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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1934
Page
10
The report notes a struggle over Tennessee’s speaker choice with Burnus as floor leader planning a late statement. Representative William B. Bankhead of Alabama is said to be pressed into the race by Representative John McDuffie who announced his support for Bankhead.
Gladys Glad highlights Helen Vinson as a beauty standard and offers tips to improve hands and nails. Ridged nails from internal issues are treated with careful weekly manicuring, nightly soaks, and oil massages. Remedies include olive oil and pumice for ridges and pale polishes to avoid accentuation.
Answers to queries discuss home remedies for skin care and hair conditions. Topics include lemon juice and peroxide as bleaches for hands, cautions against vanishing cream, milia defined as white ker ns under the skin, removal by expert needle work, sulfur and vaseline for dandruff, and a salt water treatment mentioned by Hair Co. K. M.
A list of assorted farm goods and prices including butter, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, onions, tomatoes, beets, squash, beans, turnips, greens, spinach, peppers, peaches, cabbage, corn, cucumbers, grapes, and meats. Also includes native dressed veal cow heifer hogs and country cured ham with per pound rates for various weights and poultry items such as hens fryers old roosters and shoulders.
Buck Jones appears in a Columbia Western at the Princess Theatre. The feature follows a ranger and son of a prospector seeking Skeleton Mountain and gold while escaping fanatics who guard their treasure. Cecilia Parker co stars in a visually striking desert tale with perilous escapes.
Western star features Ward Bond Frank Mc Glynn Wade Boteler and Arthur Warner in prominent roles. Lambert Hillyer directed the film and Donald W. Lee wrote the original story credited for its immense plot treatment.
Rev T H Wilson of West Decatur leads a revival at the West Decatur Methodist church beginning Sunday with preaching by Rev Paul Gilbreath of Sylacauga First Methodist. Miss Winnie Tant of Auburn directs music and youth work, noted as one of the region’s youngest Methodists.
Mrs R T Shepherd was the guest of relatives in Birmingham Thursday. The note records a brief social visit and mentions Birmingham as the place of hospitality.
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