Decatur Auto Dealers Plan Six-Week Civic Safety Campaign
The Decatur New Car Dealers Association led by Spence Hicks and members meet civic groups Civitan Lions Kiwanis Rotary Exchange and Junior Chamber to roll out a fall safety drive. Beginning October first six clubs sponsor six weeks with Sgt. Thornton and Chief Whitmire judging. best campaign wins 100 dollars.
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Decatur New Car Dealers Association
Spence Hicks
Bob McNelly
Glenwood Pierson
Decatur
Paul Sprayberry
Civitan
Sgt. Thornton
Alabama Highway Patrol
Whitmire
New Car Automobile Dealers Association
Porter Farm Is Sold At Auction
In Athens a Limestone farm sale occurred on Aug 14 with James E. Porter selling his 374 acre Porter farm for 42598.50. Five tracts brought 1781.12, 8817.38, and 32000 to sum 111.20 per acre average as Mike C. Brooks and others bought portions. Porter and W C Starkey oversaw the sale with R Clyde Wellden Auction Co handling the auctioneering.
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Athens
James E. Porter
Courtney Massey
A. L. Rodgers
Mike C. Brooks
Mr. Porter
W. C. Starkey
R. Clyde Wellden
Power blow up old idea at Yalu dam plan
A former Manchurian electric official says Chinese engineers four years ago proposed destroying the Yalu power dam system as Communists advanced. The plan was sent to Nanking but received no government reply.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Yalu
Manchuria
Nanking
Mission Hymn Born From a 19th Century Clerical Dinner
A tale links William Carey's global mission push to Reginald Heber who penned a hymn after a Reform era gathering at Wrexham. Heber's ballad inspired Lowell Mason to set it to music, leading to the hymn "From Greenland's icy mountains" used in foreign missions.
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England
William Carey
India
Carey
America
Adoniram Judson
Wrexham
Vicar Shipley
Reginald Heber
Shipley
Heber
Oxford
Odet
Judson
Dr. Shipley
Savannah
Mary Howard
Christian Observer
Lowell Mason
Boston
Heaven
Revival at Pine Burr in Lawrence Cove
A revival continues this week at Pine Burr in Lawrence Cove. Community guests include the Gents and Lindsey families from Lewisburg and Decatur. Saturday singing gatherings are held at Bert Bates home in Gandy's Cove with all invited.
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Pine Burr
Lawrence Cove
Luther Lindsey
Bob Gentle
Stanley
W. O. Lindsey
McAnally reunion draws large crowd at Clyde Bonds home
The McAnally reunion was held Sunday at Clyde Bonds home with a large crowd and a picnic dinner. Mr and Mrs Dolphus Arrington and children of Hartselle visited Alva Johnson Sunday. Mrs Pat Baggett of Decatur visited her parents Marvin and Mrs Peck.
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McAnally
Clyde Bonds
Dolphus Arrington
Hartselle
Alva Johnson
Adrian Bowen
Skipworth
Decatur
Jack Thompson
Peggy
Bessie Thompson
Mrs. Page
Dewey Bowen
Shirley Knighten
Buddy Smith
Mr. Smith
Elbert Thomas
Baby
Russell Peck
Pat Baggett
Marvin Peck
Animals move by reaching out and pulling toward objects
Many animals propel themselves by extending toward a graspable anchor and pulling their body toward it, using limbs, claws, beaks, or other grasping structures to generate forward movement. This behavior underlies arboreal, aquatic, and terrestrial locomotion strategies across species.
Office Cat Trace Mann ROG
Col House recalls a joke about Fiume and the Senate's knowledge of geography that helped shape opinion on the Versailles Treaty. The piece includes quips, jokes, and cartoons from various readers and a note on Salt Lake City officials hiring experts to abolish their own jobs.
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Fiume
House
United States
Senate
New York
Washington
Wilson
Lodge & Co
Salt Lake City
Hicks Elected Head Of Group
The New Car Dealers Association elected officers for the coming year with R. S. Hicks as president Bob McNelly as vice president F. O. Smith as secretary treasurer Milton Peek and Harvey Pride to the board Glenwood Pierson to public relations The group reported progress on the fall safety and get out the vote campaigns and pledged full cooperation.
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John White
R. S. Hicks
Bob McNelly
F. O. Smith
Milton Peek
Harvey Pride
Glenwood Pierson
Hicks
Your Health Your Health Stuttering and Speech Development
The Bresiat Association of the State explains stuttering as a common speech defect and urges careful medical evaluation to rule out physical malformation. If organs are sound, examine nutrition and psychology, and avoid impatience or ridicule to reduce emotional stress and encourage relaxed speech.
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Bresiat Association of the State
First American Advertisement Sells Fulling Mill in Oyster Bay
The May 1704 Boston News-Letter ran an ad offering for sale or rent a very good Fulling Mill located in Oyster Bay on Long Island.
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America
Boston News-Letter
Oyster Bay
Long Island
Daily Crossword And Cryptoquote Puzzle Page
A crossword grid with across and down clues plus a daily cryptoquote puzzle. Includes clues on water story book terms and various rights and public entities, plus a cryptogram quotation with solution hints and previous day answer.
Bromide Poisoning From Careless Drug Use Warned
Bromides used to relieve nervousness pain or epilepsy can be dangerous causing insanity delirium and coma. Delirious patients may be mistaken for mental illness until bromide intoxication clears. Poisoning develops slowly with signs like impaired thinking memory loss drowsiness rash and disorientation. A blood test helps diagnose and a salt solution infusion aids recovery. Using bromide drugs under physician direction is essential.
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King
Rhee Begins Second Term as South Korea President
Thousands cheered Syngman Rhee in Seoul as he inaugurated a second term promising no rest until Communists are defeated. The 77 year old leader urged a united Korea with U S and U N aims to restore the nation as free and democratic while the crowd marked Korea’s liberation anniversary.
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Seoul
Korea
Syngman Rhee
South Korea
U. S
U. N
Capitol
Republic
Open House At New Pastorium Hosted By Westside Baptist
The pastorium at Westside Baptist Church will host an open house tonight from 7 to 9 PM. Rev. Bethea Stedham recently moved in after the pastorium’s completion, and church members along with the public are invited to attend.
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Westside
Baptist
Bethea Stedham
Stedham
Monkeys Varied About Water Adaptation
A quick note observes that while many monkeys cannot swim some individuals show a surprising ease with water. The text highlights varied aquatic tendencies among primates.
Local Social News and Calls on Sunday Afternoon
Haleville families visit Mills and Briley households while Rev Woodie Briley nears revival duties in Tennessee. Katie Hill ill at home. Heaps and Briley kin stop by. Gillespie and Mills families return from Michigan and Decatur visits. Thrasher seeks medical care. Harmony appointment with Brother Henderson noted.
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Floyd Tarry
Jimmie Wandever
Haleyville
W. E. Mills
Curtis. Briley
W. M. Briley
Woodie Briley
Tennessee
Katie Hill
Arley Heaps
Sam Gillespie
Michigan
Herbert Yarbrough
Howell
Decatur
Clarence Gillespie
Vashti Thrasher
Moulton
Ellis Gillespie
Lavonia
Velma
Helen Mills
Brother Henderson
Harmony
Land reform confiscations blamed by Hankow paper
The Chang Chi ang Daily accuses Communist land reform officials in Hankow of confiscating farmers property. It reports food stores farm tools livestock and clothing were taken for redistribution and then sold or held by officials.
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Hong Kong
Hankow
Chang Chiang Daily
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