse flower garden and many wild birds. A tame wild male red bird wakes the family daily at 5:60 AM by pecking the window and singing from a cedar tree. The writer values birds and flowers free in nature and hopes for peace and prosperity in Europe.
A political appeal urging Alabama voters to support Coleman DuPont for president, arguing two strong parties are needed to end one party rule. It claims rural schools are underfunded, literacy is low, and tax barriers block working families from education, urging laborers to organize a new party to boost industry and finance.
A reader defends Coleman DuPont as the greatest developer of industries in the United States and the richest man in the world, noting he earned his first dollar by mining coal and rose from labor to aid working men in Alabama and beyond.
The Huntsville Daily Limes notes editor Will Nelson distributed last week's issue widely. It praises the publication as a solid effort and suggests it may have generated revenue for the paper.
A call for Alabama farmers and mechanics to organize and elect men from their ranks to state offices. The author argues organized union gives strength and that those workers hold more competence than current officeholders, urging action to fill offices from their own ranks.
The Farmer's Union of Morgan county meets Friday and Saturday at Pleasant Hill school house seven miles west of Decatur on the Moulton pike. Friday is a public session with a basket dinner and speeches by Norris the state purchasing agent, Dinsmore the county president, and Tidwell the county superintendent of education. Saturday is members only. The note adds plans for a new daily newspaper in Decatur.
The writer denounces Woodrow Wilson as a failed president and predicts his defeat next November. They contrast Wilson with Taft as capable but argue only a new candidate can restore the United States to its rightful dignity among nations.
Sold in Decatur and recommended as the world's best corn remedy by the Owl Drug Co. and the Decatur Drug Co.
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