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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1933
Page
8
The narrator recalls wrestling Gracie the tigress in a Boston house doorway and then recounts a Cleveland Auditorium night when sixteen tigers charged a chute. He and Hauser redirect the beasts, rescuing spectators and driving the animals back to cages before disaster.
In Clyde Beatty’s 1933 tale, a lioness named Snip muscles through the arena using a narrow space. The human keeper dodges a lethal rush as attendants form a funnel to guide the animal toward captivity.
Clarence L. Watts, of Huntsville, candidate to succeed the late Edward B. Almon, made a Decatur visit greeting voters. He sounded optimistic about his outlook and spoke of his 19 years in politics, though he did not indicate if he would return for another speaking engagement.
Local singers are urged to attend a community sing this Thursday evening at the Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church. Cullman singers expect to return in large numbers for this week’s program.
An all-day singing is set for Sunday August 27 in Corinth at the northwest corner of Cullman County. Organizers anticipate the best session yet with singers including W. Oliver Cooper Ed Hogan L. E. Stevens and the Willoughby quartet. Hartford and Vaughn books will be weeded per Price M. Bryant in a letter to The Daily.
Huntsville resident Mrs. John Fowler is visiting friends and relatives in Decatur.
Large crowds attend revival services at the Church of Christ on Nineteenth Avenue East. W. E. Morgan from Texas delivers sermons with the theme The Christ and How to Come to Him. Meeting begins at 7 30 tonight with a cordial invitation to all to attend.
Miss Frances Morgan returns from Huntsville where she stayed several days with her aunt Mrs. Charles D. Lane.
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