College for my stepson versus wedding with Tom
A widow asks if her fiancé Tom should block her 18 year old son's college plan. The Miss Dix answer urges prioritizing the boy's education, noting Tom's motives seem childish and suggesting financial aid, part time work, and college-backed guidance to persuade Tom. It emphasizes maternal duty over a new marriage and hints Tom may accept the benefit of a college-educated stepson.
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Tom
Muriel Nissen
Miss DIX
Little Sister
Shirt Plant To Be Ready Soon In Moulton
Foundation trenches for Par Craft Shirt Manufacturing Co building are dug with concrete to be poured soon and walls to start. The two acre site on the North side of the Decatur highway was purchased for 5000 dollars. Building size 100 by 115 feet, cost over 30000 dollars. A second 100 by 115 foot unit may follow within 12 to 18 months. David Parker owner to move in September with Mrs. Parker as power fixtures are installed for early fall operation.
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Moulton (Special
Par- Craft
Shirt Manufacturing Company
R. P. Montgomery
American Legion
New Decatur Highway
Moulton Development Company
Tom Smith
L. K. Gay
Moulton
David Parker
Parker
Gay
Quit Movies For Religion, Back In Film
Colleen Townsend Evans returns to filming in a Billy Graham Evangelistic Films project titled Oil Town. She and husband Louis Evans Jr. remain active in church work after leaving 20th Century Fox, with Evans attending seminary and both touring youth camps in Europe.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
Collen Townsend
Billy Graham
Colleen
20Th Century-Fox
Louis Evans Jr
First Presbyterian Church of
San Anselmo
Calif
Europe
Louis
Africa
Oiltown
Billy Graham Evangelistic Films, Inc
Texas
Bloodhound Helps End Local Farm Steady of Fear
MOULTON Special King the four year old bloodhound credited with ending a month long reign of terror by guiding deputies to Charlie Bishop a 58 year old farmer armed with a knife and hammer near the Charlie V Jacobs home after sightings at Fairfield church and farm. Bishop had warrants for assault with a weapon and for assault and battery and fled across fields and woods with officers in pursuit. The county recently acquired King from J A Garris Camp Childersburg for 300 aiding local law enforcement marking the first county owned bloodhound at Moulton forces.
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Moulton
King
Franklin Smith
East Lawrence
Auburn Smith
Charlie Bishop
Charlie V. Jacobs
Fairfield
Smith
J. A. Garris
Camp Childersburg
What Age For Dating A Dorothy Dix Question
Dorothy Dix answers a question common in many families in leaflet D-15. To obtain a copy, readers are instructed to send a 3 cent stamped self addressed envelope to Miss Dix care of the newspaper.
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Dorothy DIX
Miss Dix
Ancient Cement Lost Then Rediscovered in 18th Century
The article notes cement’s historic prominence in antiquity, its vanished knowledge during the Middle Ages, and the rediscovery of its secret in the eighteenth century, marking a turning point in construction materials.
Virginia man tangled kin by marriage in odd family ties
The piece notes J. H. Hall a 93 year old from Mercer county West Virginia married Roxie Bailey Rutherford a 63 year old from Bristol Virginia. The report unpacks a complex chain where Hall is son-in-law of his own daughter and son-in-law of his own son-in-law creating multiple in law connections among Hall Bailey Rutherford and Annie Bailey.
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Tazewell
J. H. Hall
Mercer County
W. Va
Roxie Bailey Rutherford
Bristol
Roxie
Annie
John W. Bailey
Hall
Bailey
Gas District Planned Across Five Alabama Towns
Moulton will gain natural gas facilities within a year as bonds for a newly formed gas district approved by Odess of Martin and Herzberg bankers in Birmingham. The district includes Moulton Courtland Ada Creek Leighton and Cherokee. Construction will begin soon though no gas will reach Moulton this winter. an allocation for next year will allow lines and plants to be built. Tom Smith of Moulton Development Co. will represent Moulton for the first year.
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Moulton
J. L. Weatherwax
Odess, Martin and Herzberg
Birmingham
Weatherwax
Odess
Courtland
Ae Creek
Leighton
Chero
Idoulton
Tom Smith
Moulton Development Co
High State Judge's Wife Dies At Capital
Mrs. Jessie Simpson Foster wife of Associate Supreme Court Justice Arthur B. Foster died in Montgomery after a long illness. They married in 1894 and lived in Troy and Birmingham before moving to Montgomery in 1928. Survived by husband a son A Key Foster of Birmingham and a granddaughter and grandson. Pallbearers will be Supreme Court and Court of Appeals members. Judge Foster will become a supernumerary justice next January after declining reelection in the May primary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Jessie Simpson Foster
Supreme Court
Arthur B. Foster
Foster
Troy
Birmingham
Cuthbert
A. Key Foster
Court of Appeals
High School Principals Meeting Set in Montgomery
About 350 members of the Alabama Association of Secondary School Principals will gather in Montgomery for their annual conference through Friday. The theme is The School Principal as a Creative Educational Leader with topics on school finance teachers salaries school legislation and community collaboration.
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Montgomery
Alabama Association of Secondary School Principals
Alabama High School Ath
Athletic Association to Meet with Conference Members Tonight
Cliff Harper executive secretary of the Athletic Association will preside as the association meets with conference members tonight to discuss plans and arrangements.
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Letic Association
Cliff Harper
The
Athletic Association
Jupiter’s Density Compared to Earth
The gas giant Jupiter has a density under a quarter that of Earth, reflecting its largely gaseous composition. This contrast highlights how planetary structure governs density with gas envelopes and metallic cores influencing overall mass packing.
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Park Circle
Fairview
Somerville Road
11Th St
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Decatur Transit
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