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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1939
Page
4
A collage of notes covers religious verse, legal woes in Alabama, wage differential debates, Capone prison discipline, and European conflict fears. It highlights 4-H club sales plans, local auctions, and anticipation of another year with county youth showing about 100 animals for sale.
Readers debate translations of Mein Kampf while urging Decatur and Morgan County officials to address back indebtedness and bond issues. Observations on civilization contrast medical research with germ warfare. Chamber of Commerce delays in selecting a secretary disappoint members as candidates vie to steer progress.
In an Auburn address the president urged the South to improve itself and asked for federal aid to secure fair freight treatment from the North, signaling a push for federal support and regional equity.
A nostalgic note recalls Easter preparations and the shift from hard grinding labor to modern leisure in Danville. The piece contrasts the old path of cussing and sweating with a newer, easier journey toward enjoyment.
The Daily endorses all five proposed amendments to Alabama’s basis law. They include allowing voting machines in counties opting in, excepting trust fund investments in U S securities, moving to biennial legislatures, reforming pardons and paroles, and letting circuit judges accept guilty pleas without grand jury indictment in non capital felony cases. The session was brief and productive, with voters to decide July 11.
The article details how the cotton export subsidy scheme was secretly tucked into the agriculture department budget, then buried by miscalculation. It describes Wallace and Marvin Jones engineering a large 60 million dollar amendment, provoking a rare house defeat and leaving the program in doubt as divisions among labor leaders and Congress unfold.
Charles L. Eshleman, a Cleveland advertising executive, reports finding a rattlesnake in his car trunk while investigating a persistent rattle. The snake struck but was blocked by the trunk’s lining. Eshleman killed the animal with an umbrella and escaped unharmed.
Darryl Zanuck planned a scene around the first words heard on the telephone but the actual line was Mr Watson come here. The piece notes the Pennsylvan ia Society in Pittsburgh contact and a historical 1776 exchange. It lists operator headset weights and the many components of the modern telephone.
Brief history notes Bell’s patent as the most valuable ever issued and its broad industrial legacy including radio and teletype. It mentions early operators as boys later replaced by girls after complaints of sass and backlash. Also notes a cross country long call from Passport Maine to Bay California and references Mabel Hubbard Bell’s deafness.
The Bostok Globe became the first paper to publish a telephoned story on February 12 1877 describing a public demonstration between Salem and Boston. It noted that 93 percent of the world could be reached by home phones while New Zealand and Soviet Russia remained unconnected.
A privacy tool for radio conversations, cryptic reverses tones and scrambles vowels and consonants to render speech unintelligible during transmission. On arrival it reconstructs into clear language for the listener.
Chinese girls running a city switchboard in San Francisco's Chinatown memorize the names and corresponding numbers of all 2,500 subscribers. The operator’s greeting at this exchange translates to Day Husy Bin Shi Ah meaning Number Please.
The article recalls Bell as a genius who invented the telephone with little knowledge of electricity. It notes a 9000 mile wire free speech test from Bandoeng Java to San Francisco, illustrating the early, misunderstood ideas that led to the telephone's development.
The February 12 1877 demonstration marked the earliest radio broadcast long before radio. The program from Boston to Salem featured a trumpet solo and a vocal quartet as the audience listened.
Henry Fonda served as a technical adviser on the production, drawing on two years as a trouble shooter for a phone company. Bell and his forebears were teachers of speech and visible speech, shaping early telephone history.
In 1887 lower Broadway featured 90 foot poles with 50 crossarms carrying about 500 wires. Today engineers report one underground cable 258 inches in diameter containing 3 636 wires.
The piece recounts Ibn Saud facing religious opposition to a palace phone and how Koranic verses were shared via wires. It traces Thomas Watson's 40th birthday start in college and world travel after earning from the telephone. It notes a horn maker's English order via transatlantic demo and earliest greetings "Ahoy" and "Hello" on calls.
In Tirana Albania there are no telephone numbers calls to all 300 subscribers are made by name Mrs Gilbert Grosvenor the eldest daughter of the telephone inventor is noted as the most interested spectator during the Alexander Graham Bell production.
A reflection on salvation stressing that ultimate rescue rests with the Lord. It cites John 3 16 and urges personal surrender to Jesus, who redeemed believers not with earthly wealth but through His blood and death. The piece frames salvation as both hard and easy due to human merit versus divine mercy.
The scene depicts Loretta Young cradling a 16 day old infant, an apparent stand in for herself in the real life storyline. The moment highlights the film’s intimate presentation of motherhood themes and Young’s screen presence.
Dr. Logan Clendening reviews a Whittlesey House book on adolescence. He defines growing up as emotional maturity and self confidence, citing examples like Katherine Cornell and Alice Freeman Palmer, and notes chapters on getting along with people and choosing a job.
A short religious piece proclaims salvation comes from the Lord and the Gospel of pardon. It states Christ died to secure salvation and that human deeds cannot earn it, only faith in Jesus provides eternal forgiveness and grace.
Senate and House in recess as committees and chambers approve a $100,000,000 relief appropriation. The House passed $100,000,000 relief funds yesterday, while the Senate authorized $40,000,000 for strategic war materials purchases.
In Wabash Indiana on April 1 two boys aged 9 and 11 stole keys from seven cars downtown. They were caught and police seek to match each key to its rightful car as investigators work to resolve the mix up on this April Fool's day.
The editor announces availability of seven Dr Clendening pamphlets. Send 10 cents per pamphlet plus a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr Logan Clenden ing care of the paper. Titles include Three Weeks Reducing Diet In digestion and Constipation Reducing and Gaining Infant Feeding Instructions for the Treatment of Diabetes Feminine Hygiene and The Care of the Hair and Skin.
The Central Baptist Women s Missionary Society announces an anniversary gathering at Mrs J E Wilder s Sherman street home on Monday April 4 at 3 p m Mrs Garner attends Silk Stocking Club meeting with Mrs
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