Formal Daywear for Cocktails by Lucien Le Long
Formal daytime style features civil footwear and accessories with gold and silver trim. Silk crepe gowns, three quarter coats, and capelines in velvet straw or tulle border ensembles worn with coordinated gloves and handbags by European aristocrats at summer cocktail events.
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Ome
Georgette
Suzy’s
Drése
Baronne Thyssen
Comtesse de Cosse-Brissac
Helen Yrande
Aarons
Return Home After Visit in Decatur and Nashville
The party returned home to Nashville after spending the weekend in Decatur with friends and relatives, completing a brief regional visit.
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Nashville
Decatur
Laboratory July report from Tennessee Valley Lab released
The Tennessee Valley Laboratory released its July report today. Director Johnson noted typhoid specimens and positive cases came from nine valley counties, not limited to Morgan County.
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Tennessee Valley Laboratory
Johnson
Valley
Morgan
Building Gains in South Are Double
Baltimore Md Aug 71 AP Figures compiled by the Manufacturers Record showed construction in 16 Southern states rising 50 percent in July over June and 7 percent over July 1933. For the first seven months, construction more than doubled year over year with July contracts totaling 41 061 000 and road and bridge work totaling 125 344 000 January to July.
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Baltimore
Political and weather notes from 1934 Washington and California
A compilation notes shift in AAA licensing rhetoric with Tugwell and Davis sparring over canners and meat packers. It also describes irrigation trenching around the Capitol to enable a coordinated April lawn sprinkler, and Upton Sinclair’s gubernatorial campaign booklet selling well in California.
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AAA
Dr. Tugwell
Libby
Tugwell
Chester Davis
Davis
Canners
Wallace
California
Sinclair
Big Jim Farley
Jim
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
White Crepe Suit Worn By Screen Player
Navy and white outfits dominate spring and summer fashion with blue and white proving a lasting favorite for autumn. Jean Allen the motion picture actress models a navy blue crepe suit with white braid on collar and lapels, a three quarter coat, stitched taffeta hat, navy shoes, white blouse and gloves.
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Screen Player
Lisbeth
Jean Allen
Miss Joe Wright Visits Nashville Relatives
Miss Joe Wright of Decatur is visiting her Uncle and Aunt Mr and Mrs Harvey Wright in Nashville during a local social visit.
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Joe Wright
Decatur
Mrs. Harvey Wright
Nashville
Cooking Schools For Negroes At Athens
In Athens Alabama the EHFA headquarters conducts a cooking institute for colored cooks each Tuesday afternoon starting August 7. Demonstrations show modern methods and how to use electric stoves efficiently as the old wood burning stoves fade away in this TVA serviced town.
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Athens
Ale
TVA
EHFA
First stalk from Limestone county brought to office
Charles Anderson of Belle Mina in South Limestone county sent the first stalk of new cotton to The Daily office yesterday. The stalk from Limestone county bore four bolls.
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Charles Anderson
Belle Mina
Limestone County
Childs Brothers Return From Walnut Tennessee Visit
Return of L. C. Childs and sons Willie and Charles from a relatives visit in Walnut Tennessee is noted.
Fate of a no trump call in bridge depends on leads
The article explains that the outcome of a no trump contract hinges on the lead choice. It stresses that the partner's bid-directed lead and the substitute lead from your best suit must be weighed. Senior must decide which suit to lead before the opening lead.
Bridge notes on an imperfect defense and declarer play
The article analyzes a bridge hand where East chooses to lead partner’s heart and then switch to diamonds. It discusses the impact of opening suits, entry constraints, and the consequences of shifting suits too early, concluding East’s strategy aided the declarer and that defenders should avoid giving the declarer easy lines.
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East
West
North
Fern Andre
Southern Pacific
Santa Barbara
Ian Keith
Mary of
Scotland
Inside the brains of famous bank robbers
The article reviews coroner findings on Dillinger and fellow outlaws including Pretty Boy Floyd Nelson Hamilton Van Meter and notes that brain examinations found no defects. It questions what truly causes criminal behavior and suggests the desperados may not be as fearless as depicted.
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Charles
Floyd
George
Baby Face” Nelson
John Hamilton
Homer van Meter
John Dillinger
Clarence W. Muehlberger
Dillinger
Desperadoes
Reservoir Clearance in Wheeler Reservoir Reduces Land
The TVA cleared about 3 500 acres of Wheeler Reservoir land to be flooded by Wheeler Dam near Muscle Shoals. By July 31 approximately 633 000 board feet of salvaged lumber were delivered to Wheeler Dam for cofferdam construction and other uses, mainly hardwoods. Four private mills operate in the area, boosting employment and yielding government savings through timber salvage.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Wheeler Reservoir
Wheeler Dam
Muscle Shoals
Breeden Returns From Business Trip
R. E. Breeden district manager of Mountain City Milling Company returns from a weekend business trip to the head offices in Chattanooga Tennessee.
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R. E. Breeden
Mountain City Milling Company
Chattanooga
Tenn
Hollywood Gossip Flurry Spins Tales of Stars and Sleuths
A collage of Hollywood anecdotes recounts Bruce Cabot visiting Adrienne Ames in New York for her birthday, Ed Marin recovering a stolen watch after a burglar confession, Fern Andre misplacing a trunk, Dolores Del Rio and Pola Negri gossip, and a mystery star preparing a Southern California ranch home.
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Hollywood
Bruce Cabot
Adrienne Ames
New York
Adrienne
Bruce
Barbara
Dolores del Rio
Pola Negri
Bankhead Bill Enforced As Cotton Picking Near
Committeemen named in every precinct of the county to enforce the Bankhead bill as the time for picking cotton nears. Old cotton is tagged to be exempt from the special taxes on excess beyond the quota.
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Athens
Als
Tragic wedding party accident and Hollywood notes
Wedding party of Gloria and Arthur Sheekman suffers a serious crash near Carlsbad as their car skids in soft sand. The report also links James Glen to Hollywood circles, notes about Alice Brady’s dog Traffic, Ann Hovey’s appearances, Tanagra real life ties to Tiffany Thayer, and Sol Rosenblatt’s lunch with Eddie Cantor.
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Gloria
Arthur Sheekman
Agua Caliente
Sheekman
High
Carlsbad
James Glen
Cady
Hollywood
Alice Brady
Lew
Traffic
James
Alice White
An Moreno
Ann Hovey
Wampus
Biltmore Bowl
Tanagra
Westwood Village
Tiffany Thayer
San Fernando
Sol Rosenblatt
Cody King
Eddie Cantor
Rosenblatt
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Madame
Comtesse Phillippe de Moustiers
Baronne
Eugene de Rothschild
Chappell’s
Stone Mountain
Ib. Cc
Daily Washington Merry
Capitol Showers
Capitol
Bureau of Standards
Upton Sinclair
Rich
Illinois
Decatur Ice
NAVY
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E. V. Shepard
Breeden
Rountree
Rison Carroll
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Mollywood
Ed Marin
Curiosi
Southern
Bankhead
Clark Gable
Oregon
Washington
Decatur Coal & Mfg. CO
Arthur Jones
Pres
Goodrich
Lauler
Lee and
Oak Streets
W. Kennedy
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