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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1932
Page
4
Public notices and advertising text from Decatur Daily Public News including printing note and Associated Press disclaimer. Contains publication details, rates and distribution notes for February 1919 and office address in Decatur. Includes references to Valley Printing Co and general newspaper boilerplate.
The Decatur Chamber of Commerce and Judge Baynard L. Malone push for paving the Decatur to Tuscumbia highway noting credit to local efforts. Governor Miller and Congressman Edward B. Almon back the project with federal funds, stressing its cargo role and job relief.
The Birmingham Age Herald is among few papers praising the governor's address while the Montgomery Advertiser and the Anniston Star praise its worth while recommendations. The speech emphasizes tackling a $20,000,000 deficit with bond issues income tax and spending cuts as key solutions.
Governor Miller and lawmakers move toward pulling Alabama from debt with economy bills and an income tax proposal. Both chambers push revenue measures as sessions proceed, while factions adjust and some resentments linger under the surface.
Farmers back Chamber of Commerce plans for a local market. They say diversification needs real marketing and reject selling produce by peddling. Town folks praise the move as correct, noting long dissatisfaction with unable sales and wasted produce.
The Decatur community eyes an upcoming alderman election with nineteen men in the field and a potential rise in candidates. Each voter can cast ballots for five choices, offering broad selection. The piece notes broad voter satisfaction expected from the diverse slate.
The statement contrasts Pollyanna optimism with prevailing rationalist discourse over the past three years, arguing both have a similar basis. It frames the comparison as a matter of reasonableness rather than sentiment.
A reminiscence highlights men who fail to progress yet contrast with those who surpass tough records, praising persistent effort and achievement over repeated trial.
Arthur Brisbane notes a sentiment of respect toward Japan amid a column of brief opinions. The piece reflects on national character and contemporary affairs with a light, opinionated tone characteristic of 1930s syndication.
The column extols the Los Angeles Olympiad and Japan's runners and horse Uranus, lauds California and public finances, and notes a local crash injuring Mrs Cuthbert’s baby with Dr Lowell repairing the child amid regional curiosities and a fire-heat rock report.
The text notes Hitler demanding power in Germany comparable to Mussolini. It recalls that power must be earned, citing Bismarck’s rise. The fragment ends with a reference to young women students in Los Angeles, California.
An August 18 1920 column recounts Louis Rosenbaum buying the Majestic Amusement Company in Florence and notes local moves including teachers in Albany schools, Bank of Rogersville shift, and Florence visits. It also comments on smoking for women, prohibition, and a tennis match featuring Cannonball Alice from San Francisco at Forest Hills.
The piece analyzes how Secretary Mills and Secretary Hurley have been moved from the Republican campaign speaking slate in response to the Bonus Army clash. It notes Mills ordered eviction of trespassers from federal land and Hurley issued the actual deployment order, while Hoover’s policy is cited as the true driver. Veterans groups condemn the administration’s handling.
An expert suggests inexpensive steps to ease hay fever during attacks. Create a pollen proof sleeping area by removing textiles, mopping floors, covering window screens with double cheesecloth, and hanging a wet sheet over the door. Keep windows and door closed, undress in a separate room, avoid fans, and use ice on the floor in warm weather to reduce pollen exposure.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows a nearly 1 percent rise in wholesale commodity prices from June to July 1932, led by farm products up over 4 percent. Foods, fuels, and miscellaneous groups rose, while hides fell over 3 percent and textiles declined, with mixed shifts across metals, building materials, and chemicals.
A humorous Victorian era verse scene contrasts a shifting romance with a pennant chase as a star pitcher strains credibility after an injury. JoAN from Chicago and HORACE comment on stage craft while a professor delivers a punny toast about a sage stuffed with turkey.
A student quips as dollars are used in place of notes while an exchange in a classroom escalates into an alleged confrontation with a professor. The scene suggests a disrupted class and potential disciplinary action.
A rustic aside contrasts a boy's lack of heavy boots with the simple pleasure of summer barefoot. Plumter teases his wife about cartoonists and bath tub ladies, adding humorous local color to a casual domestic moment.
A collection of pithy lines and social musings on love money marriage and daily life. The musing tone treats comfort diaries husbands and doctors with a wry, ironic edge characteristic of casual newspaper humor columns.
A courtroom tale features a defendant who cannot write his name and a judge clarifies the case. The scene unfolds at the Art Institute on Michigan Avenue in Chicago near the Democratic National Convention guarded by two stone lions. A joke about feeding the lions and a bank tale of an old Indian who offered ponies as security followed by a large cash payoff concludes the humorous yarn.
A summary shows 146 price increases and 227 decreases between June and July, while 411 instances remained unchanged. The figures illustrate overall volatility with more price holds than moves.
Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent American political leader in New York state known as the Patroon a title tied to his patroonship and influence in early state history.
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