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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Aug 02, 1948

Page

5

Mrs Terry Honored At Shower In Wheeler

Mrs Claudie Lee Terry hosted a bridal shower at her Wheeler home for her niece Mrs Harold Terry formerly Miss Zera Parker. Sixty friends attended with games gifts and pink white decor. Out of town guest Miss Marian Bloodworth hosted a swimming party luncheon for cousin Miss Anni Bloodworth of Gadsden.

Terry Wheeler Claudie Lee Terry Harold Terry Zera Parker Ezben Scruggs Mary C. McBride Roy Coffey Hubert Coffey Pruitt Parker Marian Bloodworth Decatur Country Club Anni Bloodworth Gadsden C. H. Chunn Letitia “Sanders Georgia F. S. Hunt Amanda Hunt Bloodworth Ann Bloodworth Athens

Personal notices sketch extended regional travel and illness

Local notices list Miss Ruth Eleanor Sneed leaving Sundareget and Mrs Harold Kuehnert of Evansville Indiana. Many friends and relatives are mentioned visiting and traveling to and from Wisconsin Florida Georgia Alabama Tennessee Ohio and Arkansas. Several residents are noted as ill traveling for health and returning from visits with families in multiple states.

Ruth Eleanor Sneed Sundareget Annagaralpas Harold Kuehnert Evansville Indiana

We’re Mind Readers Anne Adams Dress Pattern Ad

The advertisement promotes Pattern 4869 by Anne Adams offering a dress design with a new U neckline. It lists sizes 12 through 42, suggests easy sewing with illustrated instructions, and provides mailing details to obtain the pattern for twenty five cents plus options for a Summer Pattern Book catalog.

Anne Adams Decatur Daily Pattern Dept West 17Th St New York

Keep Legs Trim and Ankles Slim

A columnist advises women on slimming legs and ankles through simple daily routines. Suggested exercises include toe raises and knee spreads, plus regular rope jumping, with gradual reps over days and months. Shoes and massage are recommended to enhance shape and comfort.

Glow in Air by Low Pressure and High Voltage

A description of how air can glow when subjected to very low pressure and a high voltage electrical discharge. The process suggests ionization and luminescence of air molecules under these extreme conditions.

Funds Sought By White House

President Truman urged Congress to approve supplementary appropriations totaling 11 305 800 to implement late session laws and fund mandates. Proposed allocations include 6 million for the Federal Security Agency 3 075 800 for the Civil Service Commission 2 million for the Displaced Persons Commission 100 000 for the Motor Carrier Claims Commission and 130 000 for the Bureau of Mines. Administrative costs of 470 000 for the War Claims Commission and 100 000 for the Federal Security Agency would be funded from war claims.

Washington Congress Truman White House Federal Security Agency Civil Service Commission Displaced Persons Commission Motor Carrier Claims Commission Bureau of Mines War Claims Commission Federal Scurity Agency War Claims Fund

Dear Dorothy Dix wronged by seasonal cousins and a wayward mother

A reader laments costly summer visits from city relatives who sponge on hard work gardens. Dorothy Dix notes crop from labor and urges practical boundaries. A second letter asks how to curb a flirtatious fortyish mother. guidance favors dignified, age-appropriate conduct and exposing behavior to corrective social feedback.

Miss Dix Sally Sue Laurie

Polio Epidemic Prompt Ban on Asheville Gatherings

North Carolina reports 1095 total polio cases as weekend totals roll in. In Asheville an order bans all public gatherings including churches, though services were exempted by officials from the quarantine. Bishop Waters allows Catholics to skip services.

Raleigh N. C State Board of Health North Carolina Tal Asheville Richard S. Waters

Crochet Pattern 753 Promises Quick Accesso ries for Fair Prizes

Laura Wheeler Needlecraft advertises pattern 753 with rocket crochet directions easy charts photos and concise directions. Readers are urged to send twenty cents for pattern to Decatur Daily Needlecraft Dept Brooklyn NY and print name address and zone.

Laura Wheeler Decatur Daily Needlecraft Dept Flatbush Station Brooklyn

Memorial Services For Rhine Blast Victims

In Ludwigshafen Germany memorial services were held for Farben chemical plant disaster victims attended by about 10 000 mourners. The death toll rose to 180 as rescue workers continued sifting through the wreckage.

Ludwigshafen Germany Rhine Farben

For Rent Two Room Apartment With Private Bath

Classified note offers a two room unfurnished apartment with a private bath at 331 E Moulton. Includes no furniture and references location for prospective tenants.

E. Moulton

Miss Ruth Graham Joins Central Methodist Church as Music Minister

Westminster Choir College graduate Miss Ruth Graham of Little Rock begins work this week as minister of music at Central Methodist church. She has performed with Philadelphia and Westminster orchestras under Rodzinski Walter Stokowski and Ormandy and toured across the United States Cuba Canada and the Caribbean with Westminster College. She will instruct choirs and maintains home at 342 Jackson St with Mrs W H Day.

Ruth Graham Westminster Choir College Little Rock Arkansas Central Methodist Church Wesminster Choir College Wesminster Symphonic Choir New York Philadelphia Orchestra Arthur Rodzinski Bruno Walter Leopold Stokowski Michigan Texas Westminster Choir Graham W. H.day Jackson St

Daily Records of Transfers and Debts

A list of transfers and payments with names and amounts including Maxwell Elliott Slate to Mary Evelyn Randle 6000 to Loraine Robertson 23 to 17 Somerville 2 and multiple other buys loans and sums such as William H Stewart to Carl E Parker 1600 Laura Pence to Emmett Vinson 6500 and veterans affairs administrator to Ethel Webb 5000 among numerous other entries totals not provided. The items show personal transfers and monetary amounts rather than a single event.

Max Elliott Slate Bethel Road Hartselle Mary Evelyn Randle Eighth Avenue Annie Elizabeth Compton James G. Sanders W. J. Edgeman L. A. Montgomery R. E. Hardwick T. B. Brindley John W. McDaniel J. E. Stone, Jr Laura Lucy Pence Emmett T. Vinson Norma S. Price Wilburn N. Baker Administrator of Veterans Affairs Ethel Webb William H. Stewart Carl E. Parker Alvie John Woodruff B. D. Cagle J. L. Bryan J. E. Barthelemy Edward FE. Garrett L. L. Clemens Winifred Sentiff J. M. Baker Eurn Wilhite J. H. McAbee Imodene Wilhite

Islands of the Philippines by the numbers

The Philippines comprise over 7,000 islands and islets with 466 islands or islets each occupying at least one square mile in area.

The Philippines

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