Corn-bread Mix Fable from Union City Letter
A letter from Union City Tennessee offers a humorous survey of corn-bread practices in a Southern household. The narrator mocks modern mixes and recounts family squabbles, dog food schemes, and a tale about Ike Tigrett of the Gulf Mobile & Ohio Railroad with a comic anecdote about an old conductor.
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Union City
Tenn
Mgd
Bankrupt Court Manor House
Uncle Charlie Corn
Charlie
Duck River
Alexander
Gettysburg
Deuteronomy
Lincoln
Birmingham
Pennsylvania
Newth
Ike Tigrett
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Tigrett
Mr. Tigrett
Glasgow family holds 1941 reunion at Hartsville area home
The Glasgow family reunion was held Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs W L Glasgow Route 2 Hartnelle. A bountiful dinner was served at noon and photos were taken in the afternoon. Many relatives attended from Adamsville Decatur Bessemer Falkville Pratt City and Hartselle.
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Glasgow
W. L
Hartnelle
W. L. Glasgow
Adamaville
Ala
Otto Glasgow
William Landers
Decatur
Vernon Hargette
Bobby Dean
Truss Black
Hartpelle
Robert Glasgow
Gloria
Adamsville
W. B. Vines
Bessemer
Virgil Glasgow
Hope
Alvin White
Hoyt
Allene
Hal
Hartselle
Herman Glasgow
D. Long
Luther Osborn
John
Pratt City
Virgel Hargett
Gurnie Glasgow
Gurnialene
J. M. Budck
J. B
Gracie Jenkins
Howard Higdon
Iva. Moe
Falkville
Virl Hargette
Gary Wilson
Dennis Glasgow
Millard Shackelford
J. M Glasgow
Helene Cotton Trade Ends After Long Stand
A Biscoe merchant resisted bids of 39 cents a pound for eight bales of cotton in 1914, insisting on 40 cents. He died after holding out for 27 years. His heirs sold the remaining five bales this week at 15.45 cents per pound in Helena, Arkansas.
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Helena
Ark
Biscoe
Flower Hill community hosts revival and visits
Flower Hill residents host guests including Mr. and Mrs. Dave Peebles and family. Revival services begin with all day Sunday gatherings and noon lunch. Visitors span nearby towns with Mr. and Mrs. James Moore, Mrs. Mary E. Payne and others seen in the area.
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Dave Peebles
Harvery Moore
F. P. Olinger
Sheats Chapel
Nancy Rusbon
Flower Hill
James Moore
Jesse Terry
Mary E. Payne
Moulton
Odessa Rusbon
Paul
Ray Tipper
Hillsboro
Harvey Moore
Ark
Wallace Garron
Langston
Ala
Will Christy
Moulton Rt. 2
Buford Tolbert
Adeline Miller
Near Sheats Chapel
Local News Briefs on Residents and Moves
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Moore are mentioned. Dawson Cottingham has gone to Childersburg to accept a position. Mrs. Susie Payne visited her sister Mrs. Jesse Terry last week.
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Harvey Moore
Dawson Cottingham
Childersburg
Susie Payne
Jesse Terry
Leeman Smith to Call for Tickets at New Princess
Leeman Smith will call for your ticket at the New Princess Thursday night. He has served six months with the Crescent Company as an usher and in the certising department, where he has shown capability and a pleasing personality.
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Leeman Smith
Leeman
The
Crescent Company
No-bait fishing tale turns into a stinging social roll call
In Salem Missouri on August 6 a local fishing mishap ends with a line snag and a surprising list of visitors and locals. The tale names catfish hooking victims and a long line of attendees from Hartelle and Birmingham including Mr Clem Glasgow Miss Edith Glasgow Mr and Mrs Parks Glasgow and Mr W G Summerford.
Pension group meet Saturday at the college
The old age pension meet is held here Saturday afternoon at 2 30 o'clock in the college with a cordial audience. A state lecturer will address the gathering and speak in the morning in Somerville and again in the evening.
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The
of Revenue
Represent
Somerville
Aluminum chips seized in raid at Every Little Sit
In Oxnard California on August date PF Chief George Pryor raided a game and confiscated aluminum chips. The items will be held as evidence and then turned over to authorities.
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Oxnard
Calif
Aug
George Pryor
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Pacific
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English River
SYRUS
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Cecil
Carl
Tommie
Imogene
R. EF
Mary Louise
Sallie Dobbs
Novalis Glasgow
Edna Turrentine
Robert
Roberta
James
Raymond
Franklin
Charles
Henry
Route 2
Wrence County Flower Hill
G. P. Banniza
Ment Company
Decatur Is
Princess
Modern Theatre
T.E. Baker
Salem
Stanford
Fred Glasgow
Clem Glasgow
Parks Glasgow
James Wallace
Edith
Virginia Glasgow
Glennie McDonald
Robert Lee McDonald
Shirley Wallace
Preston Morgan
W. G. Summerford
Herman Pike
Buford
Bud) Turley
Princess and Relief
the Capitol
Turley
Princess and Masonic Theatres
Pension Group
Satord
Conti
Continental Lithograph Corp
Cleveland, Ohio
Sudekum
Baniza
Crescent Amusement Company
Alabama
Theatre
A. R. Frahn
W. S. Reeves & Sons
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