Quilting Circle Debate At Central Methodist Church
Central Methodist Circle Four of the Woman's Missionary Society spent a day at the church enjoying a quilting session and debate on Korea vs Japan with the affirmative side winning. A noon lunch, musical program, and gift-filled sixth birthday party for Willa Jean Collum followed, with many attendees listed.
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Central Methodist Circle
Central
Methods, Woman's Missionary Society
Korea
Japan
Personal news items from Somerville area locals
Nolan Roper resumes duties at Tennessee Valley Greenhouse in Athens after a Southern motor tour. Numerous short notes report visits, travel, illnesses, school duties, and family events involving residents of Somerville, Hartselle, Corinth, and nearby towns.
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Nolan Roper
Athens
Attractive blouse and skirt patterns 2419 and 2435
Pattern 2419 offers sizes 14 20 and 32 40 with yardage for size 16. Skirt 2435 suits wool silk or velvet with waist sizes 28 30 32 34. Patterns priced 15c each, catalog 15c, catalog plus pattern 25c. Send name address style number and size to Decatur Daily Pattern Department.
Moebes Entertains At Adelle Springs
Otto Moebes prominent city realtor hosts a gathering of business friends at Adelle Springs along the south Bee Line highway. He is also helping develop properties along the same route.
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Otto Moebes
Adelle Springs
South Bee Line
Moebes
Railway Executives Plan Opposition to Merger Drive
The Railway Executives Association in Cleveland August 25 announced opposition to further consolidations until Congress passes labor protection legislation. It urged early action on the Pittman Crosser six hour bill to employ 700000 unemployed rail workers and boost part time work. The association, backed by 19 railway brotherhoods, said it will record every candidate’s stance on labor prosperity.
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Cleveland
Congress
Railway Executives’ Association
Butler Hine Heads to Huntsville for Wrestling Show
Morgan County promoter Butler Hine departed this afternoon to attend the wrestling event in Huntsville tonight.
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Huntsville
Butler Hine
Morgan County Post
Peter Cooper Builds First American Locomotive in 1830
Peter Cooper designs and constructs the first American locomotive in 1830 marking a landmark in U.S. rail history. The achievement highlights Cooper’s engineering influence and the early development of locomotive technology in the United States.
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Peter Cooper
Brothers surrender to Florida police in Mobile murder case
Raymond and Sam Dyson of Fairhope Alabama gave themselves up in Jacksonville Florida after murder warrants were issued for them in Mobile. They were held for Alabama authorities on a charge of killing Henry Butler Jr a Mobile real estate man. The brothers refused to discuss the case.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Raymond and
Sam Dyson
Fairhope
Alabama
Kiling Henry Butler, Jr
Mobile
Curb Market Well Patronized Today
The Decatur curb market was well patronized this morning on the regular selling day. Gardens have flourished in the county, and evidence of advance in truck crops is seen in the diverse produce offered on the curb.
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Decatur
Hart Returns to City for Saturday Church Service
Rev. Ernest N. Hart of Westminster Presbyterian Church will travel to Decatur on Saturday after weeks of study in Chicago. He will lead the morning worship at his church with no evening service scheduled.
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Ernest N. Hart
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Decatur
Chicago
Hart
Democrats Rally in Selma for Presidential Ticket Booster
Democrats from the rank and file plus state legislators gathered in Selma to rally for the party's presidential ticket. The turnout aimed to spark a decisive November majority and boost the ticket statewide.
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Selma
Ala
Shelley Eubanks Visits Relatives in Brief Stop
Shelley Top Eubanks, longtime Daly staffer now with the Chicago Tribune, is making a brief visit to see relatives before continuing his travels and duties.
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Shelley
Eubanks
The
Daly
Chicago Tribune
Yiddish Poet L Bene dict Pen Name Morris Wintchevsky
The line identifies Morris Wintchevsky as the pen name used by Yiddish poet L Bene dict. It notes the relationship between the alias and the real author.
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Morris Wintchevsky
L. Benedict
Albany Ouster Hearing Tests Aim to Discredit Mayor
Governor Roosevelt blocks testimony on the Hofstadter inquiry and the Walker investigation. Defense sought to prove the probe aimed to embarrass Mayor Walker and Tammany Hall. The clipping-bureau witness was dismissed as the after-dinner session continued in the Hall of Governors.
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Albany
N. Y
New York City
Walker
New York
Roosevelt
Hofstadter
Tammany
Poor Farm Killer Dead in Prison
Alvin A. Wilkerson, 70, who shot and killed two inmates at the parish poor farm and wounded another, died of heart trouble in his prison cell in Shreveport Louisiana. He had been jailed awaiting grand jury action on the deaths of R. J. Foley 55 and Sam Warren 82. Hard feeling existed between Wilkerson and other aged inmates. On March 17 Foley
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Shreveport
Parish
Alvin A. Wilkerson
Wilkerson
R. J. Foley
Sam Warren
Foley
Prisoner shoots three inmates inhouse and on porch
A prisoner complained a planted plot failed. He and Wilkerson argued. Wilkerson drew a pistol from his trunk and fatally shot Foley on the spot. He then shot Frank Andrews, 79, on the porch and re entered the house to fatally wound Warren.
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Wilkerson
Foley
Frank Andrews
Warren
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Naomi Sandusky
R. E. Moore
Eloise Sparkman
Zibalee
Clifford Pratt
Virginia D
Ellen Marie Massengale
Jack Betterton
Katherine
Marie Raburn
Elaine Dye
Dorothy Callahan
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Roy Childs Austin
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Deliba Clardy
Betty Jo Orr
Harry Currier
Hartselle
Virginia
Mary Paul Isley
Akron
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O. W. Stinson
Johnston Street
A. E. Crane
the Benevolent Hospital
John Henry Bitting
Oglethorpe University
Atlanta
Ike Scheer
Maryville
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Tenn
J. E. Reed
Reed
Fairview School
H. L. Huff
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Corinth
T. A. Caddell
John Burke Scheer
Auburn
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Somerville
Joe Broadus
New Orleans
T. H. Broadus
Marjorie Broadus
Harvard
Mrs. R. ©. Premister
Birmingham
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N. K. Bitting, Sr
A. W. Hill
Lawrence Timberlake
Howard Gillam
Stevenson
Ida Bell Timberlake
C. H. Timberlake
Mertha Timberlake
C. W. Matheny
Rev
Howard Matheny
Atlanta, Ga
Willard Depositer
Benevolent Hospital
Malcolm Beckham
C. E. Spurlock
Edward Ross Spurlock
Mrs. C. E. Spurlock
Nell Rowe
Nashville
Corinne Dunavant
Elkton, Tenn
Mrs
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Martha Grayson Emens
Sheffield
Johnny Caddell
Los Angeles
Calif
Ralph Barter
Louisville, Ky
W. F. Boswell
D. R. Nettles
Monroeville
H. H. May
Mé&s
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Vina, Ala
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Tuscaloosa, Ala
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Jack Oakie
W. C. Fields
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Ben Turpin
Lyda Roberts
Hollywood
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Ann Dvorak
Tracy
Richard Cromwell
Guy Kibbee
Frank McHugh
Evalyn Knapp
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Seagirt
N. J
Buffalo, N. Y
Anne Adams
Decatur Daily
Pattern Department
West 17Th Street
S. C. Maulsby
George Hutchinson
Kathryn
Janet Lee
London
Inset
Florida
City
Sid
Goidel
Second Avenue
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Sullivan
Grant St
Martin College
Pulaski, Tennessee
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