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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1941
Page
3
In Aug 20 report, Sun Oil tests eight young women as pump attendants amid a manpower shortage in defense areas. Selected from 500 applicants, they are high school graduates aged 21 to 26, pass tests, wear navy blue outfits, and will perform simple station tasks for 100 dollars monthly.
Lorena Carleton appears in New York to press for Carlyle custody and enlists Vernon Stone to help. Ylena Varanoff, wife of Theodore Vincent, seeks Rose’s fate while Vincent drinks and vows trouble. Vernon suspects Clarkson’s link to Rose as they plot to locate him.
In Wheeler Georgia an aging family recounts moving from a colonial farm to town while the Littlest Little Boy, once thought unable to walk, insists on camping on the 46 acre farm. He and an able helper prepare tents, guns, beans and coffee as 1864 battle memories surface and a sense of frontier independence grows.
Savannah police investigation focuses on a thief with one leg after multiple chicken theft complaints. A resident reports tracks indicating a single leg used to steal poultry, prompting police to monitor the man’s activities.
Mrs. T. Pruitt of Moulton Rt. 2 celebrated her fifty first birthday with a picnic style dinner Sunday August 17. Present were Paul and D. W. Hampton family members Otto Wallace and son Harold Eva Wilson Madge Royer J McWhorter family Wanda Lee Lela Mae Austin Alene Clinton Raymon Hood and others. Gifts were given and well wishes extended.
The Lawrence County Soil Conservation Association invites competitive bids for 152 acres of land on the north side of Spring Creek in WA No 354-255-456 and 457 leased to Andrew Garth in 1941. Bids accepted through September 6 1941 at the county agent's office in Moulton Alabama.
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