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Newspaper
Decatur Weekly News
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1915
Page
2
President C. J. Hildreth and Secretary Rosson call a meeting of the Alabama Press Association in Montgomery on July 20 while the state legislature is in session. A committee will confer with legislators on pending bills of interest to printers and publishers. All newspaper men and printers are urged to attend.
A Sunday arrest in New Decatur involved a Greek man who owns a candy kitchen and soda fountain. Local officers conducted home searches citing liquor enforcement and questioned the scope of search warrants under Alabama law and constitutional protections.
The text notes that only some shops like butcher shops creameries and ice factories may stay open on Sunday while current law prohibits officers from granting one business authority to stay open and ordering another to close. It stresses there must be no discrimination.
The text asserts the home as a citizen's castle protected by law and constitutional rights. It cites the right to secure persons papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures and the necessity of probable cause and proper warrants. It recalls Lord Chatham's maxim about the king's limits and notes warrant issuing requirements.
The Decatur Weekly News urges using an ad to attract Morgan Limestone and Lawrance counties trade. Olshine proposes moving the streetcar route from Church Street to Pond Street and up Bank Street to improve the city’s lower Bank Street area and attract distant visitors with a welcoming approach at the depot.
An old newspaper advertisement touts home printing and home trading with Geners Tonic Yoke Grove. It markets Grove’s The Old Standard Tonic as a general tonic with quinine and tron, claiming to act on the liver drive malaria enrich the blood and build the whole system. Price 56 cents.
Miss LaRey Davis of East Chattanooga says Tanlac raised her weight from seventy six pounds to over one hundred and improved her digestion, appetite, nerves, and energy. G. F. Willis notes Tanlac restores strength by purifying the system and boosting digestion. Sold by Preuitt Dillehay Drug Co in New Decatur and by Decatur Drug Co.
An advertisement promises relief from facial, head, arm, shoulder, chest and back neuralgia with a few drops of Sloan’s Liniment. Claims include quick soothing action within minutes and improved outlook. Bottle offered at 25 cents.
Advertiser promotes a new Fitzgerald led colony in Georgia aimed at ten thousand Northern settlers. It describes cheap good homes on thirty seven thousand acres and invites readers to contact P. H. Fitzgerald in Indianapolis for plans and information.
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