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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1934
Page
8
Employment in the steel industry reached 485 906 in June per American Iron and Steel Institute. Up 6 004 from May and 117 820 year over year. Wage earners total 416 547 about 90 percent of 1920 peak. Total wages 49 406 064 down 2 429 267 from May, but up 18 905 903 from last June. Average hours 36.6 to 3.7 per week. Average earnings 63.9 cents per hour vs 64.6 in May.
The 1933 June figures reveal industry up 16 percent from the prior year with employment rising 35 percent and total wages increasing 66 percent. Average hourly earnings also up 35 percent, while other sectors show varied progress.
Lee Kinney of 1210 Third Avenue South is recovering at home after a Saturday night bicycle collision with a car on Second Avenue. He was treated by Dr. A M Roan and discharged.
Mr and Mrs C C Johnson return from a two week visit to New Orleans Pensacola Gulfport and Mobile. They toured historic sites and enjoyed coastal scenery while renewing family ties and sharing travel experiences with friends.
About 6000 hear evangelist Cowell speak at city events and lectures across a week long campaign. Special envelopes announce offerings during the final week will go to the evangelist as six weeks of service. Final Sunday features three sermons at First Presbyterian Church and performances on "The Millennium" and "Tomorrow."
Amos Levin and Billy Nelson, known local youths, departed on a novel vacation voyage in a canoe they built themselves. They plan to row to upstream points with no fixed destination, continuing as weather allows.
Falkville residents Miss Bernice Walling and Miss Louise Walling are visiting their sister Mrs M M McCarley at her Fifth Avenue West home.
Justice Walker upholds Alabama redeeming law allowing landowners two years to regain property sold after the 1837 panic, citing social and economic needs. The opinion contrasts with Chief Justice Hughes’s Minnesota mortgage moratorium, 5 to 4 in the Supreme Court, noting differing impacts on contract rights. Justice Walker, born in Tennessee, served in Calhoun T alladega and Montgomery counties before becoming chief justice.
Descendants and relatives of the Fennell family are asked to meet at Fennell cemetery on Thursday August 9 for a burial ground cleanup. The start time is six o clock in the morning and attendees are asked to bring baskets.
Mrs. Ben Poole of Decatur Route 2 is reported improved today after an operation performed Saturday at Baugh's Infirmary.
Famous bridge teacher E V Shepard analyzes a complex hand where declarer risks with multiple finesses. West overcalls 2NT with a singleton diamond, then 3NT, and the hand unfolds with careful timing of entries and finesses to reach ten tricks while readers note the strategic danger.
Katharine Hepburn’s Civil War era hairstyle inspires a modern adaptation by salons. The guide outlines steps from washing and waving to an oval part and ringlet curls, with tips for different face shapes and finishing touches.
Beatrice notes lanolin is primarily a skin food and helps remove lines. Apply it generously to wrinkled areas nightly to improve the skin.
Attorney General Thomas Knight joined defense in seeking a special term of the supreme court this summer to rule on the defense’s request for a rehearing after an unanimous prior ruling. A key issue is Patterson who did not file the bill of exceptions timely, with Nails and Care of and Legs as noted items.
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