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Newspaper
Pratt City Herald
Location
Pratt City, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1901
Page
1
The old Pratt City Board of Education has been re-elected for the ensuing year. Locals praise the board as work of loving duty by trusted business leaders who have advanced the town’s schools. Superintendent P M McNeil gains universal support to lead Pratt City public schools.
An advertisement urges readers to buy Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy from Lovelady & Co. It claims the medicine is essential for bowel complaints in both children and adults and notes summer usage possible.
Pratt City community news includes church improvements at the Presbyterian church with new carpet chairs pews and paint, visits from residents to Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, local resignations moves and job changes, school announcements and upcoming exams, a theft of flowers and plants, and plans for a children’s day program at the Southern Methodist Sunday School. The town mourns the deaths of two Pratt City youths Connell Gallagher and Will Bennett and expresses sympathy to their families.
The article argues neglecting domestic advertising drives customers abroad. It contends merchants who doubt ads should not complain when shoppers seek bargains in papers or via advertised goods not kept locally. It urges merchants to advertise their goods and prices to retain trade at home.
A Monday night Knights of Pythian gathering in Pratt City honored former Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company cashier N N Polk. Dr R M Cunningham praised Polk for balancing books to a penny after decades of service and the employees presented a silver purse filled with gold.
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